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Sancho el Sabio, 2016 El sector empresarial ha sido uno de los principales objetivos de la violencia de ETA. Por un lado, mediante atracos, secuestros y el denominado “impuesto revolucionario”, la banda pretendía lograr la financiación necesaria para mantener su actividad ...
Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla
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Nature and Patterns of Kidnapping for Ransom in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Salus Journal, 2023 Despite the criminalisation of kidnapping in Nigeria by the Nigerian criminal codes and an Anti-Kidnapping Act, Ekiti State continues to experience kidnapping schemes for ransom that have raised concerns ...
Ayomide Augustine Ilori +1 more
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La ficción : espacio simbólico de la ausencia en la novela argentina contemporánea
Amerika, 2010 Many Argentine authors have written novels about the military period that took place in that country between 1976 and 1983. In this work we have chosen the theme about disappeared people and kidnapped children.
Graciela Aletta de Sylvas
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe extant literature in the social sciences often employs qualitative methods to capture the contextual nuances of the nature, manifestations, and impacts of issues of importance today.
Christopher Amrobo Enemuwe +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technology incorporating QR code navigation has been widely used in the mobile robotics industry. However, the particle kidnapping problem, positioning accuracy, and navigation time are still urgent issues to ...
Bowen Zhang +4 more
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Racial Equity in State Funding for Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT States vary significantly in both the amount of funding they allocate to community colleges and the mechanisms they use to distribute these funds (Kelchen et al., 2024; Mullin et al., 2015; State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2025). One major source of variation in state's approaches to funding community colleges is whether and how they
Elizabeth Aritonang, Denisa Gándara
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The Study of Criminal Sanction Regarding the Hostage-Taking in the Iranian Legal System Alongside the International Instruments [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2017 Hostage-taking as a crime with the aim of forcing a third party to commit or omit to do something has been of interest to criminals. The need to deal with this crime because of its domestic and international consequences has led to more attention of ...
Nabiollah Gholami +1 more
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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The Bridge of Hope: Mediating the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Loneliness
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This cross‐sectional study sought to explore hope as a mediator between mindfulness and loneliness and social connectedness by using a structural equation modeling data analysis approach to analyze the relationships. Among a sample of 676 interpersonal trauma experiencers recruited online from a crowdsourcing platform, hope fully mediated the ...
Daniel Gutierrez +2 more
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Comparing treatment outcomes of prolonged exposure therapy across trauma type and veteran status
Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.Abstract This retrospective cohort study evaluated the effectiveness of prolonged exposure therapy (PE) across trauma types (combat, terror, civilian) and veteran status (military veterans vs. civilians) in a real‐world clinical setting. We hypothesized that individuals who experienced combat‐ and terror‐related trauma would have higher baseline ...
Nitsa Nacasch +5 more
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