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Showing 1 to 20 of 4514 for “"Protect"”.
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Evaluation Of Immunogenicity Of Transgenic Chloroplast Derived Protect
… anthracis with the principle component being protective antigen (PA83). Evaluation of anthrax vaccine given to nearly 400,000 US military personnel by Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showed adverse effects such as flu-like symptoms, local pain, large degree of inflammation, …
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Can NATO's Missile Defence System Protect Bulgarian Territory?
… in defence capability could improve Bulgarian protection against ballistic missile attacks. To this end, a simple model for evaluating the ability of defences intercept medium-range ballistic missiles during their mid-course phase of flight is developed. A <em>Mathematica</em> programme …
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Responsibility To Protect: The Use and The Abuse
… the new emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect, famously known as (R2P) and its use and abuse within international relations landscape. The norm meant to replace the widely argued and challenged principle of humanitarian intervention, and to put an end, once and for all, to the …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… Criminal Court and the responsibility to protect. Since their emergence at the turn of the 21th century, the Court and the doctrine have developed in parallel. They have the same function to prevent mass violence and the same complementary approach to state sovereignty. As such, they are …
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Engineering durable late blight resistance to protect solanaceous plants
<i>Phytophthora infestans</i>, the oomycete pathogen responsible for late blight of potato and tomato, is regarded as the biggest threat to global potato production and is thought to cost the industry around £6 billion annually. Traditionally, fungicides have been used to control the disease, but …
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Flexible Cuckoo directory to protect against side channel attacks
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01
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Displaced persons in South Sudan - whose responsibility to protect?
There have been severe shortcomings in the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs), and gaps in research with academic and legal focus remaining on refugees instead. These gaps are revealed and correspondingly explored in this thesis through a case study analysis of South Sudan. The main …
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Optimal Resource Allocation Strategies to Protect Network-structured Systems
Protection of critical national infrastructure has received significant attention in the past recent years. As a result, researchers have developed methods to preserve and maintain critical infrastructure systems and minimize their vulnerability to disasters and disruptions. However, these models …
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Harnessing Environmental Justice to Protect Against Land-grabbing in Cameroon
… environmental impact assessment (EIA) system to protect vulnerable communities against land-grabbing. Drawing on examples from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda, this thesis argues that subsistence communities who failed to have their customary …
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Probing the Ability of Flexible Hydrogels to Protect Fragile Objects
… fragile objects (such as an egg or a fruit) and protect against impact. We study gels made by either physical crosslinking (e.g., gelatin) or chemical crosslinking (e.g., acrylamide) and also the same gels with various particulate additives. None of the bare gels are protective, and nanoparticles …
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Do classified boards protect top management? : evidence from shareholder proposals
… These findings suggest that classified boards protect top management and lead to higher levels of managerial entrenchment.
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Russian Intervention in Crimea and the Question of Responsibility to Protect
… Crimea represents a case for Responsibility to Protect. This study investigates how the international community reacts to and determines a case of Responsibility to Protect. Three criteria to justify use of Responsibility to Protect are created from an analysis of international deliberations in …
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Selecting dietary-derived bioactives which protect cartilage from destruction in osteoarthritis
… compounds from the diet that could offer protection or slow the progression of OA via collagenase and/or aggrecanase inhibition. Ninety-six dietary derived compounds selected from a Natural Product Library were screened at 10μM for IL1-induced and basal MMP13 inhibition in SW1353 and …
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Severely Stressed Astrocytes Adapt to Injury and Still Protect Neighboring Neurons
… severely stressed astrocytes were still able to protect neighboring neurons from proteotoxic injury in our model. In Aim 2, we examined the therapeutic potential of N-acetyl cysteine, a glutathione precursor known to benefit patients with neurological disorders. We discovered that N-acetyl …
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The Use of visitor management techniques to protect a fragile environment.
… and resource alteration methods are used to protect the resources from inappropriate visitor activity. Interpretation, restrictions, regulations and other management-related/administrative information need to be delivered to visitors. Furthermore, persuasive communication is effective to …
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Reservoir Management Techniques to Enhance Biological Productivity and Protect Water Quality
<p>Three reservoirs of similar size, watershed land use, and qualitative characteristics in northwest Arkansas, USA were selected to compare the effects of chemical fertilization and pulsed artificial-upwelling on whole-lake productivity, specifically primary production and phytoplankton biomass. …
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