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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Early‐life traits significantly influence sexual segregation patterns and phenotypic quality in male fallow deer. Males in better condition and those more risk‐prone left natal groups earlier with fewer returns to natal groups. However, males with frequent excursions back to natal groups compensated for initial body condition disadvantages.
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Regime theory and the Biological Weapons Convention [PDF]
, 1998 The threat posed by biological weapons has grown increasingly serious in recent decades. Advances in biotechnology have created the potential for more horrific biological agents, while growing numbers of nations and terrorists are suspected of possessing
Wilson, Theresa Renee
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Added Value or Strategic Irritant? Chinese Elite Perceptions of the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In September 2021, the European Union launched its Indo‐Pacific strategy, outlining its intention to strengthen its engagement in the region and add value to its partnerships there. The strategy, however, drew criticism from the Chinese side, particularly because it included Chinese Taiwan as a cooperating partner. To examine Chinese responses
Li Zhang, Ruoyu Ni, Wei Shen
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Potential Biological Weapons Threats
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 Mark G. Kortepeter, Gerald W. Parker
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Enhancing BWC Implementation in Moldova
One Health & Risk ManagementThe Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Building on the foundations of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Convention has established a strong and comprehensive norm against an entire category of Weapons of Mass ...
Hermann Alex Lampalzer
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Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
, 2008 The creation of the Commission, which was established by House Resolution 1, implements a key recommendation of the independent, bipartisan 9/11 Commission to address the grave threat that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction poses to our ...
Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (U.S.)
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department's use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm.
Girish Daswani
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US Looks to Biological Weapons; Military Takes New Interest in DNA Devices
, 1982 Interest in recombinant DNA research by the Army suggests plans to develop biological weapons. Reports of the Army's involvement in this research, and the fears of some investigators that its interest includes possible offensive uses of recombinant DNA ...
Budiansky, Stephen
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