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How Serious Is Threat of Radiological Terrorism?
Acta Medica, 2009 Radiological terrorism (radioterrorism) is the deliberate use of radiological weapons. These weapons use radioactive materials to disperse and emit ionizing radiation.
Pavel Kuna, Zdeněk Hon, Jiří Patočka
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Terrorism and maritime shipment of nuclear material [PDF]
, 2007 Opponents of the nuclear industry often claim that material in transit is vulnerable to attack by terrorist groups who might seek to take the cargo and make a bomb, or otherwise cause a radiological incident.
Smith, Ron C.
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The basic health care system in a crisis situation after the use of weapons of mass destruction
Security and Defence Quarterly, 2019 Weapons of mass destruction pose a threat that all health care institutions should be prepared for. Every health care centre can be an essential part of the joint system of response when a critical situation occurs.
Mateusz Kuczabski
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Chinese Journal of Cancer, 2017 Metastatic melanoma has long been considered to have a very poor prognosis and to be chemo-resistant. However, a subgroup of patients with metastatic melanoma presents remarkable responses to chemotherapeutic agents, even in the absence of a response to ...
Aurélien Simon +2 more
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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials
, 2013 Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to ...
Katz, J. I.
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Mid-infrared n-Ge on Si Plasmonic Based Microbolometer Sensors [PDF]
, 2017 The detection and amplification of molecular absorption lines from a chemical weapons simulant is demonstrated using plasmonic antennas fabricated from n-Ge epitaxially grown on Si. A free-standing Si0.25Ge0.75 microbolometer detector with n-Ge plasmonic
Baldassarre, Leonetta +12 more
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Teleconsultation ultrasonography: a new weapon to combat cholangiocarcinoma
ESMO Open, 2017 Although cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is usually a rare cancer, in northeast Thailand it kills 20 000 or more people every year. The prognosis is very poor owing to late stage diagnosis, with palliative treatment often representing the only option.
N. Chamadol +6 more
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Ion Mobility Spectrometry as a Part of a System for Rapid Detection of Toxic Chemicals
Safety & Fire Technology, 2019 Aim: The aim of this paper is to present ion mobility spectrometry as a method for the local detection of chemical contaminants. Introduction: According to the doctrine currently in force in the Military Forces of the Republic of Poland, contamination
Władysław Harmata
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Agent selection and threat actualization in contamination cases: Predicting action from perpetrator behavior [PDF]
, 2018 While existing research on the topic is sparse, previous works have shown that there is believed to be a substantial threat of intentional, malicious contamination of the supply chain by criminals and terrorists (CFSAN, 2001; WHO, 2008).
Kilbane, Sarah C.
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New perspectives for undoped CaF2 scintillator as a threshold activation neutron detector
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2018 In this paper we present the prompt photofission neutron detection performance of undoped CaF2 scintillator using Threshold Activation Detection (TAD).
Sibczynski Pawel +16 more
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