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Water utilities in 2026 face accelerating operational pressures driven by climate volatility, regulatory tightening, and aging freshwater infrastructure. Seasonal planning and reactive treatment are no longer sufficient; utilities managing reservoirs and large surface water systems must confront risks that have built up over years. A unified, proactive approach is required to preserve drinking ...
AbstractHuanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease, represents one of themost severe biological threats to citrus agriculture globally. Caused by thephloem-limited bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, HLB disrupts vasculartransport systems and leads to progressive tree decline and mortality. Whiletransmission is primarily associated with the Asian citrus psyllid vector, ...
Sanitation systems are another core part of the water cycle as they manage the entire network from their source to their point of use or end-of-life disposal. Technology is also set to play a key role in these networks in 2024, not only to ensure that they run smoothly, but also to respond to extreme events and control the spread of ...
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### Future Trends in Door Frame Metal Detector Technology As technology continues to evolve, the landscape of security solutions, including door frame metal detector technology, is undergoing rapid advancements. The future of door frame metal detector technology holds promise for innovative features, enhanced performance, and greater integration capabilities. By exploring the emerging trends in ...
There are a vast array of detector dog training aids on the market covering the odours of mainstream drugs, explosives and some biological threats such as Bed Bugs and Termites. But what happens when a new threat emerges? It’s historically been hard to respond to these threats quickly due to the time, resources and money involved in producing the new scent. This is where a new breed ...
SteraMist Systems to Meet Any Disinfection and Decontamination Need TOMI continues to develop and expand the SteraMist product line to include new generations of the original mobile products with the goal of designing and creating new products to adhere to current and new industries. As the relationship with ARM EnerTech Associates, LLC (ARM) is ...
The coronavirus pandemic that could have been prevented After creating widespread global devastation and panic, the origin of the coronavirus pandemic has largely remained a mystery. Now, new information has emerged that reinforces a claim that it somehow began spreading in Wuhan, China. Citing a classified intelligence report provided to the White ...
A.L: What are the occupational risks that wildland firefighters are exposed to? S.P: Wildland firefighters have the same risks as a welder, because they are exposed to heavy metals, the same risks as a coroner, because they work with organic materials, perhaps with dead animals; They face the same dangers as a lumberjack from exposure to formaldehyde, or as a melter when it comes to heat stress. ...
The presence of organic pollutants in the environment is of major concern because of their toxicity, bio-accumulating tendency, threat to human life and the environment. It is a well-known fact that, these pollutants can damage nerves, liver, and bones and could also block functional groups of essential enzymes. Conventional methods for removing dissolved pollutants include chemical ...
Modelling and simulation techniques offer a comprehensive method for assessing the impact of a terrorist attack, allowing multiple scenarios to be simulated with ease without imposing extensive time or cost constraints. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive model for the different categories of users who are likely to be involved in the modelling and simulation of a terrorist ...
This paper focuses on the Turkish legislation regarding protection of nature and biological diversity. As it is known, biological resources are vital for the humanity's survival and for the economic and social development of nations. However, biological diversity is under threat around the world. Nevertheless issues regarding food, clean water, healthy environment, production and consumption are ...
Bacillus spores are resistant to disinfection methods and they represent a potential threat that requires improved methods to ensure water safety. Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) and B. anthracis Sterne (BA) spores were used to investigate the effectiveness of the electrochemical (EC) disinfection process. We tested the quaternary metal oxide (TiO2–Sb2O5–SnO2–RuO2) as the anode material in an EC cell ...
On May 2, 2011, the United States (U.S.) President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. forces killed Osama Bin Laden, the world's most dangerous terrorist leader that killed approximately 3000 Americans on September 11, 2011 (9/11) terror attacks. Currently, the U.S. intelligence is in possession of valuable materials of Al Qaeda operations (Thomas, 2011). Terrorist attack plots include water ...
Bioterrorism and infectious disease are biosecurity threats that can be modelled as biological invasions (e.g. alien species), incorporating the concept of endogenous risk from the environmental economics literature, i.e. that human behaviour may alter, deliberately or unintentionally, the likelihood and severity of these threats. Application of this modelling approach to investment strategy in ...
'Pathogen security' (sometimes called 'biosecurity') is too often seen as the primary strategy to combat bioterrorism. Asserting that materials, technologies and expertise for bioterrorism are available worldwide and that terrorist groups are increasingly able to obtain and disseminate infectious disease pathogens, advocates contend that pathogen security systems and practices are central to ...
Effective responses will depend on a better understanding of the forces driving molecular evolution of emerging pathogens, as well as an integrated understanding of advanced biothreat agent design, potential applications and effects of the agent, exposure techniques or methods of deployment, and concealment techniques, including dual use stratagems.Keywords: biosurveillance, ...
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries numerous threats have developed, matured and grown into what would be considered 'strategic' in nature. Few, however, have had as much impact on our government and its efforts at preparedness as the scourges of terrorism, nuclear war and conventional conflict. In addition, the economic costs for preparation and response to these threats have been great. ...
This special issue demonstrates the breadth and range of topics subsumed under the term biosecurity. It also makes apparent that this diversity of topics is a challenge for developing a coherent view and approach to biosecurity. Though my initial desire was to provide a measure of coherency to this topic and to this special issue, I increasingly came to question whether an overall unified view of ...
Well-informed policy decisions are based upon high-quality data. In September 2005, the US Environmental Protection Agency engaged the International Union for Conservation of Nature to evaluate opportunities for routine evaluation of the linkages between the US market access agreements and invasive species. This study, led by the authors of this article, assessed the ability of US commodity ...
We present our methodology and stochastic discrete-event simulation developed to model the screening of passengers for pandemic influenza at the US port-of-entry airports. Our model uniquely combines epidemiology modelling, evolving infected states and conditions of passengers over time, and operational considerations of screening in a single simulation. The simulation begins with international ...