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Governmental Combat of Migration Between Competing Terrorist Organisations

open access: yesOperations Research and Decisions, 2020
Each terrorist organisation is modelled with four coupled differential time equations for the evolution of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, captive participants, and capital sponsoring.
Kjell Hausken
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The Activity of Mercenaries in the State of Mali – a Negative Factor on Regional and International Security

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2022
The activity of mercenaries is an illegal act that most states of the world have known with regret. In recent times, military clashes on the continent of Africa have not been an exception in the sense of not knowing what they represent and how ...
Igor Soroceanu
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Hand Firearms in 15th-Century Poland. Why Did the Breakthrough Happen?

open access: yesFasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2021
The first mention of the use of artillery in Poland comes from 1383. Information on hand firearms is slightly later. In 1410, the use of one handbuchse by municipal guards in Kraków was recorded.
Tadeusz Grabarczyk
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Presence and Role of Mercenaries on The Battlefield, Including the Participation of Moldovan Mercenaries in the War in Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
SOROCEANU, Igor. Presence and Role of Mercenaries on The Battlefield, Including the Participation of Moldovan Mercenaries in the War in Ukraine. European Journal of Regional Studies. December 2022, vol. 8, issue 2, pp. 144-157.
Soroceanu, Igor
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Bistrița în apărarea Belgradului. Cheltuielile orașului pentru luptele împotriva turcilor (sec. XVI) [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Bistriţei
Since the early days of their settlement in Transylvania, the Saxons have played an important role in defending the southeastern and northwestern borders of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Dr. Maria FRÎNC
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mercenaries: strong norm, weak law

open access: yes, 2007
In this article I examine how a weak international law can be created despite the presence of a strong norm, and I use weak law to probe the relationship between social and legal norms.
Percy, Sarah V.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Delineating gender/sex‐related studies through bibliometric analysis

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The multidisciplinary and socially grounded nature of Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies poses unique challenges for bibliometric analysis, as it extends beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) We propose a novel retrieval method for constructing a corpus of scholarly documents in research areas ...
Natsumi S. Shokida   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

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