© 2007Mediamira Science Publisher. All rights reserved. . Indirect Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Observer for Sensorless Induction Machine Drive A. Bourek, L. Mokrani, A. Benakcha, M. Chabane 1 LGEB Laboratory, Med. KHIDER University, B. P. 145, 07000 Biskra, Algeria 2 Materials Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Laghouat University, Algeria 3 Electric Department of Engineering, Bat...

1 Towards a Novel Approach for Enterprise Knowledge Capitalization Utilizing an Ontology and Collaborative Decision-Making: Application to Inotis Enterprise Fatima Zohra Benkaddour, Laboratoire d’Informatique Oran (LIO), Département d’Informatique, University of Oran1 Ahmed BenBella, Oran, Algeria Noria Taghezout, Laboratoire d’Informatique Oran (LIO), Département d’Informatique, University of ...

Using a large national household survey, this analysis provides evidence on the differences in financial decision-making and outcomes between military veterans and nonveterans, as well as between different types of military veterans. I find that veterans have slightly better overall financial standing, more problems with spending, and slightly better savings outcomes relative to comparable non-...

Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research” activities, such as software. Second, argument still rages about the efficacy of direct public spending on R&D via spending on academic research councils, univers...

Do alliances allow states to share defense burdens and reduce military spending? Despite expectations that should lead decreased spending, the empirical record offers mixed findings. We argue not all are reliable; thus, only allies receive signals of reassurance will rely on external security subsequently their spending. Compared do additional signals, these reassured have greater confidence an...

Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on other people may have a more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself. Providing converging evidence for this hypothesis, we found that spending more o...

* An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Second CesA/IDN International Conference on Defence Economics and Security in Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan Africa, Lisbon, June 2002. We are grateful to the participants for comments. Dunne is grateful to the ESRC for support under grant R00239388. † E-mail: [email protected] ‡ Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] TH...

Berlin is pursuing ambitious plans for security and defence, with significant potential for the Bundeswehr and European partner militaries. In the long-term, the Bundeswehr could well become Europe’s indispensable army, with Germany as a “framework nation” contributing decisively to NATO’s readiness. This will require the future German government to accept an unaccustomed politico-military lead...