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Nepal’s Civil War and Its Economic Costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper estimates the macroeconomic effects of increased spending on defense and internal security necessitated by the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal.
Gyan Pradhan
core   +1 more source

Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives and the role of Bosnian defense industry in national innovation system

open access: yesDefense and Security Studies, 2020
The increased global demand for weapons is growing fast both military and civilian grade equipment. The defense industry is experiencing an increase in its trades and production over the globe.
Benjamin Durakovic, Erwin Trgo
doaj   +1 more source

How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Event studies have been used in political science to study the cost of regulation (Schwert, 1981), the value of political connections (Roberts, 1990a; Fisman, 2001), the effect of political parties on defense spending (Roberts, 1990b), the importance ...
Snowberg, Erik   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Auto‐Routing Fluidic Printed Circuit Boards

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work introduces (STREAM) software tool for routing efficiently advanced macrofluidics, an open‐source software tool for automating the design of 3D‐printable fluidic circuit boards. STREAM streamlines tube routing and layout, enabling the rapid fabrication of fluidic networks for soft robotics, lab‐on‐a‐chip devices, microfluidics, and biohybrid ...
Savita V. Kendre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

FEATURES OF FORMATION AND EXECUTION OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET IN THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF RUSSIA

open access: yesМодернизация, инновация, развитие, 2015
Importance: The presented research topic is particularly relevant in terms of development of market relations inRussia, when indicated problems whose solution determines the positive results of reforming the economic system, an important place in which ...
Anzhela Z. Namitulina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lending to an Insecure Sovereign [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes a reputational equilibrium for sovereign debt in a model in which the sovereign borrows to finance spending for defense against threats to its survival in power.
Herschel I. Grossman
core  

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

STUDY ON DEFENSE EXPENDITURE AND ITS FINANCING [PDF]

open access: yesEURINT, 2019
In an era of geopolitical changes stability seems to be in danger. The concept of threat is sometimes artificial taking into account a wide range of challenges in terms of security, including either state and non-state threats or the problems resulting ...
Florin ŞUHAN
doaj  

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

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