Michael Moodie is President of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a former Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he had responsibility for a range of arms control matters, including negotiations concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention and issues related to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Dr. Amy S...

The automated detection, recognition, and identification of small arms through deep learning tools is a recent process that seems to offer interesting possibilities in the field conventional disarmament. As research has so far mainly focused on detection models context domestic security, it explore, this paper, development basic recognition model its potential use disarmament; paper lays founda...

Abstract One of the central components Treaty on Prohibition Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is its victim assistance and environmental remediation provisions (known collectively as Treaty’s ‘positive obligations’). While there much to celebrate about efforts remedy damage caused by nuclear weapons, way TPNW distributes responsibility for this work troubling. Under Treaty, primary fulfilling positive ob...

I wish to express my deep gratitude to the Bonn International Center for Conversion for inviting me as the keynote speaker this evening. I have been an admirer of the work of BICC for many years in many fields of international peace and security and wish in particular to acknowledge the excellent work of Herbert Wulf and Michael Brzoska. BICC in many ways epitomizes the benefits that civil soci...

Background: Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a common condition that compromises motor and sensory functions. Peripheral nerves are known to have regenerative capability and the pineal hormone, melatonin, is known to aid nerve regeneration. However, the role of Schwann cells and the pathways involved remain unclear. Thus, the aim of this study is to identify the effects of melatonin on Schwann ...

objective(s): bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) play an important role in bone health. cadmium causes osteoporosis, but the exact mechanisms of its effect on mscs are not known. materials and methods: rats were treated with cadmium chloride (40 mg/l) in drinking water for six weeks, and then the biochemical and morphological studies on mscs were carried out as a cellular backup for oste...