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Shannon-Wiener index of diversity
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nuclear bomb
Nuclear Detection Devices ¦ LARRY GILMAN Nuclear detection devices, also termed radiation detectors, are systems designed to detect the presence of radioactive materials. These materials may take the form of gases, particles suspended in air, or solid metals (often alloys... Read more |
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Dothan (United States)
Dothan , city (1990 pop. 53,589), seat of Houston co., SE Ala., near the Fla. line, in a timber and peanut-growing area; inc. 1885. It is the industrial and farm trade center of the region. Among its diverse manufactures are fertilizer, motor vehicle parts, and processed food. A nuclear power plant... Read more |
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diversity index
diversity index The mathematical expression of the species diversity of a given community or area, which includes due allowance for the relative abundance of different species present. Such indices (e.g. the Shannon–Wiener index) are generally considered an important means for comparisons of... Read more |
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Violence and Gangs
Chapter 8: Violence and Gangs THE SCOPE OF THE GANG PROBLEMCHARACTERISTICS OF GANGSGANG CRIME AND VIOLENCECONSEQUENCES OF BEING IN A GANG THE SCOPE OF THE GANG PROBLEM Gangs have a long history in the United States, dating back to the 1800s. The United States became a so-called melting... Read more |
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Urinary diversion
Urinary Diversion Surgery Definition A urinary diversion involves removal of the urinary bladder and adjacent tissues and organs, and re-routing of the urinary stream. This may involve creation of an artificial opening in the abdomen called an ostomy. Purpose A urinary diversion is created... Read more |
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Prokaryotic Chromosome
Chromosome, Prokaryotic The bacterial or prokaryotic chromosome differs in many ways from that of the eukaryote. The term "eukaryote" comes from the Greek and means "true nucleus." Eukaryotic cells have a double membrane (the nuclear membrane ) surrounding the nucleus, the organelle that contains... Read more |
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Diversity
DIVERSITY. Diversity, as a word or concept, can apply to rocks, plants, animals, people, systems of law, and much else. In the United States, since the 1970s, its immediate reference, if the word is presented with nothing more to specify it, is to the diversity of races, ethnic groups, and language... Read more |
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Combating the threat of nuclear diversion
...HOW SERIOUS a threat is the potential acquisition of nuclear materials or even nuclear weapons by states hostile...chilling reality is that nuclear materials and technologies...harder to detect illicit diversions of materials and ... |
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Before the Day After: Using Pre-Detonation Nuclear Forensics to Improve...
...are likely to be as pressing as combating the threat posed by nuclear terrorism. Twelve years ago, experts identified "nuclear leakage" -the sale, theft, and diversion of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable fissile... |
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COUNTERTERRORISM AND NONPROLIFERATION: TWO GOALS FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT.
...trafficking of nuclear materials and equipment...the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program...Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Most...positive steps toward combating both nuclear terrorism and proliferation...serve to detect ... |
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COMBATING BIOTERRORISM MUST INCLUDE EFFORTS TO STOP THREATS BEFORE REACHING...
...chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons - so called...grew, so did their threat to civilian populations...scenarios for the use of nuclear, chemical, and biological...turn back impending threats. No less is needed...staggering quantities of ... |
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'Security aid to Pak after 2010 to be decided by its conduct'.
...progress towards combating terrorist groups...acquisition of nuclear weapons-related...progress towards combating terror groups...proliferation of nuclear-related material...whether by the diversion of US assistance...Given the expanding ... |
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RUSSIAN DEBT AND NUCLEAR SECURITY:ELLEN O. TAUSCHER
...possibility for their diversion or theft into...S.-Russian threat reduction programs...Russia`s vast nuclear arsenal is far...than 80,000 nuclear weapons and potential nuclear weapons would...mechanism for combating the ... |
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Worrying Over Illicit Small-Arms Traffic
...in such weapons leads to their diversion to non-state entities," Arundhati...had "killed more people than nuclear bombs did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...could be an important factor in combating this threat. In that regard, she said India... |
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Europe weakened by protests against war. (political notebook).
...remember the Vietnam and Nuclear Freeze eras, a front...They "spent decades combating the mixture of pacifists, nuclear disarmers and hard...critics the immediate threat is al-Qaeda and...Blair policy as a diversion from this and one... |
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PREVENTING NUCLEAR TERRORISM:THOMAS B. COCHRAN, PH.D.
...Detecting Nuclear Smuggling...development.2. A crude nuclear device constructed...probability of detecting nuclear weapon-usable...programs to reduce the threat of terroristuse...effectivetools for combating terrorist use of...greatest risk ... |
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Iraq Weapons Hunt Ends; Other Investigations Continue
...weapons program. The threat posed by these weapons...not restarted its nuclear, chemical, or...ambitions to develop nuclear and chemical weapons...restored significant nuclear capabilities. Duelfer...tasks, such as combating the ... |
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