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Inflammatory and Immunological Basis of Periodontal Diseases
Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The periodontal lesion emerges as an evolving immunological battlefield, where host–microbiome interactions, dysregulated immune responses, fragile resolution mechanisms, and inflammophilic dysbiosis converge to shift the balance from homeostasis to unrestrained tissue destruction.
Giacomo Baima +3 more
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Disease Surveillance and Response: Update on the Biological Weapons Convention
, 2015 At a meeting in Geneva in December 2004, the member States of the Biological Weapons Convention discussed disease surveillance and response in the context of alleged use of biological weapons, disease outbreaks deemed 'suspicious' and naturally ...
Enemark, Christian
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Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
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Prevention and Treatment Approaches to Deal with Plague as a Biological Weapon
Journal of Community Health Research, 2017 Introduction: Biological attacks are a phenomenon that started on a serious note in the twentieth century and such weapons are being developed every day.The agent of plague is one of those listed as biological weapons by the Weapons Convention.
Babak Shiravand +2 more
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Existing research has conceptualized criminal expertise among sexual offenders through the combined examination of modus operandi sophistication and detection avoidance strategies. This study investigated whether forensic and investigative awareness strategies, considered independently from the modus operandi, constitute a meaningful ...
Alexandra Ferreira De Amorim +2 more
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Verifying the Unverifiable: Lessons from the Biological Weapons Convention
, 1990 The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is widely regarded as a treaty whose provisions are difficult to verify because of the paucity of measures to verify compliance within the treaty framework and the nature of the weapons themselves.
Marie Isabelle Chevrier
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LEGAL PROTECTION FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2008 Nuclear weapons can be the reason for much dangerous pollution of the environment. The consequences of nuclear testing, explosion of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and various nuclear accidents all bear witness to this. Nuclear weaponry falls into
Jerolim Ostojić
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The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Model for Verification of the Biological Weapons Convention
Abstract The prohibitions of chemical and biological weapons have been codified in two international treaties, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Against the background of renewed discussions among BWC states parties about compliance and verification measures for the BWC, this paper asks
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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