Journal of Pharmacy And Bioallied Sciences, 2010 Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare. Chemical weapons are inexpensive and are relatively easy to produce, even by small terrorist groups, to create mass casualties with small quantities.
Kumaran Ganesan +2 more
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Large-Scale Integration of Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Gas Sensing Applications [PDF]
, 2012 We have developed arrays of nanomechanical systems (NEMS) by large-scale integration, comprising thousands of individual nanoresonators with densities of up to 6 million NEMS per square centimeter.
Aldridge, J. S. +9 more
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Further studies of the efficacy of military, commercial and novel skin decontaminants against the chemical warfare agents sulphur mustard, soman and VX [PDF]
, 2019 Background/Aims: Following an incident involving toxic chemicals, deployment of countermeasures before the arrival of specialised services at the scene may provide a “therapeutic” window in which to mitigate skin absorption.
Chilcott, Robert +2 more
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Chemical Warfare Research. [PDF]
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Clinical and morphological findings on mustard gas [bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide] poisoning [PDF]
, 1991 n 1984 and 1985, a total of eleven Iranian patients were transferred to hospitals in Munich, Germany, after a reported gas attack in the Iran-Iraq war.
Alexander +27 more
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Taking care to protect the environment against damage: A meaningless obligation? [PDF]
, 2010 Little attention is paid to the obligation of 'care' in Article 55(1) of Additional Protocol I. Beyond a general principle of upholding environmental value in times of armed conflict, what is the scope and content of the obligation?
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and Riot Control Agents: Advantages of a “Methods” Approach to Arms Control [PDF]
, 2012 This technical report summarizes a number of results for the multivariate t distribution which can exhibit heavier tails than the Gaussian distribution.
Kastan, Benjamin
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The percutaneous absorption of soman in a damaged skin porcine model and the evaluation of WoundStat™ as a topical decontaminant [PDF]
, 2017 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate a candidate haemostat (WoundStat™), down-selected from previous in vitro studies, for efficacy as a potential skin decontaminant against the chemical warfare agent pinacoyl methylfluorophosphonate (Soman, GD)
Chilcott, Robert P +6 more
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Extraction of Chemical Warfare Agent From Soil: Case Study on O-ethyl S-2-(diisopropylamino) Ethyl Methylphosphonothiolate (Vx) [PDF]
, 2008 Extraction of chemical warfare agents (CWA's), O-ethyl S-2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methylphosphonothiolate (VX) in soil sample has been done. The extraction was performed using six different solvents at ambient and cold temperature.
Zuas, O. (Oman)
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