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How is rape a weapon of war?: feminist international relations, modes of critical explanation and the study of wartime sexual violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Rape is a weapon of war. Establishing this now common claim has been an achievement of feminist scholarship and activism and reveals wartime sexual violence as a social act marked by gendered power. But the consensus that rape is a weapon of war obscures
Bjørnlund M   +30 more
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Cold plasma-treated ringer’s saline: a weapon to target osteosarcoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the main primary bone cancer, presenting poor prognosis and difficult treatment. An innovative therapy may be found in cold plasmas, which show anti-cancer effects related to the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in ...
Brulin, Bénédicte   +6 more
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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials

open access: yes, 2013
Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to ...
Katz, J. I.
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Calculation of Favorable Advance Angle Based on Maximum Entropy Distribution under Uncertain Homing Range

open access: yes水下无人系统学报
In order to solve the favorable advance angle in the case of an uncertain homing range of torpedoes, the influence of homing range on torpedo firing was first analyzed.
Zhen DAI   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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ADF‐Net: Attention‐guided deep feature decomposition network for infrared and visible image fusion

open access: yesIET Image Processing
To effectively enhance the ability to acquire information by making full use of the complementary features of infrared and visible images, the widely used image fusion algorithm is faced with challenges such as information loss and image blurring.
Sen Shen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A pilot study examining garment severance damage caused by a trained sharp-weapon user [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The pilot study summarized in this paper aimed to raise awareness of a gap that exists in the forensic textile science literature about damage caused to clothing by trained sharp-weapon users.
Carr, D. J.   +4 more
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Epic Repertoire of Jangarchi Teltya Lidzhiev: The Motif of Heroic Duel

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
In the epic repertoire of the famous jangarchi Teltya Lidzhiev (1906–1970) who belonged to the epic school of the rhapsodist Eelyan Ovla, the motif of heroic duel is a plot-forming one. Goals.
Bayrta B. Mandzhieva
doaj   +1 more source

Armament and Society in the Mirror of the Avar Archaelogy The Transdanubia-Phenomenon Revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
One of the most significant problems of the A var archaeology is the question of Germanic (mainly Gepidic) continuity in Transdanubia. In my paper I would like to make some comments on the so-called Transdanubia-phenomenon of the Early A var ...
Csiky, Gergely
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Do fencers require a weapon-specific approach to strength and conditioning training? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
There are three types of weapon used in Olympic fencing: the foil, épée and sabre. The aim of this study was to determine if fencers exhibited different physical characteristics across weapons.
Bishop, Chris   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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