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Protein Biotoxins of Military Significance
Acta Medica, 2006 There is a spectrum of several threat agents, ranging from nerve agents and mustard agents to natural substances, such as biotoxins and new, synthetic, bioactive molecules produced by the chemical industry, to the classical biological warfare agents. The
Jiří Patočka, Ladislav Středa
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Agroterrorism in the U.S.: An Overview
EDIS, 2009 Revised! FSHN-05-21, a 4-page fact sheet by R. Goodrich Schneider, K.R. Schneider, C.D. Webb, M. Hubbard, and D.L. Archer, discusses the use of biological agents in a deliberate, harmful attack, or terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare ...
Renée M. Goodrich Schneider +4 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 The potential threat of biological warfare with a specific agent is proportional to the susceptibility of the population to that agent. Preventing disease after exposure to a biological agent is partially a function of the immunity of the exposed ...
Arturo Casadevall
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Fluorescence Methods for the Detection of Bioaerosols in Their Civil and Military Applications
Sensors, 2023 The article presents the history of the development and the current state of the apparatus for the detection of interferents and biological warfare simulants in the air with the laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method.
Mirosław Kwaśny +4 more
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Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010 Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
Vijayaraghavan R, Ganesan K, Raza S
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Biological and Chemical Warfare
Scientia Militaria, 2012 1. Chemical and biological warfare is very old indeed, at least 2 000 years old. The arsenal consists of poison tipped arrows and darts, as well as toxins found in certain wood fibres that were used to incapacitate fish in streams. Armies laying seige to
G.C. Odendaal
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Assessment of municipal opened landfill and its impact on environmental and human health in central Thailand [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: Non-sanitary landfill or open dumping stored both non-hazardous and hazardous waste disposed from households, restaurants, agricultural activities, and industrial sectors that could contaminated to the environment. This study aimed to assess the
Binot, Aurélie +5 more
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Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2018 The threat of biological and chemical terror acts remains a growing worldwide concern. There is therefore a need to develop appropriate technology for the detection of chemical and biological warfare agents, with early identification intended for use by ...
M. Saito +12 more
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and Riot Control Agents: Advantages of a “Methods” Approach to Arms Control [PDF]
, 2012 This technical report summarizes a number of results for the multivariate t distribution which can exhibit heavier tails than the Gaussian distribution.
Kastan, Benjamin
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A Simple Method for Generating Narrowly-dispersed Bioaerosols in Various Sizes
Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2023 Biological warfare agents (BWAs) cause disease in humans, animals, and plants when purposefully dispersed in an area. To minimize contamination and personnel exposure and initiate early treatment, effective BWA detection or monitoring techniques are ...
Young-Su Jeong +4 more
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