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... Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations (HQ USAF/XOX), and conducted within the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE Comments are welcomed and may be addressed to the ... Middle East RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... readiness, and support of current and future aerospace forces Research is conducted in four programs: Aerospace Force Development; Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and...

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... Equations 15 J E Munoz Rivera and R Racke, “Mildly dissipative nonlinear Timoshenko systems global ˜ existence and exponential stability, ” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 276, ... 2.37 and 2.38 , leads to Integrating 2.39 over 0, t and using 2.38 lead to 2.6 This completes the proof of Theorem 2.2 Global Attractors In this section, we establish the existence of the global ... Rational Mechanics and Analysis, vol 194, no 1, pp 221–251, 2009 K Liu, Z Liu, and B Rao, “Exponential stability of an abstract nondissipative linear system,” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization,...

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... Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations (HQ USAF/XOX), and conducted within the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE Comments are welcomed and may be addressed to the ... Middle East RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... readiness, and support of current and future aerospace forces Research is conducted in four programs: Aerospace Force Development; Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and...

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... to exchange opinions and debate political issues Restrictive press laws Formal and informal censorship Judiciary and the Rule of Law Check on executive power Due process protects civil and human ... Kazemi and Augustus Richard Norton, “Hardliners and Softliners in the Middle East: Problems of Governance and the Prospects for Liberalization in Authoritarian Political Systems,” in H Handelman and ... from meeting these standards This trend is particularly salient in the Gulf states, where living standards skyrocketed during the 1970s, and citizens now expect benefits and services that earlier...

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... between domestic savings and investment, imports and exports, and government revenues and spending The collapse 25World Bank, Egypt: Social and Structural Review, Social and Economic Development ... Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux; 1999; Gary Hufbauer, China, the United States and the Global Economy: Trends and Prospects in the Global Economy, Washington, ... (typically, budgetary and macroeconomic) changes have typically already been implemented, yet unemployment and stagnant living standards persist Many (e.g., the World Bank) advocate deeper changes in response...

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... cooperative and private, and is to be based on systematic and sound planning The state sector is to include all large-scale and mother (sic) industries ”56 The weakness of both the president and the ... conservation measures The demand for oil is a derived demand; final demand is therefore mediated by technology (For any final demand for, say, transportation miles, the resulting demand for oil depends ... in male (and especially female) literacy, the decline in fertility, and reductions in infant and child mortality The only way to explain the combination of falling incomes per capita and increasing...

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... critical areas: command and control, leadership, and intelligence and strategic assessment Command and Control As noted above, political control is often assured through command and control procedures ... war) On the command changes and reforms see Cordesman and Wagner, 1991, pp 52–63; and “Iraq’s Army: The Lessons from the War with Iran,” The Economist, January 12, 1991, p 36 On the changes in the ... centralized and hierarchical systems of command, and permit broad repression and corruption within the chain of command will probably persist for some time Supplanting them with merit-based standards...

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... Martin’s Press, 1999, pp and 33 22Fandy, 1999, pp and 36 23Fandy, 1999, p 56 24See Sachs, “Saudi Prince Urges Reform,” 2000; Fandy, 1999, p 59 25Gause, 1994, p 142; Fandy, 1999, p 49 For example, ... thousands of Islamists and penetrated and disrupted revolutionary cells The regime licensed and controlled previously independent Islamist civil organizations, both radical and mainstream, and ... a diverse and redundant basing structure and access arrangements as a hedge against instability or change in one country Given that many countries are vulnerable to sudden change, and almost...

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... producer, but import patterns have changed and will continue to change significantly over the next decade Most analysts expect energy demand in Asia, especially in China and India, to rise substantially, ... 16Patrick L Clawson, “Oil Resources: Markets, Politics and Policies” in Richard L Kugler and Ellen L Frost (eds.), The Global Century: Globalization and National Security, Vol 2, Washington, D.C.: Institute ... Middle East EMERGING ISSUES Beyond fundamental questions of supply and demand for oil and changing import patterns, some longstanding and some new more specific issues are affecting the role of energy...

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... insecurity and threats to the territorial status quo But there are many others, including historic tensions between Morocco and Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, Egypt and Sudan, and the ... in international affairs, and will compel continued American and Western attention For these and other reasons, the region is demanding of Western military presence and intervention Proliferation ... proliferation trends and WMD programs It focuses on the analysis of proliferation developments and their meaning for regional security and strategy and then assesses recent trends and their effect...

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... challenges that will demand creative, and at times difficult, responses from the United States and its partners The spread of WMD, potential leadership changes, and increased Russian and Chinese activism ... Israel and its neighbors Russia and China could oppose international mediation efforts and provide military and political support to rejectionist states and Palestinian factions • Russia and China ... of missile systems and expertise to others, including Syria and Libya In recent years, Russia has actively marketed ballistic missiles (notably the Iskander-E) with ranges and payloads just limited...

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... Monica, Calif.: RAND, MR-1320-OSD, 2001 Byman, Daniel L., and Jerrold L Green, Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, MR-1021-OSD, ... Clawson, Patrick L., “Oil Resources: Markets, Politics and Policies,” in Richard Kugler and Ellen L Frost (eds.), The Global Century: Globalization and National Security, Vol 2, Washington, D.C.: Institute ... No 30, February 14, 2000 Fandy, Mamoun, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999 Fandy, Mamoun, and Dana Hearn, “Egypt: Human Rights and Governance,” in P J Magnarella...

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... identified as critical and defining ecological aspects of the Siphandone–Stung Treng case study area: Sand formations — Sandbars, sand beaches, and sandy islands in the Siphandone–Stung Treng area ... restoration of wetlands, river and lake basins, and forested catchments The impacts of climate change on freshwater ecosystems will be complex and hard to predict These impacts will lead to changes in ... climate change 16 extreme event Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems decades Modal change is extremely difficult to model and predict, though the paleoclimatic record shows many instances of stability- transition-stability...

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... Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change It seeks to provide leadership in understanding ... O3 and OH and an increase in CH4 (caused by the lower OH which is a CH4 sink) The CO and VOC cap increases OH and thus increases sulfate (formed by OH and SO2) and decreases CH4 Note that CO and ... (UAP) submodel is based upon, and designed HUMAN ACTIVITY (EPPA) agriculture, ecosystems land use change national and/ or regional economic development, emissions, land use CO , CH , N O, NO x ,...

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... Global Change Ecology and Wetlands Volume Published in collaboration with the Society of Wetland Scientists – Global Change Ecology Section The Society of Wetland Scientists’ book series, Global ... Global Change Ecology and Wetlands, emerged from the Society’s Global Change Ecology Section There is a growing need among wetlands managers and scientists to address problems of climate change ... Emissions and Wetlands Key Processes in CH4 Dynamics in Wetlands and Possible Shifts with Climate Change Hojeong Kang, Inyoung Jang, and Sunghyun Kim Part IV 99 Drought and Climate Change...

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... However, if we want to understand and improve global responses we must understand how the participation requirements entailed by the global label have changed over time and influenced governance ... The theory and methods combine to tell a story of the emergence and evolution of participation norms and the cooperation and contestation that ensued in the ozone depletion and climate change negotiations ... countries and would be too costly to the American economy —New York Times, 24 July 2001 Ozone Depletion and Climate Change WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GLOBAL? Notwithstanding a common misconception, global...

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... Rosenzweig and R MacArthur, Graphical representation and stability conditions of predator-prey interactions, Amer Natur 97 (1963), 209–223 S Ruan, Absolute stability, conditional stability and bifurcation ... responses and stability in two-species systems, J Austral Math Soc Ser B 25 (1984), no 4, 473–500 , Stability and Oscillations in Delay Differential Equations of Population Dynamics, Mathematics and ... (t), α1 (t), a2 (t), b2 (t), and α2 (t) are all continuous functions; b1 (t) stands for prey intrinsic growth rate, b2 (t) stands for the death rate of the predator, m stands for half capturing saturation;...

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... http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/pdf /global_ change _ecosystem. pdf Global change and ecosystems FP6 - List of funded Projects by Research Areas Global change and ecosystems (GCE) Impact and mechanisms of greenhouse gas emissions and ... capacity and techniques for monitoring and understanding the Amazon ecosystem' s role in climate change and maintenance of biodiversity, and the effects of global change on the Amazon ecosystem ... Europe and for Neighbouring States 154 Biodiversity and ecosystems 3.0 Biodiversity and ecosystems BIOSCORE Biodiversity impact assessment using species sensitivity scores 157 Global change and ecosystems...

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... Climate Change and Global Food Security SECTION IV Soil Carbon Dynamics and Farming/Cropping Systems Chapter 16 Soil Carbon Sequestration: Understanding and Predicting Responses to Soil, Climate, and ... Sweden Russia Middle parts of Europe Switzerland France England Scotland and Ireland Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chapters and Chapters 10 and 11 Chapter 12 China appeared to provide ... Functional Plant Ecology, edited by Francisco I Pugnaire and Fernando Valladares Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Mohammad Pessarakli Plant Responses...

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