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Military Deception and Strategic Culture: The Soviet Union and Russian Federation

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12) Morrell, Sara

This article explores the influence of Soviet and Russian strategic cultures on the conduct of military deception operations, one facet of information warfare. Our thesis is that a subcomponent of strategic culture in the Soviet Union and Russia from 1941 to 2017, termed hierarchical culture, enabled the conduct of cohesive deception operations. Our case studies are World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the recent conflict in Ukraine. For each conflict, we use contemporneous primary documents to verify the existence of hierarchical culture and determine the cohesion of millitary deception operations based on descriptions of their level of success. Our findings indicate that hierarchical culture may have aided in development and conduct, but did not guarantee attempted military deception operations would be cohesive.. This work shows that in the context of foreign policy toward Russia, not only does one need to consider advances in high technology for traditional military applications but also innovations and uses below the threshold of declared war.
Panel Data Analysis Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18) Sullere, Shivang

The proposed study seeks to evaluate the merits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (commonly referred to as the “stimulus”) against its trifold objectives of: (a) creation of new jobs and protection of existing ones; (b) promotion of economic activity and sustainment of long-term growth; and (c) implementation of accountability and transparency in government spending. In a previous cross sectional analysis conducted by the authors, the stimulus provided by the government was found to have no effect on the housing prices. Therefore, the utility of the Act is questionable. In the current study, we look at one of the three modes in which the Act attempted to achieve its objectives and analyze it in depth. The analysis uses a 8-year panel data set across all 50 states in the United States. Results obtained from this analysis are expected to increase the efficacy of the implementable policy measures to ensure that the objectives and the results of the policy conform in similar future situations.
The Business Elite: A Forgotten Force in the Civil Rights Movement, Birmingham & Atlanta, 1960-1963

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-12-13) Eide, Kendall

This is a comparative paper focusing on the differences between Atlanta and Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement. It highlights the important steps the business communities took, and how they varied in each city. It focuses on three major events: the Freedom Rides, school integration, and the desegregation of downtown businesses. In Atlanta, the business community was acting on a prior legacy of moderation. For decades, political and business leaders worked together to promote Atlanta as a “city too busy to hate.” In comparison, Birmingham was a city that had no moderate influence, and whose business leaders did not act until violence occurred. This was a trend that repeated itself throughout the years of the Civil Rights Movement. This paper focuses on the importance of the business community and the impact these leaders had on the course of the Civil Rights Movement.
Conflict and its impact on education accumulation and enrollment in Colombia: what we can learn from recent IDPS

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-05-07) Wharton, Kate

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict makes Colombia home to over 3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the world's largest population. The effect of violence on a child's education is of particular concern because of the critical role that education plays in increasing human capital and productivity. This paper explores the education accumulation and enrollment gaps created by being directly affected by conflict. First, we show that children living in high-conflict municipalities have only small gaps in education accumulation and enrollment in comparison to those living in low-conflict municipalities. These gaps grow when we compare those directly affected by conflict (IDPs) to non-migrants. Even when we compare IDPs to other migrant groups, the education gap persists. Our results suggest significant education accumulation and enrollment gaps for children of IDPs that widen to over half a year in secondary school. The difference that emerges we focus on direct exposure to conflict versus simply living in a high-conflict municipality suggests a need to distinguish between general and targeted violence when estimating the impact of conflict on education outcomes.
The Navajo Concept of Wind

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09) Hall, Della

Wind – in Navajo language – is most commonly referred to as nilch’i. In simple terms, nilch’i may be translated as “the wind,” or as “holy wind.” But that simple translation does not capture the word’s full meaning. For the Navajo, nilch’i is considered the means of life. It represents not only a god, or holy person, but also a means of communication, the act of breathing, and every Navajo’s soul. Wind is present in virtually all aspects of Navajo culture. For this conference paper I will be focusing on three key topics: birth, the inner-wind soul, and religion. By understanding how wind fits into each of these themes, one can better understand the complexity and importance of this abstract concept of Wind – for which there is no equivalent in non-Native American Indian cultures of America. My paper will contribute a more complete grasp of the concept of Navajo Wind.
Determining the Implications of Resegregation in the Atlanta Public School System and its Affect on Student Achievement

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09) Bringslid, Denise

Despite experiencing a fairly calm period of racial integration, Atlanta’s inner-city region is one of the most racially segregated metropolitan areas in the nation. This division spans all components of Atlanta’s culture, including, most importantly, the Atlanta Public School System (APS). Children in Atlanta are neither learning within a racially diverse atmosphere nor receiving a quality, well-rounded education to properly prepare them for life’s challenges. The development of the APS between 1950-1980 was characterized by distinct periods of segregation, desegregation, attempted integration, White flight, and resegregation. It is through this process that the demographics of the system made a complete 180-degree turn, going from a majority White system in the early 1950s to an almost 100% Black system in the early 1990s. The continual sense of under-achievement, repeated poor rates of student retention, and an overall lack of quality classroom experiences within the majority Black APS all contribute to an unequal distribution of opportunity and support across the metro-Atlanta region since most majority White suburban districts bordering the city of Atlanta have the resources that the APS lacks, for example, generous funding, high parent involvement, engaged students, and a highly-qualified teachers. Ultimately, this unequal distribution contributes to the achievement gap, which is broadly defined as the gross disparity between average standardized test scores of White students and Black students. This paper focuses on the long-term effects of desegregation and resegregation, showing how Atlanta’s unique racial history molded its educational system into a state of desperation. Atlanta’s development as an emerging metropolitan region set the stage for a complicated, up-hill battle to create a uniform, diverse educational system that produces high-achieving graduates and promotes life-long learning.
Retroactive Heresy: The influence of early Christian heresies on the identification and reaction to heretical sects during the High Middle Ages

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09) Farhan, Hannah Marie

The medieval Church viewed itself as Defender of the Faith, the destroyer of the unbelievers, the wrong believers. The culminate opposition to heresy, the Inquisition, was the embodiment of an overall sentiment that had been building in all aspects of medieval society. The enemy of the Inquisitor was a singular heretic, as the medieval Church had by then formed a single identification and the doctrinal differences between heretics had ceased to be considered relevant. The central issues of this essay shall be what influenced various spheres of medieval society – the theologians, the papacy and episcopates, and the populace at large – to seek the identification of a single heretic and prompt the ensuing reaction. By comparing the identification of heresy in the Middle Ages to that of early Christianity, or the Patristic era, the influences upon medieval theologians can therefore be examined in parts. First, this essay analyzes the similarities between Scholastic anti-heretical polemics and Patristic refutations to illustrate how medieval theologians were influenced by a legacy of anti-heretical fervor. Then it examines, from the legacy of fear started by Patristic authors, the impacts on the state of the increasingly literate middle class and how this compares to increasingly drastic accounts of popular anti-heretical fervor. Finally, this essay ascertains how, between the theologians and population, anti-heretical fervor pushed towards a single, universal heretic. In particular, how the Church sought to use titular labels to help mitigate the huge discrepancies between scholarly and popular names for the various so-called heresies spanning regions.
Designing a character avatar model for the Mermaids MMO

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20) Ead, Samer Omar

This paper describes the technique formed for the creation of an efficient, simply rigged, customizable mermaid avatar model for the Mermaids massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). Our goal was to improve the in game customization of the player s 3D mermaid model, while maintaining rendering efficiency. We devised a procedure that utilizes the iterative nature of design without sacrificing the scientific and technical aspects of the project. Our procedure begins by a method known as Partitioning where we break down the model s body into distinct sub-models. During development, this partitioning allowed us to focus on smaller concise areas of interest, whereas during game-play this change granted the player greater strands of customization freedom. Since the model relied on a skeleton for its animations, it s partitioning required Skeletal Reformations to reassess the control scheme of the rig over the sub-models. In this method, individual sub-skeletons were designed to provide increased local control over their respective sub-models in contrast to the global control that the previous rig allowed. The sub-skeletons were then joined together forming a combined and complete skeletal rig for the mermaid model. We iterated through the previous methods refining their procedures in efforts of Balancing Customizability with Efficiency , which in turn provided us with the results of our novel technique. Our technique utilizes innovative methods that localize skeletal control over respective sub-models in a novel way, which allows increased customizability with limited costs to efficiency.
Innovation Network in Green Energy: Evidence from Brazil

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-08) Cazares, Lorena E.

Green energy innovation and investment around the world is picking up as nations diversify their energy sources to reduce dependency while remaining environmentally conscious. My work characterizes the Brazilian green energy market in terms of players, frequency of investment in research and thereby advances made for wind, solar and wave energy. Surveying the data publicly available shows that although efforts have been made to spur investment in renewables with programs such as the Program of Incentives for Alternative Energy Sources (PROINFA), not enough has been done to reduce the heavy reliance on hydropower and biomass through innovation. Universities and companies are not collaborating together enough to perfect alternative sources of energy for the country, despite the growth in energy demand. The Brazilian government needs to work with the private sector and universities to catalyze further diversification in energy sources, thereby necessitating deeper research. It needs to reduce costs in constructing wind farms, solar panels and devices that capture wave energy, reduce macroeconomic instability, provide easier access to information on financial incentives and establish more financial programs to stimulate greater partnerships between research institutes like universities and the private sector. Otherwise, significant challenges remain ahead as domestic energy demand increases in a strongly nationalistic nation reluctant to depend on foreign energy sources.
The Online Community Grid Volunteer Grid Computing with the Web Browser

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12) Miller, Daniel Menachem

Current community grid projects, such as IBM's World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org), have successfully developed standalone applications to connect thousands of clients to one huge network of users. Each client donates their machine's idle time to compute mathematical operations to help solve multiple humanitarian projects requiring massive amounts of data to be computed (examining tissue microarrays, human proteome folding, ect). These projects have been relatively successful; however, there are multiple design problems that hinder a multitude of users to join the network. These problems include yet are not limited to: ● Required user registration and email verification ● Once a user registers, a large standalone application to transmit and receive data from a central server is required to be downloaded and installed ● The program runs as a background process and is only active when a user's computer is idle ● The program may not work due to firewall restrictions on the client machine This research, as shown by prototype, eliminates all of these barriers. No registration, no installation, no required idleness, and no firewall issues. According to Adobe/Macromedia, roughly 96-98% of all home computers have the Flash Player installed. This figure is greater than any operating system, browser, program, or other virtual machine (including Java). The purpose of this research project is to determine whether it is possible to create a grid community on the Internet utilizing browser technologies such as Flash and or AJAX technology.