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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are an important community-based resource for veterans as they readjust to civilian life. Since little is known about the nature of this support, we conducted exploratory interviews with 14 nationa...
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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are an important community-based resource for veterans as they readjust to civilian life. Since little is known about the nature of this support, we conducted exploratory interviews with 14 national organizations involved in faith-based support of veterans and 15 smaller, local FBOs from three distinct metropolitan areas, including religious congregations, retreat centers, and those that provide transitional assistance, to understand better their current and potential roles in veteran reintegration. Interviewees suggested that veterans may look to FBOs for support because they are a resource that offers privacy and confidentiality, two features that may be especially critical when a potential stigma is involved. Some FBOs have also developed reputations as safe places for veterans, providing supportive, judgment-free environments. We found that FBOs not only help veterans with spiritual matters, such as moral injury, but, as a group, also address diverse areas of veteran health and wellness, including vocation, education, financial and legal stability, shelter, access to goods and services, mental health, access to health care, physical health, family, and social networks. In some cases, the support is offered to veterans directly; in other instances, the support is indirect, via training individuals to help veterans or educating the public about veterans reintegration challenges. In the process of providing this support, FBOs interact with different kinds of organizations, including government entities, private nonprofits, and one another, for purposes including training, outreach, referrals, information exchange, obtaining donations, and collaboration. Yet insufficient connections with chaplains and others in the web of support at times limit FBOs work with veterans.
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Since 1977 the use of umbrella-type Base Operating Support Contracts (BOSCs) at Naval installations has increased dramatically. These contracts encompass a number of services for which reimbursements are received. However, little ...
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Since 1977 the use of umbrella-type Base Operating Support Contracts (BOSCs) at Naval installations has increased dramatically. These contracts encompass a number of services for which reimbursements are received. However, little guidance from headquarters has been issued on financial management of this type of contract. Naval Submarine Base (NSB) Bangor was one of the first installations to use a BOSC and is seeking improvements in the financial management areas of allocating the fixed contract price to reimbursable activities and to reportable expense items. This thesis analyzed contract procedures and related data that were gathered from eight different Naval installations with BOSCs and from NSB Bangor and their current BOSC. The analysis produced four separate recommendations for allocating the fixed contract price to reimbursable activities and the reporting of fixed contract price to various expense items for the current and future BOSC.
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This report addresses the analysis and design of finite wordlength length implementations of linear t.i.v. delta-systems and the development of a 2-D delta-operator state space model. It is shown that in fixed point arithmetic lin...
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This report addresses the analysis and design of finite wordlength length implementations of linear t.i.v. delta-systems and the development of a 2-D delta-operator state space model. It is shown that in fixed point arithmetic linear t.i.v. systems implementation in delta-operator form do not generally outperform their q-operator counterpart. In fact, delta-operator systems always show unstable limit cycle behavior and convergence to incorrect equilibrium points, independent of the choice of the realization or the sampling time. The coefficient sensitivity for delta-systems is still superior to the shift-operator. In the case of floating point arithmetic, delta-operator implementations perform consistently better than their shift-operator counterparts. Delta-systems show superior quantization noise and sensitivity properties. The zero-convergence problem of the fixed point case does not exist if the mantissa length is chosen sufficiently large. Due to its attractive finite wordlength properties, the concept of delta-operators has been extended to the multi-dimensional case. A 2-D state space model was developed and the notions of reachability and observability gramian and balanced realization have been introduced. The problem of directly checking stability in the delta-domain has also been addressed. Similarly to the 1-D case, the sensitivity roundoff noise behavior was analyzed.
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In order to solve the nonlinear complementarity problem, the authors we propose a simplicial restart algorithm that subdivides the set on which the problem is defined into simplices and generates from an arbitrarily chosen startin...
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In order to solve the nonlinear complementarity problem, the authors we propose a simplicial restart algorithm that subdivides the set on which the problem is defined into simplices and generates from an arbitrarily chosen starting point a piecewise linear path either leading to an approximate solution or diverging towards infinity. They give a convergence condition under which the algorithm will find an approximate solution. If the accuracy of the approximate solution is not sufficient the algorithm can be restarted at the approximate solution with a finer simplicial subdivision. The piecewise linear path generated by the algorithm is followed by a sequence of adjacent simplices of varying dimension.
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The report summarizes the results of a review on the types of contracts, source selection evaluation criteria, and work statements used by the military services to award large multifunction or umbrella contracts for base support services.
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An initial periodic boundary value problem for a nonlinear dispersive equation, which is a modified version of the Kortweg-de Vries equation, is studied from the point of view of the theory of semigroups of nonlinear operators. Th...
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An initial periodic boundary value problem for a nonlinear dispersive equation, which is a modified version of the Kortweg-de Vries equation, is studied from the point of view of the theory of semigroups of nonlinear operators. The initial boundary value problem is reduced to the abstract Cauchy problem for a nonlinear evolution equation in a function space, and it is shown that the evolution equation admits regular solutions which form a nonlinear semigroup consisting of differentiable operators on the function space. Furthermore, it is shown that the semigroup is embedded in a nonlinear group of C(1) diffeomorphisms on the function space and the group possesses various interesting properties.
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Fixed point theorems have been an important tool used by mathematicians in the study of the existence of a solution to nonlinear differential equations, and nonlinear operator equations in general, since the beginning of the centu...
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Fixed point theorems have been an important tool used by mathematicians in the study of the existence of a solution to nonlinear differential equations, and nonlinear operator equations in general, since the beginning of the century. The present paper discuss the several fixed point techniques used in control of nonlinear systems in papers already published on this subject. The semigroup approach is used so that distributed parameter systems are considered.
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A well known theorem of Hartman-Grobman says that a C(sup 1) diffeomorphism f: R(sup n) onto itself with a hyperbolic fixed point at 0 can be conjugated to the linear diffeomorphism L = df(0) (at least in a neighborhood of 0). The...
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A well known theorem of Hartman-Grobman says that a C(sup 1) diffeomorphism f: R(sup n) onto itself with a hyperbolic fixed point at 0 can be conjugated to the linear diffeomorphism L = df(0) (at least in a neighborhood of 0). The paper will show that if f is C(sup 2) then f is differentiably conjugate to L at 0; moreover, the conjugacy is Holder outside 0. No resonance conditions will be required. (Copyright (c) 1989 by Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics, Delft, The Netherlands.)
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The problem of control of nonlinear systems of the type z=Az + Nz + Bu, Z(0) = z sub 0, where A is linear, N is nonlinear, z is the state and u is the control is studied. The linear operator A is assumed to generate a strongly con...
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The problem of control of nonlinear systems of the type z=Az + Nz + Bu, Z(0) = z sub 0, where A is linear, N is nonlinear, z is the state and u is the control is studied. The linear operator A is assumed to generate a strongly continuous semigroup S(t) on the state space Z. The problem of controllability is to find a control u(.) which drives the system from z sub 0 at t = 0 to a given desired state z sub d at t = T. Here we present the basic ideas of the results obtained when Z is a Hilbert space.
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