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"Out of the loop": autonomous weapon systems and the law of armed conflict [PDF]

, 2013
The introduction of autonomous weapon systems into the “battlespace” will profoundly influence the nature of future warfare. This reality has begun to draw the attention of the international legal community, with increasing calls for an outright ban on ...
Schmitt, Michael N., Thurnher, Jeffreyn S.   +1 more
core  

Biological Warfare: The Facts

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2001
Recent international situation has brought our attention back to the imminent threat of biological weapon. Contrary to other weapons of mass destruction, biological warfare is relatively silent and invisible. This review will examine the history and characteristic of biological warfare.
openaire   +2 more sources

Rehumanizing Higher Education: Fostering Humanity in the Era of Machine Learning

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised contentious questions and spawned divided opinions regarding the future of education. The polarization it brings to the academy seems to be breaking between the soft and hard disciplines and is reminiscent of the Science Wars of the 1990s. This chapter highlights the philosophical
Joseph Carver, Samba Bah
wiley   +1 more source

Current status of book publishing in the field of biological weapons defense in China

Shanghai yufang yixue
ObjectiveTo provide scientific support for the compilation of high-quality anti-nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) medical textbooks in China by retrieving books in the field of biological weapons defense in China, summarizing the publication time ...
WANG Xuechun, DU Jiajun, ZHANG Xixiaoxue, KAN Ting, WU Wenjun, MA Yu, YANG Shanshan, WANG Shengshu, HE Yao, LIU Miao   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Complex Electromagnetic Space Combat System-of-systems Modeling and Key Node Identification Method [PDF]

arXiv
With the application of advanced science and technology in the military field, modern warfare has developed into a confrontation between systems. The combat system-of-systems (CSoS) has numerous nodes, multiple attributes and complex interactions, and its research and analysis are facing great difficulties.
arxiv  

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.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tree mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between plant and microbial communities and soil organic carbon stocks at local scales in a temperate forest

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Forests store substantial amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC), but SOC stocks differ strongly between forest ecosystems dominated by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) or ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi.
Mengxu Zhang, Emma J. Sayer, Ji Ye, Zuoqiang Yuan, Fei Lin, Zhanqing Hao, Shuai Fang, Zikun Mao, Pengcheng Jiang, Meihui Zhu, Xugao Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elucidation of protein biomarkers for verification of selected biological warfare agents using tandem mass spectrometry. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Rajoria S, Sabna S, Babele P, Kumar RB, Kamboj DV, Kumar S, Alam SI.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Abiotic factors and plant traits affect the soil microbial properties in forests across the Japanese archipelago

Ecological Research, EarlyView.
We examined how abiotic factors and plant traits affect soil microbial properties in 18 forests across the Japanese archipelago. Our results showed that, in addition to abiotic factors, plant leaf traits contributed to explaining the landscape‐scale variations in soil microbial properties.
Toshiki Orita, Takuo Hishi, Keiko Kishimoto‐Yamada, Hiroko Kurokawa, Masahiro Ohta, Fujio Hyodo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.
Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell, Ceri Fowler, Anna Sanders, Rosalind Shorrocks   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source