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Lower limb landmine injuries [PDF]
Prosthetics & Orthotics International, 2004 The medical records of 186 patients seeking treatment for landmine injuries in the authors' region between 1993 and 2001 were evaluated. Of these patients 13 died of accompanying complications. Ten (10) patients with general body trauma and upper limb trauma were excluded from the study.
Necmioglu, S +3 more
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health, EarlyView.Young people around the world are threatened by increasing chaos and danger from armed conflicts, natural disasters, climate change, forced displacement, disease epidemics, and related adversities. This perilous situation raises a critical question: Are we doing enough to protect and prepare young people to adapt and thrive?
Ann S. Masten
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Chapter 1 Landmines and Landmine Injuries: An Overview [PDF]
Pain Medicine, 2006 Antipersonnel landmines are generally of two types. Blast mines are usually buried and are detonated by foot pressure. Injuries are caused by the blast and by thermal effects. The explosion of a blast mine produces a transient pressure wave that can have an initial velocity greater than the speed of sound and an overpressure of hundreds of pounds per ...
Steve Mannion, Eddie Chaloner
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes, 2021 Landmine contamination is a vital contributor to long-lasting destructive effects on terrestrial ecosystem. Libya has experienced severe landmine impacts involving soil contamination with hazardous heavy metals.
Manal Al-Traboulsi, Mohamed A. Alaib
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Pareto-Path Multi-Task Multiple Kernel Learning [PDF]
, 2014 A traditional and intuitively appealing Multi-Task Multiple Kernel Learning (MT-MKL) method is to optimize the sum (thus, the average) of objective functions with (partially) shared kernel function, which allows information sharing amongst tasks.
Anagnostopoulos, Georgios C. +2 more
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Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim In hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)‐negative recipients with antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti‐HBc)‐positive liver grafts, hepatitis B virus (HBV) can be reactivated under post‐transplant immunosuppression. We recently reported a median intrahepatic covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) level of 238 copies/μg in HBsAg ...
Sung Kwan Bae +15 more
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Applying Deep Learning to Automate UAV-Based Detection of Scatterable Landmines
Remote Sensing, 2020 Recent advances in unmanned-aerial-vehicle- (UAV-) based remote sensing utilizing lightweight multispectral and thermal infrared sensors allow for rapid wide-area landmine contamination detection and mapping surveys. We present results of a study focused
Jasper Baur +4 more
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IP and the Global Public Interest: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt from article] Intellectual property (IP) capacity is essential for economic development, particularly as countries transition into the higher technology sectors, for example biotechnology.
Cavicchi, Jon R., Kowalski, Stanley P.
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