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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Bullets"”.
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Identification and reconstruction of bullets from multiple x-rays
… for reconstructing the 3D shape and position of bullets from multiple X-rays. This technique makes use of ubiquitous X-ray equipment and a small number of X-rays to reduce the radiation dose. Our work relies on Image Segmentation and Volume Reconstruction techniques.
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Eleven Bullets: A Counter Assault on Subjectivity and the Creation of Meaning
<p>Eleven Bullets: A Counter Assault on Subjectivity and the Creation of Visual Meaning explores the sources of visual meaning as a combination of shared personal experience among the mass audience and the perpetuation of this meaning via popular cultural applications. It proposes that the analysis …
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Subcultures of Bullets, Bombs, and Deeds: Subcultural Theory and the Sociology of Terrorism
<p>The study of terrorism has revolved around two dominant perspectives: one emphasizing grievances and the other rational choices. It is argued that the subcultural theory of deviance contributes to these perspectives by accounting for the ideational aspects of terrorist groups that have been …
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Bullets or ballots? : transnational alliance and regime transition in the Philippines, 1898-1986
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1995.
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… dueling, with either lead or paper bullets, became a way for authors to defend and maintain the fragile social status they had gained.
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Between ballots and bullets: Political competition, uncertainty, and MNE strategies in politically challenging environments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
Women were actively involved in the Civil War abolition movement. Intellectuals such as Julia Ward Howe and Lydia Maria Child used their writing skills to encourage public support for antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the "little lady" who allegedly caused the big war, took advantage of her …
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Flag waving doesn’t help when the bullets are coming down the line: Dialectical tensions of religious communication in the National Guard chaplaincy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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I love you to death : the voice of the woman artist : sex, violence, sentimentality
… me about my work. When I told her it was "the bullets", by way of description (One Hundred Bullets With Your Name On Them), she said something along the lines of "oh, that's so fascinating, I really had thought a man had made them".
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Forensic firearms examination
… issues, such as Daubert, et aI., by test firing bullets from consecutively rifled barrels to obtain best known 'match' and 'non-match' bullets. To date, some 201 examiners from several countries have evaluated the bullet test sets with no errors. Further research was conducted by test firing four …
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Dissolution, Transport, and Fate of Lead on Shooting Ranges
… heavy metals, especially lead as spent shot and bullets, on very small parcels of land. Samples taken from a shooting range near Blacksburg, VA, USA provide information about the reservoirs and pathways of lead at shooting ranges in an upland setting and humid environment. Metallic lead corrodes …
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Cavity dynamics of water entry for spheres and ballistic projectiles
… to the impact of high-speed projectiles or bullets. Through experimentation the trajectory, cavity size, and forces acting on the projectiles are elucidated. Experimentation coupled with improvements to an existing cavitation model lead to an improved bullet design that forms a narrower …
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An Overview of Body Armor and Single Plate Impact Dynamics
… Experiments measuring the change in velocity of bullets passing through aluminum and titanium plates were conducted. These experiments were then replicated through FEA simulation.</p>
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Evaluation of Public Order Policing Strategies during Violent Service Delivery Protests: A case of Vuwani in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… (83,6%) community members agrees that rubber bullets was used as a strategy by the police at Vuwani protests. The overwhelming majority of participants with 80,0% believe that negotiation during protests can curb death and injuries. On the other hand, the study finds that POP official …
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Numerical Methods and Their Analysis for Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
… SG and PNLS were compared for modeling 2D light bullets, with the help of efficient numerical methods. Again, the numerical methods applied here were rigorously analyzed. For all these subjects, extensive numerical examples were reported to illustrate and support the results.
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Security on demand
… program transformations are not silver bullets; using them requires skill and knowledge of the program being transformed. They are instead power tools that make it easier to add security to existing systems replacing the point solution of a typical patch with a more systematic removal of …
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Statistical methods for bullet matching
… science practice, the process of matching bullets to determine whether they were fired from the same gun barrel has come under fairly intense scrutiny in recent years. This began in earnest in 2009 with a National Academy of Sciences report questioning the scientific validity of these …
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A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia
… rivalry has often been expressed by means of bullets and bombs, especially in Pakistan. But beyond the headline-grabbing violence of the Deobandi-Barelvi schism lies the story of a century-and-a-half-long religious antagonism: at first over converts, later for competing visions of the …
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Weeding the garden: Euthanasia, National Socialism, and Germany, 1939-1945
… of the ""euthanasia"" program which used bullets, carbon monoxide, injections, and starvation to kill thousands of insane, mentally retarded, and physically handicapped Germans during World War II. This dissertation focuses on two major interpretive questions surrounding one of the first …
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