The Chinese oil industry was relatively unknown to most westerners, veiled behind the bamboo curtain, until the early 1990's when nationalized Chinese petroleum companies started selling off stock in their companies to international investors. In December of 2001 China joined the World Trade Organization. Since then there has been an explosion of investment in all areas of trade, and the petroleum markets are no exception. China's once hidden and largely undeveloped Petroleum Industry is...
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Topic: Political science
Topics: Management, COMSAT, INTELSAT, IDCSP, Rocket Equation, INTELSAT IV, Ionosphere, Scintillation
This study analyzes an original hybrid combat simulation for possible use as the underlying support model for the Joint Warfare Systems (JWARS) analytical simulation. The model employs a fixed increment time advance mechanism but represents individual entities vice aggregated units. Results from an otherwise identical model using a next event time advance mechanism provide a baseline for comparison. The hybrid, using a longer time increment, runs faster than the next event model but produces...
Topics: Simulation, Next-Event Time Advance, Fixed-Increment Time Advance, Joint Warfare Systems
Ship commanders and pilots make life or death decisions based on the information they have at their disposal at the instant a decision is made. One component of that information is whether a radar contact is an enemy or a friend. Various systems exist which try to answer that question based on the characteristics of signals emitted or scattered from the contact. The goal is to maximize the accuracy of identification in order to build trust that when the system tells the operator the contact is...
Topics: Radar targets, Systems engineering
MCERC is a database design and implementation to support the survey instruments for the USMC Exit and Retention Censuses, which are administered over the Internet. The Retention Census is a longitudinal survey administered annually to all Marines. A review of commercially available survey software revealed a lack of support for longitudinal surveys. A semantic object model for survey instruments is developed that relates them to the response data they collect. The resultant database schema...
Topics: Database, Manpower Survey, Data Model, Longitudinal
Since Bitcoin’s release in late 2008, the cryptocurrency has grown and proven itself as a disruptive technology, resistant to sovereign law and international financial regulations, and an alternative to the sovereign state’s concept of fiat money. The Wild West nature of cryptocurrency has enabled a number of individuals, criminal organizations, terrorist groups, and sovereign states to use Bitcoin, among other cryptocurrencies, to avoid detection, interference, or punishment from...
Topics: cryptocurrency, cryptocurrencies, virtual currency, virtual currencies, Bitcoin, state sovereignty,...
The performance parameters of Detectivity and Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference for a Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) system were measured after optimization of the system. The achieved performance approached the theoretically evaluated limiting values.
Topics: Physics, NPS FLIR, thermal imaging, IR imaging performance parameters
A method is developed for determining by simple external measurements faulty components of passive networks without mutual inductances. A program has been written using topological relationships to calculate the necessary fault isolation reference data. Computation time and storage requirements have been maintained at a minimum.
Topics: Network malfunctions, isolation of, Fault isolation, Topological formulas
The problem of coupled roll, sway, and yaw stability analysis of submersible vehicles is analyzed, with particular emphasis on nonlinear studies. Previous results had indicated that a primary loss of stability is through the development of limit cycles. This loss of stability is due to the coupling of roll into sway and yaw and cannot be predicted by considering the uncoupled dynamics. In this study, it is shown that the mechanism of loss of stability is through bifurcations to periodic...
Topic: Submersibles
This thesis analyzes the requirements of Israel and the Palestinians in reaching a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author covers previous attempts at settlement, the foundations of which were laid by United Nations Resolutions. The thesis also puts forth a new peace initiative which the author feels is the only hope left for the Palestinian people to regain a portion of their homeland.
Topics: National security affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
A semi-empirical method for modelling the loss of electron fluxes in the earth's magnetosphere was developed. An equation for the integral-energy omnidirectional electron flux as a function of time and magnetic field strength was derived from pitch-angle diffusion theory. This flux equation was the basis for a computer data-fitting program written at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (AFWL) to fit the AFWL Trapped Electron Daoa Base. The program utilised a least-squares fit and incorporated...
During fiscal year 1983 the Marine Corps implemented Phase II of the Nonconsumable Items Program. The intent of the program is to provide a single wholesale manager for depot level repairable components and a single wholesale stock for all users. Although general financial guidance such as reimbursement and credit criteria have been provided in Department of Defense instructions, specific methods of budgeting and financial accounting are at the discretion of the individual services. This thesis...
Topics: nonconsumable items, depot level repairables, budgeting depot level repairables
The objective of this thesis is to address the idea of implementing a viable T&F technique at the early stages of DT&E in order to reduce design discrepancies and minimize acquisition costs and time. The technique involves integration of Task Analysis, Operator Interviews and Link Analysis to evaluate a system's Functional Mock-up. The techniques will, therefore, be referred to as Integrtion Analysis thoughtout this paper. In orderto provide a measure of its contributions, it will be...
Topics: Task analysis, Link analysis, System acquisition cycle, Test and evaluation, RAST, LSO console...
In 2019, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) deployed the Navy smart grid across multiple bases in the United States. The smart grid can improve the reliability, availability, and efficiency of electricity supply. While this brings about immense benefit, placing the grid on a network connected to the internet increases the threat of cyberattacks aimed at intelligence collection, disruption, and destruction. In this thesis, we propose an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for the...
Topics: smart grid, cyber-security, machine learning, K-Nearest Neighbors, KNN
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During the warm season (April-September), the California coast is under the influence of persistent northwesterly flow. Periodically, this flow is replaced by a narrow band of southerly winds along the coast. The transition to southerly flow is often accompanied by a rise in sea-level pressure, lower temperatures, coastal stratus, and fog. The mesoscale disturbance responsible for this southerly transition has become known as a coastally trapped wind reversal (CTWR). While it is clear that...
Topics: Coastal meteorology, Environmental effects
Stauffer (1973) developed a theoretical model for the prediction of air flow above ocean waves. In this study his results were extended with the addition of buoyance effects and two different lower boundary conditions. Through numerical solutions it was possible to determine that: 1) mean wind velocities at lower levels closely approximate the initial mean velocity profile for large wave numbers (k >/- 0.45 m(-1)) or small wave amplitudes, 2) mean wind velocities at lower levels...
Topic: Meteorology
The Hybrid SSB-signal generation method is introduced. It is a combination of phase-shift and filter methods in SSB-signal generation. The motivation is to design a high degree of unwanted signal suppression with less complexities. Computer analysis is used to determine the correct time-constants to achieve high degree phase-shift accuracy. The way is open for designing an even higher degree of performance by increasing the all-pass network order or the number of Chebyshev function poles within...
Topic: single sideband signal generation
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Topic: Mathematics
This paper addresses the problem of screening potential variables for entrance in a linear multiple regression setting. The purpose of the work presented here is to propose two screening methods, both of which have roots in principle component analysis, and which evaluate a combination of variables in an efficient enough manner so that enumeration of all combinations is feasible even when the number of potential variables is quite large. Using the square of the multiple correlation coefficient...
Topics: principle component analysis, stepwise regression, total enumeration, multiple correlation...
This thesis describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a course in the theory and practice of management. It gives an appraisal of programmed learning techniques and compares three methods of teaching management - - by readings, by cases, and by computer gaming. Additionally, it relates student reactions to the opportunity to select one of the three methods. The conclusions emphasize the need for an integrated, dynamic approach to management education. Programmed learning must be...
Topics: Management, Management education, Teaching methods, Management course development, Basic management...
The objective of this paper is to do a comparative analysis of three of the present \"State of the Art\" high noise level microphones. They are the M-87/AIC and M-87/AIC+ (EV 693) both made by Electro-Voice and the HNL bone conduction microphone made by SETCOM Corporation. The advantages and disadvantages of using a bone conduction microphone over a boom mounted microphone are also investigated.
Topics: bond conduction microphone, dynamic microphone, high ambient noise
This thesis presents an overview of microcomputer networks in general and the Lattice Net S icrocompu ter Network in particular. The Lattice Net is a network which has as its ultimate goal the use of power lines as a medium of transmission. The program presented herein is part of an on-going project to implement this system. This program works in conjunction with the code presented in another thesis, \"Microlan File Transfer Program for Microprocessors\" by Roger D. Jaskot and Harold...
Topics: Management, microcomputer, Network, lattice net
This thesis examines the feasibility of several methods for providing remedial high school level education to Marine Corps enlisted personnel. It includes a review of recent Marine Corps enlistment experience and the serviceman's need for education. Also considered are the congressional and Marine Corps requirements for servicemen to possess a high school education and the present provisions which allow completion of secondary schooling, with emphasis on the Predischarge Education Program...
Topic: Management
The threat of drones in sensitive airspace is a growing issue. Drone detection currently focuses on security threats of undesired surveillance. In this thesis, we seek to determine whether a supervisory controller applied to a quadrotor drone will suffice as a feasible option for an autonomous drone. This is achieved by applying a proportional and derivative control law, programmed within MATLAB, to a pre-built simulation model and implemented on the Parrot Mambo Drone for experimental flights....
Topics: guidance, navigation, control, quadrotor drone, intercept
This thesis develops thirty-one models defining various Supported Activity Supply System (SASSY) relationships as seen from the perspective of the SASSY Management Unit. Multiple linear regression combined with time series analysis is used on data drawn from the SASSY Management Unit at Camp Pendleton, California. Two years of data are used in developing the models, which are then tested against five months of actual data to determine their abilities to describe and predict. The utility of this...
Topics: Management, SASSY, MAGFARS, Budget formulation, Models
The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the performance and cost effectiveness of a Peroxone Groundwater Treatment Plant (PGTP) designed and operated by Montgomery Watson, in support of the Defense Evaluation Support Agency's independent analysis for the United States Army Environmental Center (USAEC). Many Department of Defense installations have sites that contain groundwater contaminated with explosive materials. Primary methods for the removal of explosive materials involve the use of...
Current thought holds that the rate of protein synthesis is some function of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) concentration in growing animals. It is possible that measurements of the ratio of RNA to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) might provide an index of growth stages in gross analysis of mixed zooplankton populations. RNA concentrations are found by measuring the ultraviolet (UV) absorption of its purine and pyrimidine base groups. Interference from protein in the RNA measurement is accounted for by...
Topics: Oceanography, RNA/DNA, Oceanic Zooplankton, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Ribonucleic Acid
The in-line force and the resulting drag and inertia coefficients for smooth and rough circular cylinders immersed in a sinusoidally oscillating flow at low Keulegan- Carpenter numbers (K) have been determined experimentally and compared with those obtained theoretically by Stokes and Wang. In addition, flow visualization experiments were carried out with oscillating cylinders in a water table and the stability of the flow was investigated. The results have shown that for very low values of K,...
Topic: Mechanical engineering
The first section of this thesis is a brief review of the conventional approach to performance appraisal, and attempts to point out some evidence of its deficiencies and obsolescence. As a result of these deficiencies, researchers worked to develop appraisal techniques that would optimize the reliability and validity of appraisal judgments. The second section discusses some philosophies in this regard, and the third section looks at behavior in the work situation and major variables affecting...
Topics: Management, performance appraisal, appraisal-by-results, new context in performance appraisal,...
Measurements of three wave surface profiles in a line perpendicular to the beach extending across the breaker line and a set of horizontal and vertical water particle velocities at the breaker line were taken in a mild surf and spilling type breakers. The application of a linear wave theory transfer function to the surface profile spectrum resulted in a calculation of the horizontal water particle velocity spectrum which was 13 percent lower than the measured spectrum peak and showed a phase...
Topic: Oceanography
As part of an ongoing research program at the Naval Postgraduate School concerned with aircraft vulnerability and, in particular, the \"Hydraulic Ram\" phenomenon, two Fortran IV computer codes were written to analyze in two dimensions problems concerning structure-fluid interaction. This thesis presents the method selected for solution, details the codes written and presents test cases and example problems. User's instructions and program listings for both codes are also included.
Topics: Aeronautics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Hydraulic Ram
There are many potential targets for terrorists in the United States, one of which is the food supply system. An attack on the food supply system would create great need for information to many audiences, primarily the general public, about the risk resulting from such an attack. The Multi-State Partnership for Security in Agriculture, a collaborative effort of 10 states, has identified the need for development of a strategy for communicating to the public the risk resulting from an...
Topics: Terrorism, United States, Prevention, Risk communication, Food supply, National security,...
A new technique for full-order and reduced-order observer design which is based on the minimization of an integral square-error performance measure is developed for the integral of time-multiplied-square-error performance measure. The technique is extended to include the design of full-order and reduced-order combined observer/controllers. The technique is well suited to the design of higher order, multiple-input , multiple-output systems where traditional methods become difficult to apply.
Topics: optimal design, observer, controller, quadratic performance measure
This thesis examines the professional, organizational, and training weaknesses of intermediate level small purchase personnel. The intent or the study is to ascertain shortcomings in the above areas, to recommend an organizational and professional framework within which to conduct training, and finally to recommend the essential elements necessary for an effective intermediate level small purchase training program. A general format for a proposed training guide is suggested, and an example of...
Topics: Management, small purchase, blanket purchase agreement, imprest fund, purchase order, training,...
Topics: National security affairs, NA
This report lays the groundwork for further development of a microcomputer that provides full celestial navigation capability. The physical design specifications and design philosophy are investigated. The fix algorithm which allows determination of position without the use of H.O. Publications is implemented in the BASIC language. The application of microcomputer technology to devices of this nature brings to light the need for an information distribution system. Thoughts on a system of this...
Topic: Computer science
The primary objectives of this research project were the development of predictors of academic performance and satisfaction for Aeronautical Engineering students at the Naval Postgraduate School. The three basic types of data used to develope predictors were biographical (historical) , academic aptitude (Graduate Record Exam) , and individual interests (Strong Vocational Interest Blank) data. Several successful predictors of performance were developed but none of the predictors of satisfaction...
Topic: Management
An analysis of the economic assumptions underlying fiscal plans FY 1981 - FY 1984 is described. The forecasts of President Reagan's Economic Recovery Plan are compared to the actual performance od the economy during the respective period. The paper concludes that the supply-side economic policies of President Reagan were not adequately tested by the fiscal experience. however, some objectives of the recovery plan were achieved.
Topics: Management, Supply-side economics, Economic Recovery Plan 1981, Fiscal plan
Topic: Mechanical engineering
During the summer of 1995, an intensive, joint field study called Shallow Water Acoustics in a Random Medium (SWARM 95) was conducted by the Naval Research Laboratories (NRL), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Delaware (UD), Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University (APL/JHU) and Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), among others, in the Mid-Atlantic Bight continental shelf region off the coast of New Jersey. Environmental and acoustic sensors were deployed as...
Topics: Solitons, ADCP, Internal waves, Mid-Atlantic Bight, Continental shelf
We consider Monte Carlo simulation in a setting where the samples are subject to random censoring. Such censoring occurs in settings as varied and diverse as perimeter protection, survival analysis, and electro-magnetic spectrum monitoring. We introduce and analyze two estimators: one based on empirical likelihood methods and another rooted in control variates ideas. We show that the proposed estimators can dramatically reduce the estimator variance in relation to the crude Monte Carlo...
Topics: Monte Carlo, random censoring, control variates, maximum likelihood, simulation, stratification
Topic: Mechanical engineering
Since 1950 the Navy has moved its high-priority cargo through its Quick Transportation System (QOICKTEANS) . This study examines the development of -hat system 'and the concurrent growth of the commercial air cargo industry. The authors selected Emery Worldwide as a representative of the commercial air cargo industry and compared its capabilities with the COICKTRANS system requirements. The authors conclude that the commercial system represents an effective and cost efficient alternative to...
Topics: Management, QUICKTRANS, air cargo, transportation, air freight forwarder, air carrier, contract...
The Army's current activity-based costing model, called Service Based Costing, focuses on costing Major Commands (MACOMS) and large installations. The Army has yet to develop an activity-based costing model for smaller organizations. This thesis develops an activity-based costing model for a small army organization, the Presidio of Monterey's Law Enforcement Command (LEC). This study arrived at the model by analyzing the LEC to determine the LEC's products, processes/activities needed to...
The optimal fire distribution policy obtained using a stochastic combat attrition model is compared with that for a deterministic one. The same optimal control problem for a homogeneous force in combat against a heterogeneous force of two homogeneous types is considered using two different models for the attrition mechanism in a fight-to-the-finish the Lanchester-type differential equation formulation and its analagous stochastic version of a continuous parameter Markov chain with stationary...
Topics: Lanchester Combat Theory, Stochastic Optimal Control, Optimal Fire Distribution
Governments can effectively combat Marxist oriented revolutionary movements. The facade of legitimacy emerges as the most important variable in conducting a counter-insurgency campaign. Highly developed organizational structure supported by viable lines of transportation and communication enhance both the legitimacy of a government and also its capability to deter internal aggression by opposition forces.
Topics: Marxist-Leninist revolution, Marxist oriented revolution, Marxist revolution, Illegitimate...
This investigation completed the development process to establish a technique to obtain holographic recordings of particulate behavior during the combustion process of solid propellants in a two-dimensional rocket motor. Holographic and photographic recordings were taken in a cross-flow environment using various compositions of metallized propellants. The reconstructed holograms are used to provide data on the behavior of aluminum/aluminum oxide particulates in a steady state combustion...
Topics: Aeronautics, Solid propellants, Holography
Topics: Management, Computer Information System, Systems Development Life Cycle, Structured Analysis,...
This thesis provides a brief history of utilities conservation and a background on electricity metering in the Navy. A cost analysis is made of the savings that would be required to justify installation of meters in the operational area of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, using net present value techniques. Cost data from a metering project at Pacific Missile Test Center, Pt. Mugu, California forms a basis for this analysis. The analysis indicates that meters would be...
Topic: Management
Russia has experienced rapid growth in domestic and organized crime since the collapse of communism. The approach Russia's government uses to control this increase will be a test of its democratic foundations. Democratic police methods are necessary as the nation overcomes more than seventy years of Communist police terror and moves toward the rule of law. This thesis shows that the Russian police forces' transition to democratic police operations is strained. This transition requires...
Topics: Democratic Police Principles, Russian Police, Transition to Democracy, Rule of Law, Russian...
The research discusses Russia's aggression against Ukraine in 2014 and seeks to find the explanatory answer to this question: Why did the Russian Federation illegally annex the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine and invade Donbas in 2014? The thesis studies and evaluates Russia's hostilities toward Ukraine within the lenses of three hypothetical explanations'realist, constructivist, and regime survival'in two case studies: 1) annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine and 2) invasion of...
Topics: Ukraine, Crimea, Donbas, occupation, annexation, invasion, Russian Federation, international...
The general method of amplification by periodically quenching an unstable system under the influence of an input signal is investigated by the use of mathematical calculation, digital computation and experimental verification. This type of amplification, of which superregeneration is just one specialized form, is specifically analyzed for electrical systems which can be made unstable with time invarient elements. Specific results from the investigation of a system described by a first order...
The spectral energy balance of waves in the surf zone is examined with extensive measurements from the Duck94 experiment. Cross-shore energy flux gradients are estimated from spectra observed with closely spaced pressure sensors. Nonlinear energy exchanges between different wave components in the spectrum are estimated from observed bispectra based on Boussinesq theory for near-resonant triad interactions. Dissipation of wave energy in file poorly understood breaking process is inferred as the...
Topics: Dissipation, Energy Balance, BoussinesqEquations, Ocean Surface Gravity Waves, Nonlinear...
During the period of 20-25 October 2008, a training research exercise (TREX) was conducted to integrate operational concepts and training techniques from different commands. The collaborative teamwork demonstrated in the highly asymmetric threat exercise scenario was recorded in Microsoft internet relay chat logs across fifteen different chat rooms. The goal of this thesis was to use chat room recorded data from the Air Operations Center to evaluate a measurement model of macrocognition...
Topics: Air Operations Center, Cognition, Communication, Internet, Macrocognition, TREX-09 20-25 October...
This thesis analyzes the impact that reforms in civil-military relations can have on a military's effectiveness. Specifically, why did reforms undermine military effectiveness in Argentina but not in Chile? To answer this question, this thesis looks at both countries since democratization and parses out both the civil-military reforms carried out as well as changes in effectiveness in an attempt to find linkages between the two. To allow for trend analysis, each country is broken into three...
Topics: civil-military relations, Argentina, Chile, military effectiveness, democratic civilian control,...
This study involves the investigation of the feasibility of an electrons dynamic (EGD) probe to measure mean and turbulent velocities. The free stream velocity was 185 ft/sec and measurements were made in the wake of a circular cylinder 2 cm in diameter. Readings made with a hot-wire anemometer at the same location and in the same spectral range were used as the standard of comparison.
Topic: Aeronautics
In the late 1980s the Marine Corps procured the M900 series 5-ton truck. Within four years of this acquisition, a serious corrosion problem developed with the M900 series truck. Efforts to control this corrosion have proven to be unsuccessful. The current maintenance budget does not adequately fund the corrosion program nor are the facilities and procedures able to handle the workload. The objective of this thesis was to identify the most immediate and cost effective way to handle corrosion...
Topics: Corrosion control, Maintenance, Outsourcing
The objective of this project was to study the effect that small artificial cavities have on natural convection from a horizontal surface. Tests were run with water and Freon 113. Data for heat flux as a function of bulk temperature difference were carefully obtained. These data yielded Nusselt number as a function of Grashof number or Rayleigh number. All of these were then compared with the data obtained by O'Connor [Ref. 3]. Experimental results are presented for the heat transfer from...
Topic: Mechanical engineering
Topic: Naval architecture
Specialized Common Carriers, communications carriers which cane into existence offering private line microwave service, are now significant competitors in the long distance telecommunications industry. This Thesis provides military installation telecommunications managers with a basic knowledge of hew Specialized Common Carriers entered the telecommunications market, what services Specialized Common Carriers offer, and hew to obtain these services for a military installation. It includes a case...
Topics: Management, telecommunications, telephone, cost reduction, specialized common carriers, military...
Aircraft combat survivability has developed into a discipline of its own. This thesis presents a brief overview of the two integral parts of survivability, susceptibility and vulnerability. It examines the probability of an aircraft being killed given a single shot fired by the enemy. It further examines the redundancy of critical components and the effect redundancy has on the probability of kill of the aircraft. Several numerical examples are given. The thesis also examines the Antiaircraft...
Topics: Aeronautics, aircraft survivability, susceptibility evaluation, vulnerability evaluation,...
