Author: Carl Meyer
Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathemati
Keywords: book, solutions, manual, algebra, linear, analysis, applied, matrix
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2001-02-15
ISBN-10: 0898714540
ISBN-13: 9780898714548

Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra is an honest math text that circumvents the traditional definition-theorem-proof format that has bored students in the past. Meyer uses a fresh approach to introduce a variety of problems and examples ranging from the elementary to the challenging and from simple applications to discovery problems. The focus on applications is a big difference between this book and others. Meyer’s book is more rigorous and goes into more depth than some. He includes some of the more contemporary topics of applied linear algebra which are not normally found in un

Authors:Eric Landree, Christopher Paul, Beth Grill, Aruna
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: regarding, transportation, infrastructure, security, data, available, information, assessing, publicly, freedom
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040316
ISBN-13: 9780833040312

How much data regarding U.S. anti- and counterterrorism systems, countermeasures, and defenses is publicly available and how easily could it be found by individuals seeking to harm U.S. domestic interests? The authors developed a framework to guide assessments of the availability of such information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure, and applied the framework in an information-gathering exercise that used several attack scenarios. Overall, the framework was useful for assessing what kind of information would be easy or hard for potential attacker

Authors:Angel Rabasa, Steven Boraz, Peter Chalk, Kim Crag
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: terrorism, risks, reducing, understanding, territories, ungoverned
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041525
ISBN-13: 9780833041524

Ungoverned territories - failed or failing states or ungoverned areas within otherwise viable states - generate all manner of security problems and can become terrorist sanctuaries. Using a two-tiered framework areas applied to eight case studies from around the globe, the authors seek to understand the conditions that give rise to ungoverned territories and what makes some ungoverned territories more conducive to a terrorist or insurgent presence than others. On the basis of this ground-breaking analytical work, they identify three types of ungoverned territories and their effects on U.S. sec

Author: Chaitra M. Hardison Anna-Marie Vilamovska
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: performance, college, university, standards, setting, learning, assessment, collegiate
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047477
ISBN-13: 9780833047472

The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a measure of how much students’ critical thinking improves after attending college or university. This report illustrates how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the CLA’s unique characteristics. The authors examined evidence of reliability and procedural validity of a standard-setting methodology that they developed and applied to the CLA. For this task, they assembled nine panels composed of faculty members from participating CLA institutions across the United States. The results of

Author: WHO
Publisher: WHO
Keywords: alcohol, related, harm, reduce, interventions, effectiveness, cost–effectiveness, evidence
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2009-12-31
ISBN-10: 9289041757
ISBN-13: 9789289041751

The WHO European Region has the highest proportion of total ill health and premature death caused by alcohol in the world. The effectiveness of alcohol policies in reducing this harm has been evaluated mainly in North America and northern Europe, but the general principles are applicable across societies and countries. The evidence summarized in this publication can therefore be applied by policy-makers in every country in the Region to tackle alcohol-related harm. It reviews what is known and not known about the health, social and economic impact of alcohol, education and information campaig

Author: Carl J. Dahlman
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: savings, force, reductions, computing, method, military, person, year, cost
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041517
ISBN-13: 9780833041517

The Department of Defense strives to only use military personnel for military-essential tasks and has consistently recommended the civilianization of ever-more military functions and positions. This guidance also stems from the belief that military personnel cost more than comparable civilians. As a policy, civilianization can only be properly applied when it is an integral element of a broader personnel-management strategy. This work presents a new method of estimating the cost of a military person-year that focuses on the actual cost of the retirement benefits that the federal government mus

Author: Willis H. Ware
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: essays, vignettes, history, evolution, information, rand
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 083304513X
ISBN-13: 9780833045133

This professional memoir describes RAND’s contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, when digital computers succeeded slide rules, mechanical desk calculators, electric accounting machines, and analog computers. RAND’s accomplishments included important advances not only in hardware and software but also in analytic techniques that exploited the speed and power of computers. From the beginning, RAND researchers were focused on using computers to improve applied studies that addressed complex, real-world problems