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Showing 1 to 20 of 763 for “"Civilian"”.
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Involuntary Signal-Based Grounding of Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Civilian Airspace
… the involuntary signal-based grounding of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in unauthorized air spaces. The technique proposed here will forcibly land unauthorized UAS in a given area in such a way that the UAS will not be harmed, and the pilot cannot stop the landing. The technique …
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Eighteenth Century Men's Civilian Waistcoats
A number of general studies of the history of eighteenth century men's clothing have been written by authors such as Zilla Halls, Avril Hart, and Norah Waugh. However, a cursory review of costume literature reveals a lack of academic study on specific men's garments and their history. This work …
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Civilian soldiers in Staffordshire 1793-1823
The thesis is concerned with civilian soldier movements raised in Staffordshire between 1793 and 1823: - the militias, the volunteer infantry movements and the yeomanry cavalry. In order to assess standards of performance in the various movements, it has been necessary to draw comparisons with …
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Military Versus Civilian Murder-Suicide Psychological Profiles
… differences between military members and civilians with regard to violent behavior, including suicide, domestic violence, and harm to others, but none have examined military murder-suicide. This study compared military and civilian murder-suicide perpetrators on a number of demographic, …
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Policing That Matters: Making Civilian Oversight Work
… Police Department, we better understand why our civilian oversight agency’s implementation into San Francisco police culture has resulted in a non threatening oversight body that is operated on nonaggressive policies.</p> <p>This project analyzes the 2016 police reform efforts that produced a …
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Pregnancy Outcome in Military and Civilian Women
… groups of pregnant women, military enlisted and civilian dependents, differed in selected risk factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, weight gain, prenatal care, work patterns, life stress, and social support) or in pregnancy outcome (infant birth weight and gestational age). The House (1981) …
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Occupational trends in the civilian and Navy labor markets.
This thesis compares occupational trends in the civilian and Navy Labor Markets. This is accomplished by matching civilian occupations to Navy ratings with similar job characteristics. The matched occupations are categorized according to technical level and skill level. These categories are used to …
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Barriers to Civilian and Familial Acclimation for Returning Veterans
Reintegration is a hard process for any returning service member to go through. For a number of veterans reintegration into communities and families is a tumultuous time of adjustment where many barriers must be faced. Some of these barriers include relationship stability, employment barriers, and …
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Civilian control of the military in Kenya, 1963-1995
… chapter we took at the prospects for continued civilian control in Kenya. This chapter raises important issues to be considered as we took at civilian control of the military in Kenya.
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Zapatista healthcare in a civilian targeted warfare zone: Chiapas, Mexico
… and well being of the people living in this civilian targeted warfare zone? What effect has the militarization had on health care? This research has the potential to provide valuable contributions to the Zapatista struggle as they continue to develop and improve the healthcare system in …
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The Integration of Military Adolescents in a Civilian High School
… that affect the integration of military and civilian adolescents in a public high school. The convenience sample includes 85 students from military families and 129 students from civilian families. They range in age 13 to 18 years of age. Subjects completed a questionnaire about their sense …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… of armed violence and insecurity, how do civilians influence the political environment around them? In this dissertation, I present three different studies that broadly engage this question. In concert, the papers presented herein offer new insights on civilians' relationship to armed …
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Legitimacy, state-building, and civilian targeting in separatist civil wars
… of violence and employ fewer economic forms of civilian targeting, such as civilian killing, use of child soldiers, sexual violence, kidnapping, theft, and seizure of humanitarian aid. I also find that separatists are more likely to engage in practices that are intended to demonstrate the …
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Civilian applications and policy implications of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles
As UAV capabilities continue to improve the technology will spill out of the military sector and into commercial and civil applications. Already, UAVs have demonstrated commercial marketability in such diverse areas as scientific and environmental research, cross-seas shipping, communications …
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Small unmanned aerial vehicle (S-UAV) study for civilian applications
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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A small unmanned aerial vehicle for military and civilian applications
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997.
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Seeking Safety: The Cognitive Foundations of Civilian Behavior during Violence
… policies that focus more directly on increasing civilians’ sense of certainty and predictability in order to promote adoption of less drastic, less de-stabilizing strategies of survival during conflict.
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