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Rehumanizing Higher Education: Fostering Humanity in the Era of Machine Learning

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised contentious questions and spawned divided opinions regarding the future of education. The polarization it brings to the academy seems to be breaking between the soft and hard disciplines and is reminiscent of the Science Wars of the 1990s. This chapter highlights the philosophical
Joseph Carver, Samba Bah
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
doaj  

Late cutaneous complications in chemical warfare victims in Kerman province [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 1995
Iraq has used chemical warfare agents in recent Iran-Iraq conflict ( 1980-88) . There are few studies regarding late complications of chemical warfare and there is no report concerning late cutaneous complications. The present study is concerned with the
A.R Fekri, M Janghorbani
doaj  

Derivatisation of chemical warfare agent degradant without removal of water [PDF]

, 2018
Degradation products are distinct chemical signature for the detection of chemical warfare agents and forensic attribution in cases where the parent compound no longer exists. Being the common degradant to nerve agents, methylphosphonic acid serves as an
Chua, Xiang Le
core  

Analysis of chemical warfare agents by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: methods for their direct detection and derivatization approaches for the analysis of their degradation products

, 2018
Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) are unarguably one of the most feared toxic substances produced by mankind. Their inception in conventional warfare can be traced as far back as the Middle Ages but their full breakthrough as central players in bellic ...
C. A. Valdez, R. Leif, S. Hok, B. Hart
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Abiotic factors and plant traits affect the soil microbial properties in forests across the Japanese archipelago

Ecological Research, EarlyView.
We examined how abiotic factors and plant traits affect soil microbial properties in 18 forests across the Japanese archipelago. Our results showed that, in addition to abiotic factors, plant leaf traits contributed to explaining the landscape‐scale variations in soil microbial properties.
Toshiki Orita, Takuo Hishi, Keiko Kishimoto‐Yamada, Hiroko Kurokawa, Masahiro Ohta, Fujio Hyodo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal and catalytic methods used for destruction of chemical warfare agents

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2019
The decontamination of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) from structures, environmental media and even personnel has become an area of particular interest in recent years due to increased homeland security concerns.
J. Nawała, P. Jóźwik, S. Popiel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a New Reference Dataset for Northwest Arabian Pottery: A Preliminary Characterization of the Fabrics, Techniques, Shapes and Decoration of the Pre‐Islamic Pottery From Dadan (Third Millennium bce–Early First Millennium ce)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The site of Dadan, in the al‐ʿUlā valley, is one of the major and longest‐settled ancient oasis settlements in northwest Arabia. As part of the Saudi‐French Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA), a study of its pre‐Islamic ceramic assemblage has been underway since 2020.
Shadi Shabo, Jérôme Rohmer, Francelin Tourtet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Chemical Warfare Agents on the Human Eye [PDF]

, 1945
S. S. Scherling, Robert R Blondis, Pine Bluff Arsenal   +2 more
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