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The Philippines suffers from three threats to its national security. Firstly, unlike advanced states, it faces both external and internal assaults on its political and territorial sovereignty. Secondly, self-sustaining ...
Matthews, Ron; Fritani(Asian Press Group Pte Ltd, 2022-06-01)
Defence offset is a controversial subject, attracting heated debate by policymakers, industrialists, and academics alike. Offset forms part of an acquisition programme and occurs because of the leverage a customer country ...
Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Palomo-Díez, Sara; Alonso Conde, Alejandro; Gomes, Cláudia; Casimiro, Silvia; Banha da Silva, Rodrigo; Arroyo-Pardo, Eduardo(MDPI, 2022-06-15)
Syphilis is one of the most exciting diseases explored in paleopathology and, therefore, tracing back its origin and development has provided a prolific debate. The combination of paleopathological data with historical ...
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Following several studies considering the potential toxicity of food-type containers, we hypothesized elemental analysis would help us test and classify a collection of Ecuadorian ceramic sherds from Andean and ...
The way in which IT systems are usually secured is through the use of username and password pairs. However, these credentials are all too easily lost, stolen or compromised. The use of behavioural biometrics can be used ...
Adams, G. J.; Cook, R. B.; Hutchinson, J. R.; Zioupos, Peter(Elsevier, 2022-06-17)
The microarchitecture of bone both results from and in turn affects the remodelling process. Bone-specific surface, for instance, is one of these important microarchitectural parameters because remodelling is also considered ...
Christensen, Angi M.; Rickman, John M.(Elsevier, 2022-06-06)
Skeletal trauma analysis often involves the assessment of the types and patterns of fractures, followed by categorizing the trauma into one of several broad “mechanisms.” Trauma analysis ideally also involves understanding ...
The past decade has seen a general increase in the number of people convicted for terrorism-related offences in England and Wales, with an accompanying rise in the number of terrorist prisoners. This year, between 90-100 ...
Rasmussen, Kaare Lund; Milner, George R.; Delbey, Thomas; Jensen, Lisa Kathrine Ivalu; Witte, Frauke; Rehren, Thilo; Kjaer, Ulla; Grinder-Hansen, Poul(Springer, 2020-05-18)
Lead-glazed potsherds from archaeological excavations at six Renaissance (1536–1660 CE) sites in southern Denmark and northern Germany have been subjected to etching experiments using 4 wt% acetic acid. The extracts of 45 ...
An excavation in 1856 by Charles T. Newton and a re-excavation in 1990–93 by a joint Danish-Turkish team revealed several mosaic floors in a late-antique domus from the fifth century CE, now called the House of Charidemos. ...
Selvagumar, Senthurran; Yuen, Peter W. T.; Soori, Umair; Piper, Johnathan; James, David; Andre, David; Richardson, Mark A.(IS&T Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2022-04-04)
X-ray backscatter imaging is a powerful technique for medical, aerospace, and security applications. Conventionally, a pinhole is commonly used for focusing x-ray, but there is always a desire to enhance the signal-to-noise-ratio ...
The discovery of clandestine graves has become a recurring fact during the last ten years in Mexico, estimating that there could be more than 2000 scattered throughout the country (Guillen et al., 2018). Less well known, ...
Traditionally, human cadavers and porcine tissue have been used as means to replicate elements of the human body; however, because of the differences in biomechanical properties from the porcine limbs/organs and the potential ...
The majority of fabrics at crime scenes have been coloured in some way. The effect of such treatments on resultant bloodstains has not been considered. In this work, horse blood was dropped onto reactively dyed calico ...
Green, Richard N.; McNaught, Ken R.; Saddington, A. J.(Elsevier, 2022-05-10)
In operational engineering maintenance situations, limitations on time, resource or the information available often inhibit rigorous analysis on complex decision problems. Decision-makers who are compelled to act in such ...
Complex nature of the fibre reinforced composites, their non-homogeneity and anisotropy make their modelling a challenging task. Although the linear – elastic behaviour of the composites is well understood, there is still ...
Campbell, Peter; Vuković, Krešimir(Liverpool University Press, 2022-05-15)
The waters of the Mediterranean may be the greatest museum of Antiquity. Scattered across
the seafloor are shipwrecks from every time period. Cargos of wine, oil, and fish were
transported in clay amphoras, which are ...
As we now see digital evidence play a role in many investigative scenarios, it is imperative that those seeking to rely upon it as part of criminal justice processes can do so, absent any concern regarding its validity. ...
As part of a digital forensic examination, a practitioner may identify data traces that they believe to be relevant to their inquiry and seek to interpret their meaning, forming a primary investigative hypothesis. In ...