PROBLEMS ARISING FROM KIDNAPPING AND HOSTAGE TAKING DELIMITATION

Hostage Taking and Kidnapping in Terrorism: Predicting the Fate of a Hostage

This article examines how open source data collected and organized in a relational database can be used to better understand the factors that contribute to the decision to kill or release a hostage in a terrorist kidnapping situation. This study is significant because of its quantitative approach since this area of study has suffered a shortage of quantitative data and corresponding analyses. T...

Hostage Taking: Understanding Terrorism Event Dynamics

This paper employs advanced time series methods to identify the dynamic properties of three hostage taking series. The immediate and long run multipliers of three covariates—successful past negotiations, violent ends, and deaths—are identified. Each hostage series responds differently to the covariates. Past concessions have the strongest impact on generating future kidnapping events, supportin...

Amine Gas Sweetening System Problems Arising from Amine Replacement and Solutions to Improve System Performance

This paper includes the significant on-site experience of the authors related to problems faced in amine systems with fresh amine and their possible solutions in phases#2&3 of South Pars gas                complex. The amine system was designed as a closed circuit system with the primary objective of removing H2S, CO2, and other acidic components from gaseous hydrocarbon streams. Amine plant op...

Some Polynomial Problems Arising from Padé Approximation

In the convergence theory of Padé approximation, one needs to estimate the size of a set on which a suitably normalized polynomial q is small. For example, one needs to estimate the size of the set of r 2 [0; 1] for which max jtj=1 jq (t)j =min jtj=r jq (t)j is not “too large”. We discuss some old and new problems of this type, and the methods used to solve them. 1. Introduction Let f be a func...

Problems in Topology arising from Analysis