The Warfare Against Tuberculosis.

Immunization against potential biological warfare agents.

The intentional release of biological agents by belligerents or terrorists is a possibility that has recently attracted increased attention. Law enforcement agencies, military planners, public health officials, and clinicians are gaining an increasing awareness of this potential threat. From a military perspective, an important component of the protective pre-exposure armamentarium against this...

Defense against biologic warfare with superantigen toxins.

BACKGROUND Superantigens produced by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes are among the most lethal of toxins. Toxins in this family trigger an excessive cellular immune response leading to toxic shock. OBJECTIVES To design an antagonist that is effective in vivo against a broad spectrum of superantigen toxins. METHODS Short peptide antagonists were selected for their ability to...

Modelling Elementary Subtraction: Intelligent Warfare Against Bugs

This paper discusses an intelligent system .that uses Input/ Output Cognitive Modelling (IOCM) techniques to form a model of the student. The paper describes FBM, an IOCM system that uses features to represent the inputs and outputs of the tasks being presented to the student and forms a relationship which describes in essence the knowledge the student has in the domain. Also presented is ASPMo...

The New Patterns of Warfare: Terrorism against Innocent Civilians

Violent political conflicts dominate in the global mass media sending almost every day. It is a matter of the new terrorist related conflicts that have become so conspicuous in the 21st century. How are we to understand the new pattern of political conflicts involving the massive and indiscriminate employment of terrorist attacks? To reply to this question, one may contrast the new pattern of f...

Turning the tide against tuberculosis.