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Colour-Coded Manuscript Maps in the Military Enlightenment
Manuscript military maps operated according to a specific colour code, reinforced by reformed military academies in the eighteenth century. They attest to the specific map-mindedness of the British military enlightenment. Student notebooks and manuscript
Bénédicte Miyamoto
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Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility: Military Work and Peacebuilding [PDF]
The paper considers a number of important questions related to the involvement of engineers in peacebuilding and military work, including the preference of many countries for high tech weapons based security over peacebuilding, whether and in what ...
Hersh, Marion
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Le Génie militaire au Cameroun
Since 2010, Cameroon has been facing an unstable political and military situation: within its borders, social protests persist; outside its borders, the army has been fighting against the Boko Haram terrorist organization.
Axel Augé, Christel Dior Tamegui
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Calculation of bottom sediment discharge in trapezoidal channels [PDF]
The article shows the advantages of the Van-Rijn method from the analysis of existing calculation methods for determining the sediment discharge. Based on the results of laboratory studies and the Van-Rijn dependence, dependence was obtained to determine
Latipov Shakhboz +5 more
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Developments and challenges in human performance enhancement technology
As emerging technologies have advanced, some countries have issued reports on human performance enhancement efforts in recent years. Human performance enhancement is a prominent theme in the military field. As a type of potentially disruptive technology,
Shuyu Shao, Jintao Wu, Qianxiang Zhou
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This paper analyzes the cartographic production of military engineers in Portugal and Brazul during the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. It explores the first terrestrial charts elaborated in the “Relaciones Topográficas de Castilla y Geográficas de ...
Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno
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Les pratiques mathématiques dans l’évolution de la topographie militaire française, 1744-1791
Since the 1740s, French military engineers had to improve their skills in theoretical mathematics, to respond to the new requirements of cartography and war.
Grégoire Binois, Valeria Pansini
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The sinews of war: ancient catapults [PDF]
Although they were probably already used in ancient Mesopotamia, catapults became increasingly common in the Mediterranean area from the 4th century B.C.
Cuomo, Serafina
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Clay-kickers of Flanders Fields: Canadian Tunnellers at Messines Ridge 1916-1917 [PDF]
This article explores the Canadian tunnelling companies’ military mining organisation and accomplishments in underground galleries during the Great War.
Pascas, Brian
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Trait emotional intelligence profiles of professionals in Kuwait
Trait emotional intelligence concerns people’s perceptions of their emotional world. Our aims for this study are to examine (a) the trait emotional intelligence (EI) profiles across different professions in Kuwait; (b) the incremental validity of trait ...
Nasser N. Hasan +5 more
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