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Ecological aspects of liquid radwaste confinement in the severnyi deep repository
The results of studies of the effect of low-level wastes on the ecosystem of the reservoir bed at the Severnyi site of the Mining-Chemical Works are...
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Emerging Technologies: Biosecurity and Consequence Management Implications
The natural outbreaks of disease and pandemics are transnational threats that create international challenges when detection and containment are not...
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Technological Innovations to Counter CBRNE Threat Vectors and Ecotage
The ubiquitous presence of sensors for enhanced situational awareness necessitates an innovative, articulate, and focused review of their design,...
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Mars Science Laboratory Mission and Science Investigation
Scheduled to land in August of 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission was initiated to explore the habitability of Mars. This includes both...
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Origin of Petroleum on Earth
Although I had a long and sometimes fruitful association with NASA, and several people on my staff worked under NASA contracts, it became clear to me...
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Nanomaterials for Defense Applications
Nanotechnology has found a number of applications in electronics and healthcare. Within the textile field, applications of nanotechnology have been...
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Thunderstorms: Trace Species Generators
In the upper troposphere, both natural and anthropogenic processes control the budget of nitric oxide (NO), a highly reactive and pollutant trace...
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Applied problems of mathematical biology and bioinformatics
Mathematical biology and bioinformatics represent a new and rapidly progressing line of investigations which emerged in the course of work on the...
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Application of Raman-based images in the Earth sciences
In this chapter, we describe internal textures ofcrystals, minerals, and mineral assemblages as detected by Ramanspectroscopy. As an introduction,...
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Scientific Satellite Spacecraft
Many satellites are designed to gather information on extraterrestrial bodies. We will call these “spacecraft.” One of the earliest spacecraft, Luna...
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Cells of the Blood Circulation
Blood supplies oxygen, a mediator for cell energy, and conveys nutrients to tissues and removes waste products of cell metabolism toward lungs and...
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Energy Harvesting and Chip Autonomy
Energy harvesting micro-generators provide alternative sources of energy for many technical and personal applications. Since the power delivered by...
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Sources of life’s origin: A search for biomarkers
Until the commitment of the United States by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to send a man to the Moon by the end of that decade, the only...
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Deep and Dark
Europa is on everyone’s short list of destinations for finding life in the Solar System beyond Earth. This is because water is found there in...
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Areas of Research
This chapter introduces the main topics of research that have benefited so far from the space environment (reduced gravity, ambient radiation,...
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Life Support Systems
It is certainly true that robots like the Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, and Opportunity have shown that a lot of scientific information about a planet’s...
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Production, characterization and development of standards for biodiesel — A review
Biodiesel is being promoted worldwide as a supplement and alternative automotive fuel for petroleum diesel in spite of several technological,...
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Applied optics to engineering photonics: a retrospective
This paper provides a short overview of the time I spent as a member of the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent (1985-1989) followed by a...