Sentences with phrase «with weapon research»

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Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

Months later, in November, Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey asked the defence secretary in parliament «what meetings have taken place between UK and US officials on the research and development of new nuclear weapons, with particular reference to the reliable replacement warhead?»

Breaking ranks with the Bush administration, Pirro said she favors embryonic stem cell research and argued the federal ban on assault weapons should not have been allowed to expire.

The reliability of the technology remains «a bit tenuous,» Tucker said, adding that much more research, development and testing would be needed before cops could trust the weapons with lives on the line.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

The scientific adviser to the Indian defense minister, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, said yesterday that all further nuclear weapons research can be done with computer simulations.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, head of the country's major nuclear weapons research lab, is credited with setting up Pakistan's uranium enrichment facilities.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Historically, the CDC had conducted research to try and learn, for example, whether people with guns in their homes were, in fact, safer than those without weapons.

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.

Wintemute has pushed the bounds of research, going undercover into gun shows with a hidden camera to document how people often sidestep the law when purchasing weapons.

The agency has been converted to a civilian research program, and many former weapons experts in Russia are engaged in joint medical research with American scientists.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

For more clear - cut evidence that snails use insulin as a weapon, Joanna Gajewiak, a research assistant professor at the university, came up with a fast way to synthesize enough of the insulin to directly test its effects on fish.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

The world's nuclear enrichment programs should be under international control to prevent the development of nuclear weapons after the new arms deal with Iran expires in 10 to 15 years, said Frank von Hippel, a senior Princeton University research physicist and a former security advisor during the Clinton Administration.

There's research to complete, both story and side missions, loads of lovely RPG gear (which the team is serious enough about that we're not allowed to talk about the stats of) and a range of weapons to master, each with unique abilities.

Jyn, using an assumed name, and Rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), given secret plans, aim to go mess with the Empire, the face of whom for us is weapons research director Orson Krennic (Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn).

Similarly, scholarship appears to be a potent weapon for groups with policy agendas they wish to pursue, as the committed can broadcast research findings with great repetition.

Research has shown that people are more likely to spend frivolously when wielding these weapons of mass destruction relative to cash, so you need to employ caution while out and about with one.

12th July 2015 - Zombies returns in all of its undead glory with «The Giant,» a Nazi research facility featuring the weapon upgrading Pack - A-Punch Machine.

There is a lot of weapon and armor variety, and while you can get by with finding or buying equipment, the best stuff is reserved for the fairly in - depth crafting system, which is divided into research and development.

These come with their own sets of benefits, giving you access to merchants, methods of upgrading weapons or even the ability to research new artifacts.

Once you've started building out your Mother Base (a secret floating rig that houses the Diamond Dogs, Boss» private army) with soldiers kidnapped from the field using your ludicrous Fulton Recovery Device you gain the ability to research and develop an assortment of weapons and equipment so diverse and useful it would give Bruce Wayne the most painful priapism ever.

You can customise the origin of your story extensively; choosing to be a wealthy traveller with all the supplies and perks that are intrinsic to that lifestyle, or, you can simply elect to take control of a group of natives, struggling along with crude weapons and tools until you can better yourself with research and better equipment.

Research: Gain unique ship equipment, planet improvements, weapons, and more with each race's technology tree.

A stretch goal of $ 1.7 M has already been announced and it would bring enemy limb dismemberment, more puzzles, ammo types / weapon settings, vending machines, basic crafting / research, RPG leveling with perks / skills, weapon upgrading, Hardcore mode (no respawning), Ironman mode (only 1 save game: if you die, the save is deleted).

For those who are unaware, Resident Evil Zero saw gamers take to a zombie infested train, in which players were imbued with several new weapons and in game abilities, in an attempt to eliminate their Umbrella engineered foes, and escape the remnants of an abandoned Umbrella research facility.

The team also started to research the weapons and equipment of the era, to see if the Battlefield approach to combat — multiple player classes, all with different arms and items — would work.

* Research over 30 weapons, all with varying degrees of weirdness, yet useful in their own way.

Once recruited, each soldier can be deployed in one of a number of research teams, either providing you with intel on the field, helping to develop new weapons and items, or providing medical support on the base (later, you are even able to scan soldiers to judge their various expertise, or lack thereof, helping you to become a more discerning recruiter in the field).

Each faction is fitted with a Research Table, which, as you may have guessed, enables players to research items, weapons aResearch Table, which, as you may have guessed, enables players to research items, weapons aresearch items, weapons and more.

The struggles between these two races have found their way to Earth, with the Maians finding allies in the Carrington Institute, a research and development facility; and the Skedar serving as benefactors to the corrupt dataDyne corporation, who are using Skedar technology and weapons for nefarious means.

Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.

He noted that every state that has developed nuclear weapons has done it with research reactors not power reactors.

«While CRISP - ER is optimized to research projects involving biological weapons agents, it can be used by anyone with an interest in National Institutes of Health research, for example, to research spending on biotechnology, biodiversity, specific diseases, or in specific locations.»

A basic example would be a fund that excludes tobacco, weapons, and pharmaceuticals, but if pharmaceutical research saved your life, maybe you have no beef with those companies.»

While Kane was the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters has discussed measures that can be taken on fully autonomous weapons on several occasions, while the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is contributing substantively to increasing understanding with its project on the «weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies.»

On 2 November 2017, more than 120 members of the Australian AI research community wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ask Australia to endorse the call to ban lethal autonomous weapons systems and commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective.

The technical sessions begins on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning with a review of the state of play on research and development of autonomous weapons systems as well as an exchange on the military rationale for autonomous functions in weapons systems.

Russell co-authored a research priorities memo issued with together with the open letter that lists questions over autonomous weapons among other concerns to be studied.

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus

Consistent with past research, strong significant associations indicated that adolescents who carried a weapon or engaged in high frequencies of physical aggression also had high proportions of friends who engaged in deviant behavior.