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Bioterrorism in the literature of the nineteenth century: The case of Wells and The Stolen Bacillus

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2016
This article analyzes H.G. Wells’ The Stolen Bacillus, one of the first works of fiction to deal with bioterrorism. Although the use of biological agents by armies in warfare is probably as old as mankind, since the last Iraq War, the fear of biological ...
Helena Costa, Josep-E Baños
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Biological warfare: the history of microbial pathogens, biotoxins and emerging threats [PDF]

Microbiology Australia, 2020
Bioterrorism is the deliberate misuse of a pathogen (virus, bacterium or other disease-causing microorganisms) or biotoxin (poisonous substance produced by an organism) to cause illness and death amongst the population.
William D Rawlinson, Joanna L Gray, Katherine A Lau, Torsten Theis, Alexa M Kaufer   +4 more
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Polychip‐A High‐Throughput Droplet Microfluidics Platform for Interrogating Microbial Interactions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Polychip, a fully integrated droplet microfluidics platform, enables high‐throughput, single‐cell resolution screening of polymicrobial interactions. By seamlessly combining six automated microfluidics operations on a single chip, the system accelerates antimicrobial discovery by 11 to 14 times compared to traditional robotic methods.
Jeong Jae Han, Adrian Ryan Guzman, Aifen Zhou, Han Zhang, Rohit Gupte, Haemin Jung, Kaylee Delgado, Sini Skariah, Ali Sultan, Arul Jayaraman, Paul de Figueiredo, Arum Han   +11 more
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Biological warfare agents [PDF]

, 2016
Various types of biological weapons have been known and practiced throughout history, including the use of biological agents such as microbes and plants, as well as biotoxins and the venoms that can be derived from them. In ancient civilisations, the attempt was to infect and kill enemies by throwing cadavers into water wells. Emperor Barbarossa during
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The musculature and skeleton of the pelvic fin of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936) (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes): Morphology and sexual dimorphism

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
This work brings new information on the sexual characteristics of the crocodile shark (Pseudocarcharias kamoharai) exploring the pelvic fin musculature, as well as the siphon sac and the musculature and skeleton of the clasper. Our paper is the first to point out clearly the sexual dimorphism related exclusively to the pelvic fin musculature in males ...
Laura F. Mianutti, Kenshu Shimada, João Paulo C. B. da Silva   +2 more
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An Integrated Portable Multiplex Microchip Device for Fingerprinting Chemical Warfare Agents

Micromachines, 2019
The rapid and reliable detection of chemical and biological agents in the field is important for many applications such as national security, environmental monitoring, infectious diseases screening, and so on.
Karolina Petkovic, Anthony Swallow, Robert Stewart, Yuan Gao, Sheng Li, Fiona Glenn, Januar Gotama, Mel Dell’Olio, Michael Best, Justin Doward, Simon Ovendon, Yonggang Zhu   +11 more
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Real-time analysis and classification of bioaerosols based on optical scattering properties [PDF]

Biuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej, 2017
The size and shape of biological particles are important parameters allowing discrimination between various species. We have studied several aerosols of biological origin such as pollens, bacterial spores and vegetative bacteria.
Miron Kaliszewski, Elżbieta Anna Trafny, Maksymilian Włodarski, Rafał Lewandowski, Małgorzata Stępińska, Mirosław Kwaśny, Jerzy Kostecki, Krzysztof Kopczyński   +7 more
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Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
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Artificial Intelligence–Driven and Digital Practices for Circular Business and Finance: Insights for Advancing Hubs for Circularity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi, Marcos R. Machado, Laura Spierdijk, Devrim Murat Yazan   +3 more
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Decontamination of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents

YAKUGAKU ZASSHI, 2009
Chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA's) are diverse in nature; volatile acute low-molecular-weight toxic compounds, chemical warfare agents (CWA's, gaseous choking and blood agents, volatile nerve gases and blister agents, nonvolatile vomit agents and lacrymators), biological toxins (nonvolatile low-molecular-weight toxins, proteinous toxins ...
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