When a projectile perforates the armor of a vehicle, the residual projectile entering the vehicle is accompanied by a much wider cloud of behind-armor debris (BAD) generated by stress wave interactions. BAD plays an important role in the evaluation of survivability of crew and components in a vehicle under fire. Survivability/vulnerability analysis codes (e.g., MUVES) require an input of BAD ch...

An increasing amount of development aid is targeted to areas affected by civil conflict; some of it in the hope that aid will reduce conflict by weakening popular support for insurgent movements. But if insurgents know that development projects will weaken their position, they have an incentive to derail them, which may exacerbate conflict. To formalize this intuition, we develop a theoretical ...

The controversial English Composition Exam once again came under fire this year as Exam Administrator Linda Driskill was forced to change the exam's scale after the exams were graded. The professor /graduate student teams originally graded the exams on the same scale as last year, but the number of f reshmen who failed underlast year ' s s t andards and would have been forced to take English 10...

Emerging out of radical theories about the uneven nature of power and underwriting practices that assist marginalized peoples in constructing their own development strategies, ‘‘participation’’ has recently come under fire for being co-opted and mainstreamed by governmental and nongovernmental agencies, part of a new development ‘‘tyranny’’ that betrays the concept’s populist roots. The issues ...

The idea that humans are innately competitive and cruel is a dominant theme throughout Western thought. These notions that legitimate human cruelty to each other and other animals have their origins in biological sciences and have greatly influenced the social sciences. Sociologists, particularly Marxist sociologists, however, have often contested this view of human nature. This notion has also...

Though increasing usage of just-in-time (JIT) practices is reported, academics—including Shapiro at Harvard Business School, Karmarkar at UCLA (Anderson) and Cusumano at MIT (Sloan)—as well as a number of practitioners have warned against the unrestricted pursuit of just-in-time practices. They suggest that pure JIT is appropriate only for limited economic environments, that it is ineffective i...

Animal production is under fire. When considering the future of animal production, questions are being asked from all sides. Can we afford animal production? Does man really need animal protein in his diet ; would plant protein supplemented with vitamin B12 fulfil his nutritional needs ; does he really need animal fibres and hides? Is it cruel to use animals in the service of man? Perhaps we as...

Outsourcing information systems on a large scale is a difficult challenge. The public sector has seen some spectacular information systems (IS) outsourcing failures. Public officials have come under fire for sloppy management of IS outsourcing engagements and legislators are demanding higher standards of outsourcing practice and more accountability from public sector managers. This paper analyz...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy have recently come under fire for “getting ahead of their data” (Corrigan, 2001). The current article presents a descriptive review of some of the actual evidence available. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy have a small but growing body of outcome research sup...