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An Efficient Marginal-Return-Based Constructive Heuristic to Solve the Sensor–Weapon–Target Assignment Problem

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2019
In network-centric warfare, the interconnections among various combat resources enable an advanced operational pattern of cooperative engagement. The operational effectiveness and outcome strongly depends on the reasonable utilization of available ...
Bin Xin, Yipeng Wang, Jie Chen
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Tularemia as a biological weapon: medical and public health management.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2001
OBJECTIVE The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense has developed consensus-based recommendations for measures to be taken by medical and public health professionals if tularemia is used as a biological weapon against a civilian population ...
D. Dennis, T. Inglesby, D. Henderson, J. Bartlett, M. Ascher, E. Eitzen, Anne D. Fine, A. Friedlander, J. Hauer, Marcelle Layton, S. Lillibridge, Joseph E. McDade, M. Osterholm, T. O'Toole, Gerald W. Parker, T. Perl, Philip K. Russell, K. Tonat   +17 more
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The Weapons Effect

JAMA Pediatrics, 2013
On December 14, 2012, after shooting his mother, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In the wake of the Newtown shootings, there has been considerable discussion about gun violence.
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Rays as weapons

European Journal of Radiology, 2007
Ionizing radiation is being regarded as life threatening. Therefore, accidents in nuclear power plants are considered equal threatening as nuclear bomb explosions, and attacks with dirty bombs are thought as dangerous as nuclear weapon explosions. However, there are differences between a nuclear bomb explosion, the largest imaginable accident in a ...
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Weapons, Weapons Research and the Case Against Weapons Research

2012
This book is about weapons research (hereafter and throughout WR), and so we need to know what it is. To that end we also need to know what a weapon is, so I begin with some general remarks about weapons and about how we might define and characterise them. Here I also comment briefly on the history of weapons development.
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The Virtual Weapon and International Order

, 2017
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time.
Lucas Kello
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Weapons in waiting

Science, 2018
The 2002 Moscow theater raid marked the debut of a new chemical weapon: fentanyl derivatives.
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Choice of weapon or weapon of choice? Examining the interactions between victim characteristics in single-victim male sexual homicide offenders

, 2016
As most studies report that the majority of sexual homicide offenders (SHOs) prefer to kill with their own hands, research has largely neglected to examine the choice of weapon by these offenders.
H. Chan, Eric Beauregard
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When is a Chemical Weapon Not a Chemical Weapon?

The Journal of Criminal Law, 2017
This article seeks to highlight the difficulties encountered in the interpretation of the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons in the Chemical Weapons Act 1996. In particular, the application of ‘the act’ against individuals in the domestic criminal courts as opposed to larger entities and nation states.
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High-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1): nuclear weapon in the immune arsenal

Nature reviews. Immunology, 2005
M. Lotze, K. Tracey
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