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Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 16, Issue 6, December 2024.A diverse microbiome colonizes the surface of dormant copepod embryos, which can survive for ~200 years in lake sediments. During dormancy, the outer two layers of a five‐layered cyst wall break apart, while the third layer remains undamaged, despite the presence of microbial species with chitinase genes.
Hunter B. Arrington +3 more
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Livelihoods analysis of landmine affected communities in Yemen (Volume I: main report) [PDF]
, 2006 The government of Yemen is committed to the complete elimination of landmines and explosive remnants of war. The National Mine Action Committee (NMAC) was established in June 1998 to formulate policy, allocate resources, and develop a national mine ...
Martin, Adrienne +3 more
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Human Brain Mapping, Volume 45, Issue 16, November 2024.This study combined high‐temporal‐resolution fMRI with machine learning to decode pain‐specific spatiotemporal pattern of brain activity. We found that the spatiotemporal pattern encoded pain‐distinguishing information and reflected individuals' vigilance toward pain.
Yingchao Song +7 more
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Sustainable Robots for Humanitarian Demining
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2008 This paper proposes a roadmap for the application of advanced technology (in particular robotics) for the humanitarian demining domain. Based on this roadmap, a portable demining kit to handle urgent situations in remote locations is described.
Luis Correia +2 more
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Metal Detector Signal Imprints of Detected Objects [PDF]
, 2013 Humanitarian de-mining missions are activities in which an operator safety and time consumption are key issues. To increase a discrimination ability of ATMID metal detector, which we have been using, we extended the capability of the detector with ...
Nováček P. +3 more
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Global Policy, Volume 15, Issue 5, Page 869-885, November 2024.Abstract The paper analyses a contradiction in the liberal approach to post‐war statebuilding. The form of the state is seen to aim for the establishment of a centralised maximalist administration when the state's de jure economic policy makes its revenue dependant on market‐generated private sector taxes that are either inadequate or its institutions ...
Kambaiz Rafi
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Landmines, Poverty and Recovery: Instrumental Variables Evidence from Mozambique [PDF]
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines production and use estimates that there are more than 80 billion landmines in the ground in more than 80 countries. Despite the scale of the problem and large investments by OECD countries to clear mines in low
Ouarda Merrouche
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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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GPR applications across Engineering and Geosciences disciplines in Italy: a review [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, a review of the main ground-penetrating radar (GPR) applications, technologies, and methodologies used in Italy is given. The discussion has been organized in accordance with the field of application, and the use of this technology has ...
Benedetto, Andrea +3 more
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Radio Science, Volume 59, Issue 10, October 2024.Abstract In this paper, we present a review and classification of the published works on the use of Electromagnetic Time Reversal (EMTR)‐based methods to locate landmines. Different approaches for landmine localization using EMTR are investigated. Specifically, the classical time‐domain EMTR, iterative EMTR, EMTR‐DORT (Décomposition de l’Opérateur du ...
Hamidreza Karami +4 more
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