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Autonomous weapon systems and international humanitarian law: a reply to the critics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In November 2012, Human Rights Watch, in collaboration with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, released Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots.[2] Human Rights Watch is among the most sophisticated of human rights ...
Schmitt, Michael
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Disentangling geography teacher educators' collective spaces of agency

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Societal trends such as increased accountability, teacher shortages, and flexibility in learning paths affect the work of teacher educators. This study explores the collective agency of Dutch geography teacher educators as they enact the subject pedagogy curriculum within this rapidly changing context.
Eefje Smit   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Corps of Guides, 1903–1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Canadian Corps of Guides was created in April 1903 by General Order 61, and fell under the purview of the Intelligence Department at Militia Headquarters in Ottawa. However, as the Guides were a service of the Active Militia, and not of the Permanent
Jenkins, Dan
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Exploring Outpatient Psychotherapists' Knowledge, Confidence, and Training on Eating Disorders and Muscle Dysmorphia Among Boys and Men

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to assess outpatient psychotherapists' knowledge, confidence, training experiences, training needs, and practice experiences in treating boys and men with eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia. Methods Participants were 259 licensed outpatient psychotherapists in Canada or the United States who completed an online ...
Kyle T. Ganson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fish Scales: A Multifunctional Biomaterial from Nature

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fish scales demonstrate nature's solution to impact protection through overlapping multilayered architecture. This biological design combines mineralized surfaces with collagen networks to achieve both flexibility and fracture resistance. The structural principles inspire advanced protective materials and biomedical implants, where damage tolerance ...
Liyao Dong, Xiaojie Sun, Xiguang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance: The Role of the Narrative‐Policy Nexus in the Brazilian Amazon

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
wiley   +1 more source

The Command and Control of Canadian and American Maritime Air Power in the Northwest Atlantic, 1941-1943 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Operational, organizational, doctrinal, and cultural differences hampered effective command and control of Canadian and American maritime air power defending shipping against U-boats off the east coast during the Second World War.
Goette, Richard
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“Passive” Scalecraft as a State Strategy in Post‐Authoritarian Environmental Governance: A Case From South Korea

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs a scalar politics framework to unpack how participatory rhetoric operates statecraft in a post‐authoritarian context, thereby illuminating hybrid‐regime behavior along a continuum of environmental governance. An examination of the environmental governance of an ecotourism project in South Korea is performed using ...
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper tests whether the behavior of corrupt officials is consistent with standard industrial organization theory. We designed a study in which surveyors accompanied truck drivers on 304 trips along their regular routes in two Indonesian provinces ...
Benjamin A. Olken, Patrick Barron
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Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war‐related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed.
Islam Borinca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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