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Arab Spring sparked to bring down dictatorships, but soon succumbed to old blood and political wrongs. The most venomous being wrongs of the Iraq War, which opened a tin of worms of old blood on a fragile world order. Again, desperate or fainthearted players quickly doctored it to test big players' resolve in committing to justice. Veering right wing reactionaries in racism and nationalism deepened disintegration and divide in universal human relations in a borderless globe, with remnants of precipitates from the past. This brought afloat old blood and its bitterness, blown in religious violence and terrorism. The book examines a live example of militarism, spawning terrorism through inflaming religious sentiments and ethnic residual tensions via faint-hearted democracies. Sudan served as a microscopic slide to examine, by virtue of its plague of militarism armed conflicts, lucrative riches, projected disharmony and dark slavery history, helpful for how past follies must be heeded

Ebola Virus Disease: From Origins to Outbreak covers Ebola virus disease in its entirety from its origins through major outbreaks in the past to the present day outbreak. It contains information on the West Saharan response to Ebola as well as highlights from the field in West Africa from Dr. Qureshi and Dr. Chughtai, helping to solve the primary question of what's next and aiding in formulating a path forward. With a growing awareness of the devastating effects of this viral disease and an influx of topical research, this book provides the information the global community of researchers, clinicians and students need to better inform their research and study of Ebola virus disease. - Includes perspectives from the 2014-2015 outbreak from the field - Provides a detailed overview of the origins of Ebola virus through present day discoveries - Written with an integrative approach, incorporating scientific research with insights from the field

"Aerogels are low-density materials consisting of 3D assemblies of nanoparticles with high open porosities and surface areas. Inspired by the extraordinary mechanical strength of polymer crosslinked aerogels, our recent attention is focused on inexpensive multifunctional isocyanates reacting with a variety of aromatic, organometallic and inorganic monomers. Three such systems discussed here are: (A) Polymeric aerogels synthesized via a room temperature reaction of an aromatic triisocyanate with pyromellitic acid. Using solid-state CPMAS 13C and 15N NMR, it was found that the skeletal framework was a statistical co-polymer of polyamide, polyurea and polyimide. Stepwise pyrolytic decomposition followed by reactive etching of those components yielded microporous carbon aerogels with good gas sorption selectivities that may find application in CO2 capture and sequestration. (B) Ferrocene-polyamide aerogels prepared in one pot via reaction of an aromatic triisocyanate and ferrocene dicarboxylic acid. Upon pyrolysis (>̲800 °C / H2), monolithic Fe(0)-doped C-aerogels were obtained followed by quantitative transmetalation with noble metals (M: Au, Pt, Pd). The latter were demonstrated as heterogeneous catalysts in high yield reduction, oxidation and Heck coupling reactions. The monolithic catalysts were reused several times without loss of activity. (C) Polyureas formed via reaction of an aromatic isocyanate with several mineral acids, (H3BO3, H3PO4, H3PO3, H2SeO3, H6TeO6, H5IO6 and H3AuO3). The residual boron in the H3BO3 model system was very low (

In this educational initiative, we suggest to build a real model of solar village inside the school, which uses only solar energy. These educational initiatives emphasize the importance of energy for a technological society and the advantage of alternative energy sources. In this scientific educational initiative, the pupils in three elementary schools in Israel were active participants in building systems that use solar energy to work. The study objective is to examine the educational, social and scientific impact of the initiative on students, parents and teachers and their readiness to support and participate in such educational initiative. The study results showed that the three groups highly appreciate the project educationally and socially. They feel that the execution of the initiative inside the school promotes creativity and thinking ability among students. Parents showed a great support for the project, because they see the positive impact of the project on their children's learning ability. Teachers considered this initiative quite important due to the students' interaction and interests, which leads to the success of the school. It also improves the learning skills of the students, such as reading plans, executing research and writing reports. (Contains 12 figures and 8 tables.).

Advancements in low power wireless communication and system on chip design has opened up the possibility of deploying a large number of miniaturized intelligent sensor nodes to monitor different variables in our environment. In one such application, miniaturized sensor nodes are attached to the human body (non-invasive) or implanted inside it (invasive) to collect vital physiological and nonphysiological information and wirelessly transmit it to the system database where that data is stored, processed, analyzed, and taken action if required.