ISI defined the " worst " books as those that were "... widely celebrated in their day ," but on reflection are "... foolish, wrong-headed, or even pernicious.

He argued that Import-substitution industrialisation ( ISI ), not a trade-and-export orientation, was the best strategy for underdeveloped countries.

" The best coverage came from The Daily Excelsior, reporting " The FBI ’ s examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Omar Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the " link " between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed.

ISI is regarded as one of the top most centers for research in Computer Science in India and attracts some of the best students in the country.

In the summer of 2005, ISI Books, the imprint of ISI, published It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good, by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum, which premiered at # 13 on the New York Times best sellers list.

ISI published in 1999 a list of the fifty books that they consider the worst and the fifty that they consider the best, among the nonfiction books of the 20th century originally published in English.

In fact, the very reason given for the existence of ISI is that education in the modern university is insufficiently liberal ( in the traditional sense, i. e., classical liberalism ) to meet the needs of a classical education.

In telecommunication, intersymbol interference ( ISI ) is a form of distortion of a signal in which one symbol interferes with subsequent symbols.

While the theorists behind ISI or Latin American structuralism were not homogeneous and did not belong to one particular school of economic thought, ISI and Latin American structuralism and the theorists who developed its economic frame work shared a basic common belief in a state-directed, centrally planned form of economic development.

Peru implemented ISI in 1961, and the policy lasted through to the end of the decade in some form.

ISI ( Ice Skating Institute ) is another governing body which focuses on a more recreational form of competition.

Partial-response signaling, such as duo-binary signaling, is a form of intentional ISI where

Uncapher persuaded both the US government and USC Engineering Dean, Zohrab Kaprielian, to form a university-based research agency and ISI opened the offices it still occupies in Marina del Rey, California.

Mike Z of ISI has promised that, " AI blocking will be back in a much more robust and logical form for a future update.

The Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) is a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering which focuses on computer and communications technology and information processing.

ISI also created the world's first e-commerce site, MOSIS, which produces specialty and low-volume chips for corporations, universities and other research entitites worldwide.

Most important to the Thai economy in this period might be that the regime introduced the market-oriented Import-Substituting Industrialization ( ISI ) which led to steady and rapid economic expansion in the Kingdom in the 1960s.

The ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain strategic depth.

# The width of the eye opening defines the time interval over which the received wave can be sampled without error from ISI.

The effects of ISI are shown in the second image which is an eye pattern of the same system when operating over a multipath channel.

Many people have plotted to assassinate Karzai in the last decade, especially the Taliban's Quetta Shura and the Haqqani network which allegedly receives support and guidance from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

Werner Baer contends that all countries that have industrialized after the United Kingdom went through a stage of ISI in which the large part of investment in industry was directed to replace imports ( Baer, pp. 95 – 96 ).

He continues that " a higher growth rate in output, other things remaining the same, would enable the industry to attain a higher rate of technological progress ( since more investment would be made ) and create a situation in which the constituent firms could take greater advantage of scale economies ;" it is believed that ISI will allow this ( Goldar 148 ).

In many cases, however, these postulates did not apply: on several occasions, the Brazilian ISI process, which occurred from 1930 until the end of the 1980s, involved currency devaluation as a means of boosting exports and discouraging imports ( thus promoting the consumption of locally manufactured products ), as well as the adoption of different exchange rates for importing capital goods and for importing consumer goods.

ISI was most successful in countries with large populations and income levels which allowed for the consumption of locally produced products.

To overcome the difficulties of implementing ISI in small-scale economies, proponents of this economic policy, some within UNECLAC, suggested two alternatives to enlarge consumer markets: income distribution within each country, through agrarian reform and other initiatives aimed at bringing Latin America's enormous marginalized population into the consumer market, and regional integration through initiatives such as the Latin American Free Trade Association ( ALALC ), which would allow for the products of one country to be sold in another.

In Latin American countries in which ISI was most successful, it was accompanied by structural changes to the government.

Many economists contend that ISI failed in Latin America and was one of many factors leading to the so-called lost decade of Latin American economics, while others contend that ISI led to the " Mexican Miracle ", the period that lasted from 1940 to 1975 in which economic growth stood at 6 % or higher.

A disadvantage claimed for ISI is that the industries that it creates are inefficient and obsolete as they are not exposed to internationally competitive industries, which constitute their rivals, and that the focus on industrial development impoverishes local commodity producers, who are primarily rural.

In addition, the University of Tehran publishes more than 50 scientific journals, some of which have the ISI index.

Pakistan's largest intelligence agency ( the ISI ), which began with the birth of the nation, has been heavily involved in the affairs of Afghanistan since the late 1970s.

The National Rural Development Program and Rural Growth Centers were tentative and belated policies aimed at diverting rural populations from moving to the few urban areas which Dr. Banda's ISI macroeconomic policies had created and were now being battered by the arrival of more and more rural people seeking better opportunities.

Harold Hotelling wrote: " No technique of random sample has, so far as I can find, been developed in the United States or elsewhere, which can compare in accuracy with that described by Professor Mahalanobis " and Sir R. A. Fisher commented that " The ISI has taken the lead in the original development of the technique of sample surveys, the most potent fact finding process available to the administration ".

A Nyquist pulse is one which meets the Nyquist ISI criterion and is important in data transmission.

He administered. us under a subcontract that the ISI and USC had from SRI International ( which held the. us and the gTLD contract with the United States Department of Defense ) and later Network Solutions ( which held the. us and the gTLD contract with the National Science Foundation ).

Another senior U. S. diplomat told me afterward, " Musharraf fooled us because after we gave approval, the ISI may have run a much bigger operation and got out more people.

Christina Lamb thanked Marsden in the acknowledgements of her biographical book, The Sewing Circles of Herat, " Paul Marsden MP for Shrewsbury, helped rescue us from the ISI, being manhandled by Baluchistan police in the process, and kindly rearranged his whole schedule to stay in Pakistan until we were safely out.

The original administrator of. us was Jon Postel of the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) at the University of Southern California ( USC ).

The ISI has more than 350 employees, approximately half with doctorate degrees ; fifty are faculty at USC.

Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, and also performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, and worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

During this time, Musharraf became close to engineering officer and director-general of ISI lieutenant-general Javed Nasir and had worked with him while directing operations in Bosnian war.

Once Air-chief Marshal Pervez Kureshi was retired, the most junior air marshal Muschaf Mir ( who worked with Musharraf in 1996 to assist ISI in Taliban matters ) was appointed to four-star rank as well as elevated as Chief of Air Staff.

Following the expiration of the original ARPANET contract with the U. S. federal government, the Internet Society ( acting on behalf of the IETF ) contracted with the Networking Division of the University of Southern California ( USC ) Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) to assume the editorship and publishing responsibilities ( under the direction of the IAB ).

During his debriefing, his son Dr. Asim Mahmood, who's a family medicine doctor told ISI officials that: My father did meet with Osama bin Laden and Osama Bin Laden seemed interested in that matter but my father only showed mild interest in the matter as he met him for food, water matter issues that he was sent there for official work.

Peter Tomsen stated that up until 9 / 11 Pakistani military and ISI officers along with thousands of regular Pakistani armed forces personnel had been involved in the fighting in Afghanistan.

The ISI helped with the construction of training camps for both the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

But with the fall of Kabul to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, ISI forces worked with and helped Taliban militias who were in full retreat.

Therefore, in the design of the transmitting and receiving filters, the objective is to minimize the effects of ISI, and thereby deliver the digital data to its destination with the smallest error rate possible.

If the channel frequency response is flat and the shaping filter has a finite bandwidth, it is possible to communicate with no ISI at all.

G. hn uses OFDM with a cyclic prefix to avoid ISI.

Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) of the University of Southern California ( USC ), under a contract USC / ISI had with the United States Department of Defense, until ICANN was created to assume the responsibility under a United States Department of Commerce contract.

Bin al-Shibh was captured in Pakistan on September 11, 2002, after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division.

In January 2010, Brigadier Amir Sultan Tarar, a retired officer with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) agency who previously trained Omar, said that he was ready to break with his al-Qaida allies in order to make peace in Afghanistan: " The moment he gets control the first target will be the al-Qaida people.

Wilson teamed with CIA manager Gust Avrakotos and formed a team of a few dozen insiders who greatly enhanced the support for the Mujahideen, funneling it through Zia ul-Haq's ISI.

Import substitution industrialization or " Import-substituting Industrialization " ( often called ISI ) is a trade and economic policy that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production.

ISI policies were enacted by countries within the Global South with the intention of producing development and self-sufficiency through the creation of an internal market.

The theories behind Latin American structuralism and ISI were organized in the works of Raúl Prebisch, Hans Singer, Celso Furtado and other structural economic thinkers, and gained prominence with the creation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( UNECLAC or CEPAL ).