Pyrethrum and the Second World War: Recontextualising DDT in the Narrative of Wartime Insect Control
HoST, 2022 Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding.
Clarke Sabine, Brown Richard J. E.
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Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), DDT metabolites and pregnancy outcomes [PDF]
Reproductive Toxicology, 2013 Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are persistent endocrine disruptors. OCPs cross the placenta; this prenatal exposure has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. We investigated associations between prenatal exposure to OCPs and gestational age and birth weight in 600 infants born between 1960 and 1963.
Katrina L, Kezios +8 more
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Numerical simulation of DDT process of aviation kerosene one-component alternative fuel
Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2022 Aiming at the difficulty of numerical simulation of the DDT process during the detonation combustion of aviation kerosene, this paper has presented a single-component simplified mechanism of aviation kerosene to carry out the numerical simulation of the ...
HUANG Xiqiao +3 more
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Tribal gaps in Malaria in relation to KAP in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023 Objectives: To assess the level of GAPS in knowledge, attitudes and practices among tribal people regarding malaria disease. To assess the interassociation among knowledge, attitude and practices of scores.
Kothapalle Sowmya Sudha +4 more
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DDT Resistance Korean Body Lice and Development of Insecticide Resistance Knowledge during Korean War [PDF]
Uisahak, 2022 DDT exemplifies success and failure of modern science and technology. Once it was heralded as technological wonder that will deliver human from misery of insect-borne infectious disease.
Junho JUNG
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Levels and Determinants of DDT and DDE Exposure in the VHEMBE Cohort. [PDF]
, 2017 BackgroundAlthough indoor residual spraying (IRS) is an effective tool for malaria control, its use contributes to high insecticide exposure in sprayed communities and raises concerns about possible unintended health effects.ObjectiveThe Venda Health ...
Barr, Dana Boyd +7 more
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The IMPRESS DDT: a database design toolbox based on a formal specification language [PDF]
, 1994 The Database Design Tool prototype is being developed in the IMPRESS project (Esprit project 6355). The IMPRESS project started in May 1992 and aims at creating a low-level storage manager tailored for multimedia applications, together with a library of ...
Flokstra, Jan +2 more
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Regional differences and sources of organochlorine pesticides in soils surrounding chemical industrial parks [PDF]
, 2009 Concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB)) were investigated in 105 soil samples collected in vicinity of the chemical industrial parks in Tianjin ...
Han, Jingyi +7 more
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Environmental Science & Technology, 2007 One year after WHO recommended the use of DDT in developing countries to prevent the spread of malaria, the debate over its safety continues.
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Deep Descriptor Transforming for Image Co-Localization [PDF]
, 2017 Reusable model design becomes desirable with the rapid expansion of machine learning applications. In this paper, we focus on the reusability of pre-trained deep convolutional models.
Li, Yao +6 more
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