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Maritime Piracy
Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry's rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, incomplete and complicating structures and norms of governance, together with advances in technology, enable a lucrative business model for pirates, as they effectively operate with impunity and claim increasing ransoms.
Beginning with an overview and historical development of piracy and the relevant maritime governance structures, this work progresses to examine how 20th century shifts in global governance norms and structures eventually left the high seas open for predatory attacks on one of the worlds fastest growing and essential industries. Moving through contemporary debates about how to best combat piracy, the work concludes that the solution to a chronic global problem requires a long-term, holistic, and inclusive approach.
Examining militaristic, legalist and humanitarian strategies and offering a critical evaluation of the various problems they bring, this work will be of great interest to all students and scholars of international law, international organizations and maritime security.
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Shoring Up Property Tax Assessment Inequities in Monmouth County, New Jersey
New Jersey signed the Real Property Assessment Demonstration Program (ADP) into law effective at the beginning of 2014. The Monmouth County, New Jersey, Board of Taxation and the county's municipal assessors are the only tax officials in the state to implement the ADP. The program's intention is to improve real property tax assessment fairness and efficiency. After six years, there is now sufficient data to test whether Monmouth County's ADP program has reduced tax assessment inequities. We use the International Association of Assessing Officers' (IAAO) (1990; 2013) standard methods to analyze the effectiveness of Monmouth County's ADP. In addition, we use the Clapp (1990) and Birch-Sunderman (2014) models to study residential property tax assessments by comparing assessed values to actual sales, controlling for town-level effects, during the two years prior to implementation of the ADP (2012-2013) and the two most recent years (2018-2019). We find empirical evidence that both vertical and horizontal inequity of residential property tax assessments decreased after ADP implementation, but progressive tax assessment inequities still persist within the county.
Journal Article
Real-time Video Alignment and Fusion Using Feature Detection on FPGA Devices
Video fusion functions as a way to combine the important or useful parts of two or more sequences of images. The scenario presented is the use of Laplacian fusion to produce a single video composed of the fields of view of two cameras whose areas of focus differ substantially. This is not a useful real-time strategy unless the fields can be aligned. This thesis presents a system for detecting features using an FPGA implementation of SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features), and aligning video streams by applying a transform generated from the key features.
Dissertation
