The practitioners of village stability operations operate nearly entirely in the spaces of communities damaged by combinations of traumatizing violence, loss, displacement, starvation, death and dismemberment. Their organization, equipping and training is focused on the most apparent physical security and developmental needs by those who fund and support their deployments and to a lesser extent...

This paper introduces a strategy to develop geographic information systems, based on a variant of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The strategy adopts ontologies to model user classes and to capture additional characteristics of the information classes. The MVC components are modified to implement cooperativeness techniques, which interpret the ontologies. The paper also describe...

Our genome at conception determines much of our health as an adult. Most human diseases have a heritable component and thus may be preventable through editing. Preventing disease from the beginning life before irreversible damage has occurred is admirable goal, but path to fruition remains unclear. Here, we review significant scientific contributions field editing, unique ethical challenges tha...

This study focuses on the long-term development of crisis management central level in China. Drawing archival and interview data, it describes analyzes how governance capacity formal structure have changed, but also culturally based legitimacy has altered over past seventy years. These processes change are divided into three phases, punctuated by institutional shifts history institutions, where...

Although Manual Cued Speech (MCS) can greatly facilitate both education and communication for the deaf, its use is limited to situations in which the talker, or a transliterator, is able to produce cues for the cue receiver. The availability of automatically produced cues would substantially relax this restriction. However, it is unclear whether current automatic speech recognition (ASR) techno...

ion (Vitalari and Dickson, 1983). These concepts from the psychology literature converge, and are extended to social interaction, in the notion of a "frame" (Goffman, 1974; Tannen, 1993). The framing concept operates at the intersection of a psychological-cognitive and a social-behavioral approach to human interaction (Ensink and Sauer, 2003). People behave according to "structures of expectati...

Flexible user interfaces that can be customized to meet the needs of the task at hand are particularly important for telecollaboration. This paper presents the design and implementation of a user interface for DISCIPLE, a platform-independent telecollaboration framework. DISCIPLE supports sharing of Java components that are imported into the shared workspace at run-time, and can be interconnect...

In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, th...

In this paper, I attempt to chart a via media between transformationalist and sceptical positions on the long-term transformative significance of the 9/11 terror attacks and the ensuing war on terror for the Westphalian state system. I argue that in the absence of comparisons with prior episodes of transformative change in the history of the state system, debates on the transformative significa...

The purpose of this paper is to present clinical applications of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) in treating speech rate and fluency disorders in speakers with Parkinson’s disease. When used effectively with appropriate patients, DAF provides easily adjustable and often dramatic reductions in speech rate, which often leads to increased fluency. For optimal results, however, clinicians should pr...