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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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Biosensors for Biological Warfare Agent Detection
Defence Science Journal, 2007 Biological warfare agents (BWA) such as Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis or butulotoxin represent one of possibilities exploitable by military or terrorists. Rapid detection of BWA is one of the most important presumptions prerequisities for successful defence agai nst t hem.
Petr Skládal +2 more
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Where do experiments end? [PDF]
, 2010 types: Editorial CommentCopyright © 2010 Elsevier. NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and ...
Davies, G.F.
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Antimicrobial and anti-biofilm activity and biological decontamination efficiency of ED-1 emulsion [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2019 Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity, as well as biological decontamination potential of emulsion ED-1, highly efficient in radiological decontamination of metal surfaces contaminated with uranium isotopes, was assessed. The antimicrobial potency of ED-
Karkalić Radovan +5 more
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Synthetic Biology – Friend or Foe? What Kind of Threats Should We Expect?
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023 Synthetic biology is a newly emerging branch of dual-use technology. It is a combination of biology and different branches of engineering. The aim of this article is to show the main technological methods of synthetic biology and to give specific ...
J. Lakota
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Biological warfare: a challenge for humanity
Archivo Médico de Camagüey, 2018 Background: the control of transmittable diseases contributes to the illegitimate use of biological agents, initially for war or criminal purposes and currently for terrorist purposes. Objective: to describe the problem of the use of biological weapons,
María Obdulia Benítez Pérez +5 more
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Shake & Bake: Dual-Use Chemicals, Contexts, and the Illegality of American White Phosphorus Attacks in Iraq [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] “On November 29, 2005, in a Department of Defense press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace stated that white phosphorus “is a legitimate tool of the ...
Tessier, Joseph D.
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, 2014 Neurotoxicity refers to the direct or indirect effect of chemicals that disrupt the nervous system of humans or animals. Numerous chemicals can produce neurotoxic diseases in humans, and many more are used as experimental tools to disturb or damage the ...
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Development of and prospects for the biological weapons convention
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022 Biological weapons are used in wars to wound or kill people or animals and destroy crops with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, as well as toxins and other biologically active substances.
Liang Huigang +4 more
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Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis [PDF]
, 2005 In light of the increasing threat of large-scale massacres such as terrorism against non-combatants (civilians), more attention is warranted not only to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also to acute sociogenic pseudoneurological ("conversion ...
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan +3 more
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