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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Landmines"”.
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Landmine detection with a standoff acoustic/laser technique
Landmines and mine-like traps are effective weapons that are difficult to detect and discriminate from a safe distance. The ability to detect landmines in their host environment at a distance and to discriminate them from other objects would be valuable for countering the landmine threat. This …
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Stress Wave Propagation In A ‘Simplified Surrogate Tibia’ Subjected To Blast Loading
Landmines are a continuous and serious threat to mankind, resulting in thousands of casualties globally each year. Casualties have risen due to the proliferation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), cluster munition remnants, and other explosive remnants of war. In these terrible occurrences, …
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The response of circular plates to repeated uniform blast loads an experimental and numerical study
… death. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and landmines accounted for 1761 deaths in Afghanistan during 2009 [1], with many more casualties as a result from conflict occurring throughout the world.
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Analysing the influence of TNT on Southern African trees grass and shrubs using in-situ hyperspectral data
Landmines pose a significant risk to the health and livelihood of millions of people in war-torn countries. From a humanitarian point of view, these hidden dangers must be detected and removed. Several detection methods exist, including ground-penetrating radar, sniffer dogs and rats. It is a …
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Part of the Solution: Exploring Armed Non-State Actor Commitment to and Compliance with an Anti-Personnel Landmine Ban
… Ottawa Treaty regime, renounced anti-personnel landmines through a formal and monitored mechanism created by the international non-governmental organization Geneva Call. Why have some armed non-state actors committed themselves to and complied with this total anti-personnel landmine ban that …
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Mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Humanitarian Demining
The threat of landmines and other explosive remnants of war is a serious concern around the world. While landmines demand attention due to the thousands of civilian casualties they cause each year, perhaps even more shocking is the fear they instill in local populations, inhibiting movement and …
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Development Of Lower Extremity Injury Criteria And Biomechanical Surrogate To Evaluate Military Vehicle Occupant Injury During An Explosive Blast Event
<p>Anti-vehicular (AV) landmines and improvised explosive devices (IED) have accounted for more than half of the United States military hostile casualties and wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The lower extremity is the predominantly injured body region following an AV mine or IED blast …
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Recovering Territory: The Thick Geopolitics of Demining in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Wartime Ukraine
… a technical matter, but also a geopolitical one. Landmines pose a violent threat to human and non-human life alike, and have enduring material effects on territories and ecologies. They defy the spatio-temporal limits of battlespaces, and entrench the territorial logic of wars by inscribing it on …
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Reaching for Fairies
… and the world outside is a field of social landmines. She’s somehow always alert and never aware. Years after a bad first attempt at therapy, Cadence gives a new therapist a second try who encourages her to indulge in her questions about what she comes to call the “mirrored voice” inside her …
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Examining the effectiveness of international landmine regimes. The interplay between design and implementation.
… developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic research, there is a lack of knowledge of their effectiveness in supporting the humanitarian goals that underpin both treaties. In order to address gaps in the existing literature, this thesis …
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Investigating the use of rubber to attenuate the effect of blast load applied to a surrogate lower leg
Landmines are the epitome of the perfect soldier: always ready, never tiring. Landmines also do not choose their victims - it may very well be an armed and protected soldier or an innocent civilian who activates the detonator. As such, land mines have reached epidemic proportions in the Third …
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Landmine classification using possibilistic K-nearest neighbors with wideband electromagnetic induction data
… between anti-personnel versus anti-tank landmines. The proposed classifier achieves this goal using a method that is motivated by the observation that different buried object types often have consistent signatures depending on their metal content, size, shape, and depth. Given a sparse …
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Development of the "Discretized Dynamic Expanding Zones with Memory" Autonomous Mobility Algorithm for the Nemesis Tracked Vehicle Platform
… sensor suite used for detecting and neutralizing landmines. Because the detection process requires the vehicle to travel at speeds less than 0.5 km/h, teleoperation is a tedious process. The added autonomous capabilities of waypoint navigation and obstacle avoidance could greatly reduce operator …
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Sentinel palydovinių duomenų analizės taikymas karo poveikiui aplinkai tirti /
… as bombing, fires caused by explosive shells, landmines and the movement of heavy military equipment, and by the withdrawal of farmers from the frontline areas. In addition, farmland in Kherson region is particularly affected by the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka dam by Russia in June 2023, …
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From the Humanitarian Impact Initiative to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Novel Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
… of the Ottawa Convention (on anti-personnel landmines) and the Convention on Cluster Munitions have demonstrated that perceptions and norms change over time as more states ratify the relevant treaties.</p>
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Assessment of environmental degradation in Northern Ghana: A GIS based participatory approach
… and Dunn (2003) to assess the impacts of landmines in Cambodia. Using the DPSIR (Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework of the European Environmental Agency as an assessment framework, conventional GIS techniques were integrated with participatory research tools, dubbed …
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Radar Imaging Applications for Mining and Landmine Detection
… walls. Detecting and characterizing UXO and landmines from a safe distance can enable de-mining. Migration was used to improve GPR imaging for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data acquisitions. Existing algorithms were adapted for UAV flight irregularities and surface topography, and a new …
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Moving beyond entry-level competencies: The role of the recreation management internship in the moral development of college students
… interns as they begin to negotiate the ethical landmines of practice, and (3) the nature of the intern role impacts ethical decision-making among interns.</p>
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An investigation of the forces within the tibiae at typical blast loading rates : with different boots
Anti-Vehicular Landmines (AVLs), underbelly Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) or side-attack IEDs are some of the major threats to military vehicles and their occupants (Ramasamy et al., 2011). The lower extremities of the occupants are very prone to injury, mostly caused by underbelly detonation …
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High Resolution Imaging Ground Penetrating Radar Design and Simulation
This paper describes the design and simulation of a microwave band, high resolution imaging ground penetrating radar. A conceptual explanation is given on the mechanics of wave-based imaging, followed by the governing radar equations. The performance specifications for the imaging system are given …
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