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Cost disease in defense and public administration: Baumol and politics
(2018)William Baumol’s model predicts a steady increase in relative public sector prices (or costs) because of the combination of slow productivity growth and wage growth similar to sectors wherein productivity is growing more ... -
Cost-Effective Flight Strategy for Aerial Thermography Inspection of Photovoltaic Power Plants
(2022-11-06)Thermography from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is widely used for module condition surveys and defect detection in solar (photovoltaic) power plants. This article presents an optimized defect inspection procedure in which ... -
Country survey: military expenditure and defence policy in Norway 1970?2013
(2017)This article examines military expenditure and defence policy in Norway from 1970 to 2013. Until 1990 Norwegian military expenditure remained between 2.5 and 3.0 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite constant ... -
A Critical Investigation of Proposed Electrostatic Corrections to Quantum Mechanical Volumes: The Importance of Variation and the Irrelevance of Imbalance
(2016)The crystal density of neutral and ionic molecular crystals is remarkably well approximated by the enclosed volume of molecular surfaces, where these surfaces are defined as regions of constant and small electron density. ... -
Critical thickness of MBE-grown Ga1-xInxSb (x < 0.2) on GaSb
(2009)Several Ga1−xInxSb layers, capped with 1 μm of GaSb, were grown on GaSb(0 0 1) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy in a Varian Gen II Modular system using either the conventional sample growth position with substrate ... -
Curing of Glycidyl Azide Polymer (GAP) diol using isocyanate, isocyanate-free, synchronous dual, and sequential dual curing systems
(2015)Glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) is an important energetic binder candidate for new minimum signature solid composite rocket propellants, but the mechanical properties of such GAP propellants are often limited. The mechanical ... -
The Dalton quantum chemistry program system
(2014)Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree–Fock, Kohn–Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, Møller–Plesset, configuration-interaction, and ... -
Data loss prevention based on text classification in controlled environments
(2016)Loss of sensitive data is a common problem with potentially severe consequences. By categorizing documents according to their sensitivity, security controls can be performed based on this classification. However, errors ... -
Data-Driven Autocalibration for Swath Sonars
(2020-12-20)Sidelobes in swath sonar water column imagery can obscure targets of interest and create erroneous bottom detections. Differences between ideal and actual element responses limit the achievable sidelobe level for practical ... -
A decomposition solution approach to the troops-to-tasks assignment in military peacekeeping operations
(2019-09-20)This paper considers the Peacekeeping Troops-to-Tasks Problem (PTTP). The PTTP deals with assigning battlegroup resources to a set of tasks associated with a given peacekeeping mission. The tasks may be spread across several ... -
Deep temporal detection - A machine learning approach to multiple-dwell target detection
(2020)Detecting small targets, such as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in high clutter and non-homogeneous environments is challenging for a radar system. Traditional Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detectors have suboptimal ... -
Deep-ultraviolet picosecond flat-top pulses by chirp-matched sum frequency generation
(2012)Picosecond, flat-top, deep-UV pulses are needed to generate high-brightness electron beams to efficiently drive x-ray free electron lasers. Current metal photocathodes have low efficiency and therefore require high-energy ... -
Defence industrial policy – a sound security strategy or an economic fallacy?
(2016)This article explores whether it makes sense for national governments to employ defence industrial policies – such as offsets and discriminatory procurement practices – to support their domestic defence industries. This ... -
The defence industry as a locomotive for technological renewal in Russia: are the conditions in place?
(2017)This article examines the extent to which the conditions for successful military to civilian technological spin-offs are in place in Russia. This is important because Russian authorities use the potential for such spin-offs ... -
Deletion of the γ-aminobutyric acid transporter 2 (GAT2 and SLC6A13) gene in mice leads to changes in liver and brain taurine contents
(2012)The GABA transporters (GAT1, GAT2, GAT3, and BGT1) have mostly been discussed in relation to their potential roles in controlling the action of transmitter GABA in the nervous system. We have generated the first mice lacking ... -
Demonstrating Interoperability Between Unmanned Ground Systems and Command and Control Systems
(2021-05-25)This paper describes the research and experiment efforts of the NATO STO group IST-149-RTG capability concept demonstrator for interoperability within unmanned ground systems and C2 and the NAAG team of experts on UGV. ... -
Demonstration of Comparison Methods for Ocean Model Validation
(2012)In recent years an increasing amount of oceanographic data has become available. This includes observations as well as data from hydrodynamic ocean models. Validation is required for establishing the necessary confidence ... -
Dendritic flux avalanches in a superconducting MgB2 tape
(2017)Tapes of MgB2 with high critical current have a significant technological potential, but can experience operational breakdown due to thermomagnetic instabilities. Such events are routinely registered by magnetisation ... -
Descending Infrared Transmission Spectra of CdZnTe Substrates Due to Surface Roughness
(2019-06-11)(111)B-oriented Cd0.96Zn0.04Te substrates with rough surfaces have been found to have infrared (IR) transmission spectra which decrease rapidly in intensity as the photon energy increases. The rough surfaces were produced ... -
Destined for deadlock? Russia, Ukraine, and the unfulfilled Minsk agreements
(2020-01-27)Bringing peace, security, and stability to the war-torn region of Donbas has proven to be a challenging — some would say near-impossible — task. The "Minsk II" agreement, signed in February 2015, was supposed to put an end ...