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Brady Statute Data: Establishing Noncriminal Classifications for the Alaska Department of Public Safety—Executive Summary [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 prohibited the purchase of firearms by persons in certain noncriminal categories. This executive report summarizes study findings on potential data sources for the identification of mental committments ...
Atwell, Cassie   +2 more
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Design and testing of a deployable, retrievable boom for space applications [PDF]

open access: yes
The Deployable Retrievable Boom which was developed as a part of the joint U.S.-Italian Tethered Satellite System (TSS) is described. The design mission of the boom is to support, deploy, and retrieve an experiment package for the study of the ...
Becchi, P., Dellamico, S.
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Rural is different: rural is special [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Those of us who live, work, worship and minister in the countryside know all too well that rural is different, that rural is special. Yet for us country folk there remain so many frustrations that secular policies may be driven by an urban agenda and ...
Francis, Leslie J.
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Enhancement of seismic resistance of buildings [PDF]

open access: yesUrbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2014
The objectives of the paper are both seismic instrumentation for damage assessment and enhancing of seismic resistance of buildings. In according with seismic design codes in force the buildings are designed to resist at seismic actions.
Claudiu-Sorin Dragomir   +2 more
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Preparation of National Constitutions of Candidate Countries for Accession [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of European Affairs, 2002
In most candidate countries, enlargement will contribute most likely to the constitutional modernization of the country. The EU accession will be a fundamental landmark in this respect.
Alfred E. Kellermann
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Council Decision Rules and European Union Constitutional Design [PDF]

open access: yes
In the recent past, the choice of adequate voting weights and decision rules for the Council of the European Union (EU) has been a highly contested issue in EU intergovernmental negotiations.
Madeleine O. Hosli
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"Different actors, different tools? Approaching EU and US democracy promotion in the Mediterranean and the Newly Independent States" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper contributes to the research agenda on external democracy promotion by attempting a systematic comparison between the democracy promotion endeavors of two major international actors, the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US).
Stahn, Andreas,, van Hullen, Vera.
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Investigation on the Buckling Behavior of Normal Steel CHS Beam–Columns: A Revised Design Approach with Reliability Analysis

open access: yesBuildings
This paper focuses on the buckling behavior of circular hollow section (CHS) beam–columns. The literature review highlights the need for further investigations to improve the accuracy of structural performance predictions and optimize the design ...
Musab Rabi
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Fault-tolerant software for the FIMP [PDF]

open access: yes
The work reported here provides protection against software failures in the task dispatcher of the FTMP, a particularly critical portion of the system software.
Hecht, H., Hecht, M.
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