... what theIntelligenceCommunity provides its users and how it does so 19 Chapter One: MakingSenseoftheUSIntelligenceCommunity When one tries to assess the adequacy ofIntelligenceCommunity ... One: MakingSenseoftheUSIntelligenceCommunity a task and draws a wrong conclusion At first glance, the obvious approach should be to focus corrective actions on the analyst: what caused the ... discussion, review and comment, professional development, and service to thecommunityof practice,” as well as pursuing the scent of curiosity Chapter One: MakingSenseoftheUSIntelligence Community...
... for the invitation to offer the United States IntelligenceCommunity s 2013 assessment of threats to US national security My statement reflects the collective insights oftheIntelligenceCommunity s ... landscape Most ofthe time they occur in the context of major instability events Since the turn ofthe last century, hundreds of thousands of civilians have lost their lives as a result of atrocities ... antipathy over the PutinMedvedev job swap touched off some ofthe largest political protests Russia has seen since the breakup ofthe Soviet Union Despite these unprecedented protests, the Russian leadership...
... various transaction methods using a token-based protocol In my view the bus topology of USB is somewhat limiting One ofthe original intentions of USB was to reduce the amount of cabling at the ... transmission ofthe previous packet • The status stage must complete within 50ms after the transmission ofthe last data packet The SetAddress command (which contains a data phase) must process the command ... the computer Once the user is finished, they can simply lug the cable out, the host will detect its absence and automatically unload the driver The loading ofthe appropriate driver is done using...
... organizations that banking business in the United States The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), the Office ofthe Comptroller ofthe Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) ... rotating basis The chairman ofthe FOMC is also the chairman ofthe Board of Governors The FOMC typically meets eight times a year in Washington, D.C At each meeting, a senior official ofthe Federal ... is the Fed’s chief body for monetary policymaking Its voting membership combines the seven members ofthe Board of Governors, the president ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of New York and four other...
... observe and utilize the reality of their lived experience The primary end of human wit is the ability to make senseof that reality by ordering the world The process ofmakingsense using sensory “ceptivity” ... lines of action following the aesthetics of warfare or of peacemaking Their 40 Introduction respective “arts of living” have consequences, on the one hand in the theater of war and on the other ... significant sense for the well-being ofthe tribe This tale was a rudimentary form ofthe hero’s quest: the hero, or a team of brave souls, go forth into danger for the benefit ofthe community; they...
... analysis on the test portions ofthe six data sets The # columns show the frequency counts for each resolution class, and the % columns show the distributions ofthe classes in each corpus (i.e 17% ... weighted sum ofthe observed scores for each resolution class (i.e the mean for the class measured on the other five data sets) weighted by the proportion of CEs that belong to the class The predicted ... determine whether each member of class C is coreferent with each of its preceding CEs We then count the number of unique correct/incorrect links that the system introduced on top ofthe correct...
... effects ofthe quarrel may last well into the flight, and the crushing retort which he wishes he had thought of at the time ofthe argument may crowd his single decision channel to the exclusion of ... variety of possibilities They realize that when they distrust their simplifications they will feel confused, but they also know that out of that confusion may come fuller understanding of what they ... chaos, and in my case to then make senseofthemakingsenseof chaos There is certainly more to idea development than ideas and assumptions, but I have discussed these other autobiographical inputs...
... prepared each edition ofMakingSenseofthe ECG We are particularly grateful to the following for their invaluable comments on the text and for allowing us to use ECGs from their collections: Mookhter ... for the identification of disorders ofthe cardiac rhythm, extremely useful for the diagnosis of abnormalities ofthe heart (such as myocardial infarction), and a helpful clue to the presence of ... region ofthe heart – this is discussed in more detail in the rest of this chapter The voltage changes detected by ECG machines are very small, being ofthe order of millivolts The size of each...
... “stick” is using them the same way you’d use them in the real world Multiple choice is not the way most ofus deal with the world (Life would be easier if it were—I’d be right 25 percent ofthe time ... the ones that help you deliver and deploy online learning Finally, the book describes ways to assess the effectiveness of your online learning efforts One ofthe biggest advantages of using the ... tackle some ofthe basics and get you off to a good start When Does Using Technology for Learning Make Sense? Since technology is part ofthe future landscape of learning, knowing when to use it (and...
... to describe aspects ofSenseof Coherence as expressed by the interviewees [27] The discussion of results will focus on those items that are of interest to the overall aim of this paper Finally, ... performed using PASW 17 software, and AMOS 17 software for the confirmatory factor analyses (http://www.spss.com) The analysis ofthe qualitative data was supported by the use of Atlas ti software ... concepts like Senseof Coherence of individuals in the target population [16-21] Hence, a valid and reliable measurement ofSenseof Coherence is pivotal The aim of this study is to assess the psychometric...
... variety of phyla within all three lines of descent of life The number of genomes encoding selenoproteins is indicated (‘selenogenomes’) together with the total number of sequenced genomes in the ... subset of bacteria that require selenoFdhA, thus dramatically increasing the representation of that gene among the well-studied bacteria As most microbes The forces driving the evolution of selenocysteine ... to the presence of selenoproteins in approximately 8-14% of bacterial species Despite the vast number of assumptions made in arriving at those percentages, they are not too far from the 20% of...
... make senseofthe responses that any one customer will provide in a survey for the Fragrance House In the ®rst situation, the Fragrance House in question could be the incumbent supplier to the customer ... infrastructures, rather than just the arrival of a new invention Thus, it was not the invention ofthe car that revolutionised transport, but the creation of our road network Similarly, it was not the ability ... generalisable because they are consistent with a wider body of principles and theoretical knowledge such as, for example, the Product Life Cycle theory At the other end ofthe spectrum, there could...
... see also Units and 59 10 The noun in the sentence subject! gakusei-desu is not theThe noun in the sentence gakusei-desu is not the subject ofthe sentence It is part ofthe verb-like element An ... the sentence—at the end of a sentence You need not worry about the order ofthe other elements as long as you put the verb at the end You can use either SOV or OSV, although the emphasis is slightly ... at the end of a sentence Right-headedness more broadly means that the head noun appears at the end of a noun phrase, a verb at the end of a clause or sentence, and a main clause at the end of...
... November 2008 and thus after the end ofthe sample period While both banks recorded profits for the first half of 2008 and gave a positive outlook for the remainder ofthe year, they publicly acknowledged ... after August 2007, i.e after the bailout of Sachsen LB and thus the beginning ofthe financial crisis, and zero otherwise Finally, εi,b,t is an error term The key variables of interest are the interaction ... account for the count data nature ofthe dependent variable We further adjust the standard errors for possible autocorrelation at the state level The diagnostic section ofthe table reports the DD...
... contains the reports ofthe workshops, which are provocative in their own right A fuller synthesis ofthe project’s results, titled MakingSenseof Transnational Threats, was published by the Kent ... powerful role The Army and Navy divided the decryption task, rather than cooperating, so neither saw the total picture There was no comparison oftheintelligence take and no analysis of it The shear ... difficult because the threat is more diffuse, and the volume of information often conceals what is important The challenge was to make the project not just interesting but also useful – to analysts...
... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... that the mean ofthe input affects the rate but that the variance ofthe input is not correlated with the variance ofthe output Instead, the input variance acts more like a volume control for the ... that the Peskin work reflects two ofthe main themes common to other talks at the workshop First, the evolution of his heart model over the years has been guided by a clear 22 MAKINGSENSEOF COMPLEXITY...
... contains the reports ofthe workshops, which are provocative in their own right A fuller synthesis ofthe project’s results, titled MakingSenseof Transnational Threats, was published by the Kent ... powerful role The Army and Navy divided the decryption task, rather than cooperating, so neither saw the total picture There was no comparison oftheintelligence take and no analysis of it The shear ... difficult because the threat is more diffuse, and the volume of information often conceals what is important The challenge was to make the project not just interesting but also useful – to analysts...
... and the baselines Parameter Tuning We tuned the number of quantized blocks, the edge cutoff parameter ofthe minimum cut algorithm, and the anisotropic diffusion parameters on a heldout set of ... ≤ Ny , where Nx and Ny are the number of MFCC samples in each utterance The value 2R + is the width ofthe diagonal band that controls the extent of temporal warping The parameter R is tuned on ... for the same lecture constructed from acoustic data The intensity of a pixel indicates the degree of block similarity c) Acoustic comparison matrix after 2000 iterations of anisotropic diffusion...
... modulating the activation and silencing ofthe NHE III1 in the c-Myc promoter (A) shows the G-quadruplex/i-motif form ofthe NHE III1, which is the silencer element (A) to (C) via (B) illustrates the ... similarity to the c-Myc G-quadruplex, in which the addition of two 3¢-runs of guanines not used 3466 in G-quadruplex formation (Fig 4B) are required because the i-motif on the opposite strand uses these ... drive the formation of a favored i-motif [16] For example, in the case ofthe Bcl-2 i-motif, specific interactions between bases in the loops are believed to be responsible for the stability of the...