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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif, Fayaz Muhammad, Matthew Light, Hina Fazal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap: Canadian Engineer Operations at Canal du Nord–Bourlon Wood, 1918 [PDF]

, 2019
During the last hundred days of the Great War, the Allied armies swept eastward past the Hindenburg Line with hammer-blow offensive warfare. Performing their work under intense machine gun and shell fire, engineers erected bridges and constructed roads ...
Pascas, Brian
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Research on Adaptive H Control of Tank Gun Control System Based on Wavelet Neural Network Identification

DEStech Transactions on Engineering and Technology Research, 2017
Focusing on the unknown plant model, an adaptive wavelet neural network (WNN) identification robust control scheme of tank gun control system was proposed. According to input and output data, the unknown tank gun control system model parts were reconstructed using wavelet neural network (WNN). The parameters of online adaptive regulating law and output
Hong-Yan Wang, Yang-Xia XIANG
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Acknowledging the past in the post‐truth era: Witch‐hunts, lawfare and the veterans’ amnesty in Northern Ireland

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
wiley   +1 more source

Love him for the enemies he has made: Signaling by inflammatory pro‐gun rhetoric

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract American politics is rife with messages designed to anger one's political enemies. In this paper, we propose and test a model suggesting that such inflammatory messages are effective because they signal that the messenger is unwilling to compromise with the groups they have offended.
Sosuke Okada, Nicholas Buttrick
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive robust control of tank gun pitching stabilization system considering uncertainty

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Abstract Aiming at the complex nonlinearity, uncertainty and coupling of the tank gun pitching stabilization system, an adaptive robust control strategy for the tank gun pitching stabilization system is proposed by combining adaptive control and deterministic robust control.
Ruohan Zhou, Jianyong Yao, Wenxiang Deng, Shusen Yuan   +3 more
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The role of substrate materials for the survival and growth of coral micro‐fragment sheets

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Biofouling can have a negative impact on the survival and growth of corals in aquaculture. For coral aquaculture to support reef restoration, there needs to be a cost‐effective and efficient method that reduces the reliance on labor for coral maintenance.
Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab, Sophie Ferguson, Breiana Whitehead, Jenny Fong, Pirjo Haikola, Andrea Severati, Elsa Antunes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

No Shortage of Tanks!: The Canadian Army’s System for the Recovery, Repair and Replacement of A and B Vehicles and Major Weapons Systems [PDF]

, 2018
This article is an overview of the First Canadian Army in North West Europe’s ability to recover, repair and damaged, destroyed and broken down vehicles and weapons systems.
Gullachsen, Arthur
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Fighting in a warming world: The emergence of climatic considerations in the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to assess the extent to which climatic considerations may be integrated into international humanitarian law (IHL). With evidence of significant greenhouse gas emissions from military actions in conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, the article highlights the climate impacts of armed conflict, showing how military activities ...
Mario Pasquale Amoroso
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
wiley   +1 more source