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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"WMD"”.
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The Church, the Constitution, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Role of the Church of England in Developing British Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy
… policy regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Constitutionally, the CoE is represented by the Lords Spiritual, in the House of Lords, who raise moral and ethical considerations with respect to British WMD policy. Outside of Parliament, the CoE can make its position known on WMD through …
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The Necessity of Active Measures in Counterproliferation
The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is a grave concern to the United States. In the post-911 world, transnational threats such as terrorism and WMD proliferation are the most pressing issues facing the United States. Both terrorist organizations and rogue states can use WMD as …
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Options For the Twenty-First Century
… the proliferation of weapns of mass destruction (WMD) continues. Moover, as the political will to use strategic nuclear weapons would impove deterrence against the growing threat posed by WMD, especially in regard to exteneded deterrence protecting deployed U.S. force or AMerican allies. Such …
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Evaluating strategies for countering nuclear-armed terrorist groups
… armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Depending on the circumstances, a terrorist attack with nuclear or radiological weapons could cause more destruction and casualties than one with other types of WMD. Four strategies for improving U.S. capabilities to counter nuclear or …
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Interagency Modeling Atmospheric Assessment Center local jurisdiction: IMAAC operations framework
… during weapons of mass of destruction (WMD) and hazardous materials incidents. IMAAC plume predictions represent the federal position during such emergencies. IMAAC resources are also available to assist local jurisdictions during incidents requiring 'federal coordination' as cited by …
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Experimental study of the interaction between aluminum and hydrogen fluoride in biocidal explosions
… of a counter weapon of mass destruction (C-WMD) armament. These tests involved the use of high explosives coupled to solid state halogen fuels. The second thrust area was to create an explosion that replicated the kinetics of the post C-WMD detonation, but simplified the environment to allow …
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Exploring embedding vectors for emotion detection
… many NLP approaches, the word mover’s distance (WMD) is a method introduced recently to calculate the distance between two documents based on the embedded words. This thesis is investigating the ability to detect or classify emotions in sentences using word vectorization and distance measures. …
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Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles: a Case Study of Iran
… and components for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles to Iran by Russia, China, and North Korea, and their motivations for this proliferation. It also examines the implications of this proliferation for American interests and for American relations with Iran, Russia, China, and North …
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Grassland and Woodland Bird Occurrence and Habitat Selection in the Prairie-Forest Transition Zone of Minnesota
… Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District (WMD) covers 14 counties in southeastern Minnesota in the transition zone between forested and prairie ecoregions. Little information is available relative to which birds are using grassland or woodland habitat within the WMD and how their presence …
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Herbal medicines:physician's recommendation and clinical evaluation of St.John's Wort for depression
… placebo [pooled RR 1.90 (1.54-2.35)] and [Pooled WMD 4.09 (2.33 to 5.84)]. However, the remedy was similar to conventional antidepressant in its efficacy [Pooled RR I. 0 I (0.93 -1.10)] and [Pooled WMD 0.18 (- 0.66 to 1.02). Subgroup analyses of the placebo-controlled trials suggested that use of …
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Power and Humiliation in Foreign Policy: The Effects of Economic Sanctions
… target state, such as regime change or curbing WMD proliferation. Economic sanctions were generally unsuccessful in achieving the expected outcomes and instead generated unintended results, such as: strengthening existing leadership and forcing negative humanitarian consequences on the …
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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
… W. Bush's tragic misconstruction of the Iraq WMD threat, and the subsequently restrictive expectations of American foreign policy, Clinton summons a number of the traditional rhetorical devices associated with Woodrow Wilson's notion of collective security; although her cable appears simple, …
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Securing nuclear and radiological material in the homeland
… of NRAM in a nuclear weapon of mass destruction (WMD) or a radiological dispersion device (RDD) could potentially kill and injure thousands of American citizens. The economic impact of such a terrorist act on U.S. soil could cause profound economic damage, and would terrify the nation. While …
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Coordinated dynamic planning for air and space operations
… a rogue nation with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) capability and a significant air defense force. We consider three separately-controlled resource groups - aircraft, satellites, and ORS assets - to combat the target threat. In addition, we formulate a top-level coordination controller, whose …
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Sweeprate and Temperature Effects on Crackling Noise
… of the sun dwarfing that of our most horrible WMD. Typically, crackling noise is modeled in the infinitely slow driving rate limit at zero temperature. In this dissertation I investigate the effects of relaxing these limits. First I consider the crackling system at zero temperature and finite …
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An assessment of the social consequences of water management devices on the poor in Samora Machel, Cape Town
… prevent wastage. The water management device (WMD) limits access to the free basic water (FBW) allocation and automatically cuts it off when the allocation is finished. In 2009/2010 the City of Cape Town started rolling out the devices in Samora Machel, which previously used the conventional …
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Ramadan Fasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on Young and Adult individuals with and without Type 2 Diabetes.
… after RF compared to the pre-fasting stage, with WMD = 0.55 mg/dl, CI: 0.33-0.77, P < 0.00001, Ι2 = 93%, and WMD = 12.42, CI: 6.46-18.38, P < 0.0001, Ι2 = 81%, respectively. However, a non-significant difference was observed in body weight in fasting patients after RF compared to the pre-fasting …
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Providing a Framework to Understanding Why the US Invaded Iraq in 2003
… 9/11, the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the unknown motives and future actions of an evil dictator. The United States is now over five years into the war, and the overarching sentiment among the American people is that the war in Iraq was based on faulty information and that …
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Design and evaluation of network survivability schemes for correlated multi-failure scenarios
… outages, and weapon of massive destruction (WMD) type attacks. Indeed, these types of scenarios are much more challenging, as they induce large numbers of correlated failures which can quickly overwhelm most traditional single-failure recovery schemes. Along these lines, some recent studies …
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