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Naval Warfare Studies Institute Newsletter, 2024-08-27

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This summer the team has been working hard to build more creative thinkers and team facilitators in the domain of naval warfare while continuing to strengthen connections between NPS and the joint ...

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Efficient Encoding of the Traveling Salesperson Problem on a Quantum Computer

open access: yesQuantum Reports
We propose an amplitude encoding of the traveling salesperson problem along with a method for calculating the cost function using a probability distribution obtained on a quantum computer.
John P. T. Stenger   +5 more
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Bi-objective trail-planning for a robot team orienteering in a hazardous environment [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Computer Science
Consider a team of mobile (aerial, ground, or aquatic) robots for orienteering in a hazardous environment. Modeling the environment as a directed graph, each arc is labeled with a probability that a robot will survive upon traversing it, and each node is
Cory M. Simon   +3 more
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Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SSOLV: Real-Time AI/ML-Based Cybersecurity via Statistical Analysis

open access: yesIEEE Access
The next generation architectures of computer networks and systems and commercial technologies such as Big Data, Decentralized Storage, and 6G require novel approaches to prevent cybersecurity breaches which can negatively affect organizations ...
Makia S. Powell, Benjamin M. Drozdenko
doaj   +1 more source

Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
wiley   +1 more source

September 2024 Warfare Innovation Continuum Workshop Final Report: Non-Permissive Global Sea Control [PDF]

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Prepared for: The Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI); Mr. Randy Pugh, Director & The Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC); Mr. Jeff Kline, DirectorThis Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) workshop was held 23-26 ...
Englehorn, Lyla A.
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