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    had a lack of trust for the followers to include higher leadership, which made it difficult to complete task due to the lack of trust. She would task the unit and then call 3 or more times to find out the stats when the tasking had a deadline of close of business, which was the end of the day. Her demeanor scared the Airmen, which caused them to not want to speak to her out of fear, which was unfortunate given her power because she could have used her position to mentor the young Airmen and share

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    mountains. The enemy had no intention of surrendering or retreating. Operation Anaconda had many friendly players involved including General Franks of CENTCOM, Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) led by LTG Mikolashek, Coalition Forces Air Component Command (CFACC) led by Lt. Gen Moseley and Task Force Dagger of the Army’s Fifth Special Operations Group which provided SOF teams that worked with friendly Afghan soldiers under COL Mulholland. Friendly Afghan fighters who called themselves

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    operation started around dawn on the 17th of September, 1944. German forces continued receiving regular air strikes by allied forces near Eindhoven, Deelen, Ede, and airfields in Holland. Paratroopers of the airborne assault boarded their planes and began travel to their drop sites. The operation used over two thousand aircraft, between troop carriers and assault aircraft, to get the paratroopers close enough to assault into their objectives. By approximately 1400 hours local time on the 17th, an estimate

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    Mercury and Air Toxics Standards in New Mexico Mercury and air toxics are a big problem in new Mexico, these kinds of pollutions cause many heath problems, even deaths, the new mercury and air toxics standards in new Mexico (MATS) is going to save a lot of lives, and will help protect the most vulnerable people, like children and older people. These new standards will cut the toxic emissions in the whole country and prevent around 11,000 premature deaths, 4700 heart attacks, and 130,000 asthma attacks

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    completion of the bomb, in hopes of overwhelming Japanese forces and thus bringing the war to a close, the United States had planned a large scale invasion of Japan codenamed Operation Downfall. It was broken into two parts. The first, codenamed Operation Olympic, was the invasion of Kyushu on November 1, 1945. The attack on the main

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    The most obvious candidate for terraforming, the transforming of a planet to be able to support human life, would be Mars. Even without terraforming, The Red Planet would be a great choice to colonize because of how close it is to Earth. Constant communication, supply shuttles, and potentially traveling back and forth between planets would all be possible because of how much closer Mars is to Earth than

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    The Battle Of Milne Bay

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    could control over the eastern seaward approaches. It was in July 1942, that development of the first airstrips began at Milne Bay. Australian infantry and American engineers were sent to begin clearing land for the airstrips and the base here would support them. During the following weeks, more ships with men arrived, also bringing more supplies and equipment for base development. The objective of the Allies was to maintain these land positions from Japanese hold as quoted; “Much like the Japanese

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    Parallel Support Vector Machine Junfeng Wu Junming Chen May 6, 2016 1 INTRODUCTION Support vector machines is a supervised machine learning alogrithom used for classification. The problem could be written : minimize 1 |w |2 2 yi((w,xi)+b)−1≥0 where w is a linear combination of the training data: n w = αi k(xi ) i=1 this could be further written in a dual form[5]: min 1αTQα−eTα α2 0≤αi ≤C, yTα=0, ∀i ≤n where Q is the kernel matrix. This dual form is a quadratic programming problem with linear

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    Any time there’s a war, entertainment always adapts to the mood of the country. (How did World War 2 change entertainment on the home front) The atmosphere of the time between 1939-1945 is very tense. Every country is very sensitive to the every move of their country because it related to their victory. The result is at that time, the entertainment industry is controlled by the government. They control the new which can be told to the people and which can’t. Since the governments believed that a

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    Surrounding 9. Gravity and Mechanical Stress 10. People 1. Natural Environment Natural environment factors such as air can threaten the safety of the hospital’s staff, patients, and guests. Some diseases can be transmitted through the air over long distances and be passed on to other people in the hospital if the air is not properly filtered. The term ‘Hospital-acquired infection’ (HAI) is used for such cases. HAI has become a public health issue with high levels

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