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(A21) Injury Patterns of Blast Type Antipersonnel Land Mine Victims [PDF]
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2011 Anti-personnel land mines are deployed in many regions of conflict around the world. A large number of civilians and militants are affected regularly due to the blasts of such mines. Once set, they remain as silent concealed killers for decades and challenge the safety of the civilians even during the times of peace. A descriptive study was carried out
L. Dassanayake +2 more
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SILO6: A six-legged robot for humanitarian de-mining tasks [PDF]
, 2004 Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines in infested fields is an important worldwide problem. Around 100 million landmines have been deployed over the last two decades, and demining will take several more decades, even if no more mines were ...
Cobano, José A. +3 more
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Entrapping Gulliver: The United States and the Antipersonnel Mine Ban [PDF]
Security Studies, 2019 In 2014, the Obama administration announced that the United States would almost entirely adopt the global ban on antipersonnel (AP) mines, despite longstanding military and political opposition.
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A Biologically Based Chemo-Sensing UAV for Humanitarian Demining
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2008 Antipersonnel mines, weapons of cheap manufacture but lethal effect, have a high impact on the population even decades after the conflicts have finished. Here we investigate the use of a chemo-sensing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (cUAV) for demining tasks. We
Paul F.M.J. Verschure +4 more
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Design of a training tool for improving the use of hand-held detectors in humanitarian demining [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the design of a training tool intended to improve deminers' technique during close-in detection tasks.
Armada Rodríguez, Manuel Ángel +4 more
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"Out of the loop": autonomous weapon systems and the law of armed conflict [PDF]
, 2013 The introduction of autonomous weapon systems into the “battlespace” will profoundly influence the nature of future warfare. This reality has begun to draw the attention of the international legal community, with increasing calls for an outright ban on ...
Schmitt, Michael N. +1 more
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The Consequence of Land Mines on Public Health [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated 110 million land mines scattered in 64 countries continue to terrorize people and destroy human lives long after wars and fighting have ceased.
Bassani, Fabrizio +3 more
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Psicogente, 2008 The conflict of which is setting Colombia, has brought with himself the utilization of anti-perssonel mines which the groups use to protect their territories of influence and in the moments in which they are pursued for the public force. This paper shows
PAULO DANIEL ACERO RODRÍGUEZ +1 more
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Autonomous weapon systems and international humanitarian law: a reply to the critics [PDF]
, 2013 In November 2012, Human Rights Watch, in collaboration with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, released Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots.[2] Human Rights Watch is among the most sophisticated of human rights ...
Schmitt, Michael
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Detection of metallic and plastic landmines using the GPR and 2-D resistivity techniques
, 2007 International audienceLow and non-metallic landmines are one of the most difficult subsurface targets to be detected using several geophysical techniques.
Metwaly, M.
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