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Czech Republic and Military Operations Abroad

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2010
Czech Republic started deploying its soldiers abroad shortly after the fall of communism. However, there are still questions which need to be answered: What were the main motives for sending out these operations? Did they change in time?
Tomáš Karásek
doaj  

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Sociocultural Factors of Dense Urban Spaces

open access: yesUrban Science, 2017
Coming to terms with the complexity of dense urban areas represents one of the major challenges people, organizations and governments will face in the next few decades.
Richard L. Wolfel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aerial Search Optimization Model (ASOM) for UAVs in Special Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Military Operations Research, V. 13, No. 1, pp 23-33..We construct an optimization model that assists commanders, operators and planners to effectively deploy and employ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in special operations missions.
Royset, Johannes O.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

David A. Schrady Interview (MORS) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Interviewer: Sheldon, Robert. Interview location: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Military Operations Research, V16 N1 2011, The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.5711 ...
Schrady, David A.
core   +2 more sources

Law and military operations in East Timor (UNTAET) February 2000 to May 2002 : lessons learnt for legal officers

open access: yes, 2005
Asia Pacific Center for Military Law (APCML) is a collaboration between Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne) & the Military Law Centre (Australian Defence Force)Australian Military ForcesThis publication is the second in the series covering the
Australian Defence Force. Military Law Centre
core  

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Oral History Project Interview of Dr. Susan M. Sanchez

open access: yes
Interviewers: W. David Kelton, Ms. Tammy McNeley, and Dr. Bob SheldonDr. Susan M. Sanchez is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Operations Research (OR) Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). She joined the OR Department at NPS in 2000.
Sanchez, Susan M.
core   +2 more sources

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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