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Fostering the Biosecurity Norm: Biosecurity Education for the Next Generation of Life Scientists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Sustainable education on biosecurity and dual use for life scientists is increasingly recognised as being an important element of broader efforts to achieve biosecurity.
Mancini, Guilio, Revill, James
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Facilitated Transport of Organic Contaminants in a High Concentration, Multicomponent Plume

open access: yesGroundwater Monitoring &Remediation, EarlyView.
Abstract A field experiment evaluated the transport of organic contaminants in a plume from hazardous waste disposal areas at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The plume contained many xenobiotic contaminants, with widely varying expected mobilities.
D. M. Mackay   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laboratory multistatic 3D SAR with polarimetry and sparse aperture sampling

open access: yesIET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
With the advent of constellations of SAR satellites, and the possibility of swarms of SAR UAV's, there is increased interest in multistatic SAR image formation.
Richard Welsh, Daniel Andre, Mark Finnis
doaj   +1 more source

Boosting Image Forgery Detection using Resampling Features and Copy-move analysis

open access: yes, 2018
Realistic image forgeries involve a combination of splicing, resampling, cloning, region removal and other methods. While resampling detection algorithms are effective in detecting splicing and resampling, copy-move detection algorithms excel in ...
Bappy, Jawadul H.   +8 more
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
wiley   +1 more source

Polarimetry for Sparse Multistatic 3D SAR

open access: yesIET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
There is significant interest in multistatic SAR image formation, due to the increased development of satellite constellations and UAV swarms for remote sensing applications. The exploitation of the finer resolution and wider coverage of these geometries
Richard Welsh, Daniel Andre, Mark Finnis
doaj   +1 more source

The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now dominant open shop as well as the union default.
Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall
wiley   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos: Abject Transgression in Batman Returns, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Permissible Purchasing, Obligatory Abstention: The Strict Vegan Case against New Omnivorism

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent developments in consumer ethics have given rise to a new breed of animal protectionist: the new omnivore. These new wave animal protectionists claim that strict veganism is impermissible for the very reason that typically motivates strict veganism; that is, animal protectionism.
Daniel White
wiley   +1 more source

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