Bio-inspired innovation and national security /

From the Introduction: This volume is designed as an overview of the many applications of biology to the military and national security writ large (with the exception of bioweapons and biomedicine). Policy issues are covered, and original research is presented. The diversity of the authors' bac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Otros Autores: Armstrong, Robert E., 1948-2008
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.], 2010.
Temas:
Bionics.
Biomimetics.
Biological warfare.
Bioterrorism > Prevention.
National security > United States.
Biological Warfare > trends
Biological Warfare > prevention & control
Civil Defense > methods
Public Policy
Security Measures > trends
Bionics
Biomimetics
Biological Warfare
Bionique.
Chimie biomimétique.
Guerre biologique.
HISTORY > Military > Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Biological warfare
Bioterrorism > Prevention
National security
United States
Government publications > United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 / João 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.

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