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Black Hawk Down and the Silences of Ridley’s Scott’s Realism [PDF]
, 2004 A telling moment occurs in the film Black Hawk Down (Bruckheimer & Scott, 2001) when the reliable Shawn Nelson is literally struck deaf by the gunfire of his partner. Nelson can no longer hear his fellow American soldiers, their gunfire, or the screams
Nellis, Robert
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ViZDoom Competitions: Playing Doom from Pixels
, 2018 This paper presents the first two editions of Visual Doom AI Competition, held in 2016 and 2017. The challenge was to create bots that compete in a multi-player deathmatch in a first-person shooter (FPS) game, Doom.
Jaśkowski, Wojciech +2 more
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Modern Warfare: Is the Evolution of Weaponry Worth the Cost? [PDF]
, 2012 War is a creation of mankind that has evolved along with human civilization, leaving a bloody trail in its wake. As there are those in our world who strive to improve peacetime society, there are also those who push the limits of weaponry and ...
DeCastro, Nicholas
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Is force ever justified in preventing a State from acquiring nuclear weapons? [PDF]
In order to provide a grounded argument, the present paper asks the following questions. Why do States acquire nuclear weapons? Why do finally States tend to prevent this acquisition? What does the use of force imply?
Dobra, Alexandra
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Does a Cadillac engine need a biological and phylogenetic explanation? [PDF]
, 2016 In this text we briefly explore whether ridiculing material objects like a ‘Cadillac engine’, a ‘desk’, ‘gold bars in a vault’ as reduction ad absurdum in ‘dialectical duels’ or as a metaphor for teaching evolution is really phylogenetically justified,
Fröbisch, Jörg, Romano, Marco
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Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance
, 2011 We focus on preventing collisions between debris and debris, for which there is no current, effective mitigation strategy. We investigate the feasibility of using a medium-powered (5 kW) ground-based laser combined with a ground-based telescope to ...
Anselmo +22 more
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Historical development of worldwide guided missiles [PDF]
The development of missiles from early history to present time is put in perspective. The influence of World War II in accelerating the development of guided missiles, particularly through German scientists, is discussed.
Spearman, M. L.
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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume IV, Issue 1 [PDF]
, 1999 This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Cavan, Susan +9 more
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Capable companies or changing markets? Explaining the export performance of firms in the defence industry [PDF]
The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level ...
Castellacci, Fulvio, Fevolden, Arne
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Analysis of carbon nano particle variant as the propellant fuel to increase specific impulses of rockets. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2023 Navalino R, Muda N, Hafizah M, Ruyat Y.
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