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An Analysis of Limited Maritime War

open access: yes, 2018
Limited maritime war is a promising area for investigation for two reasons. First, it is one of the two major nonstrategic-nuclear war scenarios upon which the naval planning of the United States is ...
James, Harry R., III
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The origins of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2012
This article reviews the beginnings and history of the physicians’ antinuclear movement. The role of Victor W. Sidel, MD, is described, particularly his involvement with Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and International Physicians for the ...
Sidney Alexander
doaj  

Metastasis on pause: How dormant tumor cells stay hidden within the tumor microenvironment and evade immune surveillance

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geometries of hope and fear: the iconography of atomic science and nuclear anxiety in the modern sculpture of World War and Cold War Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter will investigate the ways in which nuclear science and technology figured in a variety of sculptural forms in early Cold-War Britain. First, it will show how from the 1930s the constructivist sculptors Hepworth and Gabo embraced atomic ...
Burstow, Robert
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Humanitarian and public health efforts are needed to eradicate nuclear weapons

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2012
Tilman Ruff, Ira Helfand
doaj   +1 more source

Development and Validation of Anxiety Due to Nuclear War Threat Scale

open access: yesPsychological Topics
Anxiety is a common reaction to the threat of nuclear war, and there is a need for a reliable and valid measure to assess it. Existing questionnaires on the specific anxiety due to the danger of nuclear war only measure some of the four clusters of ...
Vicko Ćudina   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

DNA methylation and expression of MAPRE3 affect overall survival of early‐stage non‐small cell lung cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Both cg12821679MAPRE3 methylation and MAPRE3 expression are significantly associated with overall survival (OS) of non‐small cell lung cancer. Meanwhile, MAPRE3 expression significantly modified the effect of smoking cessation on OS. Smoking cessation benefits OS merely for patients with high MAPRE3 expression.
Chao Chen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear War as It Looks

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты
Currently, there are practically no people left who have seen the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. This is the reason for certain frivolous statements about the advisability of using tactical nuclear weapons to solve certain tactical problems.
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Circulating tumor cell viability during and after radiotherapy mirrors treatment response in cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Radiotherapy (RT) response depends on the DNA repair capacity of tumor and host cells. We show that circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts and apoptosis rates before and after RT predict treatment response and outcome, which can be accessed via easily accessible liquid biopsy approaches. Created in BioRender. Wikman, H.
Yvonne Goy   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear Italy. An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War

open access: yes, 2017
This book examines the history of Italy’s nuclear policies during the Cold War, by placing the Italian case in an international and comparative framework.
Londero, Igor, Bini, Elisabetta
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