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Shark attack!
Describes the nearly disastrous encounter of a spear-fisherman with a shark off the coast of Australia.
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Clinton's War on Terror: Redefining US Security Strategy, 1993-2001
In the aftermath of the catastrophic attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bill Clinton's time in office was portrayed as one in which vital opportunities to confront growing threats to US security were missed. Firmly challenging this characterization, James Boys explores the long-misunderstood approach adopted by the Clinton administration as it sought to define an effective response to acts of political violence.Boys argues that only by understanding the efforts of Clinton and his team to address international terrorism can we make sense of the reasoning behind the actions of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, all of whom inherited, continued, and expanded on Clinton-era policies and practices. Drawing on official documents and on interviews with key players, he reveals the evolution of counterterrorism strategy throughout the Clinton administration, as well as the ramifications that it has today.
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Shark!
Describes sharks and shark attacks, as well as what they eat and how they survive in the wild.
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Are We Ready?
A contemporary history of a critical period,Are We Ready?analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz interviewed local, state, and federal officials to determine the immediate reactions of key participants in these events. The authors explore the extent to which these emergencies permanently altered the political, cultural, and organizational life of the country and consider whether the nation is now better prepared to withstand another potentially devastating attack. This well-reasoned and well-researched book presents compelling evidence that few with hands-on experience with disease and emergency preparedness believe that an adequate response to terrorism-whether biological, chemical, or radiological-is possible without a strong and vibrant infrastructure to provide everyday services as well as emergency responses.Are We Ready?begins with an examination of the experiences of local New York officials who were the first responders to 9/11 and follows them as events unfolded and as state and national authorities arrived. It goes on to analyze how various states dealt with changing federal funding for a variety of public health services. Using oral histories of CDC and other federal officials, the book then focuses on the federal reaction to 9/11 and anthrax. What emerges is a picture of dedicated public servants who were overcome by the emotions of the moment yet who were able to react in ways that significantly reduced the public anxiety and public health threat. Despite the extraordinary opportunity to revitalize and reinvigorate the nation's public health infrastructure, the growing federal and state budget deficits, the refocusing of national attention on the war in Iraq, and the passage of time all combined to undermine many of the needed reforms to the nation's public health defenses.Copub: Milbank Memorial Fund
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A thousand eyes
\"Todd Wendt, employed by a multinational corporation, is recovering from the tragic death of his wife and is at a loss as to what direction his life could possibly take. When he is sent to a small mountain town in Colorado he becomes aware of a series of vicious animal attacks on the local population, Over time, Todd realizes the attacks are not random but targeted at the company that brought him there, as well as himself. His decision to confront this situation ultimately transforms, not only Todd, but the entire community.\" -- Summary from back of book.
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Seeing Ghosts
Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11, Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makes an image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visual media have been mobilized in political projects of identification and personal narratives of empathy. Focusing on themes of memory, mourning, and history, Engle examines sculptural, photographic, and new media responses to the 9/11 attacks in both contemporary and historical contexts, considers the public's reaction to these visual productions, and suggests that earlier presentations of America at war play a pivotal role in the representations of 9/11 in both official and popular media.
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Ten years of hardware Trojans: a survey from the attacker's perspective
Hardware Trojan detection techniques have been studied extensively. However, to develop reliable and effective defenses, it is important to figure out how hardware Trojans are implemented in practical scenarios. The authors attempt to make a review of the hardware Trojan design and implementations in the last decade and also provide an outlook. Unlike all previous surveys that discuss Trojans from the defender's perspective, for the first time, the authors study the Trojans from the attacker's perspective, focusing on the attacker's methods, capabilities, and challenges when the attacker designs and implements a hardware Trojan. First, the authors present adversarial models in terms of the adversary's methods, adversary's capabilities, and adversary's challenges in seven practical hardware Trojan implementation scenarios: in‐house design team attacks, third‐party intellectual property vendor attacks, computer‐aided design tools attacks, fabrication stage attacks, testing stage attacks, distribution stage attacks, and field‐programmable gate array Trojan attacks. Second, the authors analyse the hardware Trojan implementation methods under each adversarial model in terms of seven aspects/metrics: hardware Trojan attack scenarios, the attacker's motivation, feasibility, detectability (anti‐detection capability), protection and prevention suggestions for the designer, overhead analysis, and case studies of Trojan implementations. Finally, future directions on hardware Trojan attacks and defenses are also discussed.
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7-004 Defining premature myocardial infarction: a scoping review
BackgroundMyocardial infarction (MI) in young adults, has significant health and economic impact for individuals and society at large. While the incidence of MI has fallen over the last 40 years, the rates for MI in the young have been increasing. However, efforts to study this group of patients have been partly hampered by the lack of an agreed definition for prematurity. We sought to examine the definitions of premature MI used by researchers over time and geography.MethodsWe conducted a scoping review with a literature search in Ovid Medline and the Cochrane Library databases, using key terms such as ‘early’ or ‘premature’ alongside ‘myocardial infarction.’ The search covered all available records up to September 2023. A total of 3,612 eligible studies were identified and screened by two reviewers, of which 136 met the inclusion criteria, specifically focusing on ‘premature MI.’ResultsAcross the 136 studies evaluated, 83 applied the same criteria for both sexes, 45 used sex specific ages with 8 studies including only men or women. We identified 33 different definitions of premature MI, ranging from <35 to <65/male and <70/female, with the most common age cutoffs being ≤45 (14%), ≤40 (10%), and <55/male <65/female (9%).There was notable geographical variation in definition usage, with studies from different countries commonly using different thresholds, such as ≤35 yrs for 3 studies from Greece and <60 yrs for 8 studies from Australia and Mexico. Countries from South and Southeast Asia used lower thresholds compared to the rest of the world.Finally, we noted that the definition of premature (CAD) has changed over time. Before 1990, the study level median age cutoff was ≤52.5 years, decreasing to ≤50 years between 1991–2000, then to ≤45 years from 2001–2010. However, from 2011–2020, it was higher at ≤50 years, and as of 2021, the median cutoff was ≤51.25 yearConclusionWe have identified significant variation in the definition of premature MI across studies, with differences observed by country and time period. This may partly reflect ethnic differences and trends in incidence of MI over time. However, the changing and inconsistent use of definitions of prematurity, limits our understanding of this disease phenotype, and the transferability of individual study findings. This work underscores the urgent need to develop consensus for population specific definitions of premature MI, in order to better understand and reduce early onset coronary heart disease globally.Abstract 7-004 Figure 1Graphical demonstration of 33 unique definitions on Premature CAD[Figure omitted. See PDF]Abstract 7-004 Figure 2Median Premature CAD Definitions by country[Figure omitted. See PDF]
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