Eating Military Base Stew

Processor Stew

THE PAST SEVERAL years have seen a growth in what we might call ‘‘processorcentric design’’ in embedded systems and complex system-on-chip devices. In this design style, more and more of the product function is migrated away from dedicated hardware blocks and onto software running on fixed-instructionset-architecture (ISA) processors, and applicationspecific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). ...

Energy Efficient Military Mobile Base Station Placement

This research deals with an energy efficient network for military mobile base station placement. The proposed method is based on minimizing the energy loss of military communication networks where the base station is moving along a preset path and the users are constantly moving in an independent speed and direction. It takes into account the free space loss and the knife edge effect for the en...

Ebola in a stew of fear.

ing rebuilt. A new wave of land concessions have been granted to multinational corporations seeking to extract Liberia’s mineral and agricultural wealth. Yet investment in the country’s medical infrastructure languishes. Liberia has fewer than 200 doctors for a population of 4 million. It is poorly equipped to deal with the current public health crisis. Remembering this history can help us unde...

Pathognomonic STEW: visible clues to systemic amyloidosis.

Presidential Particularism in Disaster Declarations and Military Base Closures

In The Particularistic President we challenge the dominant paradigm asserting presidential universalism. Instead, we argue that presidents possess strong electoral and partisan incentives to pursue policies that prioritize the needs of some Americans over those of others. In this article, we review our larger argument and expand upon our analyses of two policy areas where presidents have unilat...