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1	Model development, testing and computer implementation for a coal blending and distribution problem / Puri, Ritu, January 1991 (has links) Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-208). Also available via the Internet.
2	The Positive Aspects of a Program of Participation in a Retirement Center Burke, Yvonne 01 January 1974 (has links) This report examines affordability and quality of life in the Westmoreland Union Manor. Westmoreland Union Manor Retirement Social Work
3	Impact of best management practices on water quality in the Nomini Creek Watershed Sims, Christopher N. 18 September 2008 (has links) The Nomini Creek Watershed project was initiated in 1985 as Virginia's action in dealing with the water quality problems of the Chesapeake Bay. Nomini Creek was selected because it was an agricultural watershed with few best management practices in place at the beginning of the study and was a representative watershed for the Coastal Plain of Virginia. The watershed is located in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The goal of the project was to provide data needed to quantify the water quality impacts of cropland BMP implementation in a watershed with a complex landuse. The data collected during the project included landuse, hydrologic, water quality, soils, and geographical data. The goal of this study was to conduct a detailed analysis of the data collected from the Nomini Creek watershed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of a system of BMPs on the quality of surface water. The specific objectives of this study were: 1) to compile the landuse data and determine if any significant changes in cropping practices occurred during the study period, 2) determine if any changes occurred in the monthly rainfall, and runoff values over the study period, and 3) determine if any changes occurred in the monthly total suspended solids, nitrogen, and phosphorous loadings from the watershed over the study period. The analysis indicated no significant change in the rainfall and runoff amounts over the study period. The BMPs implemented during the study target surface runoff. Sediment bound nutrients such as ammonium and total kjeldahl nitrogen reduced during the study period and soluble nutrients such as ortho-phosphorous and total phosphorous increased during the study period. / Master of Science watershed BMP Water quality Nomini Creek Westmoreland LD5655.V855 1996.S5457
4	No Path to Victory: MACV in Vietnam 1964-1968 Mills, Jeffrey P. January 2015 (has links) No description available. Military History American History History Military Studies Modern History Vietnam Westmoreland counterinsurgency pacification CORDS Combined Action Program Combined Action Platoons CAP MTT MALT advising
5	Korean War and Vietnam War Strategies: A Comparison McCandless, Richard Thomas 02 March 2009 (has links) No description available. Military History Korean War Vietnam War General Westmoreland General MacArthur President Harry S Truman President Lyndon B. Johnson Cold War Southeast Asia Ho Chi Minh Syngman Rhee Kim Il Song, Ngo Dinh Diem Tonkin Gulf Resolution
6	Korean War and Vietnam War strategies a comparison / McCandless, Richard Thomas. January 2009 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-39).
7	Zero-Error capacity of quantum channels. / Capacidade Erro-Zero de canais quânticos. MEDEIROS, Rex Antonio da Costa. 01 August 2018 (has links) Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-01T21:11:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 REX ANTONIO DA COSTA MEDEIROS - TESE PPGEE 2008..pdf: 1089371 bytes, checksum: ea0c95501b938e0d466779a06faaa4f6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T21:11:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 REX ANTONIO DA COSTA MEDEIROS - TESE PPGEE 2008..pdf: 1089371 bytes, checksum: ea0c95501b938e0d466779a06faaa4f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-09 / Nesta tese, a capacidade erro-zero de canais discretos sem memória é generalizada para canais quânticos. Uma nova capacidade para a transmissão de informação clássica através de canais quânticos é proposta. A capacidade erro-zero de canais quânticos (CEZQ) é deﬁnida como sendo a máxima quantidade de informação por uso do canal que pode ser enviada através de um canal quântico ruidoso, considerando uma probabilidade de erro igual a zero. O protocolo de comunicação restringe palavras-código a produtos tensoriais de estados quânticos de entrada, enquanto que medições coletivas entre várias saídas do canal são permitidas. Portanto, o protocolo empregado é similar ao protocolo de Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland. O problema de encontrar a CEZQ é reformulado usando elementos da teoria de grafos. Esta deﬁnição equivalente é usada para demonstrar propriedades de famílias de estados quânticos e medições que atingem a CEZQ. É mostrado que a capacidade de um canal quântico num espaço de Hilbert de dimensão d pode sempre ser alcançada usando famílias compostas de, no máximo,d estados puros. Com relação às medições, demonstra-se que medições coletivas de von Neumann são necessárias e suﬁcientes para alcançar a capacidade. É discutido se a CEZQ é uma generalização não trivial da capacidade erro-zero clássica. O termo não trivial refere-se a existência de canais quânticos para os quais a CEZQ só pode ser alcançada através de famílias de estados quânticos não-ortogonais e usando códigos de comprimento maior ou igual a dois. É investigada a CEZQ de alguns canais quânticos. É mostrado que o problema de calcular a CEZQ de canais clássicos-quânticos é puramente clássico. Em particular, é exibido um canal quântico para o qual conjectura-se que a CEZQ só pode ser alcançada usando uma família de estados quânticos não-ortogonais. Se a conjectura é verdadeira, é possível calcular o valor exato da capacidade e construir um código de bloco quântico que alcança a capacidade. Finalmente, é demonstrado que a CEZQ é limitada superiormente pela capacidade de Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland. Engenharia Elétrica. Canais quânticos Erro-zero de canais discretos Erro-zero de canais quânticos Canal quântico ruidoso Quantum channels Telecomunicações
8	The Limits of Fire Support: American Finances and Firepower Restraint during the Vietnam War Hawkins, John Michael 16 December 2013 (has links) Excessive unobserved firepower expenditures by Allied forces during the Vietnam War defied the traditional counterinsurgency principle that population protection should be valued more than destruction of the enemy. Many historians have pointed to this discontinuity in their arguments, but none have examined the available firepower records in detail. This study compiles and analyzes available, artillery-related U.S. and Allied archival records to test historical assertions about the balance between conventional and counterinsurgent military strategy as it changed over time. It finds that, between 1965 and 1970, the commanders of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Generals William Westmoreland and Creighton Abrams, shared significant continuity of strategic and tactical thought. Both commanders tolerated U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Allied unobserved firepower at levels inappropriate for counterinsurgency and both reduced Army harassment and interdiction fire (H&I) as a response to increasing budgetary pressure. Before 1968, the Army expended nearly 40 percent of artillery ammunition as H&I – a form of unobserved fire that sought merely to hinder enemy movement and to lower enemy morale, rather than to inflict any appreciable enemy casualties. To save money, Westmoreland reduced H&I, or “interdiction” after a semantic name change in February 1968, to just over 29 percent of ammunition expended in July 1968, the first full month of Abrams’ command. Abrams likewise pursued dollar savings with his “Five-by-Five Plan” of August 1968 that reduced Army artillery interdiction expenditures to nearly ten percent of ammunition by January 1969. Yet Abrams allowed Army interdiction to stabilize near this level until early 1970, when recurring financial pressure prompted him to virtually eliminate the practice. Meanwhile, Marines fired H&I at historically high rates into the final months of 1970 and Australian “Harassing Fire” surpassed Army and Marine Corps totals during the same period. South Vietnamese artillery also fired high rates of H&I, but Filipino and Thai artillery eschewed H&I in quiet areas of operation and Republic of Korea [ROK] forces abandoned H&I in late 1968 as a direct response to MACV’s budgetary pressure. Financial pressure, rather than strategic change, drove MACV’s unobserved firepower reductions during the Vietnam War. 11th marines 12th marines abrams air force allied american way of war ammunition army artillery attrition arvn australian b-52 birtle budget cap cea classical clausewitz clifford coled-v collins communist congress constraints conventional counter-battery counterinsurgency dollar expenditures filipino finances fire support firepower five-by-five free world military fwmaf h&i haines harold harrassment hunt hybrid interdiction johnson kalergis komer korean krepinevich laird leonard taylor lewy lyndon macv marines mcnamara mekong nagl new zealand nixon nva observed operations philippine preemptive preparatory resor restraint riverine rok savings sensors sorley south vietnamese strategy summers tactics thai third country trinity unconventional unobserved usarv van fleet viet cong vietnam westmoreland wheeler wise men

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