on 27-Sep-2018 (Thu)

The ConstrainedSketchGeometry object stores the geometry of a sketch, such as line s, circles, arcs, and construction lines. The sketch module defines ConstrainedSketchGeometry objects.

his statement creates a TrussSection object using the TrussSectionO method. The TrussSection object is derived from the Section object which is defined in the section module.

The US military can destroy or neutralize the S-300, but it would need to devote significant assets and time to do so. US air operations in the Middle East over Syria and Iraq are not currently constrained by any requirement to use stealth aircraft. Because stealth aircraft have higher operational and maintenance costs and generally carry less ordnance than nonstealth aircraft, the US does not typically assign stealth aircraft to routine operations in uncontested airspace, such as the current campaign against ISIS. In the absence of the S-300 system, nonstealth aircraft currently assigned to conduct air strikes against ISIS could, on a very short timeline, be retasked to conduct operations against Iran.

The S-300 is another story entirely. It gives the Iranian military a significant strategic advantage against regional states and significantly complicates US air operations in the airspace protected by the S-300. The S-300 is the most advanced SAM system available for export to potential enemies of the United States, and significantly alters planning assumptions for potential US military operations. The S-300 may prevent the US from attaining air superiority as quickly as it has in the past, protracting air operations and potentially increasing the risk of losing aircraft and pilots.

The S-300 system is deployed as one or more battalions each consisting of up to six batteries. Each battery can have up to eight TELs (missile-firing platforms). The number of TELs determines the number of different targets that the system can engage simultaneously or in close succession. Deploying more TELs also complicates efforts to suppress the system because they can disperse over a wide area.

The Islamic Dawa Party reached a compromise candidate between the different wings led by Nuri al-Maliki and Haidar al-Abadi, as prime minister, while it was agreed to name Sadiq al-Rikabi to head the next government. ...

Iraq’s median age is [...] years old. 60% of the nation is 25 years or younger. Each year almost 900,000 people reach working age. By 2030, the adult population will grow from 20 million to 32million

Officially, unemployment is 16% and for the youth it stands at 36%. However, an estimated 80% of young males are underemployed or jobless.

Iraq has a largely unskilled work force. Around 33% of the young are illiterate or semi-literate. Only 28% finished middle or high school, and only 7% graduated college.

Note that this material parameter must be a String, it cannot be a material object.

Note that the Z coordinate was added when using the findAtO method. Being a 20 object the Z coordinate is 0.0 for all points.

Note how the method used to create the region in this example is different from that used in the Cantilever Beam example. With the beam, a 30 object, we created beam_region with the statement beam_region=(beamPart.ce/ls,) With the truss, a 20 planar object, we instead use the RegionO method and passing the edges as arguments.

While Tarbush was focused upon how and why the military came to play such a leading role in 1930s-40s Iraq, his book can be used to look at current Iraqi politics as well. Today’s Iraqi government is again dominated by individuals such as Moqtada al-Sadr, Ammar Hakim, Haid al-Amiri, Nouri al-Maliki, Massoud Barzani, etc. They each have their own political party that is bereft of ideology and largely act as vehicles for their leader’s personal advancement. The government is still used to enrich the leadership and dish out patronage. The country’s institutions are still weak, and unable to constrain these individuals, and there is still no concept of an opposition as all parties are included in national unity governments. Finally, in neither period was the interests of the public really considered. The growing gap between the people and their representatives would eventually lead to the 1958 coup. Today, there are annual protests every summer, which pass as the heat dies down. Could this anger eventually boil over to a revolution or will the politicians be able to ride out this wave of resentment?

However vertex_for_first_force is a Vertex object. So we put it in parenthesis and add a comma indicating a sequence, and it becomes a Region object.

vertex_for_first_pin = trusslnstance.vertices \ .findAt((vertex_coords_for_first_pin,)) This statement uses the findAtO method to find the Vertex object and assign it to a variable.