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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen, Kiira Parikka, Herman Stål, Teemu Vaarakallio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous integrated dataset for Maritime Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

Data in Brief, 2019
Facing an ever-increasing amount of traffic at sea, many research centres, international organisations, and industrials have favoured and developed sensors together with detection techniques for the monitoring, analysis, and visualisation of sea ...
Cyril Ray, Richard Dréo, Elena Camossi, Anne-Laure Jousselme, Clément Iphar   +4 more
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining the Indirect Approach, Defining Special Operations Forces (SOF) Power, and the Global Networking of SOF

Journal of Strategic Security, 2014
The current Defense Strategy assigns Special Operations Forces (SOF) to play a central role in countering terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and irregular warfare.
Scott Morrison
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MSIAC – Supporting the Munitions Safety Community [PDF]

Problemy Mechatroniki, 2016
The NATO Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center (MSIAC) is a multinational collaboration that collects, stores, and analyses technical information related to Munitions Safety (MS) and Insensitive Munitions (IM).
Ernest L. BAKER
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Design of photonic crystal fibers with flat dispersion and three zero dispersion wavelengths for coherent supercontinuum generation in both normal and anomalous regions

Results in Physics, 2021
A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structure with three-zero dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs) and a flat dispersion curve was designed by adjusting the structural parameters (the diameters of small air holes inserted between standard lattices in the first and ...
Ying Huang, Hua Yang, Saili Zhao, Yucheng Mao, Shuyuan Chen   +4 more
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Accelerating Mission Engineering: Evidence of a Stratified Landscape and a Path Toward Unified Practice

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mission Engineering is maturing as a Systems Engineering discipline, yet adoption of its common frameworks remains stratified. This study examines whether selective adoption is observable across ME scholarship and develops a framework to address identified barriers.
James Moreland, Nathaniel Ambler, Casey LaMar, Maegen Nix, Craig Sawyer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transdisciplinarity in Serious Gaming Design for Improved Crisis Preparedness

International Journal of Serious Games
Transdisciplinarity is identified as an important paradigm to cope with the complexity of societal problems, such as public health crisis and climate change.
Francesca de Rosa, Mark Escott, Desmar Walkes, Douglas Havron, Lauren Ancel Meyers   +4 more
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Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts Typical motivations causing the destruction

Obrana a strategie, 2018
Even though the issue of protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict has been stressing during last years in the matter of frequency and significancy, the substantive debate related to values of cultural property and motivations of ...
Eva Pelikánová
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Laboratory Setback Activators and Explosive Suitability for Gun Launch [PDF]

Problemy Mechatroniki, 2019
There is currently no agreed standard methodology for assessing the suitability of explosives for gun launch or for the determination of acceptance criteria for explosive fill defects.
Ernest BAKER
doaj   +1 more source