The Next-Generation Multimission U.S. Surveillance Radar Network by Benner, William E., Torok, Garth S., Weber, Mark E., Cho, John Y, Herd, Jeffrey S., Flavin, James M

“…Government operates seven distinct radar networks, providing weather and aircraft surveillance for public weather services, air traffic control, and homeland defense. In this paper, we describe a next-generation multimission phased-array radar (MPAR) concept that could provide enhanced weather and aircraft surveillance services with potentially lower life cycle costs than multiple single-function radar networks. …”
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Contrast enhancement of propagation based X-ray phase contrast imaging by Pan, Adam, Xu, Ling, Petruccelli, Jon C., Gupta, Rajiv, Barbastathis, George

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Modeling and design of a MEMS piezoelectric vibration energy harvester by Du Toit, Noël Eduard

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Federal policy towards emergency responder interoperability : a path forward by Weir, Tristan John

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Design of an overmoded W-Band coupled cavity TWT by Comfoltey, Edward Nicholas

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The SORDS trimodal imager detector arrays by Wallace, Mark, McElroy, John, Harris, Bernard, Toolin, Maurice, Hynes, Michael V., Locklin, Darren, Bray, Nick, Li, Liqian, Clifford, E. T .H., Andrews, H. R., Wakeford, Daniel, Lanza, Richard C

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Deploying Sensor Networks With Guaranteed Fault Tolerance by Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi, Bredin, Jonathan L., Demaine, Erik D., Rus, Daniela L.

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The lure of diaspora : diaspora discourse, accented style, and sinophone Malaysian culture by Hee, Wai Siam

“…This diaspora discourse excludes the Malaysian Chinese “localization discourse” and creates a theoretical link between localization and the “original homeland” myth of bumiputera privileges. This essay examines the master-slave structure of Chinese-Malay relations in Ng Kim Chew’s short stories, demonstrating how characters of other ethnicities are animalized, stereotyped, or demonized by the Chinese heroes. …”
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Development of a counter-UAV system by Tang, Wen Yue

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an increasing danger to both commercial aviation and homeland security in Singapore’s highly urbanised environment. …”
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Cross perspective person re-identification (drone and ground cameras) by Carmon, Daniel

“…Person Re-ID is growing in importance in several key fields relating to homeland security, surveillance, and sports performance. …”
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PELAKSANAAN PRINSIP KEDAULATAN RAKYAT DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM DI INDONESIA by , Taufik Firmanto, , Prof. Dr. Sudjito, S.H., M.Si.

“…In this case, by adhering to the basic philosophy of "democracy led by the inner wisdom of deliberations of representatives", the organization of elections as a means of implementation of the sovereignty of the people in Indonesia are not allowed out of the ideals and objectives of the establishment of a Government of Indonesia to protect the whole Indonesian nation and the entire homeland of Indonesia, promote the general welfare, the intellectual life of the nation, and participate in the establishment of a world order based on freedom, abiding peace and social justice as mandated by the constitution.…”

Guest editors’ introduction: Turkey’s diaspora governance policies from the past to the present by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Tas, Hakki, Baser, Bahar

“…Currently, more than one hundred states have established forms of diaspora engagement policies and institutions, with a variety of motivations.2 Scholars try to understand the development of diaspora-engagement policies cultivated by political actors in the homeland from various disciplines including international relations, political science and sociology.3 How these policies are cultivated and transformed through time4 and their multi-tiered nature5 are of interest to those who try to understand the politics of diaspora governance. …”
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Writing exile: Fulvio Tomizza by Deganutti, M

“…In particular, I shall suggest that identity and idioms are called into question even before characters have left their homeland. In addition, exile begins with a clarification of characters’ sense of belonging, which inevitably leads them to split, making the choice of whether to abandon the home country even more complicated. …”

Die uralte moderne Lösung: Nation, space and modernity in Austro-German zionism before 1917 by Marshall, A

“…The fourth chapter concerns understandings of 'homeland' and the relationship between people and territory, concluding Zionism’s effect is achieved, not just by inhabiting Palestine, but by public desire and effort to do so. …”

The Cape Verdean "community" in Portugal by Batalha, L

“…</p><p>The archipelago of Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, is the homeland of the two groups who make up the Cape Verdean 'community' in Portugal. …”

The bumiputera-owned small and medium enterprises’ mitigation on the deadly Covid-19 by Charlie Albert Lasuin, Azizah Omar

“…In addition, the developments of physical effects of infection and the mental trauma creating stress, fear, confusion, lonely and anger among people because of self-isolation or social lockdown in their own homeland. In a nutshell, the disease also squeezed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) around the world, particularly in Malaysia into a dramatic consequence of losing their business sustainability and capability of competing in the red ocean market. …”
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Socio demographic factors and physical activity associated with overweight and obesity among Iranian adolescents by Babazekri, Leila, Juni, Muhamad Hanafiah, Mohd Zulkefli, Nor Afiah, Azman, Ahmad Zaid Fattah, Movahedi, Ariyo

“…The finding also showed that prevalence of overweight and obesity were high among Iranian adolescents residing overseas compare to adolescents at their homeland. There is need to address the risk factors associated with overweight and obesity among this group of adolescents.…”
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Towards a productive waqf management framework for socio-economic development of Muslim Community: a case study in Batam, Indonesia by Sanusi Patola Daeng Masirri, Sofiandi

“…The objective is to improve productive waqf functions as an economic security net for the socio-economic development of the Muslim Community since they seemed to be subordinated in their homeland. This study has also been done as the answer towards some problems such as the low motivation and participation of Muslim in waqf, unprofessional nadzir, lack of waqf socialization and the roles of waqf that have been limited and forgotten by most Muslims. …”
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المشاركة السياسية وأثرها في تنمية قيم المواطنة by محمود المحمد, بانة ابراهيم

“…Therefore, finding a positive relationship between the citizen and the state includes a high level of exercising political participation which needs to be invested through activating the citizens’ political participation, especially in the light of cultural, political, economic and technological variables, which through it the citizen crosses the borders of his homeland, and under the objectivity obstacles in the reality of its community. …”
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Biblical versus Greek Narratives for Suicide Prevention and Life Promotion: Releasing Hope from Pandora’s Urn by Kalman J. Kaplan

“…This paper examines evidence regarding seven evidence-based risk factors for suicide: (1) Feeling depressed and isolated; (2) Feeling one’s life is without purpose; (3) Being a refugee from one’s homeland; (4) Feeling unable to express oneself with others; (5) Being adopted; (6) Feeling abandoned by one’s child leaving the family nest; and (7) Feeling doomed by a dysfunctional (indeed incestuous) family of origin We contrast biblical and Greek narratives regarding each of these factors, respectively: (1) Elijah against Ajax, (2) Job against Zeno, (3) David against Coriolanus, (4) Jonah against Narcissus, (5) Moses against Oedipus, (6) Rebecca against Phaedra, and finally, (7) Ruth against Antigone. …”
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