Simulation is used to study the effectiveness of mine avoidance sonar (MAS) use on safe minefield transit by a ship. A MAS is able to detect mine-like objects but currently cannot classify the detected object as a mine or a non-mine mine-like bottom object (nombo). The tactic is to avoid all detected objects. The minefield is represented by a finite grid of fixed width and length. The representation of ship maneuvering in the simulation is similar to that of a wall tracing algorithm for a computer mouse going through a maze. The simulation results indicate that the use of the mine avoidance sonars can increase the probability of successful transit. The probability of successful transit increases as the probability of detection increases for minefield object densities less than 50% of the field. However, the probability of successful transit is sensitive to the mine and NOMBO (NOn-mine Mine-like Bottom Object) density. The probability of successful transit can be increased if the density of mine-like objects is decreased. Some suggestions on mine avoidance tactics are made from the results obtained to show the limitations and effectiveness of the MAS with regards to the open waters, narrow channels, ports and harbors.

Airpower capability and military technology have created a vision of airpower that focuses on the lethality of weaponry instead of the use of that weaponry as a political tool. Unfortunately, such a lethality-focused force optimized to fight interstate conflicts, by definition, ensures that this force is sub-optimal for waging wars at the sub-state level. Small wars are conflicts where the political and diplomatic context, and not the military disposition of the combatants, is usually the determining factor. Following World War II there emerged an era of insurgencies and limited wars of territorial dispute. These small wars required new operational and tactical innovations involving the use of airpower, as the very nature of these wars differed from conventional conflict towards which most of aviation was geared. This thesis analyzes six historical cases involving the use of airpower across a wide spectrum of small wars through the lens of an analytical framework for countering insurgencies. While the typologies of no two conflicts are identical, and the application of airpower equally varied, this work provides fundamental assertions and implications regarding the proper use of airpower for waging war at this level. / US Air Force (USAF) author.

The use of influence tactics by sales representatives appears to be related to a number of latent constructs and factors such as, manifest needs, role conflict and role ambiguity, and perception of sales managers' power bases. However, such relationships have not been examined by researchers. These relationships were examined in this study in an effort to improve the current level of understanding of causes and results of the use of influence tactics in a sales environment. The contention of this study was that individuals in work settings engage in a variety of influence tactics, and that the type of influence tactics used are influenced by factors such as personal characteristics of the salespersons, the nature of goals to be achieved, the salespersons' perceptions of their superiors' power bases, and the nature and complexity of the dyadic relationship that exists between supervisor and subordinates.

Interrogation tactics Abstract The submitted diploma thesis deals with the interrogation as a criminalistic procedure. The statement is obtained from interrogated persons by means of interrogation. The statement is a source of important knowledge of a crime. A crime can be successfully elucidated on the basis of knowledge. The aim of the diploma thesis is to sort knowledge of the interrogation, the interrogation tactics and the tactical interrogation procedures from the point of view of criminal law, criminalistics and psychology. The thesis is divided into five separate chapters. The first chapter is conceived from the point of view of criminal law. First chapter deals with the regulation of interrogation in the Czech Criminal Procedure Code and with the rights and obligations of the interrogated persons. The second and third chapters are the focus of this diploma thesis. Chapters deal with the preparation of the interrogation, the phases of the interrogation, the inquiries asked during the interrogation and the tactical interrogation procedures. My intention is to demonstrate how to perform tactical procedures correctly and legally. Equally important chapter is the chapter fourth, which deals with the interrogation from the point of view of psychology, especially the credibility of the interrogated person...

Master of Agribusiness / Department of Agricultural Economics / Allen Featherstone / The Company is comprised of retail and w holesale agri-input outlets, toll/contract manufacturing and various departments that aid in three tiers of the supply chain. The Company Department 2’s principal goal is to earn a profit and that is achieved by helping their retail customers succeed across Division M. Therefore, a comprehensible strategy for selecting, positioning and promoting wholesale products and services is fundamental in uncovering actual value. The Company has grown to be one of the nation’s foremost agricultural distributors across the United States. Various geographies across the United States, excluding the region, have moved to a three-tier supply chain by merging retail and wholesale outlets. Currently, value demanded from end-users and retail outlets has been supplied from the wholesale level that has sustained the four-tier supply chain a cross the region of the United States. Even though the Company is vertically integrated, their knowled ge and core offerings originate from the retail segment of the supply chain. Retail firms that provide differentiated products and services with the most value to the end-user are those that fit the Company Department 2’s market. In addition, targeted retail fir ms emphasize a full-service business model by supplying produ cts and services across multip le categories. Company Department 2 provides value internally and externally. The three core areas from Company Department 2 are proprietary products, precision products and services, and other retail services valu able to retail customers. Positioning of these core areas differs based on the depth of the current relationship. A flanking strategy is proposed for prospective customers by bundling prestige goods and distribution innovations specifically in the focused proprietary line of products. A guerilla strategy is proposed for existing customers by highlighting product proliferation and improved services across all three of the core areas. Both strategies emphasize advertising and promotion, but more intensive campaigns are proposed with prospective customers. These positioning strategies and tactics are accomplished through accurate implementation at the field level. By risking a claim for what Company Department 2 stands for, communicating how value is created for a customer and communicating the reliability of these offerings, Company Department 2 will develop a unique identity in the marketplace.

In Taiwan, the environment of medical treatment is changing drastically. In fact, business competition among hospitals in an agricultural county is obviously increasing today. It is a crucial challenge for a new and large-scale hospital to survive in an agricultural county at a location without good traffic network and high resident population. For some people who are living in agricultural counties, even though the economical predicament in buying health insurance and taking medical treatment has been alleviated due to execution of the national health insurance system, but obstruction on the way to taking medical treatment is still existing for lack of medical resource, traffic convenience and others. Additionally, the patient-transfer policy among medical treatment providers does not go to practice and effect very well. Therefore, what tactics drawn up to enhance the accessibility of medical service to patients are very important to the business management of a hospital in an agricultural county. The purpose and works in this thesis research are as follows: (1) To analyze the factors that influence the accessibility of hospital to the residents and to draw up the tactics that might be effective to enhance the accessibility. (2) To analyze the factors that influences the accessibility of medical service to the patients in hospital and to draw up the tactics that might be effective to enhance the accessibility. (3) To evaluate the effectiveness of the related tactics in business management of some selected hospitals, then to confirm what are good and effective tactics. In this research, Chung-Kang memorial hospital in Chia-Yi branch, abbreviated to CKCY hereafter, was selected as a major study object. Effectiveness of four tactics that are adopted and brought to practice by CKCY was evaluated. These tactics are improvement on traffic convenience, taking benefit from tactical cooperation, popularization by providing circulating medical service and efficiency enhancement by introducing electronic business (e-business) operation. In order to evaluate effectiveness of the tactics objectively, two hospitals were also selected as study objects for comparison with CKCY. The information and data from interview with key managers and answers of the designed questionnaires that were sent to some related employees in these hospitals are used as base to evaluate effectiveness of the tactics. Based on the analysis and evaluation done in this research, the conclusions are drawn up as follows: (1) Regarding the improvement of traffic convenience, the more faraway the town, the more obviously effective the tactic. Both the shuttle bus service provided by the hospital and the prompt assistance from volunteers in the hospital are more effective to increase the number of patients than the elongation of public bus lines. (2) Regarding the tactical alliance for regional isolation, the proper radial distance of the hospital-centered region for cooperating with other hospitals is around 30 kilometers. However, it is better to ally with hospitals located in neighboring counties. Within the short distance region, it would be helpful for hospitals to take tactic cooperation in vertically integrating the medical treatment resources via division of the medical care with different hospitals on different diseases, for example, acute or chronic diseases. In the horizontal integration, it would be helpful for hospitals to set up outpatient service centers in the allied hospitals. (3) Patient satisfaction to the circulating medical service for rural communities is very high and the ratio of return patients in the outpatient service is also very high. Therefore, the circulating medical service is worth taking into practice more actively. (4) Merits of electronic business (e-business) operation in the hospital comparing with traditional operation are confirmed and listed as follows: <1>Simplifying operation procedures <2>Reducing waiting time for patients to get medical treatment <3> Improving the accessibility of medical service and patient satisfaction <4> Ensuring the correctness and integrity of hospital operation <5>Saving labor cost of hospital operation.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Erik Jansen, Shelley P. Gallup. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1996. / Includes abstract. "June 1996." DTIC report no.: ADA312719. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103). Full text available online from DTIC.

In this article, I discuss a new methodology for course of action comparisons within the Military Decision Making Process MDMP. I discuss the problem with the current methodology used to compare and recommend courses of action to operational or tactical level commanders, and I describe and demonstrate how using this new methodology gives commanders a better tool to select those courses of action. I also provide additional analysis of the comparison that can provide the staff and the commander with actionable information generated from sensitivity analysis. / text

In this dissertation, Claire Lauer proposes a spatial-metaphorical model for exploring and communicating the self in composition. She uses the concepts of Edward Soja's Thirdspace, Michel de Certeau's tactics, and Turkle and Papert's bricolage as lenses through which to analyze and understand the spatial-metaphorical self-constructions that students in her classes built in the virtual reality of the MOO. These lenses reveal a new kind of agency, one that finds power in complexity and refuses reduction. Through their sites, students show themselves to be comfortable with the unfamiliar and the ambiguous, but also able to adapt, change shape, and see the I as an all--as an infinite sum and ever-changing total. Lauer argues that offering students the opportunity to construct themselves spatially and metaphorically disrupts their assumptions about identity and provides them with new ways of expressing their postmodern subjectivities--of speaking to and about their ever-shifting proximities to the people and events in their lives.Lauer argues that recognizing the complexity of identity facilitates a recognition of the complexity of culture and communication, and shows how identity construction assignments can thus serve as models for larger knowledge exploration and construction. She concludes by arguing that the analysis and production of new media in the composition classroom is essential to the continued goal of composition instructors fostering critical engagement in the classroom. As an extension of identity investigation, such engagement should be a cornerstone of first-year composition and does not have to be at odds with the more practical work of preparing students for their academic careers. In fact, it facilitates the more practical work instructors do in composition because it allows students to see the constructed nature of all discourses and become aware of how we both compose and are composed by the texts we encounter.