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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Advances in DNA technology have significantly enhanced the forensic community's ability to develop genetic profiles from unidentified human skeletal remains. However, sampling requires mechanical grinding of hard tissues before DNA isolation. This processing can compromise genetic profiles, particularly in aged bones.
Ciara Rhodes +4 more
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Biological Warfare against Agricultural Crops: Historical Aspects and Conventional Control
Вестник войск РХБ защитыHighlights- means and methods of biological war against agricultural crops have been devised and tested at field test site andapproved during the Korean war;- this is a low-tech, but dangerous war, means of which don't have reliable conventional control ...
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
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Studia HumanitatisOn the basis of the 14th century manuscript by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi many historians widely believe that plague called the Black Death had to have reached European continent from the port city of Kaffa (modern-day Theodosia) on the Crimea ...
Christensen Carsten Sander
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Control of insect pests by means of disease agents
California Agriculture, 1947 Biological warfare against certain insect pests by means of disease agents is a relatively unexplored method of insect control.
E Steinhaus
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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents
BMEMatWith the occurrence of terrorist incidents and the intensification of war situations, concerns about biological and chemical warfare agents (BCWAs) created by mankind are growing due to their chilling characteristics such as high toxicity, high fatality ...
Song Li +4 more
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Lancet (London, England), 2003 The use of biological agents as controlled weapons of war is practical although uncertain. Three types of agents are feasible, including pathogenic organisms and biological pests, toxins, and synthetic hormones regulating plant growth. These agents may be chosen for selective effects varying from prolonged incipient illness to death of plants, man and ...
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In the Shadow of Biological Warfare: Conspiracy Theories on the Origins of COVID-19 and Enhancing Global Governance of Biosafety as a Matter of Urgency. [PDF]
J Bioeth Inq, 2020 Nie JB.
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