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Bordering neighbours: Testing for border effect on Malaysia's northern states and Southern Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes
Economists agree that countries that are close together may experience common shocks that affect growth; that a country’s growth rate depends not only on domestic investment but also on the investment of its neighbouring countries. On the negative point,
Dayang-Afizzah, A.M., Habibullah, M.S.
core   +1 more source

Homefront: Black Servicemembers and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of Black World War II veterans in the Civil Rights Movement has been well documented, but the effect of Black military service on Black voting patterns remains unclear. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration by race, we estimate the role of Black veterans in ...
Thomas Koch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Budgeting and investing in the Military Retirement Fund

open access: yes, 1993
The Military Retirement Fund (MRF) was established in 1984 and accrual accounting procedures were adopted to manage it. Prior to 1984, military retirement was funded on a 'pay-as-you-go' basis, meaning that annual appropriations from general revenues or borrowing were used to cover retirees' pensions.
openaire   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Group Lifestyle Balance Program in a Military Setting: An Investment Worth Expanding.

open access: yesMilitary Medicine, 2018
J. Wardian   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unveiling Regional Disparities: Exploring Cybersecurity Capabilities and Performance Through Systems Theory Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between cybersecurity capabilities (CCs) and cybersecurity performance (CP) across diverse regional contexts, employing ordinary least squares (OLS) and random forest (RF) regression models. The research highlights how economic, political and cultural factors shape CCs and their impact on CP ...
Angélica Pigola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum technologies and geopolitics: comparing parliamentary rhetoric. [PDF]

open access: yesEPJ Quantum Technol
Suter V, Pöhlmann G, Ma C, Meckel M.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Systems Engineering Methodology for System of Autonomous Systems: Architecture and Integration

open access: yesSystems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) rapidly transform systems by providing autonomous capabilities. This new class of systems can become a constituent system in a system of systems (SoS) to evolve it into a system of autonomous systems (SoAS).
Mohammadreza Torkjazi, Ali K. Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrition as a military capability to deliver human advantage: more people, more ready, more of the time. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Mil Health
Fallowfield JL   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quantifying Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance: An Early Experiment Using Network Design Tasks

open access: yesSystems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structural Complexity is perceived as driving cost in system development, yet managing it effectively requires empirical understanding. This study investigates human decision‐making using a toy transportation‐style network design task, focusing on how Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance interact. Seventy‐four participants (primarily
Alfonso Lanza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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