Apart from altruistic reasons, NGOs may engage in developing countries under conditions of conflict and war in order to secure funding and survive in the ‘market’ of humanitarian relief and development assistance. Applying a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of external fu...

The history of the development Turkish defense industry is quite instructive. Even despite weak initial positions, a consistent policy strengthening and developing military- technical cooperation in combination with flexible marketing strategy makes it possible to achieve significant progress.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been developing dramatically due to wars and miniaturisation of technology, which has made the UAV industry a very lucrative business. Research organisations have been funded by various research committees or military groups to push UAV developments at a very fast pace. Although these UAVs are high in capability, they are limited to a single use application ...

A data visualization system geared toward large ~gigabyte or greater-than-gigabyte! time-varying scientific data sets has been written. The system is a distributed multiprocessed application that employs techniques used both in the video-game industry and military flight simulators to achieve real-time frame rates. On the computational side, the system calculates vector fields, streamlines, iso...

This study uses path dependence and analysis of feedback structures to identify the determinants for developing a successful technology sector in Israel during the 1990s. The four determinants introduced in the study are: Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Base in the form of academy R&D, industry R&D and military R&D, Financial Base in the form of venture capital and exit market and, Government progr...

Even though the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, it has not been until 10-15 years ago that widespread use of wireless communications has begun. While before then it was mainly used by police and military, now the capability of communicating without being constrained to a fixed physical location is within everyone’s reach. The booming industry which has been growing at such an astoun...

The development of autonomous mobile robots is continuously gaining importance particularly in the military for surveillance as well as in industry for inspection and material handling tasks. Another emerging market with enormous potential is mobile robots for entertainment. A fundamental requirement for autonomous mobile robots in most of its applications is the ability to navigate from a poin...

The rapidity of the decision making process is an important factor in different branches of the human life (business, healthcare, industry, military applications etc.). Since responsible persons make decisions using available knowledge, it is important for knowledge management systems to deliver necessary and timely information. Knowledge logistics is a new direction in the knowledge management...

Over the last ten years the environmental concerns associated with the military activities have increased due to legislation pressure and an increasing awareness to the environmental issues. Such situation has leaded the defence industry and the Armed Forces to seek for a tool to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with ammunitions. Some methodologies have been applied to evaluate the...