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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"military conflicts"”.
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Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights : Particularly concerning Military Conflicts
The European Court of Human Rights has brought a revolutionary aspect to the extraterritorial application of its Convention by extending it to cover the state parties’ actions abroad. By opening the door to the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to activities of a member state …
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Feeling Like a Holy Warrior: Western Authors' Attributions of Emotion as Proof of Motives for Violence Among Christian Actors in Military Conflicts, Tenth Through Early Twelfth Centuries
… and cultural influence; and territorial conflicts inside Europe and conflicts on and beyond its borders classified by contemporaneaous and later historians as holy wars and crusades brought Christians face to face with new forces they perceived as enemies who threatened the …
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Ultrastructural damages in the brain induced by low-intensity primary blast wave : a transmission electron microscopy study on mild traumatic brain injury
… injury (mTBI), a "signature wound" of recent military conflicts, commonly affects Service Members. While past blast injury studies have provided insights into TBI with moderate-to high-intensity explosions, the impact of primary low-intensity blast (LIB)-mediated pathobiology on neurological …
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The civil-military conflict in British West Florida, 1763-1783
… the British government decided to keep a large military force in North America. To coordinate these forces, the Crown decided to continue the office of Commander in Chief. The Commander in Chief had broad authority over the military in the American colonies. This authority, however, conflicted …
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Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
… explores the nexus between illicit economies and military conflicts. It investigates when and how access by belligerents to the production and trafficking of illicit substances affects the strength of belligerents and governments. Although narcotics trafficking is often treated as sui generis, the …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… events that occurred in Georgia and Caucasus (military conflicts over the territorial integrity of Abkhazia and South Ossetia territories, Chechen war and conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh). The purpose of this thesis is to research how different interpretations of historical events related to …
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Computational modeling of primary blast effects on the human brain
Since the beginning of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been over 250,000 diagnoses of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the U.S. military, with the majority of incidents caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Despite the urgent need to understand blast-induced TBI …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, …
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Investigating Injury Pathology of Blast-induced Polytrauma and Assessing the Therapeutic Role of Hemostatic Nanoparticles after Blast Exposure
… cause the majority of injuries in the current conflicts, accounting for 79% of combat related injuries (Ramasamy et al. 2008). Blast overpressure from explosions can cause barotrauma to the lungs and the brain. Blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury has been labeled the "signature wound" of …
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Fine-grained reputation-based routing in wireless ad hoc networks
… situations such as natural disasters and military conflicts. Most developed wireless ad hoc routing protocols are designed to discover and maintain an active path from source to destination with an assumption that every node is friendly and cooperative. However, it is possible that the …
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Remapping territorial faultlines: Conflicts between separatist groups and host states
Contemporary military conflicts are not likely to occur between states but rather within states. Recent examples, such as the ongoing Chechen-Russian war, Kosovar resistance to Serbian ethnic-cleansing, Mayan (Zapatistas) autonomy claims in Mexico, and the Ogoni struggle for land control in Nigeria …
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Intelligence Outcomes: Assessing the 1975-1976 Intelligence Oversight Reforms
… intelligence failures and unavoided, uninitiated military conflicts involving the United States. It also provides a series of implications and recommendations for theory and praxis.
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A Landscape of War: On the Nature of Conflict in South Lebanon
… the materials and space-times of war? How are military conflicts past, recent and expected recognized, resisted, claimed, encountered, nurtured, inhabited as tabi'i, natural and `adi, habitual, normal? I conceive of this work as an attempt to place war in life; that is to think of war as a …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
… among individuals, and argue that only during military conflicts, forced population movements, and assimilation campaigns did the active espousal of nationality become imperative. True, the minority felt increasingly pressured to identify with a territorially bounded nation-state after a series …
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Learning from History: Real and Perceived Threats to National Security
… were generally associated with periods of military conflicts. Laws that would pave the way for legalizing the surveillance and internment of civilian populations have their origin in the Quasi-War. Likewise, the practice of state property seizure under the Office of Alien Property Custodian …
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Policy and Approach for Addressing the Military – Media Tension
Media coverage of Post-World War II military conflicts resulted in a reorganization of war coverage procedures. The predominant reason for the reorganization is the tension created within the organizational program that constantly sets one subgroup against another. This study is interested in the …
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The Biomechanical Response of the Eye, Face, and Orbit to Primary Blast Overpressure
… use of improvised explosive devices in current military conflicts. Though much research has focused on how the body responds to the relatively low loading rates associated with blunt trauma, little is known regarding the response of the body to the higher loading rates associated with blast …
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Activity-Based Target Acquisition Methods for Use in Urban Environments
Many military conflicts are fought in urban environments that subject the U.S. soldier to a number of challenges not otherwise found in traditional battle. In the urban environment, the soldier is subject to threatening attacks not only from the organized army but also from civilians who harbor …
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The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949
… characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political decentralization. During this period, foreign guns, along with their Chinese imitations, flooded society. In response to the social disorder, many Chinese civilians turned to this new class of weaponry for …
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