Sousse Attacks: A New Perspective on Soft Target Defense and Modern-Day Terrorism Threat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Corsaro ◽  
Daniel Djouder
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Terrorism Threat ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Marked Preference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Soft Target ◽  
And Training ◽  
Soft Targets

The Sousse attacks embody the main characteristics of terrorism and insurgency as pursued by ISIS. They are presented here as overarching examples of the underlying themes examined in this paper. In the first section, we give an outline of the facts that occurred in Sousse, Tunisia, highlighting features that mark the importance of the events in themselves and in the broader context of terrorism studies. In the second section, we offer a qualitative analysis of the traits of modern-day terrorism threat in the post-ISIS era—in particular, a marked preference for soft targets, all-around enemification of nonconformers, loose ties with perpetrators, massive use of communication technologies and propaganda, dissemination of paramilitary and insurgency know-how, and training. In the third and final section, we discuss the lessons that can be drawn from the events of Sousse, with a specific focus on soft target defense, as relevant for future challenges emerging from the rise and fall of ISIS as a pseudo-state entity and the dissemination of its personnel, ideology, and knowledge outside the territories it once occupied. In particular, we propose a departure from the model of soft target protection to one of defense.

Nilai Edukatif Tradisi Peringatan Hari Kematian di Kenagarian Manggopoh, Sumatra Barat

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Irsyadul Ubad ◽  
Silfia Hanani ◽  
Iswantir M.
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Third ◽  
Death Data

<p><em>The Nagari Manggopoh community has a tradition of commemorating the day of one's death which takes place on the third, seventh, fourteenth, fortieth, hundredth, and thousandth days, but the community does not yet understand the educational values. The focus of the research is educative values </em><em></em><em>in the tradition of commemorating the day of death, and their implications for strengthening Minangkabau traditional values. The object of this research is the Islamic community in Nagari Manggopoh that carries out a tradition of commemorating one's death by analyzing the educational values </em><em></em><em>contained in it. The population in this study is the community who carry out the tradition of the commemoration of death. Data collection techniques are observation and interviews, then analyzed using qualitative analysis techniques, with inductive, deductive, and descriptive methods. </em><em>The results of this research showed that there were some educative values contained in the tradition, namely sociological, cultural and cultural educational values, historical, and leadership.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Collaborative Autonomous Driving—A Survey of Solution Approaches and Future Challenges

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3783
Author(s):  
Sumbal Malik ◽  
Manzoor Ahmed Khan ◽  
Hesham El-Sayed
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Cooperative Driving ◽  
Vehicle To Vehicle ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Vehicle To Infrastructure ◽  
High Level ◽  
Intersection Management

Sooner than expected, roads will be populated with a plethora of connected and autonomous vehicles serving diverse mobility needs. Rather than being stand-alone, vehicles will be required to cooperate and coordinate with each other, referred to as cooperative driving executing the mobility tasks properly. Cooperative driving leverages Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication technologies aiming to carry out cooperative functionalities: (i) cooperative sensing and (ii) cooperative maneuvering. To better equip the readers with background knowledge on the topic, we firstly provide the detailed taxonomy section describing the underlying concepts and various aspects of cooperation in cooperative driving. In this survey, we review the current solution approaches in cooperation for autonomous vehicles, based on various cooperative driving applications, i.e., smart car parking, lane change and merge, intersection management, and platooning. The role and functionality of such cooperation become more crucial in platooning use-cases, which is why we also focus on providing more details of platooning use-cases and focus on one of the challenges, electing a leader in high-level platooning. Following, we highlight a crucial range of research gaps and open challenges that need to be addressed before cooperative autonomous vehicles hit the roads. We believe that this survey will assist the researchers in better understanding vehicular cooperation, its various scenarios, solution approaches, and challenges.

scholarly journals Accuracy Verification of an Anatomical Model Manufactured Using Low-Cost Additive Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
Teodor Tóth ◽  
Patrik Varga ◽  
Branko Štefanovič ◽  
Lucia Bednarčíková ◽  
Marek Schnitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Coverage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cervical Vertebra ◽  
3D Printer ◽  
3D Scanner ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Additive Production ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Training

The paper deals with the separation of the third cervical vertebra using the software VGStudio MAX, Mimics, and inVesalius. During the separation, various parameters of the threshold were used to determine the effect. The comparison of models from Mimics and inVesalius to VGStudio MAX showed that the cumulative variance distribution for 95% surface coverage is less than 0.935 mm. When comparing medically oriented software, Mimics and inVesalius, the deviation was less than 0.356 mm. The model was made of polylactic acid (PLA) material on a low-cost 3D printer, Prusa i3 MK2.5 MMU1. The printed model was scanned by four scanners: Artec Eva, 3Shape D700, Steinbichler Comet L3D, and Creaform EXAscan. The outputs from the scanners were compared to the reference model (standard tessellation language (STL) model for 3D printing) as well as to the scanner with the best accuracy (3Shape). Compared to the publications below, the analysis of deviations was evaluated on the entire surface of the model and not on selected dimensions. The cumulative variance distribution for comparing the output from the 3D scanner with the reference model, as well as comparing the scanners, shows that the deviation for 95% of the surface coverage is at the level of 0.300 mm. Since the model of the vertebra is planned for education and training, the used software and technologies are suitable for use in the design and the production process.

Lessons of the Oil Crisis for the Third World

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-522
Author(s):  
György Adam
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Third World ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The Third World

The author argues that the so-called oil crisis may open out a new perspective on development aid to the Third World if the oil-producing countries, instead of allowing the giant Western banks and corporations to make a grab for their petro dollars (as the Western nations had so far made a grab for incredibly cheap oil energy), decide to pool the surplus oil revenues for self-help among the Third World countries. He suggests the setting up of an interregional Third World Bank, which, unlike the existing World Bank group (typecast as the instrument of the rich market economies), would be the instrument of the developing countries, thus breaking the monopoly of the West in international financing.

Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of Newspaper Polls

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
David Pearce Demers
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Long Run ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Scientific Standards ◽  
And Training

Previous research and this study's data suggest newspaper polls often fall short of “scientific” standards. Part of the problem is that many newspapers rely heavily on their news staff for many key aspects in the research process, including data analysis. News organizations are encouraged to rely more on “experts,” but for the long run they need to implement programs and policies that give journalists themselves the education and training necessary to handle all phases of the research process.

Policy analysis in think tanks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna ◽  
Marcela I. Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The chapter provides an overview of how policy analysis takes place in Mexican Think Tanks. It focuses on two of the few organisations of this kind that currently exist in the country: the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (CIDAC, or Centre for Research for Development) and the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY, or Centre of Studies Espinosa Yglesias). The chapter is divided into four sections. The first discusses the main features of think tanks, with a particular focus on the Mexican ones. The second presents the origins and general objectives of CIDAC and CEEY, and describes how these two organizations conduct policy analysis. The third compares both cases, paying particular attention to how they define their topics of interest, how they gather relevant information, what kind of policy products they generate, what kind of communication channels they use, and how they assess the impact that their analyses may have had. The chapter closes with some conclusions and general remarks about the future challenges of policy analysis in Mexican think tanks.

Basil of Caesarea’s Authorship of Epistle 361 and His Relationship with the Homoiousians Reconsidered

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-70
Author(s):  
Dragoş Andrei Giulea
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Individual Substance ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mature Period ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea

Abstract A comparative analysis of Ep. 361 and Eun. 1.19 in terms of language and ideas will offer a renewed confirmation (on internal grounds) of Basil of Caesarea’s authorship of Ep. 361 and a new perspective on Basil’s relationship with the Homoiousians. In addition, the article will also retrace the steps and revisit the purpose of Basil’s argument. Thus we discover in the early Basil an author simultaneously receptive to both Homoiousian and pro-Nicene visions, but leaning towards an improved Homoiousian solution. The article further investigates Basil’s vision of ousia in Ep. 361 and finds that—unlike in his later, mature, period—the early Basil shares with the Homoiousians and Eusebius of Caesarea two doctrinal elements, namely the understanding of ousia as individual substance and an associated theology of “likeness”. He inherits this view from a tradition originating in the third century, which received its official confirmation at the council of Antioch in 268. This vision is also present in the first part of Basil’s Contra Eunomium. Instead of considering Basil as a Homoiousian, one may see him, together with Eusebius and the Homoiousians, as a representative of the Antiochene legacy.

scholarly journals Elastocaloric Cooling: State-of-the-art and Future Challenges in Designing Regenerative Elastocaloric Devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 615-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parham Kabirifar ◽  
Andrej Žerovnik ◽  
Žiga Ahčin ◽  
Luka Porenta ◽  
Miha Brojan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recovery Potential ◽  
Elastocaloric Effect ◽  
Work Recovery ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Released Energy ◽  
Elastocaloric Cooling ◽  
Cooling Technology ◽  
Vapour Compression

The elastocaloric cooling, utilizing latent heat associated with martensitic transformation in shape-memory alloys, is being considered in the recent years as one of the most promising alternatives to vapour compression cooling technology. It can be more efficient and completely harmless to the environment and people. In the first part of this work, the basics of the elastocaloric effect (eCE) and the state-of-the-art in the field of elastocaloric materials and devices are presented. In the second part, we are addressing crucial challenges in designing active elastocaloric regenerators, which are currently showing the largest potential for utilization of eCE in practical devices. Another key component of elastocaloric technology is a driver mechanism that needs to provide loading for active elastocaloric regenerators in an efficient way and recover the released energy during their unloading. Different driver mechanisms are reviewed and the work recovery potential is discussed in the third part of this work.

scholarly journals Opportunities presented by the forced occupation of liminal space

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Kupatadze
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Hierarchies ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this article I employ the notion of the Third Space as a point of departure in order to expand and complicate our thinking about student-faculty partnerships, with the goal of enquiring into the acceptability of and comfort with such space for faculty who self-identify as underrepresented. I consider the practical and real repercussions for these faculty members of engaging in partnership in the context of a reality that is very much shaped by dominant cultural practices, and racial, social, and cultural hierarchies and divisions, and look at how the concept of the liminal space plays out in their professional lives. The findings presented in the article come out of a qualitative analysis of oral semi-structured interviews with underrepresented faculty.

scholarly journals Transformasi Kewenangan DPD Dalam Ius Constitutum Ke Arah Ius Constituendum Demi Kesetaraan Dalam Bikameral

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Hariyanto Sofyan Benyal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

After the reformation a change has occurs, a significant one, especially in the state administration as seen in the amendment, the 1945 constitution amendment, strengthening on the legislature in order to lift the power of checks and balances among the institutions, government agencies. On the third amendments in 2001 new institution, an institution of legislation appears in the Regional Representative Board (DPD to be the regional representation and later become a second chamber (bicameral) parliament which believed has made the legislation tasks such as, budgeting, and monitoring implemented optimally. But in reality, the duties and powers of the second chamber is still very limited compared to the first chamber which is the DPR, hence the transformation effort to ius consitutendum, the desirous law, appeared in strengthening the DPD constitutionally through MPR with Pancasila as the foundation. The method used is a normative juridical, by referring to the laws and principles exist. The analysis used in this research is descriptive qualitative analysis. The results shows that there is an inequality authorization in the, DPR and DPD, parliament. It gives a signal that the system we have adopted is a soft bicameral. By constant check and balance with Pancasila as the foundation DPD should be strengthen.

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