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Showing 1 to 20 of 897 for “"killing"”.
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Voices from the Killing Jar
… my work for voice and ensemble, "Voices from the Killing Jar," and an accompanying paper. "Voices from the Killing Jar" was written for the Wet Ink Ensemble in 2010-2011, and takes as its subject seven female characters from literature, history, and myth. In the paper, a musical analysis of each …
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Targeted killing of suspected terrorists
Targeted killing by drones has become a common tool of lethal force in the "war on terrorism" in the past decade. Owing to the specific nature of targeted killing by drones and suspected terrorists, this method of warfare does not easily fall under one particular model of international law. The …
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Targeted Killing Technologies and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
… clarify U.S. policy as regards targeted killing and adjust the legal justification for extraterritorial drone strikes to be a matter of self-defense rather than as an extension of legitimate armed conflict. This new position would reassure the international community that there are strict …
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Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War
… on whether soldiers are morally justified in killing each other in wartime combat. Many of their respective arguments, and their contradictory conclusions, are based upon principles of self-defense. In this thesis, I examine the role that principles of self-defense play in the arguments …
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Hamlet's objective of killing Claudius fuels dramatic action
Hamlet's Objective of Killing Claudius Fuels Dramatic Action proves that Hamlet's overall objective fuels the dramatic action of the play. The overall objective of Hamlet, for the purposes of this thesis, is to avenge his father's murder. The thesis also examines the structural elements of Hamlet, …
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The killing of plant tissue by low temperature
… In the experiments described in this paper, the killing temperature of plant tissue that kills at relatively high temperature has been reduced whenever the sap density of the tissue has been increased. Results of many investigations have shown that during freezing (which may or may not result in …
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Quantifying T cell Mediated Killing for Melanoma Immunotherapy
… within a TILs sample based on their individual killing potentials when matched with different number of targets.
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Studies on the Mechanism of Colicin E2 Killing
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T04:27:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726719.pdf: 4840555 bytes, checksum: f139ca501ed8506cf62aee590714ad30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Multi-agent planning for coordinated robotic weed killing
The student, Wyatt McAllister, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-05-08 at 13:51.
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Multi-agent planning for coordinated robotic weed killing
This work presents a strategy for coordinated multi-agent weeding under conditions of partial environmental information. Our goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of coordination strategies for improving the weeding performance of autonomous agricultural robots. We show that, given a sufficient …
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Killing ostriches: Young women, family violence and youth work
Using a phenomenological approach, this study, "Killing Ostriches" sought to investigate the experience of violence in the home of a small group of young women living in the northern suburbs of Perth. Seven young women between the ages of 17-26 took part in the study. Five of these young women …
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Experimental Models of Mycobacterial Replication and Killing in Macrophages
… in vitro. Further studies in vitro of the killing of intracellular mycobacteria indicated an oxidative [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-induced] killing mechanism. This may be physiologically significant since release of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> has been documented following phagocytosis of …
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A “Human Endeavor”: Killing In Contemporary U.S. Combat Narratives
This PH.D dissertation aims to develop a 3-D numerical model of dam-break flows on movable beds. Three tasks are defined to accomplish the goal of this study. The first task is developing a 3-D hydrodynamic model to simulate dam-break flow on fixed beds with simple geometry and test the water …
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
… embroiled in civil war perpetrate extensive mass killing against their own populations. Extant literature on mass killing does not sufficiently address civilian support for insurgents, which can influence the government’s strategies for subduing the insurgency. Mass killing scholars take civilian …
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Understanding host factors controlling intracellular killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
… RNA and subsequent enhancement of intracellular killing of MTB. I showed that TLR8 senses mycobacterial RNA released through mycobacterial extracellular membrane vesicles and stimulates phagolysosomal degradation and autophagic clearance of MTB. I demonstrated that synthetic clinically tested …
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Problems in the morality of killing and letting die.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Final solutions : the causes of mass killing and genocide
… to identify the causes of genocide and mass killing. Many of the most widely accepted explanations of genocide and mass killing seek the causes of these events in the social structure, system of government or the collective psychology of the societies in which they take place. Although the …
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Killing at a Distance in a Post-Panoptic Society
The military's armed surveillance drones are the most elite modernized weaponry in the twenty-first century. They have introduced a new way to see without being seen. In this paper, I investigate the US military's use of drones in warfare, specifically in terms of distance and what that entails for …
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