Thesis--University of Houston. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Chris Bellavita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Paul Stockton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52). Also available online.

Thesis ( M.A.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 19, 2003). "December 2002." Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120). Also issued in paper format.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Robert Simeral, Robert Looney. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-111). Also available online.

The Legacy Resource Management Program, as legislated by Congress in 1990, is an attempt to provide the Department of Defense (DOD) with a pro -active program for identifying, protecting and maintaining natural and cultural resources on all lands under DOD jurisdiction or influence. Congress set aside funds to be used to establish and support the program in fiscal year 1991 and the Legacy program was included in DOD's FY92 and FY93 budget proposals. In addition to these efforts, the Legacy program places special emphasis on resources associated with Native Americans and on public access issues. The report herein was prepared as part of the Education, Public Awareness, and Outdoor Recreation Task Area of the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program. The overall program is managed by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Environment, with administration by the U.S. Army Engineering and Housing Support Center Natural and Cultural Resources Division. The Education, Public Awareness, and Outdoor Recreation Task Area is managed at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES). This report is an assessment of current policies and procedures concerning Native American access to and consultation with DOD installations. The primary function of this report is to develop a bibliography of published material relating to Native American access issues on DOD facilities.

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The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera) complex is the sole arthropod vector of the genus, Begomovirus (family, Geminiviridae), which causes debilitating diseases of plants, worldwide. Virus-vector specificity is conferred through co-evolved, whitefly vector-viral capsid protein-protein interactions. Membrane-bound receptors are thought to facilitate virion passage across the gut-hemolymph and hemolymph-salivary gland interfaces, and virion circulation is expected to elicit innate defense and stress-related proteins. Our goal was to select and validate genes involved in whitefly-mediated transmission. Whitefly expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from a previous study were re-annotated, taking advantage of newly available insect EST, UniGene, and Protein sequences. Six whitefly genes and transcripts, actin, cyclophilin, GBLP, GAPDH 3, knottin, and whitefly endosymbiont HSP60, representing three gene ontology (GO) categories, were analyzed using PCR or RT- PCR, respectively, followed by cloning and DNA sequencing. Analysis confirmed the presence of all six whitefly genes and five transcripts, with the knottin transcript being undetectable.

This thesis analyses the policy debate surrounding National Missile Defense in the US during the 1990s from the framework of strategic intelligence failure. It focuses on the Congressional reaction to the release of the national intelligence estimate "NIE 95-19: Emerging Missile Threats to North America During the Next 15 Years" and the establishment of a new interpretation of foreign ballistic missile threats to the continental US. The role that partisan politics plays in the oversight of the US intelligence community is a vital and inescapable one. Yet little academic investigation has been devoted to understanding the political nature of intelligence oversight and its potentially catastrophic impact on intelligence product. Instead most of the scholarly literature treats intelligence and its oversight as apolitical, objective processes and intelligence failures as 'sins' produced by human error or organisational dysfunction with little analysis of the essentially subjective nature of political debate. The debate between the Clinton Administration and the Republican Congress can be understood as a conflict between two competing policy frames, each giving their holders a subjective assessment of what threats the US faced from ballistic missiles. Both parties sought to use their competing power over the intelligence community to produce community support for their paradigm and undermine support for that of their rival. The production and release of NIE 95-19 highlighted these competing claims. The unambiguous nature of the NIE's threat projections caused Congress to wield its oversight powers in an ultimately successful attempt to overturn the findings of the NIE. This represented an unprecedented level of Congressional involvement in strategic intelligence interpretation. Most importantly however it highlights the inherent dichotomy produced by current conceptions of strategic intelligence failure. In building a system of oversight that protected US strategic intelligence from certain apparent sources of failure the ability for Congress to actively meddle in the production of strategic intelligence and arguably undermine the value of long-term projections such as the NIE were massively increased.