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Item Open Access Cutting edge research: a new look at Iron Age swords from Iran(British Library, 2023-12-01) Rodzinka, AlexOver recent years, a large assemblage of metallic artefacts from Iran has been intercepted by the UK Border Force and, thanks to our colleagues in Tehran, we have the opportunity to research these in great detail prior to repatriation. Among the objects are bracelets, pins, horse trappings and numerous weapons such as axe heads, arrowheads, spearheads, daggers and swords. The latter two categories, defined as bladed weapons, were chosen as the focus of a PhD project jointly funded by Cranfield University and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source entitled “Complex Metallurgy of the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in Iran: Archaeomaterials and Forensic Investigations“. Being complex objects, swords lend themselves very well to investigations of ancient metal production and how that changed when bronze technology reached its peak in the region and iron began to be used for utilitarian purposes. The research explores bronze casting techniques, alloy choices, and bimetallic technology in the early Iron Age (circa 1250-550 BC).Item Open Access The frequency conundrum: modelling terrorism for the insurance industry(Cranfield University, Cranfield Forensic Institute, 2014-12-07) Johnson, StephenMany groups face the challenge of trying to make evidence based decisions about threats such as terrorism. Resource allocation by countries for security and resilience measures are a well-known challenge. While many countries keep this information extremely secret the USA has had its own methods reviewed publically by a number of respected bodies, such as the National Academy of Sciences. As recently as 2010 these reviews have been pretty negative in their conclusions (National Research Council, 2010). The UK and the Netherlands have also had their own national risk register processes reviewed in the open literature. Commensurate with someofthe major national resource allocation challenges; the insurance industry has also faced a need to understand the frequency and impact of terrorism. While some catastrophic terrorism models exist in the market it has been regularly asserted that government backstopping is required because of a number of challenges in terrorism. Data sets are frequently included in this.