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Enhancing BWC Implementation in Moldova

One Health & Risk Management
The 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
doaj  

Crushing and Cutting: Shape Variation and Morphological Integration Between the Claws of Two Swimming Crab Species (Brachyura: Portunidae)

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated shape variations and morphological integration between the components of crusher and cutter claws in two species of swimming crabs, Callinectes danae and Callinectes ornatus. The propodi and dactyli of the claws were analysed in males and females of both species, using geometric morphometric techniques to identify ...
Julia Tadiotto, Alexandre Ribeiro da Silva, Julia Fernandes Perroca, Rogerio Caetano Costa, Caio Santos Nogueira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Weapon or Biological Threat?

Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Technology, 2019
A hundred years have passed since viruses were first discovered and throughout this time humans overwhelmingly regard them as agents of infectious diseases. Based on the previously developed concept (1997) on the role of viruses in the origin and evolution of biological kinds, we found it necessary to discuss another point of view pertaining to the ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Fifth BTWC Review Conference: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]

, 2001
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Pearson, Graham S.
core  

Weaponry Investment in the Socially Monogamous Snapping Shrimp Alpheus brasileiro (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weapons are morphological structures used by animals in various contexts, especially in intra‐specific contests and visual displays. In snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus, particularly the monogamous species Alpheus brasileiro, both sexes bear enlarged chelipeds, potentially conferring advantages in mate competition or territorial defence ...
Leonardo Moreira, Caio Santos Nogueira, Régis Augusto Pescinelli, Rogerio Caetano Costa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Importance of On-site Investigations [PDF]

, 1997
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Pearson, Graham S.
core  

Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Danilo Giacometti, Luiz Henrique Lima Silva, Guilherme Gomes, José Eduardo de Carvalho, Alexandre V. Palaoro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source

The CWC Verification Regime: Implications for the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry [PDF]

, 1998
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Pearson, Graham S.
core  

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source