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1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Biotech impact on the warfighter / Thomas X. Hammes -- New biological advances and military medical ethics / Edmund G. Howe -- The life sciences, security, and the challenge of biological weapons : an overview / Michael Moodie -- Biological warfare : a warfighting perspective / John B. Alexander -- Abiotic sensing / James J. Valdes ... [et al.] -- Biosensors and bioelectronics / Dimitra Stratis-Cullum and James Sumner -- Bioenzymes and defense / Adrienne Huston -- Bioenergy : renewable liquid fuels / Michael Ladisch -- Bio-inspired materials and operations / Erica R. Valdes -- Learning unmanned vehicle control from echolocating bats / Eric W. Justh -- Neurorobotics : neurobiologically inspired robots / Jeffrey Krichmar -- Biomimetic, sociable robots for human-robot interaction / Eleanore Edson, Judith Lytle, and Thomas McKenna -- Biomechanically inspired robotics / John Socha and Justin Grubich -- Biological automata and national security / Yaakov Benenson -- Enhanced human performance and metabolic engineering / James J. Valdes and James P. Chambers -- Functional neuroimaging in defense policy / Richard Genik III, Christopher Green, and David C. Peters II -- Forging stress resilience : building psychological hardiness / Paul Bartone -- Neuroplasticity, mind fitness, and military effectiveness / Elizabeth Stanley -- Bio-inspired network science / Joao Hespanha and Francis Doyle III -- Ethics and the biologized battlefield : moral issues in 21st-century conflict / William D. Casebeer -- Legal issues affecting biotechnology / Joseph Rutigliano, Jr. -- Building the nonmedical bio workforce for 2040 / Timothy Coffey and Joel Schnur. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Bionics.
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Biomimetics.
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Biological warfare.
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Bioterrorism -- Prevention.
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National security -- United States.
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Electronic books.
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Armstrong, Robert E., 1948-2008, editor.
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National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bio-inspired innovation and national security. Washington, District of Columbia : Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press, 2010 xxii, 348 pages ; 23 cm. 9780160855016 (DNLM)101524037 (DLC) 2010002967 |
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9780160855016 |
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9780160920349 (electronic bk.) |
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