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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"battleships"”.
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Gaining Relevance in the Face of Obsolescence: The USS Texas – a Battleship in the Second World War
… the Second World War, most literature mentions battleships in passing, giving little attention to a role that battleships filled- that of naval gunfire support for amphibious landings. The literature regarding the Navy’s older, obsolescent battleships such as the <em>Texas </em>is scarce<em>. …
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Are Elephants Flagships or Battleships? Understanding Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict on Human Wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya
This thesis examines the impacts of human-elephant conflict on human wellbeing and the implications for elephant conservation and management in Trans Mara District, Kenya. The District comprises communal lands bordering the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya. Trans Mara …
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… Rusty Knife (Masuda Toshio, 1958), Pigs and Battleships (Imamura Shohei, 1961), and Cruel Gun Story (Furukawa Takumi, 1964). I argue that the style of film noir was specifically adopted by Japanese film directors at Nikkatsu in the 1950s and 1960s to critique the development of U.S.-Japan …
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History of the U.S.S. South Dakota (BB-57) in World War II
No abstract prepared.
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A framework based on Gaussian mixture models and Kalman filters for the segmentation and tracking of anomalous events in shipboard video
Anomalous indications in monitoring equipment on board U.S. Navy vessels must be handled in a timely manner to prevent catastrophic system failure. The development of sensor data analysis techniques to assist a ship's crew in monitoring machinery and summon required ship-to-shore assistance is of …