Download or read book Lethal Assumptions written by Kassandra Lamb and published by misterio press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a new female cop on the scene! Judith Anderson’s no-nonsense attitude and confidence served her well in her climb to homicide lieutenant in the Baltimore County PD, but that confidence is shaken when she finds herself one step behind a serial killer—just eight days into her new job as Chief of Police in a small Florida city. The first victim, a female college student, may be a case of wrong place, wrong time. But the bodies keep coming, with a mishmash of MOs, and the murders may be linked to various cases in nearby Jacksonville. While Judith assumed the CoP job would be challenging, she’s finding it harder than she imagined to establish her authority without alienating and be more hands-on without micro-managing. Plus, evidence is stacking up that there’s a leak in her department. Who can she trust? If she makes the wrong assumption, the wrong decision, it may be her last. In a race to save lives, she’ll draw on every talent and instinct that made her a star in Baltimore. But will it be enough this time? Fans of JA Jance’s Sheriff Joanna Brady and JD Robb’s Eve Dallas will love Judith Anderson!
Download or read book Fatal Assumptions written by Saqqara Aleister and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Chandler is the hardest working man in television. He travels non-stop but would just like to have some time to find Ms. Right, When he does it's almost at the cost of losing her to a deranged fan and one time love interest. Kara Michaels, is a federal agent on a case and has found the man of her dreams, Jacob Chandler, he shares the same thirst for life and living that she does but would he be able to handle the fact she thought for even a moment he could be a killer, responsible for a string of homicides. The only link to the killer, Jacob and his online fan site. Kara must work from Jacob's arms find the killer and hope he isn't next without Jacob knowing she's not a secretary from fifth avenue.
Download or read book Payette National Forest N F Forest Plan Amendment Proposed to Facilitate Implementation of the 2011 Plan Scale Wildlife Conservation Strategy Phase 1 Forested Biological Community written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovery and Explanation in Biology and Medicine written by Kenneth F. Schaffner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth F. Schaffner compares the practice of biological and medical research and shows how traditional topics in philosophy of science—such as the nature of theories and of explanation—can illuminate the life sciences. While Schaffner pays some attention to the conceptual questions of evolutionary biology, his chief focus is on the examples that immunology, human genetics, neuroscience, and internal medicine provide for examinations of the way scientists develop, examine, test, and apply theories. Although traditional philosophy of science has regarded scientific discovery—the questions of creativity in science—as a subject for psychological rather than philosophical study, Schaffner argues that recent work in cognitive science and artificial intelligence enables researchers to rationally analyze the nature of discovery. As a philosopher of science who holds an M.D., he has examined biomedical work from the inside and uses detailed examples from the entire range of the life sciences to support the semantic approach to scientific theories, addressing whether there are "laws" in the life sciences as there are in the physical sciences. Schaffner's novel use of philosophical tools to deal with scientific research in all of its complexity provides a distinctive angle on basic questions of scientific evaluation and explanation.
Download or read book Shooting to Kill written by Simon Bronitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book brings together perspectives from different disciplinary fields to examine the significant legal, moral and political issues which arise in relation to the use of lethal force in both domestic and international law. These issues have particular salience in the counter terrorism context following 9/11 (which brought with it the spectre of shooting down hijacked airplanes) and the use of force in Operation Kratos that led to the tragic shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Concerns about the use of excessive force, however, are not confined to the terrorist situation. The essays in this collection examine how the state sanctions the use of lethal force in varied ways: through the doctrines of public and private self-defence and the development of legislation and case law that excuses or justifies the use of lethal force in the course of executing an arrest, preventing crime or disorder or protecting private property. An important theme is how the domestic and international legal orders intersect and continually influence one another. While legal approaches to the use of lethal force share common features, the context within which force is deployed varies greatly. Key issues explored in this volume are the extent to which domestic and international law authorise pre-emptive use of force, and how necessity and reasonableness are legally constructed in this context.
Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha Emitters written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes hazards from radon progeny and other alpha-emitters that humans may inhale or ingest from their environment. In their analysis, the authors summarize in one document clinical and epidemiological evidence, the results of animal studies, research on alpha-particle damage at the cellular level, metabolic pathways for internal alpha-emitters, dosimetry and microdosimetry of radionuclides deposited in specific tissues, and the chemical toxicity of some low-specific-activity alpha-emitters. Techniques for estimating the risks to humans posed by radon and other internally deposited alpha-emitters are offered, along with a discussion of formulas, models, methods, and the level of uncertainty inherent in the risk estimates.
Download or read book Lethal Autonomous Weapons written by Jai Galliott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because of the increasing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, also commonly known as drones) in various military and para-military (i.e., CIA) settings, there has been increasing debate in the international community as to whether it is morally and ethically permissible to allow robots (flying or otherwise) the ability to decide when and where to take human life. In addition, there has been intense debate as to the legal aspects, particularly from a humanitarian law framework. In response to this growing international debate, the United States government released the Department of Defense (DoD) 3000.09 Directive (2011), which sets a policy for if and when autonomous weapons would be used in US military and para-military engagements. This US policy asserts that only "human-supervised autonomous weapon systems may be used to select and engage targets, with the exception of selecting humans as targets, for local defense ...". This statement implies that outside of defensive applications, autonomous weapons will not be allowed to independently select and then fire upon targets without explicit approval from a human supervising the autonomous weapon system. Such a control architecture is known as human supervisory control, where a human remotely supervises an automated system (Sheridan 1992). The defense caveat in this policy is needed because the United States currently uses highly automated systems for defensive purposes, e.g., Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) systems and Patriot anti-missile missiles. Due to the time-critical nature of such environments (e.g., soldiers sleeping in barracks within easy reach of insurgent shoulder-launched missiles), these automated defensive systems cannot rely upon a human supervisor for permission because of the short engagement times and the inherent human neuromuscular lag which means that even if a person is paying attention, there is approximately a half-second delay in hitting a firing button, which can mean the difference for life and death for the soldiers in the barracks. So as of now, no US UAV (or any robot) will be able to launch any kind of weapon in an offensive environment without human direction and approval. However, the 3000.09 Directive does contain a clause that allows for this possibility in the future. This caveat states that the development of a weapon system that independently decides to launch a weapon is possible but first must be approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)); the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)); and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Not all stakeholders are happy with this policy that leaves the door open for what used to be considered science fiction. Many opponents of such uses of technologies call for either an outright ban on autonomous weaponized systems, or in some cases, autonomous systems in general (Human Rights Watch 2013, Future of Life Institute 2015, Chairperson of the Informal Meeting of Experts 2016). Such groups take the position that weapons systems should always be under "meaningful human control," but do not give a precise definition of what this means. One issue in this debate that often is overlooked is that autonomy is not a discrete state, rather it is a continuum, and various weapons with different levels of autonomy have been in the US inventory for some time. Because of these ambiguities, it is often hard to draw the line between automated and autonomous systems. Present-day UAVs use the very same guidance, navigation and control technology flown on commercial aircraft. Tomahawk missiles, which have been in the US inventory for more than 30 years, are highly automated weapons with accuracies of less than a meter. These offensive missiles can navigate by themselves with no GPS, thus exhibiting some autonomy by today's definitions. Global Hawk UAVs can find their way home and land on their own without any human intervention in the case of a communication failure. The growth of the civilian UAV market is also a critical consideration in the debate as to whether these technologies should be banned outright. There is a $144.38B industry emerging for the commercial use of drones in agricultural settings, cargo delivery, first response, commercial photography, and the entertainment industry (Adroit Market Research 2019) More than $100 billion has been spent on driverless car development (Eisenstein 2018) in the past 10 years and the autonomy used in driverless cars mirrors that inside autonomous weapons. So, it is an important distinction that UAVs are simply the platform for weapon delivery (autonomous or conventional), and that autonomous systems have many peaceful and commercial uses independent of military applications"--
Download or read book Multiple Motives written by Kassandra Lamb and published by misterio press LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapist Kate Huntington helps other people cope with the horrible things that have happened to them, but she herself has led a charmed life... until now. When a series of what seem like random events–a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time–takes a sinister twist, it becomes apparent that she and her lawyer friend, Rob Franklin, have a common enemy. But the lead police detective has a different theory. He’s convinced Kate and Rob are lovers attempting to eliminate their spouses. And he seems determined to build a case against them. As the attacks escalate, Kate and Rob are forced to investigate on their own. Who hates them enough to want them both dead? And doesn’t seem to mind if others get caught in the crossfire! The Kate Huntington Murder Mysteries features a gutsy, smart female sleuth! Fans of Blake Pierce, Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney, Mark Billingham and Charlie Gallagher may enjoy reading this mystery series. The Kate Huntington Mystery Series: Multiple Motives Ill-Timed Entanglements Family Fallacies Celebrity Status Collateral Casualties Zero Hero Fatal Forty-Eight Suicidal Suspicions Anxiety Attack female sleuth, psychotherapy, male-female friendship, multiple personalities, mystery series, dissociative identity disorder, suspense, murder mystery, women sleuths, amateur sleuths, mystery series books, mystery series, female mystery series, psychological mystery series, suspense thriller books, suspense thriller books, suspense thrillers and mysteries, suspense thriller, mystery suspense thriller books, suspense thrillers and mysteries, suspense series, suspense mystery, suspense novels, suspense ebooks, suspense fiction, suspense books, suspense, suspense books, suspense and mystery, suspense and mystery books, suspense, murder mystery novels, best murder mystery books, murder mystery thrillers, murder mystery novels, murder mystery detective, murder mystery ebooks, murder mystery books, murder mystery suspense, murder mystery series, murder mystery, murder mystery books, murder mystery, good psychological thrillers, psychological thriller, psychological thrillers, psychological mystery books, psychological mystery book, psychotherapy novel, women sleuths books, women sleuths mysteries, women sleuths, women sleuths books, amateur sleuths novel
Download or read book ILL TIMED ENTANGLEMENTS written by Kassandra Lamb and published by misterio press LLC. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No good deed goes unpunished! When newly widowed Kate Huntington agrees to help her closest friend’s elderly aunt with a problem, the “problem” ends up dead and Kate ends up in the middle of a police investigation. To clear Aunt Betty of suspicion, Kate and her cohorts must wade through a brimming pool of suspects–some of whom have secrets they would prefer stay buried. As the investigation progresses, she is finding it hard to deny her attraction to one of the parties involved. But it’s too soon; she’s still grieving for her beloved Eddie. Then her friend Rob surprises everyone when his reaction to this potential romance is both intense and negative. Is he only concerned that his friend will get hurt, or could he be jealous? Meanwhile, the residents of the Lancaster retirement community continue to die off, and not from natural causes. Soon the question becomes not just whether they’ll find the killer, but at what cost…her friendship with Rob? Or one of their lives? female sleuth, women detectives, mystery & detective, women sleuths, friendship, mystery series, cozy mystery, romantic suspense, retirement community
Download or read book The Disruptive Impact of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Diffusion written by Austin Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the focus on great powers in the international debate, this book explores how rising middle power states are engaging with emerging major military innovations and analyses how this will affect the stability and security of the Indo Pacific. Presenting a data-based analysis of how middle power actors in the Indo-Pacific are responding to the emergence of military Artificial Intelligence and Killer Robots, the book asserts that continuing to exclude non-great power actors from our thinking in this field enables the dangerous diffusion of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) to smaller states and terrorist groups, and demonstrates the disruptive effects of these military innovations on the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. Offering a detailed analysis of the resource capacities of China, United States, Singapore and Indonesia, it shows how major military innovation acts as a circuit breaker between competitor states disrupting the conventional superiority of the dominant hegemonic state and giving a successful adopter a distinct advantage over their opponent. This book will appeal to researchers, end-users in the military and law enforcement communities, and policymakers. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers interested in strategic stability for the broader Asia-Pacific and the role of middle power states in hegemonic power transition and conflict.
Download or read book Under the Gun written by Peter H. Rossi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both sides of the Great American Gun War - the perennial struggle in American political life over what to do, if anything, about guns, about violence, and about crime. The review and analysis of the available studies consumed the better part of three years; the results of this work are contained in this volume.The intention of any review is to take stock of the available fund of knowledge in some topical area. Under the Gun is no different: our goal has been to glean from the volumes of previous studies those facts that, in our view, seem firmly and certainly established; those hypotheses that seem adequately supported by, or at least approximately consistent with, the best available research evidence; and those areas or topics about which, it seems, we need to know a lot more than we do. One of our major conclusions can be stated in advance: despite the large number of studies that have been done, many critically important questions have not been adequately researched, and some of them have not been examined at all.Much of the available research in the area of weapons and crime has been done by advocates for one or another policy position. As a consequence, the manifest intent of many "studies" is to persuade rather than to inform. We have tried to approach the topic from a purely agnostic point of view, treating as an open question what policies should be enacted with regard to gun, or crime, control. Thus, we have tried to judge each study on its own merits, on the basis of the routine standards normally applied to social-scientific research, and not on the basis of how effectively it argues for a particular policy direction. It would, of course, be presumptuous to claim that we have set aside all our own biases in conducting this study. Whether or not our treatment is fair and objective is clearly something for the reader, and not us, to decide.
Download or read book Darjeeling Dead written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey, Pie, and Die: A Thanks-filled Tearoom Whodunit It’s Thanksgiving time, and tearoom owner Abigail Beanblossom is not overflowing with gratitude. Her boyfriend is out of town. A gang of birdwatchers have been leaving nasty reviews about Beanblossom’s Tea and Tarot. And a body on the beach points the police directly to the tea and Tarot room. Will Abigail and Hyperion be able to solve the case in time for the Thanksgiving feast? As the clock ticks down to turkey time, Abigail must rely on her wits, her partner’s trusty Tarot deck, and a little help from her quirky friends to brew up the truth. With a generous serving of tea and a slice of mystery, Darjeeling Dead is a cozy, thanks-filled whodunit that will keep you guessing until the very last sip.
Download or read book Down written by Kirsten Weiss and published by Purple Papaya LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The answers lie below… A shamanic witch and a poet, Lenore Bonheim hides in the world of books to escape reality, which for her includes seeing ghosts and forecasting death. But when her employer and friend dies under suspicious circumstances, she must use all her skills – magical and mundane – to find the killer and save her two sisters and her town. As the three sisters pull together to stave off a growing menace, Lenore must discover what it means to be in this world and of it. Down is Book Three in the Witches of Doyle Trilogy. Spells included at the back of the book!
Download or read book The Shamanic Detective written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worst. Proposal. Ever. Riga’s midlife magic might be malfunctioning, but at least her love life’s getting a do-over… Until an FBI raid interrupts Donovan’s marriage proposal. Is the fairytale over? This no-nonsense metaphysical detective is determined to find the truth. But the supernatural has other plans for her time, and Riga is forced to protect a shaman stalked by a clever killer. And as the mysteries of Donovan and the shaman become entangled, Riga must choose between facts and faith. Just how far is she willing to go for love…? If you love talking gargoyles, smart mysteries, and mature heroines with complicated lives, you’ll love this midlife mystery series. Pick up this page-turning paranormal women’s fiction today! Because this complicated, Gen-X detective isn’t like the others... The Shamanic Detective is book 2 in the Riga Hayworth Paranormal Mystery series. Start reading now!
Download or read book Harvest of the Witch written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween is coming… And so is murder… Doyle witch Karin has it all. A loving husband. Two wonderful children. A flexible career. Now that her days of fighting dark magicians is over, she’s perfectly happy in her comfortable life. But beneath the surface of perfection, cracks are emerging. So when a witch she’s mentoring asks for help, Karin might be a little too eager to escape her routine. Until she arrives at the remote mansion retreat to find her apprentice is dead. Exploring the fragile balance between love and longing, happiness and deception, Karin must follow the trail of dark magic to its end. But can she overcome not only a killer, but her own inner demons? A thrilling supernatural mystery, packed with Halloween magic and murder! Perfect for fans of paranormal women’s fiction. This short read is book 12 in the Witches of Doyle mystery series and a prequel to Kirsten Weiss’s new Mystery School series.
Download or read book Biometrics written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
