Operational effectiveness of suicide-bomber-detector schemes: A best-case analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 29, 2005, Pages 10399-10404

  Kaplan, Edward H ^a   Kress, Moshe ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical modeling; Sensor detectors; Suicide bombings

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SENSOR; TECHNOLOGY; TERRORISM;

EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; SECURITY MEASURES; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22544458158     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500567102     Document Type: Article

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