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Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Effects of lactoferrin derived peptides on simulants of biological warfare agents. [PDF]
World J Microbiol Biotechnol, 2017 Sijbrandij T +5 more
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare, from Past to the Present: A classic review
مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی بیرجند, 2015 Bioterrorism is defined as any terrorist action of intentional release or dissemination of highly pathogenic biological agents, including a variety of microorganisms or biological toxins.
Majid Zare Bidaki, Mahdi Balalimood
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Bulletin of the National Research CentreBackground Bioterrorism involves the deliberate use of biological agents as weapons to cause harm or death to humans, animals, or plants. These agents are naturally found in the environment but can be modified into weapons.
Marianna-Foteini Dafni +7 more
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Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta +3 more
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