National Adaptive Stress Research Institute
The listing below covers unclassified and public-release technical reports produced by NASRI staff and consulting personnel. Abstracts are provided where the sponsoring office has cleared them for release. Full documents are not posted to this server and are available by written request only, subject to the procedure described at the bottom of this page.
Report numbering follows the series NASRI-TR-YY-NNN, where YY is the year of first issue and NNN is the sequential number within that year. Page counts include appendices and instrumentation tables. Revised editions carry the original report number and are noted in the entry.
Electronic retrieval of report text was suspended on 18 December 1998 when the document server was taken out of service. Retrieval links are retained below pending removal. Requests should be submitted in writing in the meantime.
NASRI-TR-98-011. Panic Contagion Vectors in Multi-Node Transit Systems: Phase II Field Instrumentation. Vance, R. M.; Okonkwo, D. A.; Bramwell, S. K. November 1998. 214 pp. Withdrawn from public distribution, December 1998. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-98-007. Revised Threshold Tables for Neurodiversity Threshold Optimization in Municipal Workforce Populations. Lindqvist, P. J.; Mercer, H. T. August 1998. 96 pp. The report updates the 1994 threshold tables using observational data from four participating municipal employers and reclassifies two categories of the population matrix previously held in reserve. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-98-004. Baseline Continuity Indicators for Critical Infrastructure Hubs, Regions IV and VI. Bramwell, S. K.; Ito, K. May 1998. 141 pp. Abstract not cleared for public release. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-98-002. Socio-Biological Complexity Mapping: Instrumentation Handbook, Revision 4. Ito, K.; Voss, E. L.; Delacroix, A. M. February 1998. 348 pp. The handbook specifies collection intervals, sampling frames, and biochemical assay procedures for SBCM field teams operating in continuous residency at a designated site. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-97-016. Behavioral Compliance Vectors under Sustained Curtailment of Municipal Services. Okonkwo, D. A.; Delacroix, A. M. December 1997. 187 pp. Compliance decay is modeled across a ninety day curtailment period for three population densities, with attention to the interval at which informal distribution networks displace scheduled distribution. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-97-009. Socio-Biological Complexity Mapping: Instrumentation Handbook, Revision 3. Ito, K.; Voss, E. L. June 1997. 312 pp. Superseded by NASRI-TR-98-002. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-97-003. Institutional Cohesion in Second and Third Order Municipal Authorities during Prolonged Operational Stress Environments. Mercer, H. T.; Chalmers, R. W. February 1997. 122 pp. The study examines the sequence in which local administrative functions are abandoned and identifies the two functions whose retention is most predictive of continued civil order. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-96-014. Evolutionary-Stress Compliance Modeling (ESFM): Model Description and Validation Runs. Vance, R. M.; Lindqvist, P. J.; Nakamura, T. October 1996. 266 pp. Abstract not cleared for public release. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-96-005. Mass-Psychological Coping Thresholds: A Comparative Review of Historical Case Data, 1918 to 1979. Delacroix, A. M.; Chalmers, R. W. April 1996. 178 pp. Twenty-two historical episodes of high-consequence geopolitical disruption on domestic soil are reviewed and coded against the ESF threshold scale. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-95-012. Civilian Resilience Optimization (CRO): Program Description and Second Phase Objectives. Vance, R. M.; Okonkwo, D. A. September 1995. 88 pp. The report states the objectives of the CRO program, the criteria by which candidate containment zones are designated, and the reporting relationship between site teams and the program office. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-95-004. Systemic Failure Cascades in Regional Water and Power Distribution: Simulation Results. Ito, K.; Bramwell, S. K.; Voss, E. L. March 1995. 204 pp. Cascade propagation is simulated for eleven regional configurations. Median time to loss of baseline continuity is reported for each. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-94-010. Threshold Tables for Neurodiversity Threshold Optimization: First Edition. Lindqvist, P. J.; Mercer, H. T.; Nakamura, T. July 1994. 74 pp. Superseded by NASRI-TR-98-007. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-94-002. Selection Criteria for Insulated Workforce Cohorts in Logistics and Utility Sectors. Chalmers, R. W.; Vance, R. M. January 1994. 130 pp. The report sets out the screening sequence by which personnel are assigned to insulated cohorts and the disposition procedure for personnel who do not meet the retained threshold. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-93-007. Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning for Industrial Partners: A Procedural Guide. Bramwell, S. K.; Delacroix, A. M. August 1993. 156 pp. The guide covers succession documentation, alternate site designation, and the retention of records under conditions of extended communications loss. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-91-006. Population Matrix Construction from Municipal Administrative Records. Voss, E. L.; Ito, K. June 1991. 118 pp. Abstract not cleared for public release. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-89-003. Biochemical Threshold Indicators under Caloric Restriction and Sleep Curtailment: Laboratory Findings. Nakamura, T.; Mercer, H. T. April 1989. 92 pp. Withdrawn from public distribution, December 1998. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-87-005. The Evolutionary-Stress Framework (ESF): Theoretical Basis and Proposed Applications. Ellery, C. R.; Vance, R. M.; Chalmers, R. W. September 1987. 210 pp. The founding statement of the ESF, presenting the mapping of macro-level societal variables against micro-level neurological and biochemical thresholds. [ retrieve ]
NASRI-TR-86-002. Preliminary Survey of Adaptive Response in Closed Institutional Populations. Chalmers, R. W.; Vance, R. M.; Lindqvist, P. J. March 1986. 64 pp. Abstract not cleared for public release. [ retrieve ]
NASRI staff present selected findings at technical meetings where the sponsoring office has authorized release. Presentation slides are not distributed. Written versions, where they exist, are listed in the technical report series above.
Vance, R. M. "Threshold Modeling in Extended Operational Stress Environments." Annual Meeting on Complex Systems and Infrastructure Analysis, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 1998.
Ito, K.; Voss, E. L. "Field Instrumentation Practice in Socio-Biological Complexity Mapping." Symposium on Applied Measurement in Population Studies, Reno, Nevada, May 1997.
Okonkwo, D. A. "Compliance Vectors and the Limits of Voluntary Distribution." Conference on Continuity Planning and Emergency Logistics, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 1996.
Mercer, H. T.; Lindqvist, P. J. "Workforce Insulation as a Continuity Instrument." Quarterly Review of Applied Behavioral Dynamics, Volume 14, Number 2, 1995, pp. 41 to 58.
Bramwell, S. K. "Cascade Propagation in Regional Utility Networks." Journal of Infrastructure Resilience Studies, Volume 9, Number 4, 1994, pp. 302 to 319.
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