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Detection of buried explosives with immobilized bacterial bioreporters
Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 Summary The unchecked dispersal of antipersonnel landmines since the late 19th century has resulted in large areas contaminated with these explosive devices, creating a substantial worldwide humanitarian safety risk.
Benjamin Shemer +5 more
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GPR-Based Landmine Detection and Identification Using Multiple Features
International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2012 This paper presents a method to identify landmines in various burial conditions. A ground penetration radar is used to generate data set, which is then processed to reduce the ground effect and noise to obtain landmine signals.
Kwang Hee Ko +3 more
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The value of statistical life and cost-benefit evaluations of landmine clearance in Cambodia [PDF]
, 2008 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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Self-Paced Multitask Learning with Shared Knowledge
, 2017 This paper introduces self-paced task selection to multitask learning, where instances from more closely related tasks are selected in a progression of easier-to-harder tasks, to emulate an effective human education strategy, but applied to multitask ...
Carbonell, Jaime, Murugesan, Keerthiram
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Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation. This study explores ecologically diverse and peaceful futures for the Korean Peninsula by envisioning the DMZ as a landscape for ...
HyeJin Kim +24 more
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Railway track condition assessment at network level by frequency domain analysis of GPR data [PDF]
, 2018 The railway track system is a crucial infrastructure for the transportation of people and goods in modern societies. With the increase in railway traffic, the availability of the track for monitoring and maintenance purposes is becoming significantly ...
Fontul, Simona +3 more
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British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
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Nonlinear repulsive force between two solids with axial symmetry [PDF]
, 2011 We modify the formulation of Hertz contact theory between two elastic half-solids with axial symmetry and show that these modifications to Hertz’s original framework allow the development of force laws of the form F∝z^n, 10 to describe any aspect ratio ...
Daraio, Chiara +2 more
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Blast mines: physics, injury mechanisms and vehicle protection. [PDF]
, 2009 Since World War II, more vehicles have been lost to land mines than all other threats combined. Anti-vehicular (AV) mines are capable of disabling a heavy vehicle, or completely destroying a lighter vehicle.
Bull, AM +4 more
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