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The value of statistical life and cost–benefit evaluations of landmine clearance in Cambodia [PDF]
, 2010 Development agencies spend approximately US$ 400 million per year on landmine clearance. Yet many cost–benefit evaluations suggest that landmine clearance is socially wasteful because costs appear to far outweigh social benefits.
Cameron, Michael Patrick +5 more
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Geographical reflections of mine pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
Revija za Geografijo, 2017 Numerous landmine fields cause an immense problem for the development of economy in rural areas of the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even twenty years after the Homeland War in Croatia, i.e.
Snježana Musa +2 more
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Women Pose Innocent Victims of Landmines in Postwar Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2010 Background: Although in the last few years there has been an increasing attention to the problem of landmines, to date, the implications of women being victims of landmine has not been duly dealt with in the world including Iran, which is estimated to be
AR Soroush +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has proved to be a successful technique for the detection of landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) buried in the ground. In the last years, novel architectures for safe and fast detection, such as those based on
María García-Fernández +3 more
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Numerical analysis of the mine blast action on an armored vehicle for different V-hull geometries [PDF]
Scientific Technical Review, 2020 The main objective of this research is to develop a numerical model of vehicle damage caused by an explosion of a mine, as well as to find the most favorable case of V-hull geometry and to point out a possible solution for mitigating the effects of mine ...
Glavšić Milica, Elek Predrag
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The COMRADE System for Multirobot Autonomous Landmine Detection in Postconflict Regions
Journal of Robotics, 2015 We consider the problem of autonomous landmine detection using a team of mobile robots. Previous research on robotic landmine detection mostly employs a single robot equipped with a landmine detection sensor to detect landmines.
Prithviraj Dasgupta +4 more
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Application of a Drone Magnetometer System to Military Mine Detection in the Demilitarized Zone
Sensors, 2021 We propose a magnetometer system fitted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) and a data-processing method for detecting metal antipersonnel landmines (M16) in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea, which is an undeveloped natural environment ...
Lee-Sun Yoo +4 more
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Geosciences, 2023 Landmines and explosive remnants of war are still present in the Western Balkans and remain a deadly legacy of the hostilities at the end of the 20th century.
Ivo Baselt +3 more
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2012 Background The purpose of this exploratory study is to pilot a biopsychosocial instrument called the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP) on a cohort of landmine/Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) victims with lower limb disability versus a cohort of ...
Wyper Russell B
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Landmine injuries at the Emergency Management Center in Erbil, Iraq
Conflict and Health, 2010 Background Landmines can cause death, injury and disability in addition to many indirect public health consequences. This study aimed at understanding the trends, demography and other epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized landmine injured ...
Shabila Nazar P +2 more
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