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Further studies of the efficacy of military, commercial and novel skin decontaminants against the chemical warfare agents sulphur mustard, soman and VX [PDF]
, 2019 Background/Aims: Following an incident involving toxic chemicals, deployment of countermeasures before the arrival of specialised services at the scene may provide a “therapeutic” window in which to mitigate skin absorption.
Chilcott, Robert +2 more
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Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 The series of symmetrical and unsymmetrical isoquinolinium-5-carbaldoximes was designed and prepared for cholinesterase reactivation purposes. The novel compounds were evaluated for intrinsic acetylcholinesterase (AChE) or butyrylcholinesterase (BChE ...
David Malinak +13 more
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OXIMES AND ATROPINE IN SARIN POISONING [PDF]
British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, 1957 Three oximes, monoisonitrosoacetone (MINA), pyridine‐2‐aldoxime methiodide (PAM) and diacetylmonoxime (DAM), have been examined in combination with atropine as antidotes in sarin poisoning. When treatment was administered 15 min. before sarin, atropine enhanced the protective effect of MINA and DAM 2 to 3 times and of PAM 9 to 10 times in mice and rats.
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Photocatalytic degradation of an organophosphorus compound by porous Au- and WO3- modified TiO2 [PDF]
, 2016 Organophosphorus (OP) compounds are highly toxic substances that are often used as chemical warfare agents and pesticides. OP pesticides are the most widely used class of pesticide in the world, and due to their ubiquity, the contamination of ...
Parker, David M.
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Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information
, 2016 Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores or probabilities. We present a comparison of different information presentations for uncertain data and, for the first time, measure their effects on human ...
Gkatzia, Dimitra +2 more
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Natural Detoxification Capacity to Inactivate Nerve Agents Sarin and VX in the Rat Blood
Acta Medica, 2016 Background: The method of continual determination of the rat blood cholinesterase activity was developed to study the changes of the blood cholinesterases following different intervetions.
Jiří Bajgar +3 more
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Two Varieties of Moral Exemplarism [PDF]
, 2018 References to moral exemplars run deep into the history of philosophy, as we find them featured in rather disparate context and approaches which span from virtue ethics to moral perfectionism, from existentialism to moral particularism. In the varied and
Marchetti, Sarin
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Survival and disinfection of SARS-Cov-2 in environment and contaminated surface [PDF]
, 2020 The detection of SARS-Cov-2 in the sewage and water resources has increased the awareness among the people about the possibility survival of SARS-Cov-2 in the environment and the potential to transmit into the human through food chain or water resources.
Al-Gheethi, Adel +5 more
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Frankenstein: The United States in Afghanistan during the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]
, 2017 For nearly the past quarter century, the United States has been involved in covert operations in a region of the world that most people could not locate on a map. Invisible wars being fought by the United States and other foreign intelligence agencies in
Szymanski, Michael R
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