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ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR II
June 1, 1974
This report on Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) represents a compromise between two major aims, to produce a unified summary of the events and problems of the antisubmarine war on the one hand, and to illustrate the scientific evaluation of naval operations on the other. The approach is fundamentally historical on both accounts.
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OCEAN SCIENCE IN THE UNITED NATIONS POLITICAL ARENA
June 1, 1974
This paper measures the views of states on two broad questions: freedom of scientific research, and the future of the intergovernmental oceanographic commission.
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Chronological Ordering of Archeological Deposits by the Minimum Path Length Method
June 1, 1974
A new method for ordering archeological deposits, called the minimum path length method, is introduced and discussed in relation to previous work on the problem. Among it's advantages are easy computability, independence of input order, and minimization of reasonably intuitive function of the similarity matrix. Also when the similarity matrix is a Robinson matrix, (which is 'perfect' data for this problem) the minimum path length permutation yields the Robinson order (which is the 'correct' order for a Robinson matrix.)
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QUANTITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS SEABED DEBATES, METHODOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL SHELF CASE STUDY
June 1, 1974
This paper presents the U.N. states' attitudes about and patterns of preference for managing the uses of the ocean (the 'seabed debates') applied in quantitative thematic content analysis.
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