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The efforts undertaken by civilian and military organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina were historically unprecedented, but problems did arise in the military response that contributed to delays in accomplishing evacuations and relief operations across the storm-ravaged areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, particularly New Orleans. A number of steps can be taken to enhance future military disaster-response efforts: give the National Guard the federal mission to conduct homeland security activities; make each National Guard unit capable of rapid deployment; prepare governors to call up Guard units to state active duty for out-of-state emergencies; and design a regional approach in the National Guard through the creation of ten National Guard standing homeland security task forces. Designating National Guard and active-duty units for homeland security in the Army’s unit-readiness planning process also deserves consideration, as does an approach to command and control structure that prepares decision makers to quickly select from a set of predefined alternatives giving the lead to federal or state task forces depending on the characteristics of the emergency. more...

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Suitable for students applying to doctoral programs in clinical or counseling psychology, this book presents facts on 300 accredited programs in the United States and Canada. Each program's profile includes admissions criteria, acceptance rates, research areas, specialty clinics, and more. more...

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Class actions, which are civil cases in which parties initiate a lawsuit on behalf of other plaintiffs not specifically named in the complaint, often make the headlines, especially when they result in settlements affecting millions of class members and requiring millions of dollars in restitution. They have also aroused vocal policy debates, as exemplified during the deliberations of the U.S. Congress prior to the enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. But despite this long-standing interest, policymakers and the public know very little about the majority of class actions filed in this country-their numbers, their dynamics, or their outcomes. RAND used a defendant-based survey to collect original data on both state and federal insurance class actions, and also surveyed state departments of insurance to learn more about the interests of regulators in the issues litigated by the parties in these cases. This book presents the results. With these data, we are able to describe important characteristics of the litigation, including what types of classes are sought, where these cases are being filed, what allegations are made, how these cases are resolved, how much time it takes to bring them to resolution, and the possible impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. more...

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Boost Your grades with this illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it. from college to graduate school and beyond. Features.:.; Clear and concise explanations.; Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms.; Illustrated with graphs and diagrams.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display. Table of Contents. I. Linear equations.:.; System of linear equations.; Determinant.:.; Minor.; Cauchy-Binet formula.; Cramer's rule.; Gaussian elimination.; Gauss-Jordan elimination.; Strassen algorithm. II. Matrices.:.; Matrix addition.; Matrix multiplication.; Basis transformation matrix.; Characteristic polynomial, Characteristic Equation.; Trace.; Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace.:.; Cayley-Hamilton theorem.; Spread of a matrix.; Symbolic Computation of Matrix Eigenvalues.; Jordan normal form.; Rank.; Matrix inversion,.:.; Pseudoinverse.; Adjugate.; Transpose.:.; Dot product.; Symmetric matrix.; Matrix congruence.:.; Congruence relation.; Orthogonal matrix.; Skew-symmetric matrix.; Conjugate transpose.:.; Unitary matrix.; Hermitian matrix, Antihermitian.; Positive definite: matrix, function, bilinear form.; Identity matrix.; Pfaffian.; Projection.; Diagonal matrix, main diagonal.:.; Diagonalizable matrix.; Similar matrix.; Tridiagonal matrix.; Hessenberg matrix.; Triangular matrix.; Spectral theorem.; Stochastic matrix.; Toeplitz matrix.:.; Circulant matrix.; Hankel matrix.; Vandermonde matrix.; Block matrix.; (0,1)-matrix.; Normal Matrix.; Sparse matrix.; Woodbury matrix identity.; Perron-Frobenius theorem.; List of Matrices. III. Matrix decompositions.:.; Block LU Decomposition.; Cholesky decomposition.; LU decomposition.; QR decomposition.; Spectral theorem.; Singular value decomposition.; Schur decomposition.:.; Schur complement. IV. Computations.:.; Transformation Matrix.; Householder transformation.; Least squ more...

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`This is a welcome addition to an impoverished field and will be referred to extensively by management developers, college managers undertaking postgraduate studies and by researchers' - Learning and Skills Research Journal more...

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