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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, Subasi, M, Kayikci, C, Young, DB   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

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, Gibson, John, Helmers, Kent, Lim, Steven, Tressler, John, Vaddanak, Kien   +5 more
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Debate: Young people are living in unprecedented times – too much chaos or too little resilience? Protecting young people in perilous times calls for bolstering multisystem resilience as well as mitigating risk

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
openaire   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Primordial Cause of Armament, Disarmament, Weaponry and Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Studies Journal, 2022
The entirety of humanity has been confronted with a serious threat to security, especially since after the cold war. To this fact, the concept of conflict and peace situate themselves in the heart of the contemporary man.
Effiong Ekpo
doaj  

Random Subsampling and Data Preconditioning for Ground Penetrating Radars

IEEE Access, 2018
Ground penetrating radars (GPRs) for mine detection can profit from the many advantages that compressed sensing can offer through random subsampling in terms of hardware simplification, reduced data volume and measurement time, or imagery simplification.
Edison Cristofani, Mathias Becquaert, Sebastien Lambot, Marijke Vandewal, Johan H. Stiens, Nikos Deligiannis   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

High Intrahepatic cccDNA in Resolved HBV Infection: Insights From Living Donor Liver Transplantation With Anti‐HBc‐Positive Grafts

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, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Akihiko Ichida, Yujiro Nishioka, Yoshinori Inagaki, Nozomi Miyake, Takeshi Takamoto, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Sumihito Tamura, Junichi Arita, Junichi Kaneko, Motoyuki Otsuka, Yasuhito Tanaka, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Kyoji Moriya, Kiyoshi Hasegawa   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Warfare During the Russian-Ukrainian War and International Humanitarian Law

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica
The Russo-Ukrainian War is one of the largest – and probably the most intensive – conflicts of the last several decades. Fought between large, regular, and well-equipped forces of two sides, it naturally provides an extremely wide scope of materials for ...
Krzysztof Kaźmierczak
doaj   +1 more source