UDR: Declassified

Author: Micheál Smith
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785374281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
In UDR: Declassified, Micheál Smith reveals what the British establishment, the British government and its armed forces knew and had to say about the regiment in recently declassified files. From its formation in 1970 as a locally raised militia, the Ulster Defence Regiment developed into the largest regiment in the British Army. For unionists, service in the UDR was a noble act and often a family tradition; for nationalists, an encounter with the UDR was frequently hostile, often brutal, and sometimes fatal. To the British Army, they were ‘a dangerous species of ally’, and a classic militia regiment which was part of a long tradition of the use of such forces by the British Empire. It was viewed as ‘a safety valve’ for the tempers of loyalist extremism, and it also served as the main source of training, weaponry, and intelligence files for loyalists throughout the conflict. UDR: Declassified is an evidence-based exposé of the UDR through the declassified files of Number 10, the MoD, and the NIO. The denial of access to history is a part of a continuum of British state efforts to obscure its colonial past. This book is a testimony to the value of defying such efforts and uncovering the truths behind our traumatic past.

Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies

Author: Christopher A. Anzalone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315483009
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
This work examines the impact of macroeconomic conditions on public support for the government in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.

Contemporary Intellectual Property

Author: Hector L. MacQueen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199263396
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1024

Book Description
The book is accompanied by a web site where students and lecturers alike can access updates on major developments in the law as well as pointers to the exercises contained in the text.

De Urban Decision Room/The Urban Decision Room

Author: P.P. van Loon
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9051995318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
This book (with the English and Dutch text in one edition) is intended to give the reader a simple introduction to the Urban Decision Room (UDR) system in definitions and diagrams. It demonstrates the model-based construction of the UDR system in terms of urban planning, and focuses on its planning methodological function in design and decision-making activities which occur in the process of urban development. The UDR was developed at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology, and should be placed in the tradition of urban planning design and planning discipline that is taught and researched at this Faculty.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 976

Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Geolocation of RF Signals

Author: Ilir Progri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441979522
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Geolocation of RF Signals—Principles and Simulations offers an overview of the best practices and innovative techniques in the art and science of geolocation over the last twenty years. It covers all research and development aspects including theoretical analysis, RF signals, geolocation techniques, key block diagrams, and practical principle simulation examples in the frequency band from 100 MHz to 18 GHz or even 60 GHz. Starting with RF signals, the book progressively examines various signal bands – such as VLF, LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, and, K and the corresponding geolocation requirements per band and per application – to achieve required performance objectives of up to 0o precision. Part II follows a step-by-step approach of RF geolocation techniques and concludes with notes on state-of-the-art geolocation designs as well as advanced features found in signal generator instruments. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications, Ilir Progri provides a comprehensive introduction to Geolocation of RF Signals, and includes hands-on real world labs and applications using MATLAB in the areas of: RF signals specifications, RF geolocation distributed wireless communications networks and RF geolocation. Geolocation of RF Signals—Principles and Simulations will be of interest to government agency program managers industry professionals and engineers, academic researchers, faculty and graduate students who are interested in or currently designing, developing and deploying innovative geolocation of RF Signal systems.

Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy

Author: Charlotte Waelde
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199671826
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1100

Book Description
This textbook provides an account of intellectual property law. The underlying policies influencing the direction of the law are explained and explored and contemporary issues facing the discipline are tackled head-on. The international and European dimensions are covered together with the domestic position.

New Concepts for Parallel Object-Relational Query Processing

Author: Michael Jaedicke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540427813
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
During the last few years, parallel object-relational database management systems have emerged as the leading data management technology on the market. These systems are extensible by user-defined data types and user-defined functionality for the data. This work focuses on the efficient parallel execution of user-defined functionality. The main contributions describe techniques to support data parallelism for user-defined scalar and aggregate functions and intra-function parallelism for the execution of a scalar function on a large object, and a new technology to provide extensibility with regard to new set-oriented database operations that can efficiently implement user-defined functionality in parallel object-relational database management systems.

Contemporary Intellectual Property

Author: Hector MacQueen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199575320
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1144

Operation Banner

Author: Nicholas van der Bijl
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781599262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles.In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderry which spread rapidly. After three days of violence the British Government deployed troops in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Initially the Catholic community welcomed the Armys presence but this was to change over the years.The first soldier was killed in 1971 and a further 48 died that year. January 30 1972 Bloody Sunday galvanized IRA recruitment and the British Embassy was burnt in Dublin. The Official IRA bombed Aldershot HQ of the Parachute Regiment and in August 1972 the Army launched Op MOTORMAN to clear No Go areas. Internment followed and the Province was firmly in the grip of sectarian violence. The next 30 years saw a remorseless counter-terrorist campaign which deeply affected the lives of all the people of Northern Ireland and several generation of the British Army.The Peace Process ground on for over ten years but the campaign formally ended in 2007 with the establishment of hitherto unimaginable power sharing.