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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"guns"”.
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Corpses, Guns, Penises and Private Military and Security Corporations
… human (e.g. penises), and non-human (e.g. guns) agencies. Simultaneously I perform a thorough accounting of the four processes – privatizing, militarizing, securing and commercializing– that overdetermine what this works means to global relations of security. Constituting the …
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A feedback control system for electron beam welding guns
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1964.
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The guns-for-drugs trade: implications for U.S. foreign policy
… trafficking--a phenomenon referred to as the "guns-for-drugs-trade". It focuses on trafficking that occurs throughout the United States and Latin America. The thesis identifies the actors, motivating factors, types of weapons, methods of smuggling, system dynamics, implications and prevalent …
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Essays in economics of crime: Guns, drugs, and the police
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
This project seeks to explain what happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords. Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent socio-political entities (political parties or civic associations)? To explain variation in post-war outcomes, my argument centers on the human …
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Helical rail guns : the application of linear electric motors to aircraft launching
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 1982
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Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: an exploratory study
… factors associated with multiple uses of crime guns. The current study applies binary logistic regression to crime logs maintained by the police department of a mid-size city in the Southeastern U.S. to examine how neighborhood and initial incident characteristics influence the likelihood that a …
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Tourists, gorillas and guns: integrating conservation and development in the Central African Republic
Integrated conservation and development programs (ICDPs) are aimed at addressing both conservation and development issues through the involvement of local communities in the process of wildlife management. Typically this involves providing park-adjacent communities with conservation-related …
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The state and upland populations: Ivory, Cattle and Guns in Nomansland 1820-1880
… through the commodities of ivory, cattle and guns in the period 1820 to 1880. In doing so it proposes that the ivory economy pursued by Botwas in the 1820s and 1830s constituted a resistance or escape economy meaning that it allowed them to evade state appropriation and violence. It also …
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Barrel wear reduction in rail guns : an investigation of silver paste liquid-metal interface
This thesis tests the effects a commercial silver paste has on the damage at the projectile-rail interface of a 4" long rail gun test section. Projectiles (0.635 x 0.635 x 0.953 cm) were pushed through the rail test section at 34 Å 19 m/s, while average current densities of 18-32 kA/cm2 was passed …
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Beyond gates, guards and guns : the systems-theoretic framework for security at nuclear facilities
Current approaches to nuclear security can produce elegantly designed physical protection systems (PPS) that may be limited by untenable assumptions or well stated-albeit vague and imprecise-descriptions of how to improve nuclear security culture itself. According to one nuclear security culture …
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
<p>This thesis opens discussion on American alien invasion films of the 90s as a self-critique, a reaction to being an imperial power at the end of the Cold War. The alien menace in these films is not the "other" but rather the U.S. itself being the colonizer or conqueror looking to expand its …
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Beyond guns or butter : towards a multi-level analysis of South Africa's strategic defence procurement
… Procurement (SOP) program, as a classic ""guns or butter"" issue. The government, on the other hand, defends its decision by maintaining that the military procurements are vital to both the national security imperatives and economic growth of South Africa. In this vein, defense …
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Bullies, fights and guns: Self-control theory as an explanation for juvenile use of intimidation and violence
Examinations of juvenile violence have largely been limited in both the scope of behaviors studied and the variety of theories used to explain these actions. This study addresses these issues by applying a test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) general theory of crime to an examination of a wide …
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Native blowguns and national guns: The Achuar Jivaroans and the dialectics of power in the Peruvian Amazon
The Achuar are still generally considered one of the most isolated and, except the Huambisa, possibly least known sub-groups of the Jivaroan cultural and linguistic family. On the basis of an uninterrupted research, conducted from October, 1980 through September, 1983 among the Achuar Jivaroans of …
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We Put Down Our Guns and Picked Up Microphones: Community Radio as a Conduit for Community Development in Guatemala
The intent of this thesis is to explore how community radio in Guatemala is used as a tool for community development. The concept of development I use is based off the idea that in order to build and maintain a sustainable quality of life there must be a solid community foundation for social …
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Impact of Violence Prevention Programs on the Attitudes Towards Guns and Violence Among Third Through Sixth Grade and Seventh Grade Students in the Bowling Green Independent School District
… prevention programs on the attitudes toward guns and violence among students in grades three through seven. This study represents an attempt to prove that third through sixth grade students who receive anger control training and seventh grade students who receive conflict resolution training …
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
The recent Arab Spring uprisings lent hope to much of the world that the region was finally transitioning away from authoritarian rule. Yet, the vastly differing outcomes have instead raised new questions. Particularly Egypt and Tunisia, which experienced such similar trajectories of social and …
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CNG7 Consolidated Nail Gun
… in tight spaces where hammers, pneumatic nail guns, and portable nail guns will not fit. The intended market is for homeowners renovating their houses. The short length and lightweight, compact frame make the CNG7 ideal for this market. The CNG7 is designed with minimum material waste and fewer …
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