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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents

BMEMat
With the occurrence of terrorist incidents and the intensification of war situations, concerns about biological and chemical warfare agents (BCWAs) created by mankind are growing due to their chilling characteristics such as high toxicity, high fatality ...
Song Li, Huaijuan Zhou, Di Shi, Zdeněk Sofer, Jinhua Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Controllable synthesis of conjugated microporous polymer films for ultrasensitive detection of chemical warfare agents. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
Mo W, Zhu Z, Kong F, Li X, Chen Y, Liu H, Cheng Z, Ma H, Li B.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Noble-Metal Nanoparticle-Based Fluorescence Detection of Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents. [PDF]

ACS Omega, 2022
Numan A, Singh PS, Alam A, Khalid M, Li L, Singh S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Homogeneously niobium-doped MoS₂ for rapid and high-sensitive detection of typical chemical warfare agents. [PDF]

Front Chem, 2022
Jiang H, Wang H, Shangguan Y, Chen J, Liang T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From quantity to quality: the evolution of forest restoration in the United Kingdom

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Over the past century, forest cover in the United Kingdom has increased threefold. However, the pathways, achievements, and shortcomings of this expansion remain underexplored. Objectives This study analyses the drivers, implementation, and legacies of forest restoration in the United Kingdom before and after 1990, which is when ...
Susanne Raum, Maitane Erdozain, Keith Kirby, Iciar Alberdi, Sergio de‐Miguel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eco-Friendly Peelable Active Nanocomposite Films Designed for Biological and Chemical Warfare Agents Decontamination. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel), 2021
Toader G, Diacon A, Rotariu T, Alexandru M, Rusen E, Ginghină RE, Alexe F, Oncioiu R, Zorila FL, Podaru A, Moldovan AE, Pulpea D, Gavrilă AM, Iordache TV, Șomoghi R.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Common molecular profile of multiple structurally distinct warfare arsenicals in causing cutaneous chemical vesicant injury

Scientific Reports
Skin exposure to arsenicals such as lewisite and phenylarsine oxide leads to severe cutaneous damage. Here, we characterized the molecular pathogenesis of skin injury caused by additionally structurally distinct warfare arsenicals including ...
Ritesh Kumar Srivastava, Suhail Muzaffar, Jasim Khan, Mohit Bansal, Anupam Agarwal, Mohammad Athar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source