What's New About the New Terrorism and How Dangerous Is It? / Terrorism and Political Violence, 13(Autumn, 2001), pp. 1-14 [PDF]
The ‘new terrorism’ is said to be more networked, ad hoc, lethal and dangerous than the old. This assessment of these claims concludes that terrorism currently differs little from its previous manifestations, except for the somewhat increased likelihood ...
Tucker, David
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Artificial General Intelligence and Its Threat to Public Health
ABSTRACT Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied across healthcare and public health, with evidence of benefits including enhanced diagnostics, predictive modelling, operational efficiency, medical education, and disease surveillance.However, potential harms – such as algorithmic bias, unsafe recommendations, misinformation ...
Richard C. Armitage
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Abstract Critical social science research demonstrates that evidence‐based medicine (EBM) emerged through its proponents’ deliberate efforts to defend EBM's knowledge production methods as credible and independent of commercial interests. In the present study, we expand this discussion by showing how EBM is co‐produced with profit‐making within the ...
Masha Denisova +2 more
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A century of assessment: A systematic review of biothreat risk assessments
Abstract Throughout the past century, assessments of the risks and benefits posed by high‐consequence biological agents have guided US decision‐making on weapons research, countermeasure development, and security policy. However, the dispersed nature of these biothreat risk assessments has presented various difficulties, such as duplicative effort ...
Claire Atkerson, Michael T Parker
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Jihadists’ Use and Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Study of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Weapons Programs [PDF]
Rueben Dass
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When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far are Limitations on Personal and Ecomonic Liberties Justified [PDF]
The government is engaged in a homeland-security project to safeguard the population\u27s health from potential terrorist attacks. This project is politically charged because it affords the state enhanced powers to restrict personal and economic ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The Comprehensive Roadmap Toward Malaria Elimination Using Graphene and its Promising 2D Analogs
Material based on a diversity of graphene with chemical properties of strong strength, high mobility, high transparency, good heat conductivity, biocompatibility, and chemical stability, advanced devices demonstrating antimalarial characteristics can be used for malaria treatment at different stages of malaria development from the injection of ...
Fangzhou He +11 more
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Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorism, 2004 [PDF]
Examines ten key indicators to evaluate state preparedness to respond to bioterrorist attacks and other public health emergencies.
Laura M. Segal +3 more
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Abstract This paper examines how an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert mission for technical assistance in the late 1950s to Greece was effectively transformed into a mission to achieve the IAEA′s central objective: to consolidate its position as the leading global authority on radiation protection. The study focuses on the work of Alfred
Loukas Freris
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EU cybersecurity capacity building in the Mediterranean and the Middle East [PDF]
Cyberthreats on the Rise The 2008 Report on the implementation of the European Security Strategy included “cybersecurity” for the first time among the priorities of the EU’s external action, stating that: “modern economies are heavily reliant on critical
Lannon, Erwoan
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