The growing and immediate threat of biological and chemical weapons has placed urgency on the development of chemical and biological warfare agent (CWA/BWA) screening devices. Specifically, the ability to detect CWA/BWA prior to deployment is paramount to mitigating the threat without exposing individuals to its effects. SPARTA, Inc. and NIST are currently investigating the feasibility of using...

The Clean Water Act (CWA) has regulated discharges of contaminants since 1972. However, evaluations of the CWA's effectiveness at improving regional water quality are lacking, primarily because integration of monitoring data from multiple dischargers to assess cumulative effects is not required. A rare opportunity exists to assess CWA effectiveness by integrating mass emissions data from all ma...

PURPOSE Performance analysis (PA) in football is considered to be an integral component of understanding the requirements for optimal performance. Despite vast amounts of research in this area key gaps remain, including what comprises PA in football, and methods to minimise research-practitioner gaps. The aim of this study was to develop a model of the football match system in order to better d...

Sulfur-containing CWA simulants of yperite (CEES) and VX (PhX) are neutralized with Oxone, in solid or liquid form, flow systems.

W artykule opisano dzieje Centrum Wyszkolenia Armii (CWA) w latach 1942–1946. Utworzono je celu przeszkolenia żołnierzy służących Polskiej na Wschodzie oraz 2 Korpusie. We wchodzących skład CWA ośrodkach wyszkolenia broni i służb organizowano – zgodnie z zapotrzebowaniem kursy szkoły podchorążych, których słuchacze zdobywali niezbędną wiedzę wojskową. Przez prawie cztery lata funkcjonowania kil...

Abstract Since 2011, unprecedented pelagic sargassum seaweed blooms have occurred across the tropical North Atlantic, with severe socioeconomic impacts for coastal populations. To investigate role of physical drivers in post-2010 Central West Atlantic (CWA), conditions are examined wider using ocean and atmospheric re-analyses satellite-derived datasets. Of particular consequence growth drift p...

This paper presents an initial conceptualisation of an approach to integrated sociotechnical system design based on cognitive work analysis (CWA). A convincing argument has already been made that the design of complex sociotechnical systems should be driven fundamentally by the goal of promoting adaptation and that a formative approach to work analysis, such as that offered by CWA, is necessary...

Evaporation of micro-liter drops from solid surfaces at room condition is mainly governed by diffusion. Therefore, there should be no difference between evaporation rate of sessile and pendant drops. However, some studies indicate a difference and explain the difference using buoyancy. The objective here is to reconcile the inconsistency in the literature. For that, first, by comparing two iden...

For the first time, the use of a traditional ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry (radioactive nickel ((63)Ni) beta emission ionization) and three alternative ionization sources (electrospray ionization (ESI), secondary electrospray ionization (SESI), and electrical discharge (corona) ionization (CI)) were employed with an atmospheric pressure ion mobility orthogonal reflector time-o...