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IMPULSE KILL [3 records]

Record 1 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Offences and crimes
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
CONT

In his assessment of the Accused, and in an effort to determine the Accused's motive or impulse to kill in the commission of the offences, he employed the concept of filicide(i. e., the killing of children by their parents).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

filicide : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advanced Technology Weapons
  • Energy (Physics)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

The destruction of a target, using directed energy, by ablative shock.

OBS

The intensity of directed energy may be so great that the surface of the target violently and rapidly boils off delivering a mechanical shock wave to the rest of the target and causing structural failure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes de haute technicité
  • Énergie (Physique)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advanced Technology Weapons
  • Energy (Physics)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

The destruction of a target by heating it, using directed energy, to the degree that structural components fail.

CONT

Laser can be used for two types of attack, thermal and impulse. In a thermal kill, the target is destroyed by a long dwell time of the laser and burning through it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes de haute technicité
  • Énergie (Physique)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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