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Constitutional aneuploidy and cancer predisposition caused by biallelic mutations in BUB1B
Mosaic variegated aneuploidy is a rare recessive condition characterized by growth retardation, microcephaly, childhood cancer and constitutional mosaicism for chromosomal gains and losses. In five families wi...
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Historical Precedents?
War is defined as a state of hostility, conflict, antagonism or struggle between two opposing forces for a particular end. When chemical weapons are added to an existing arsenal, the nature of the conflict is ...
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The First World War
The most persistent assumption underlying the decisions taken by the great powers in July and August 1914 was the illusion that the ensuing war would be short. The thinking behind this was relatively simple: m...
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The Second World War
At the beginning of the Second World War, the experience of the First World War gave most of the combatants the expectation that chemical warfare would be used to an even greater extent, despite the Geneva Pro...
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The Middle East, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Gulf
While the United States was still involved in the Vietnam War, another war in the Middle East brought the subject of chemical warfare back to the forefront. From 1963 reports began to filter out of the use of ...
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Controlling Chemical Weapons
The entry into force of the 1993 CWC on 29 April 1997 was unique in the history of arms control. This agreement both banned an entire class of weapons and simultaneously addressed chemical proliferation concer...
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The Inter-War Years, 1919–1939
It was natural that the war should be followed by a wave of anti-war feeling. The war had done what the writing of the economists had failed to do: it had demonstrated that modern warfare brought loss on a col...
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The Soviet Threat, Korea and Vietnam, 1945–1975
At the end of the Second World War, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement which stated: ‘All arms, ammunition and implements of war shall be held at the disposal of the Allies or destroyed’, a large proport...
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Chemical Terrorism
The possibility that terrorists would acquire or use chemical weapons was, of course, around long before a religious cult went on the rampage in Japan in the mid-1990s. This problem had been discussed for deca...
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Mutations in RNF135, a gene within the NF1 microdeletion region, cause phenotypic abnormalities including overgrowth
17q11 microdeletions that encompass NF1 cause 5%–10% of cases of neurofibromatosis type 1, and individuals with microdeletions are typically taller than individuals with intragenic NF1 mutations, suggesting that ...
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Trauma Experiences, Maltreatment-Related Impairments, and Resilience Among Child Welfare Youth in Residential Care
The aim of this paper was to provide a description of the trauma experiences, trauma-related sequels, and resilience features of a sample of Canadian youth in residential care facilities, as well as to explore...
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Open AccessMental health first aid training for nursing students: a protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in a large university
The impact of mental health problems and disorders in Australia is significant. Mental health problems often start early and disproportionately affect young people. Poor adolescent mental health can predict ed...
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Art and Evidence: Balancing the Discussion on Arts- and Evidence- Based Practices with Traumatized Children
The primary objective of this paper was to balance the conversation about evidence-based practices in the treatment of traumatized children by making it more arts inclusive. We overview some of the theoretical...
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Service-learning: a tool to create social capital for collaborative natural resource management
The complexity of many natural resource problems does not allow for simple solutions and cannot be addressed by singular organizations. Collaborative natural resource management is required to address such pro...
