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REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection Papers with Chromogenic Chemosensors for Direct Visual Detection and Distinction of Liquid Chemical Warfare Agents

Chemosensors, 2019
This work provides a summary of our results in the area of the experimental development of detection paper for the detection of liquid phase chemical warfare agents (drops, aerosol), the presence of which is demonstrated by the development of ...
Vladimír Pitschmann, Lukáš Matějovský, Kamila Lunerová, Michal Dymák, Martin Urban, Lukáš Králík   +5 more
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Metal-Organic Frameworks as Efficient Sorbents for Solid-Phase Extraction of Chemical Warfare Agents, Their Simulants, and Degradation Products in Water Samples

, 2023
J. S. Wozniak, D. Zasada, Barbara Szczęśniak, J. Choma, Jakub Nawała, Stanisław Popiel   +5 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The second Trump administration poses an existential challenge to many international organizations (IOs), putting them at risk of no longer being able to perform their core functions. Compared to the first term, the scope of America First is much wider and the speed much faster.
Hylke Dijkstra
wiley   +1 more source

[Chemical warfare agents].

Lijecnicki vjesnik, 1992
In this article a chemical weapons are reviewed. Most important groups and some of the agents are presented as well as the mechanism of their action, symptoms and therapy.
Z, Lacković, M, Salković-Petrisić, N, Mitrović, A, Horvat   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic options to treat mustard gas poisoning – Review

Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2019
Among the blistering (vesicant) chemical warfare agents (CWA), sulfur mustard is the most important since it is known as the “King of chemical warfare agents”.
Mehrdad Rafati-Rahimzadeh, Mehravar Rafati-Rahimzadeh, Sohrab Kazemi, Ali Akbar Moghadamnia   +3 more
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Jurisprudence of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously [PDF]

, 1992
This essay is about the power of the international law of nonproliferation- its mounting power in the world today and its properly augmented power in an enlightened future.
Koplow, David A
core   +1 more source