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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"minefield"”.
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A GIS Model for Minefield Area Prediction: The Minefield Likelihood Procedure
Existing minefields left over from previous conflicts pose a grave threat to humanitarian relief operations, domestic everyday life, and future military operations. The remaining minefields in Afghanistan, from the decade long war with the Soviet Union, are just one example of this global problem. …
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REASSESSING THE CAPE HATTERAS MINEFIELD: AN EXAMINATION OF NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL DEFENSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
… currently accepted narrative of Cape Hatteras Minefield is that it was a failure. This assessment is due to recent scholarship which cites the loss of three Allied ships that sunk after striking mines intended for Axis watercraft. As opposed to studies of the effectiveness of offensive or …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
The dominant liberal peacebuilding critiques tends to focus on ‘states’ and the failure of interventions in rebuilding them. Consequently, a standardised critique has emerged largely because the critics apply a broad brush across a diverse range of contexts, programmes, issues and activities as …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
The dominant liberal peacebuilding critiques tends to focus on ‘states’ and the failure of interventions in rebuilding them. Consequently, a standardised critique has emerged largely because the critics apply a broad brush across a diverse range of contexts, programmes, issues and activities as …
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"I no longer teach history, I teach S.O.Ls:" Navigating the curricular and instructional minefield of a high-stakes educational environment
Over the last several decades, the field of education has the seen the introduction and normalization of high-stakes standardized testing as part of the educational routine. With this introduction, questions concerning how these standardized tests have altered the educational landscape for teachers …
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Practical military applications of timetabling, path planning, and time-varying networks for maximizing mission success and minimizing risk
… paper, "Minimum-Risk Routing Through a Mapped Minefield," has been submitted and is currently under review by Networks. We build a "threat-additive" approach to measuring the risk incurred by a ship navigating a naval minefield. We employ this approach, both as an integer program and as an A* …
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Popular Religion in Gaelic Ireland 1445 - 1645
… to definitively unravel its meaning, faces a minefield o f objections.
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The Politics of Media Freedom
… that are at the heart of democracy create a minefield for journalists? Examining cross-national patterns of censorship and the experiences of journalists in Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil captured in over 4,600 case narratives, 30 field interviews, and historical documents, I study the …
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The taxation of income and expenditure of trusts in South Africa
… making use of the trust to be stepping into a minefield. The formation of a trust has for many years been a very popular financial planning tool for various reasons. SARS has been clamping down on trusts and with the introduction of capital gains tax and transfer duty the use of trusts has lost …
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Analysing the influence of TNT on Southern African trees grass and shrubs using in-situ hyperspectral data
… and can take months to clear only a single minefield. This study investigates whether TNT from leaking landmines can be detected using hyperspectral remote sensing of plant foliage, with the aim of being an area reduction aid. Increasing concentrations of TNT was administered to a study …
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Abortion Beyond the Binary: Transgender people have historically been left out of abortion and reproductive health research. Now, two researchers are bringing their experiences to light.
… people throughout the United States face a minefield of issues—from getting insurance coverage to dealing with medical providers who don’t know how to treat them, to weathering discrimination—but very little research exists on how bad these problems are, the impacts they have, or potential …
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Childhood sexual abuse: how do women experience a subsequent diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder/borderline personality disorder?
… (3) Sense of Self and Identity (4) A relational minefield and (5) The long road to recovery. This research highlights the ambiguous relationship participants have with their diagnosis of BPD. The role that the diagnostic assessment, the delivery of the diagnosis, and internalised stigma plays in …
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Walking backwards in high heels: narratives of women’s (non)representation in corporate leadership in the UK and Germany
… (in a paradoxical metaphorical feat) crossing “a minefield backwards in high heels”. The analysis reveals that, while some rhetorical moves and manifestations differ in Germany and the UK, there is a range of strikingly similar attitudes and outcomes. Over the past decade both countries have seen …