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Human GenomicsVeterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War (GW) experienced an elevated burden of chronic health conditions, most notably Gulf War Illness (GWI). While the disease etiology remains unclear, it is hypothesized that both genetic susceptibility and deployment ...
Dan Qiu +13 more
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Level of Eosinophil Cationic Protein in Sputum of Chemical Warfare Victims [PDF]
Objective(s) Considering fair response to inhaled corticosteroids and reports of severe air way hyper responsiveness in chemical warfare victims (CWV), a role for eosinophilic inflammation (i.e. asthma) was postulated.
خاكزاد, محمد رضا +7 more
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Supply Chain Diversification and Industrial Policies to Strengthen Economic Security
Asian Economic Policy Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recently, global supply chains have been disrupted because of geopolitical factors and industrial policies induced by national security concerns. Under these circumstances, creating supply chain resilience and strengthening economic security are of great interest to researchers, policymakers, and business people.
Yasuyuki Todo
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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 +5 more
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Nanomaterials based decontaminants against chemical warfare agents
, 2011 91-104This review deals with history and recent technological advancements in the area of nano materials (NMs) and their application in decontamination of chemical warfare agents, which on contact create adverse health symptoms in humans.
Ramacharyulu, P V R K +2 more
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Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard +2 more
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Chemical Warfare: A Primer on Agents, Munitions, and Defensive Measures
, 1981 The recent Department of Defense proposal to develop a capability to modernize and expand the current U.S. chemical warfare munition stocks with binary nerve agent munitions has focused attention on the subject of chemical warfare.
Kallis, E. M.
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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 +3 more
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Chemical weapons disposal program [PDF]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the process of destroying the entire U.S. stockpile of aging and obsolete chemical weapons. The original stockpile contained 63 million pounds of chemical weapons disseminated at eight sites in the continental United
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