Thesis (M.S. in Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (Moves))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): McCauley, Michael ; Blais, Curtis. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 5, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). Also available in print.

This project synthesizes functional and economic theories of integration to analyze three cases: United States and Cuba, United States and Puerto Rico, and China and Taiwan. This project posits that the final determining factor for integration of two entities lies primarily with the economic conditions for the mass populous in the smaller entity. In a society, those who gain the most through interactions with another will support increased interactions with that entity, whereas those who do not gain or lose via these interactions do not support and oppose increased interactions. The tipping point in either direction is near half of the populous.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1940. / Reprint of original ed., Kuala Lumpur, 1947.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1940. / Reprint of original ed., Kuala Lumpur, 1947.

This thesis is an analytical study of the legal and political aspects of the Strait of Hormuz. It involves an evaluation of the policies of the Gulf States towards the applicable legal regime of passage through the Strait of Hormuz and their reactions towards both the 1958 and 1982 conventions on the Law of the Sea. Special attention is made to the practice of the States bordering the Strait of Hormuz as contained in their national laws. Our analysis of the applicable legal regime of passage through the Strait of Hormuz is conducted in the light of the prevailing international rules governing passage through international straits. Extensive discussion is devoted to the principal sources of threats to the Gulf’s security and to the safety of navigation through the Gulf Sea lanes, including the Strait of Hormuz. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate

Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering, 1976 / Bibliography: leaves 154-158. / M.S. / M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering

A model has been developed and run with sufficiently high resolution (~9 km and 45 levels) and a large enough spatial domain to allow for realistic representation of flow through the narrow and shallow straits in the Bering Sea region. This is potentially important for quantification of long-term mean and time-dependent ocean circulation, and water mass and property exchanges between the Pacific and Arctic oceans. The mean modeled circulation in the Bering Sea is found to be in good agreement with the limited observational data. The Bering Sea Basin, Bering Slope Current, and straits on the northern shelf are identified as highly energetic regions based on eddy kinetic energy fields. Some high biological productivity regions of the northern Bering Sea identified in observational studies are coincident with regions of persistently high energy (up to 2600 cm2 s-2 at mid-depth) throughout the annual cycle. Over a twentythree year interval (1979-2001), mean transport through Bering Strait is estimated to be 0.65 Sv. Comparison of model results with published observations indicates that ocean circulation is not only variable at seasonal to interdecadal scales, but it is also responsive to short-term atmospheric forcing. Comparison with observations of nearbottom salinity indicates that the model is reasonably representing the major water mass properties. The long-term model results for the Bering Sea provide important insights into the ocean circulation and fluxes and they are a useful frame of reference for limited observations that are short-term and/or cover only a small geographic region.

本文第一章是緒論，敘述研究動機與目的、研究範圍、方法及論文架構。 第二章是回顧冷戰時期的中華民國以及中共在外交戰場上的競逐、對外政 策取向及兩岸關係，雖然當時兩岸是處於不相往來的情況，但是外交上的 競爭也頗為激烈，而且每當中共有外交收穫時便會趁機會向台灣提出和談 條件。第三章主要是敘述兩岸開放後中華民國的外交及大陸政策及其成果 ，以及中共「一國兩制」的對台政策內涵。第四章是藉由中華民國參與聯 合國行動為例，檢視中共的反應以及對兩岸關係的影響。第五章則是以李 登輝總統訪問美國來做例子，比較外交政策中兩種不同的政策產出來檢視 中共的反應，及其對兩岸關係的影響。第六章則是總結本文的論點，歸納 中共對中華民國務實外交的認知，以及提出適當的解決方案平衡中華民國 的外交及大陸政策，最後將預估未來兩岸關係可能的發展。

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich Wilhelm-Universität zu Breslau.