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Weapons Marking And Registration In Bosnia And Herzegovina: A Model For A Regional Approach To Salw Life-Cycle Management In The Western Balkans, Mike Newton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the Western Balkans and their diversion from state-owned stockpiles is a driver of armed violence. The HALO Trust has been working in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2017 in support of the Franco-German Initiative for the Western Balkans. By collaborating with the Bosnian armed forces, the European Force in Bosnia and the UK-based marking company, Pryor Marking, HALO has found a sustainable and cost-effective solution to the problem of illicit SALW in the Western Balkans.

Landmines In America's Backyard, Ken Rutherford Ph.D.

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Few realize the world’s first widespread deployment of landmines took place during the American Civil War (1860–1865). At the start of the war, the disparity in military manpower, materiel, and weaponry between the North and South was significant. The gap widened in the Union’s favor as the war progressed, forcing the Confederate war industry to innovate and improvise. As the conflict progressed, landmine warfare advanced commensurately, and both tactics and technology evolved to include innovative types of design and deployment. During the war’s later years, Confederate soldiers used both command-detonated and victim-activated landmines more frequently to defend and to protect …

Proof: How Small Drones Can Find Buried Landmines In The Desert Using Airborne Ir Thermography, John Fardoulis, Xavier Depreytere, Pierre Gallien, Kheria Djouhri, Ba Abdourhmane, Emmanuel Sauvage

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Hypotheses and speculation have circulated for at least three decades regarding how IR thermography could be viable as a technique for locating buried landmines in arid environments. However, there has been a lack of proof under actual field conditions. Addressing many overall questions regarding small drones in HMA, the Odyssey2025 Project—led by HI and Mobility Robotics— closely collaborated with the national mine action center in Chad, the Haut Commissariat National au Déminage (HCND), to complete activities and objectives. As part of a holistic approach, the primary objective was to determine how small drones could add value in HMA field operations …

24.2 Endnotes, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

No abstract provided.

Taxing Local Energy Externalities, Hannah J. Wiseman

Notre Dame Law Review

There is a fundamental problem of scale in the governance of industrial development. For some of the fastest-growing U.S. industries, the negative impacts of development fall primarily at the local level, and the benefits tend to accrue more broadly to states and the federal government. These governments accordingly have inadequate incentives to address the very localized negative externalities of development. Yet states also increasingly preempt most local control over some forms of development. This creates a regulatory void, in which state and federal regulations are inadequate, and local governments lack the power to use traditional Pigouvian tools such as regulation, …

Law Enforcement’S Use Of Facial Recognition Software In United States Cities, Samantha Jean Wunschel

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Facial recognition software is something we use every day, whether it’s a suggested tag on our Facebook post or a faster way to unlock our phones. As technology becomes increasingly pervasive in our lives, law enforcement has adapted to utilize the new tools available in accessory to their investigations and the legal process.

International Mine Action Standard 10.60 Safety & Occupational Health - Investigation And Reporting Of Accidents And Incidents: Notes On The Revised Second Edition, Roly Evans

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In 2019, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) received permission from the International Mine Action Standard (IMAS) Review Board (RB) to update IMAS 10.60, Safety & occupational health – Investigation and reporting of accidents and incidents. The first edition of the document, originally drafted in October 2001, was last amended in June 2013. The second edition was published in 2020. This article covers some of the key improvements made in the second edition, such as a new emphasis on evidence, a simplified reporting sequence, the introduction of causal analysis, revised independence of investigation levels, introduction of near miss …

Sanact Inc V. Us Pipelining Llc

2020 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Workshops @ Your Library - Spring 2021, Thomas La Foe

Workshops

No abstract provided.

General Education Subcommittee Minutes, December 15, 2020, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Course Approvals/Removals/Syllabi Approvals
• Gen Ed Task Force Updates
• Composition Outcomes
• Course Fee Approval Timeline

Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation, 7th Edition (2020) Vs. 2018 International Energy Conservation Code Residential Stringency Analysis, Florida Solar Energy Center, Jeffrey Sonne

FSEC Energy Research Center®

This report summarizes the review and evaluation activities carried out to make a determination whether the residential provisions of the 7th Edition (2020) Florida Building Code, Energy Conservation meet or exceed those of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) code.

Adiabatic Logic-In-Memory Architecture, Himanshu Thapliyal, S. Dinesh Kumar

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Patents

An adiabatic logic-in-memory based complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor/magnetic-tunnel-junction (ALiM CMOS/MTJ) circuit utilizes an adiabatic logic based pre- charged sense amplifier (PCSA) to recover energy from its output load capacitors. The ALiM CMOS/MTJ includes a non-volatile magnetic-tunnel-junction (MTJ) based memory. The ALiM CMOS/MTJ also includes a dual rail complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic that performs logic operations in association with the MTJ, and thereby generates logic outputs based on logic inputs. The ALiM CMOS/MTJ also includes the adiabatic PCSA, which is operatively coupled to the dual rail CMOS logic. The adiabatic logic based PCSA includes PCSA circuitry for which an input is a …

Applicability Of Sustainable Construction In Nigeria Infrastructure Projects-Empirical Study Of The Six Geopolitical Zones, Chinedu Adindu, Adamu Musa, Uchenna Nwajagu, Saheed Yusuf, Susan Yisa

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Despite the socio-economic importance of the Built Environment (BE) industry; its resources and products regrettably impact the host environment negatively, necessitating a departure from traditional to Sustainable Construction (SC) methods. Lack of SC awareness has been identified by several researchers as a major impediment to its adoption in Nigeria. This study, therefore, assessed the level of SC awareness, examined the sources of SC knowledge, and determined ways of improving SC applicability in Nigeria. The descriptive survey research methodology was used and a structured questionnaire administered purposively to 171 BE professionals, with 133 valid responses, hence a 78% success rate. The …

Water Quality Modelling To Predict Bod And Tp Loads Of Duriangkang Dam, Calvin Wimordi, Doddi Yudianto, Guan Yiqing

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Water quality modeling is highly needed to predict and to identify the water quality alteration and distribution along the water body. Besides that, water quality modeling also can be used to predict the pollutant load if there is no data recording. The water quality analysis simulation program (WASP), will be used in this study to forecast domestic load, in particular BOD and TP loads in Duriangkang Dam. Initially, the estimated load is obtained based on the previous study that being extended by using a linear regression line. After that, the estimated load is calibrated according to the results of the …

Accelerating Infrastructure Development In Post-Pandemic Era, Mohammed Ali Berawi, Perdana Miraj, Mustika Sari

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

COVID-19 outbreak has contributed a negative effect on the infrastructure sector worldwide. Infrastructure projects need to shut down and put on hold for an unspecified time, as this sector required a high number of workers prone to the virus transmissions. However, the degree of slowdown between countries varies and depends on the severity of pandemic and lockdown conditions. Many countries are having a slowdown in economic growth. This condition has greatly affected the supply and demand sides, making it difficult to predict recovery timelines of on-going and future project development. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments worldwide launched …

Value Capture Instruments As An Infrastructure Project Financing Alternative For Rail-Based Mass Transportation: Qualitative Study From The Government Perspective, Ario Bintang Koesalamwardi, Susy Fatena Rostiyanti, Ravli Thaufiq Reksapernata

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Increasing the mobility of the working class in urban areas will increase their productivity, which in turn will increase the economic output of the region. This can be achieved by providing a means of mass transportation infrastructure that is fast, affordable, and efficient i.e. rail-based mass transportation. However, the Ministry of National Development Planning estimated there is an infrastructure-funding gap of 4,321 trillion rupiahs to achieve Indonesia's development targets. Inviting the private sector to participate in infrastructure development investment in Land Value Capture (LVC) scheme becomes one of the solutions that need to be studied further. LVC is considered a …

Twenty Years Of Business Information Literacy Research: A Scoping Review, Meggan Houlihan, Amanda Click, Claire Walker Wiley

Library Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Agency, Atonement, And Psychological Theories Of Change: A Latter-Day Saint Christian Perspective, Richard N. Williams, Edwin E. Gantt

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

This paper interrogates the relationship of the hard determinism inherent in the theories and models currently on offer in mainstream psychology and the current trends in psychotherapeutic approaches. It foregrounds the seeming contradiction between the emphasis placed on mastering and incorporating discipline-specific knowledge – which clearly assumes scientism and hard determinism – and the emphasis placed on practitioners to develop a coherent theory of change as part of their approach to effective clinical practice. We argue that hard determinism and strategies for facilitating genuine therapeutic change and transformation are incompatible where there is no clear, coherent view of human beings …

Breaking The Matrix: Transcribing Bartók And Ligeti For The Guitar Using A New Capo System, Katalin Koltai

Soundboard Scholar

This paper demonstrates new transcriptions for the guitar of four piano pieces from the twentieth century: “The Night’s Music” from Bartók’s suite Out of Doors and Ligeti’s Musica ricercata, nos. 1, 2, and 7. The transcriptions deploy various newly invented single- and double-string magnet capos: I describe their design and, drawing on the work of De Souza, explain how their use transforms the affordances of the fretboard. In combination with scordaturas, the capos can be used to generate a series of radically altered open-string sets. Turning to the transcriptions of Bartók and Ligeti: by observing the pitch centers within …

Timbre-Based Composition For The Guitar: A Non-Guitarist’S Approach To Mapping And Notation, Jason Noble, Steve Cowan

Soundboard Scholar

Composing for the guitar can be intimidating for non-guitarists, but their fresh perspectives can uncover new ways of thinking about music for the instrument. This paper discusses timbre-based composition, an approach to writing for guitar that may be more intuitive for non-guitarist composers than traditional polyphonic composition. The rich palette of timbres available on the guitar, including pitched and nonpitched sounds, is conceived as primary compositional material. Issues of notation and mapping are addressed, focusing on three categories of mappings: (i) physical mapping from notational symbols onto physical objects, such as parts of the guitar; (ii) analogical mapping from …

An Experimental Investigation Into The Effect Of Treatment Temperature On The Grain Size Of Low Carbon And Microalloyed Steels., Ahmed Said, Alaa El-Din El-Hammady

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The microstructure of material plays a significant role in its mechanical properties. The influence of grain size on mechanical properties is complex since grain boundaries may either act as obstacles to dislocation motion (strengthening effect) or provide a positive contribution of deformation of the material (softening effect). A series of heat treatment and quenching tests of extra-low carbon, low carbon steels and Nb-V microalloyed steels are conducted. The grain growth behaviour at different high temperatures is investigated. An empirical relation of grain growth behavior has been used to predict the austenitic grain size of the used materials which are subjected …

Kinematics Analysis Of A Parallel Robot With 3 Dof And 4 Segments In Pure Translation., A. Cherfia, A. Zaatri, M. Giordano

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper we present the direct and inverse analysis of a geometrical model of an UPS manipulator with three degrees of freedom added to a PPP passive central segment. This structure provides a pure translation motion. We will also determine the relations between generalized and articular velocities by using the inverse Jacobian matrix, Further, we determine the reciprocal relations between cartesian and angular velocities of the end effector via articular velocities by direct re-inversion of the Jacobian matrix. This study aims of implementing the control of a parallel robot manipulator. A prototype of a parallel robot has been built …

Nonlinear Interactive Analysis Of Concrete Piled-Raft., A. Bayoumy, Wahid Ali, Mahmoud El-Meligy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The piled raft foundation has shown growing applicability in the last two decades as an economic foundation type, where the structural loads are carried partly by the piles and partly by the contact stresses under the raft. The ratio of the load carried by piles to that carried directly by the contact stresses under the raft depends on many factors. Among these factors are the relative rigidity of the raft, the shear strength of the soil under the raft, the shear strength of the soil at the piles tin, the frictional stresses along the piles, and the piles settlement. The …

Matlab Simulation Of Three-Phase Scr Controller For Three Phase Induction Motor., Ali El-Tamaly, A. Alolah, R. Hamouda

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Thyristors are now widely used in many power electronics and motors drives applications. This is due to their several advantages such as relatively small size, low losses, market availability, and low cost, In this paper, a stator Voltage control of three-phase induction motor by using thyristors is analyze and simulated in details. The stator voltage has been controlled by phase angle control of three-phase supply. The effect of harmonic distortion in the time voltage and current have been studied and shunt. The study reveals that, This method is suitable for applications requiring a low turque and low speeds. The power …

Lossless Image Compression Using Wavelet And Vector Quantization., M. Helal, Sabry Saraya, S. El-Taweel

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper, we propose a new low bit rate scheme that combines the Discrete Wavelet transform (IWT) and Vector Quantization (VQ) for image compression with high Compression Ratio (CR) in order to achieve acceptable quality of output images, Image compression using the combination of DWT willy VQ has been considered in many recent works; here in our paper the DWT was performed on several gray scale standard images, each of (256X256) byte. We used 4 images as the training images of the train VO using LBG algorithm and got the final optimal codebook. Then we used another two images …

Finite Difference Time Domain Analysis Of Photonic Crystal Resonators., Nihal Fayez Areed, Salah Obayya, Hamdi Ahmed El-Mekati

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) analysis has been effectively applied to investigate the transmission of the transverse electric polarized pulses in 90° bend optical waveguide. Comparison with a Time Domain Beam Propagation Method (BPM) based on finite element scheme has been made and excellent agreement is achieved. Moreover, a detailed study of photonic crystal square ring waveguide resonators has been carried out. A series of simulations are performed to determine by how much the radius of holes would have to be tuned to result in radiation at λ = 1.55255 μm (the center of the telecommunications c band) to …

Fpga Versus Asic Implementation Of Radix-4 Scalable Montgomery Modular Multiplier., Atef Ibrahim, Hamed El-Simary, Amen Nassar

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Traditional ASIC implementations have the well known draw-back of reduced flexibility compared to software implementations. Since modem security protocols are increasingly defined to be algorithm independent, a high degree of flexibility with respect to the cryptographic algorithms is desirable. A promising solution which combines high flexibility with the speed and physical security of traditional hardware is the implementation of cryptographic algorithms on reconfigurable devices such as FPGA. In this paper we compare - in terms of area and speed-FPGA Implementation of radix-4 scalable Montgomery modular multiplier using encoding technique (15] with ASIC implementation for different word sizes of operands. The …

Applying Image Fusion Techniques For Detection Of Acute Intra-Cerebral Hemorrhage., Hossam El Din Moustafa, Sameh Rehan

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Image fusion is the process by which two or more images are combined into a single image retaining the important (calories from each of the original images. Il aims at the integration of complementary data to enhance the information apparent in the images as well as to increase the reliability of the interpretation The successful fusion of images acquired from different modalitics or instruments is of great importance in many applications such as medical imaging, microscopic imaging, remote sensing, computer vision, and robotics. In the present work, four different image fusion techniques were implemented and applied to Computed Tomography (CT) …

Effect Of Bedforms On Velocity Distribution In Alluvial Channels., M. Attia, Mohsen Mohamed Ahmed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Velocity distribution over pronounced rough surfaces shows a deviation from log- law for small values of y. In the case of duned bed, this distance may be 0.5 to 2 times the dune height. The concept of additional mixing length was used to obtain a log- law which shows deviation in velocity from log- law near the bed and constants appearing in the equation were evaluated using experimental data from flume studies.

When The City Sells Some Landlords’ Tax Debt Year After Year, It’S The Tenants Who Suffer., Peter Senzamici, Allison Dikanovic

Capstones

New York City’s tax lien sale has been put on hold since last spring, giving homeowners some relief and allowing landlords who are behind to continue to neglect their obligations without consequence. Now, the state’s new eviction and foreclosure moratorium offers protection from the lien sale until May, and City Council is poised to vote on a new bill that would reauthorize the sale for one year. http://petersenzamici.com/liens