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Culturally Imbued Trees: Physical and Metaphysical Connections
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’.
Ken Mulvaney, David Cooper
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Real-Time Weapon Detection Using YOLOv8 for Enhanced Safety [PDF]
arXivThis research paper presents the development of an AI model utilizing YOLOv8 for real-time weapon detection, aimed at enhancing safety in public spaces such as schools, airports, and public transportation systems. As incidents of violence continue to rise globally, there is an urgent need for effective surveillance technologies that can quickly ...
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper outlines preliminary results from our multimethod research about Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) and associated bark and wooden material culture in Yagara Country in southeast Queensland. Methods employed include historical source and modern database analysis, archaeological field surveys, semi‐structured interviews with Yagara ...
Kate Greenwood +3 more
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One-vs-one Threat-Aware Weaponeering with Basic Engagement Zones [PDF]
arXivIn this paper we address the problem of 'weaponeering', i.e., placing the weapon engagement zone (WEZ) of a vehicle on a moving target, while simultaneously avoiding the target's WEZ. A WEZ describes the lethality region of a range-limited weapon considering both the range of the weapon along with the state of the target.
arxiv
A Global "No" to a Nuclear-Armed Iran [PDF]
, 2012 Presents survey findings from twenty-one countries about views on Iran's nuclear weapons program, economic sanctions, military action, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as trends in favorability ...
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Living Weapons: Biological Weapons and International Security
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 In the summer of 1996, as a (much younger) Army infectious disease physician, I headed off to a new assignment with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. It was a heady time to be entering the niche field of biodefense.
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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past 10 years, nanotechnology has emerged as a very promising technique for a wide range of biomedical applications. Green synthesized metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) are cheap, easy to produce in large quantities, and safe for the environment.
Kaan Şendal +6 more
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