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Specialised (in)security: violence against women, criminal courts, and the gendered presence of the state in Ecuador

open access: yesLatin American Law Review, 2021
This article asks what the reliance on criminal law and policy to address violence against women (VAW) reveals about the gendered interaction between law, development, and security.
Silvana Tapia Tapia, Kate Bedford
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Sensor pattern noise and image similarity for picture‐to‐identity linking

open access: yesIET Computer Vision, 2015
Picture sharing through social networks has become a prominent phenomenon, producing a large amount of data that law enforcers may be entitled to use, under the proper legal framework, as a source of information for investigating a crime.
Riccardo Satta, Andrea Ciardulli
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Privacy and Biometric Passports

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2011
This work deals with privacy implications and threats that can emerge with the large-scale use of electronic biometric documents, such the recently introduced electronic passport (e-Passport).
Ioannis Vakalis
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Percepción sobre la seguridad ciudadana en Sonora

open access: yesRegión y Sociedad, 2021
Objetivo: analizar la percepción que tienen los habitantes de Sonora sobre la seguridad ciudadana en su estado. Metodología: se utiliza el método logit dicotómico. Resultados: se encontró que haber sufrido alguna agresión física o recibido alguna amenaza,
Guadalupe Tejeda Parra   +1 more
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Stiffness-Displacement Correlation from the RC Shear Wall Tests of the SAFE Program: Derivation of a Capacity Line Model

open access: yesAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2016
The response of 13 reinforced concrete shear walls submitted to successive seismic tests has been postprocessed to produce time histories of secant stiffness and displacement oscillation amplitude.
Francisco J. Molina   +2 more
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Evaluation of Public Policy Management in Strengthening Citizen Security through the Plithogenic Hypothesis Approach [PDF]

open access: yesNeutrosophic Sets and Systems
Improving public safety with laws is hard because there are lots of problems in society today. While more studies are being conducted, there are still unknowns, especially with various factors at play.In this article, we will discuss how the plithogenic ...
Julio Cesar Vidal Rischmoller   +2 more
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The Influence of Government Effectiveness and Corruption on the High Levels of Homicide in Latin America

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Most research that has examined the international variation in homicide levels has focused on structural variables, with the suggestion that socio-economic development operates as a cure for violence.
Spencer P. Chainey   +2 more
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Security Technologies Versus Citizen Roles? [PDF]

open access: yesScience as Culture, 2016
The idea of securitization holds that perceived threats and the ensuing need for security measures are mobilized in speech acts to legitimate bypassing of normal practices of democratic politics and justification. Citizens, as members of the political community, are thus effectively deprived of their agency.
openaire   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Operational Vessel Detectors for Maritime Surveillance Using Satellite-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2016
This paper presents a comparative study among four operational detectors that work by automatically post-processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the satellite platforms RADARSAT-2 and COSMO-SkyMed.
Mattia Stasolla   +4 more
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Galileo: The Added Value for Integrity in Harsh Environments

open access: yesSensors, 2016
A global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based navigation is a challenging task in a signal-degraded environments where GNSS signals are distorted by multipath and attenuated by fading effects: the navigation solution may be inaccurate or unavailable.
Daniele Borio, Ciro Gioia
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