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This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats,
places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from
global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized
and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering
bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease
preparedness and remediation, agroterroism, food safety, and
environmental issues, the contributors demonstrate that to counter
terrorism of any kind, a global, networked, and multidisciplinary
approach is essential. To be successful in biosecurity, this book
argues it is necessary to extend partnerships, cooperation, and
co-ordination between public health, clinical medicine, private
business, law enforcement and other agencies locally, nationally
and internationally. Internationally, a clear understanding is
needed of what has happened in past epidemics and what was
accomplished in past bioprograms (in Britain, South Africa, Russia,
for example). This book also assesses how, with the right
technology and motivation, both a state and a non-state actor could
initiate an extremely credible biothreat to security at both local
and national levels. This book will be of much interest to
students, researchers and practitioners of security studies, public
health, public policy and IR in general. Peter Katona is Associate
Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA in Infectious Diseases. He is co-founder of
Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterror consulting firm. John P.
Sullivan is a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
He is also a researcher focusing on terrorism, conflict disaster,
intelligence studies, and urban operations. He is co-founder of the
Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group. Michael D.
Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor of Political
Science, Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy
and Social Research, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak
Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral
Sciences, all at UCLA.
This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats,
places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from
global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized
and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious
diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation,
agroterroism, food safety, and environmental issues, the
contributors demonstrate that to counter terrorism of any kind, a
global, networked, and multidisciplinary approach is essential. To
be successful in biosecurity, this book argues it is necessary to
extend partnerships, cooperation, and co-ordination between public
health, clinical medicine, private business, law enforcement and
other agencies locally, nationally and internationally.
Internationally, a clear understanding is needed of what has
happened in past epidemics and what was accomplished in past
bioprograms (in Britain, South Africa, Russia, for example). This
book also assesses how, with the right technology and motivation,
both a state and a non-state actor could initiate an extremely
credible biothreat to security at both local and national
levels.
This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and
practitioners of security studies, public health, public policy and
IR in general.
Peter Katona is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Infectious Diseases. He
is co-founder of Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterror
consulting firm.
John P. Sullivan is a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department. He is also a researcher focusing on terrorism, conflict
disaster, intelligence studies, and urban operations. He is
co-founder of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW)
Group.
Michael D. Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor
of Political Science, Professor of Public Policy in the School of
Public Policy and Social Research, and Co-Director of the Jacob
Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the
Behavioral Sciences, all at UCLA.
The purpose of this book is to explain the need for a global
network approach to counter-terrorism, and to elaborate how it
could be formed. As the authors see it, the world is changing today
far more rapidly than ever before, and current public and private
institutions cannot keep up with this new paradigm. While terrorism
has a long history, it has become the focus of worldwide attention
as a result of the September 11, 2001 strikes on the U.S. and later
strikes by al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations on a
worldwide basis ranging from Indonesia to Tunisia to Spain.
Subsequently, there have been various attempts to counter this
latest wave of terrorism, including the U.S. strikes against
Afghanistan and Iraq, President George W. Bush's declaration of a
"War against Terrorism," the creation of the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, the 9/11 Commission and the very recent arrests
of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Issa
al-Hindi. Despite these events and reactions, we believe that there
is a need to consolidate and expand efforts against terrorism
through the creation of an formal and an informal global
counterterrorism network.
This book contains essays from experts in various disciplines,
including clinical medicine and public health; economics, political
science, and public policy; and law enforcement, which are our own
fields; with those of the military, politics, intelligence and the
media to try to give some coherence and direction to this process
of forming a global counter-terrorism network. The book identifies
the nature of a global counterterrorism network, shows how such a
global network could be created, and provides some guidelines
forgauging its future effectiveness.
This book will be essential reading for all serious students of
terrorism and political violence, security studies and for defense
and policy analysts.
The purpose of this book is to explain the need for a global
network approach to counter-terrorism, and to elaborate how it
could be formed. As the authors see it, the world is changing today
far more rapidly than ever before, and current public and private
institutions cannot keep up with this new paradigm. While terrorism
has a long history, it has become the focus of worldwide attention
as a result of the September 11, 2001 strikes on the U.S. and later
strikes by al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations on a
worldwide basis ranging from Indonesia to Tunisia to Spain.
Subsequently, there have been various attempts to counter this
latest wave of terrorism, including the U.S. strikes against
Afghanistan and Iraq, President George W. Bush's declaration of a
"War against Terrorism," the creation of the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, the 9/11 Commission and the very recent arrests
of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Issa
al-Hindi. Despite these events and reactions, we believe that there
is a need to consolidate and expand efforts against terrorism
through the creation of an formal and an informal global
counterterrorism network.
This book contains essays from experts in various disciplines,
including clinical medicine and public health; economics, political
science, and public policy; and law enforcement, which are our own
fields; with those of the military, politics, intelligence and the
media to try to give some coherence and direction to this process
of forming a global counter-terrorism network. The book identifies
the nature of a global counterterrorism network, shows how such a
global network could be created, and provides some guidelines
forgauging its future effectiveness.
This book will be essential reading for all serious students of
terrorism and political violence, security studies and for defense
and policy analysts.
This new edition describes pressure and temperature sensitive
paints (PSP and TSP) in global surface pressure and temperature
measurements in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. The book includes
the latest progress in paint formulations, instrumentation, and
steady and unsteady aerodynamic measurements in various facilities
including low-speed, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic wind
tunnels. The updated technical aspects of PSP and TSP in the book
will be useful for students and researchers in experimental
aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.
This new edition describes pressure and temperature sensitive
paints (PSP and TSP) in global surface pressure and temperature
measurements in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. The book includes
the latest progress in paint formulations, instrumentation, and
steady and unsteady aerodynamic measurements in various facilities
including low-speed, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic wind
tunnels. The updated technical aspects of PSP and TSP in the book
will be useful for students and researchers in experimental
aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.
Luminescent molecule sensors, called pressure-sensitive paint
(PSP) and temperature-sensitive paint (TSP), measure factors
essential for understanding the aerodynamic performance and heat
transfer characteristics of flight vehicles. They provide a
powerful tool for experimental aerodynamicists to obtain a deeper
understanding of the rich physical phenomena in complex flows
around a flight vehicle. This book helps the reader to understand
the physics and chemistry and the capabilities of PSP and TSP. It
provides an overview of the wide scope of applications and explains
the system requirements for using these sensors. The book also
includes an extensive table of properties of PTP and TSP. As such,
it is a thorough and up-to-date coverage of the underlying physics
and applications of luminescent molecules designed for global
pressure and temperature mapping
Contemporary Mexican cartel use of car bombs began in mid-July 2010
and has since escalated. Given the proximity to the United States,
some literally within miles of the border, the car bombings, with
about 20 incidents identified over the last 2 1/2 years, should be
of interest to local, state, and federal U.S. law enforcement, the
U.S. Army, and other governmental institutions which are providing
increasing support to Mexican federal agencies. An historical
overview and analysis of cartel car bomb use in Mexico provides
context, insights, and lessons learned stemming from the Medellin
and Cali cartel car bombing campaigns. In order to generate
insights into future cartel car bombings in Mexico, the
identification of such potentials offers a glimpse into cartel
"enemy intent," a possible form of actionable strategic
intelligence. For Mexico, steady and both slowly and quickly
increasing car bomb use trajectories may exist.
In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest
scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security
environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the
United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of
crime wars and criminal insurgencies-21st century war and conflict
waged by non-state entities- and the impact this new form of
warfare is having on states. For this, we embrace them and have
established the new SWJ El Centro forum to further promote their
professionalism and scholarship. Dave Dilegge
SWJ Editor-in-Chief
This book outlines a collaborative case study conducted with the
goal of discovering and describing "emergent learning" in three
secondary classrooms. Emergent learning, defined as the acquisition
of new knowledge by an entire group when no individual member
possessed it before, is implied by the work of theorists working on
an educational analog of a natural phenomenon called a complex
adaptive system. The author theorized that classes that maximized
the features of complex adaptive systems could produce emergent
learning, and that there was a continuum of this complexity,
producing a continuum of emergence. After studying three American
high school classes, the author determined that there was indeed a
continuum of complexity. He found that the actively complex nature
of the Jazz Rock Ensemble produced an environment where emergence
was the norm, with the ensemble producing works of music, new to
the world, with each performance. The English section harnessed the
chaotic tendencies of students to frequently produce emergent
learning, while the mathematics section was too rigidly linear to
allow detectable emergence to occur.
This book presents and discusses current research developments in
the study of theoretical physics. Topics discussed include dark
energy as the source of the time-dependent Einstein cosmological
constant; non-linear refractive index theory; quantum coherence and
tuneable transient behaviour of a double-control four-level atomic
vapour; laser prototyping of polymer-based nanoplasmonic components
and radiative transitions of mesons in an independent-quark
potential model.
Grounded in research done by examining the clinical practices of
five exemplary psychotherapists, On Holy Ground explores the
relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality. This book
addresses the religious and spiritual issues that mental health
practitioners are not normally effectively trained to handle. It
presents an overview of the history of the relationship between
psychology and spirituality, including a review of contemporary
literature related to the subject. The author's main emphasis falls
on his interviews with five psychotherapists whose spirituality is
at the center of their lives and work. Sullivan's analysis of these
interviews includes a discussion of several common core themes,
such as views of the person and the process of therapy as
inherently psychological and spiritual, respect for the freedom of
clients, and the place of prayer and meditation.
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