Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques—specifically the “load‐and‐rope” and “helium balloon‐tied gun” methods—across documented casework, forensic ...
Ernesto Damiani +2 more
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Breaking the bottleneck in AI clusters with parallel photonic integration. [PDF]
Nat CommunNick TA +7 more
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Secrecy Performance of O-RAN-Enabled RIS-Assisted FSO/RF Satellite Downlinks. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Li Y, Chen X, Shi J, Lv G, Jin Y.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
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On GRAND-Assisted Vector Random Linear Network Coding in Wireless Broadcasts. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Su R, Zhao C, Sun Q, Song L.
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
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SQUID-COMM: a Colossal Squid-inspired distributed communication framework for real-time multi-node aquaculture monitoring networks with adaptive bioluminescent signaling and neuromorphic edge intelligence. [PDF]
Sci RepSalem AI, Elbaz M, Khalil HM, Loey M.
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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón +1 more
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Continuous-Variable Quantum Secret Sharing Through Microwave-Enabled Turbulent Channels with Measurement-Device-Independent Scheme. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Zhang W, Liang Z, Mao Y, Zhang H, Guo Y.
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