Gunshot-wound dynamics model for John F. Kennedy assassination by Nicholas R. Nalli

“…Kennedy was assassinated while riding in an open motorcade by a sniper in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963. A civilian bystander, Mr. …”
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Evaluation of Nine Somatic Variant Callers for Detection of Somatic Mutations in Exome and Targeted Deep Sequencing Data. by Anne Bruun Krøigård, Mads Thomassen, Anne-Vibeke Lænkholm, Torben A Kruse, Martin Jakob Larsen

“…We have performed a comprehensive evaluation using exome sequencing and targeted deep sequencing data of paired tumor-normal samples from five breast cancer patients to evaluate the performance of nine publicly available somatic variant callers: EBCall, Mutect, Seurat, Shimmer, Indelocator, Somatic Sniper, Strelka, VarScan 2 and Virmid for the detection of single nucleotide mutations and small deletions and insertions. …”
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GENITOURINARY INJURIES DURING WAR AGAINST TERROR: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE by Haroon Sabir Khan

“…Out of these 49 (55%) were due to sniper shots and 40 (45%) due to improvised explosive device. …”
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Framework for Design Exploration and Performance Analysis of RF-NoC Manycore Architecture by Habiba Lahdhiri, Jordane Lorandel, Salvatore Monteleone, Emmanuelle Bourdel, Maurizio Palesi

“…This paper proposes a design space exploration framework for OFDMA-based RF-NoC architecture, which takes advantage of both real application benchmarks simulated using Sniper and RF-NoC architecture modeled using Noxim. …”
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Method for Direct Localization of Multiple Impulse Acoustic Sources in Outdoor Environment by Milan Mišković, Nenad Vukmirović, Dragan Golubović, Miljko Erić

“…This localization problem is of great interest for gunshot, firecracker and explosion detection localization in a civil environment, as well as for gun, mortar, small arms, artillery, sniper detection localization in military battlefield monitoring systems. …”
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Effects of Somatic Mutations Are Associated with SNP in the Progression of Individual Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient: The Two-Hit Theory Explains Inherited Predisposition to Pathog... by Soyoung Park, Youngil Koh, Sung-Soo Yoon

“…To address this issue, SNP analysis was performed using the UCSC hg19 program in 10 acute myeloid leukemia patients (samples, G1 to G10), and somatic mutations were identified in the same tumor sample using SomaticSniper and VarScan2. SNPs in KRAS were detected in 4 out of 10 different individuals, and those of DNMT3A were detected in 5 of the same patient cohort. …”
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Scale specified single shot multibox detector by Xiaoqiang Li, Chuanwei Liu, Songmin Dai, Huichen Lian, Guangtai Ding

“…TridentNet) investigate the effect of receptive fields, whereas other approaches (e.g. SNIP, SNIPER) are based on the image pyramid strategy. In this study, a novel single‐shot based detector, called scale specified single‐shot multibox detector (4SD) is proposed. …”
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Modeling the organisational implementation of a drone and counter-drone operator into the Serbian Armed Forces rifle section by Žnidaršič Vinko, Radovanović Marko, Stevanović Dragan

“…This duty is defined as "a drone operator" and in this research the Serbian Armed Forces rifle section is modeled in such a way to include a duty for 1) a specialized rifleman, 2) a converted sniper, or 3) an embedded soldier.…”
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Defense Against Protocol Level Attack in Tor Network using Deficit Round Robin Queuing Process by K. Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar

“…Normally, this mechanism was used for preventing the basic versions of sniper attacks in the Tor network. On the other hand, protocol-level attacks were not possible to prevent since some malicious entry router may duplicate, alter, insert or delete the TCP stream cells from the sender. …”
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P2-4: What is Special about Action Video Games for Training Visual Cognition? by Adam Oei, Michael Patterson

“…Group 3's AVG had slower speed by delaying counterattacks of enemies (Arcade Super Sniper). A fourth group played a hunting AVG that included target searching with no counterattacking enemies, and thus no speed, switching, or multiple object-tracking demands (Deer Hunter). …”
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Lightweight agent-based game AI architecture by K. Hazin, I. Stetsenko

“…The use case demonstrates each layer in action with two distinct agents: an infantryman and a sniper. Also the solution provides a space for improvement and extension, which can be useful for more complex applications, than described in the article The aim of the research is to reduce complexity and speed up the development of game AI with a lightweight solution. …”
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Growth response and nutrient utilization of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings exposed to Dichlorvos by Abdulwakil Saba, Ramota Tahir, Emeka Ndimele, Musa Ibrahim

“…In this study, lethal and growth responses of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings exposed to Dichlorvos (2, 2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate or DDVP), commonly known as ‘Sniper’ or ‘Ota-piapia’ in Nigeria were evaluated. …”
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Prioritization of rs187728237 and rs80320514 as miRNA-related Variants of Human AEG-1 Gene by Semira Kheiri, Azadeh Aliarab, Hamid Haghighatfard, Hossein Sadeghi

“…Analysis of the potential effects was done using MirSNP and MicroSNiper.          Results: Analysis by the MirSNP estimated that rs187728237 might increase the affinity of two miRNAs and decrease the affinity of 10 other miRNAs to the AEG-1 transcript. …”
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Detecting Objects from Space: An Evaluation of Deep-Learning Modern Approaches by Khang Nguyen, Nhut T. Huynh, Phat C. Nguyen, Khanh-Duy Nguyen, Nguyen D. Vo, Tam V. Nguyen

“…In this paper, we present an evaluation of state-of-the-art deep-learning detectors including Faster R-CNN (Faster Regional CNN), RFCN (Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks), SNIPER (Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling), Single-Shot Detector (SSD), YOLO (You Only Look Once), RetinaNet, and CenterNet for the object detection in videos captured by drones. …”
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Ballistic Resistance of Steel with the Structure of a Natural Ferrite-Martensitic Composite by V. N. Pustovoit, Yu. V. Dolgachev, Yu. M. Dombrovskii

“…Simulation tests of the impact of heat-strengthened dowels from a powder-actuated tool and firing of military small arms at the testing site from an SVD sniper rifle and an AK-74 assault rifle with machine loading ammunition were carried out. …”
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The models of subordination in the mechanized section on M-80A infantry fighting vehicle by Žnidaršič Vinko, Veličković Branko, Mutavdžić Dobrivoje

“…The decision-making on transfering commanding competencies and organization of subordinates in the chain of subordination within the mechanized section is a dilemma even for experienced commanders of mechanized units because this is defined by general principles of performing activities, whereby it is not known where the riflemen, sniper and machine gunners should be when they are outside the fighting vehicle. …”
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Toward a more nuanced understanding of probability estimation biases by Fallon Branch, Jay Hegdé

“…To help fill this gap, we studied the probability estimation performance of non-professional subjects under four different real-world problem scenarios: (i) Estimating the probability of cancer in a mammogram given the relevant evidence from a computer-aided cancer detection system, (ii) estimating the probability of drunkenness based on breathalyzer evidence, and (iii & iv) estimating the probability of an enemy sniper based on two different sets of evidence from a drone reconnaissance system. …”
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The double-balloon technique: a safe and effective adjunctive technique in patients undergoing arterial therapy for hepatic malignancies with vascular supply not amenable to select... by Mari Tanaka, Raul Uppot, Dania Daye, Raymond Liu, Eric Wehrenberg-Klee

“…The devices used for flow augmentation were two 2.1 French balloon microcatheters (Sniper™, Embolx). One balloon was inflated distal to target vessel and the second was inflated proximal to protect from reflux. …”
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KLF3 and PAX6 are candidate driver genes in late-stage, MSI-hypermutated endometrioid endometrial carcinomas by Meghan L. Rudd, Nancy F. Hansen, Xiaolu Zhang, Mary Ellen Urick, Suiyuan Zhang, Maria J. Merino, National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center Comparative Sequencing Program, James C. Mullikin, Lawrence C. Brody, Daphne W. Bell

“…We exome sequenced 15 late-stage (stage III or IV) non-ultramutated EECs and paired non-tumor DNAs; somatic variants were called using Strelka, Shimmer, SomaticSniper and MuTect. Additionally, somatic mutation calls were extracted from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data for 66 late-stage and 270 early-stage (stage I or II) non-ultramutated EECs. …”
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SoundCompass: A Distributed MEMS Microphone Array-Based Sensor for Sound Source Localization by Jelmer Tiete, Federico Domínguez, Bruno da Silva, Laurent Segers, Kris Steenhaut, Abdellah Touhafi

“…Sound source localization is a well-researched subject with applications ranging from localizing sniper fire in urban battlefields to cataloging wildlife in rural areas. …”
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