BACKGROUND Military intelligence data published in a companion paper explain how chemical fallout from US and Coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons facilities early in the air campaign transited long distance, triggering nerve agent alarms and exposing US troops. We report the findings of a population-based survey designed to test competing hypotheses on the impact on chronic Gulf War ill...

High-tech digital solutions play a key role in many areas of modern life. The digitalization construction is at the stage development and every year it being introduced more deeply into industry: regulatory documentation developed, platforms for interaction between participants are created, software requirements formed. industry needs professionals who will work information environment througho...

Sitting in our offices early in the morning of September 11, 2001, we, like many across the world, watched with incredulity the twin terrorist strikes on the World Trade Centre. Riveted to the television screen, we witnessed the beginnings of a nightmare whose images will likely remain with us for a long time. September 11, and the events that followed, changed our assumptions of world terroris...

Since the late 1970s, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadhafi has sought to obtain weapons of mass destruction (WMD), particularly chemical and biological weapons (CBW). By the late 1980s, Libya had developed a rudimentary capability to produce such weapons. Western experts view the pursuit of CBW as a means of bolstering Libya’s military capability, since the country lacks effective conventional...

Uncertainty about behavior: Uncertainty about behavior refers to uncertainty regarding the actions taken by others. Sometimes it is hard to know what other states are doing – in particular, if they are cooperating or defecting. Consider weapons of mass destruction. Whatever a state may say publicly, it is very difficult for others to ascertain whether it is pursuing technologies associated with...

A significant problem that has emerged in the field of construction and demolition waste management (C&D), involves the integrated optimization of the entire C&D waste supply chain. The critical decisions to be made include among others: (i) the determination of the optimal deconstruction depth for each EOL construction site before the demolition process, and (ii) the design of an effective tra...

We show how uncertainty shapes the asset allocation, composition, productivity, and value of capital-intensive firms. do so using detailed, near-universal data on shipping firms’ new orders, secondary-market transactions, demolition ships. Firms curtail both acquisition disposal vessels in response to heightened uncertainty. The mechanism operates primarily through cuts ship orders older ships ...

The deindustrialization process of Romania, applied methodically and persistently after the 90s, seems not to be part natural path towards industry 4.0, but rather a systematic planned destruction erasure post-December industry, on new Valev Plan system conceived in secret laboratories artisans world configuration. insistence with which there was demolition most large industrial capacities plat...