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The Deadliest Weapon

Scientific American, 2017
The article discusses the results of a study by Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Washington that found that guns were four times deadlier on a per-terrorist attack basis than explosives and other methods in high-income countries.
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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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Weaponized Bodies

2023
This chapter analyzes the author's dramatic story of pitching an article investigating the media coverage and complex politics of a highly publicized legal case in Michigan against a physician for performing female genital cutting (FGC). The case coincided with the introduction of new national programs directed at women immigrants that involved ...
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Food as a Weapon, Weapons as Aid

Rossiya v globalnoi politike, 2023
Weapon supplies have become fully legitimate as a form of assistance. The right to self-defense is, in fact, recognized as a basic need. Therefore, the need for weapons is equated with the need for humanitarian aid.
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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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Insulin as a weapon

Toxicon, 2016
The discovery of insulin and its use for the treatment of diabetes is undoubtedly one of the true successes of modern medicine. Injectable insulin would prove the first effective treatment for a previously incurable and usually fatal disease. Soon after however, the powerful effects of insulin overdose would be reported, and subsequently exploited for ...
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Weaponized Scrum

2009 Agile Conference, 2009
Scrum provides a framework for managing agile development projects. It encourages transparency at all times, which helps reinforce the cycle of trust that must exist between development teams, management and the customer. Over the course of two years, our team had used Scrum to successfully deliver three revisions of our product with a degree of ...
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Weaponization OFAI

2019 International Conference on contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I), 2019
It is the science and designing of Artificial knowledge including two fundamental thoughts. Also AI majorly signifies "Computerized reasoning”.It is the study of computerizing insightful conduct which could be achieved by individuals. AI secures information, handles information utilized by the administrator, and control of remote gadgets that are the ...
Archana Singh, Malvika Goyal
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WEAPONS OF SEX, WEAPONS OF WAR

Cultural Studies, 2013
Recent international attention has focused on designations of rape and sexual violence in conflict zones. The most formative debates on this issue centre on the 1990s-era conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which also involved heated debates amongst feminists over designations of rape as genocide.
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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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