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The Necessity for Non-Challenge Visits [PDF]

, 1997
YesIn the discussions that have taken place over the past six years since the establishment by the Third Review Conference1 in 1991 of the Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts,known as VEREX, to identify and examine potential verification measures from a
Pearson, Graham S.
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Science Educators and Researchers Must Uphold the Human Rights of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex Persons

Science Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons are—and have always been—an integral part of humankind. However, these communities are under attack. We live in a time of growing state repression and the normalization of political violence against trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons throughout much of the world, and we have a responsibility to ...
Quentin C. Sedlacek, A. M. Aramati Casper, Katherine Doerr, Sophia Jeong, Nelly K. M. Marosi, K. Rende Mendoza, Marco Reggiani, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila, Jennifer D. Adams, Andrew P. Anderson, Lucy Avraamidou, Charlie K. Blake, Tina Cheuk, Sara J. Dozier, Sarah L. Eddy, Alexander Eden, Rebecka Fingalsson, Michelle Friend, Agustín Fuentes, Heather Haeger, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Rishi Krishnamoorthy, Catherine Lemmi, Jeffrey Maloy, Dax Ovid, Kathryn Ribay, Ronan O. Rock, Tatiane Russo‐Tait, Sara Tolbert, Brie Tripp, Maria Varelas   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons for biosecurity education from the International Nuclear Security Education Network

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
With the rapid advances in technology and life science, biological security is now at a defining moment. The mandate of the 2022 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention 9th Review Conference emphasised the urgent need for new tools to strengthen the ...
Iris Magne, Olivia Ibbotson, Lijun Shang, Malcolm Dando   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Weapons in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). 4. The Destruction of Iraqi Chemical Weapons

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020
After the defeat of Iraqi army in Kuwait in February 1991, on April 3, the UN Security Council (UN Security Council) adopted Resolution 687, that «decides that Iraq shall unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under ...
M. V. Supotnitskiy, N. I. Shilo, V. A. Kovtun   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Compliance revisited: an incremental approach to compliance in the biological and toxin weapons convention [PDF]

, 2017
Since the collapse of negotiations around a protocol to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in 2001, states parties have begun to discuss several novel issues linked to the broader implementation of the BWC as part of a series of ...
Revill, James
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Transparency and Denial as Complementary Approaches

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) remains a cornerstone of international disarmament but faces persistent challenges due to the absence of a verification regime and the dual-use nature of biological research.
Jaroslav Krasny
doaj   +1 more source

An Optimum Organisation [PDF]

, 1998
YesThe Ad Hoc Group (AHG) of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) have touched from time to time on the question of the organisation needed to implement the legally binding instrument being negotiated to strengthen ...
Pearson, Graham S.
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
wiley   +1 more source