Surface-enhanced Raman detection of nicotinamide in vitamin tablets1The submitted paper has been authored by a contractor of the US government under contract No. DE-AC05-96OR22464. Accordingly, the US government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes.1

1998 ◽  
Vol 368 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Pal ◽  
V Anantha Narayanan ◽  
D.L Stokes ◽  
T Vo-Dinh
Keyword(s):  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Do So

scholarly journals Public opinion on coronavirus vaccination 1: A majority of Americans would take the existing Russian vaccine and believe that they ought to be allowed to buy it

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kelley ◽  
MDR Evans ◽  
Charlotte Corday
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
Considerable Period ◽  
New Vaccines ◽  
Do So

In the US new vaccines are banned until shown to be safe and effective. But the approval process is slow and cautious and no vaccine has yet been approved. The faster but perhaps riskier Russian system produced an approved coronavirus vaccine months more quickly, leaving Americans at risk of dying for months longer than Russians. Our data from two national surveys in September show that a majority of Americans would willingly take the existing Russian vaccine and that a two-to-one majority – rich and poor, young and old, Democrat and Republican alike – believe that they ought to be allowed to do so. We estimate that making the Russian vaccine immediately available would save approximately 40 to 100 American lives each day after the first month and many more subsequently, To put the matter bluntly, current US government policy will kill some 40 to 100 people each day for a considerable period later this year and early next. To put those deaths in context, all American murderers combined kill only 45 people each day – not a record the US government should wish to emulate. There are also implications for the 2020 election; Since feelings about the Russian coronavirus vaccine are strongly favorable, and the benefits of allowing it in the US are large, making it available should be attractive politically. The Republican government has the power to adopt that policy and gain the credit. Alternatively, the Democratic opposition has the opportunity to advocate that policy, and claim the credit.

Countries prepare for ‘active defence’ of space

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Active Defence ◽  
Actual Conflict ◽  
Do So ◽  
Trigger Action

Subject Space as a domain of warfare. Significance The US government has created a Space Force as a new branch of its military. Similar changes are under way in France and Japan. Russia’s test of an anti-satellite missile on April 15 and the ‘shadowing’ of a US satellite by a Russian spacecraft in January highlight the growing military importance of space. Impacts Development of offensive capabilities for space warfare will probably be slow and those who do so will downplay it. Covert Russian and Chinese anti-satellite missiles tests will help make the case for arming the US Space Force as a deterrent. Only a near miss or actual conflict in space is likely to trigger action to reach arms control agreements.

scholarly journals Remembering the Future: Entrepreneurship Guidebooks in the US, from Meditation to Method (1945-1975)

2012 ◽  
pp. 40-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Giraudeau
Keyword(s):  
Business Plan ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Techniques ◽  
Do So

This paper discusses Foucault’s analyses of the rise of the entrepreneur in the second half of the 20th century. Whereas Foucault based his conclusions on readings of economic theory, we propose here to look at “practical texts,” i.e. entrepreneurship guidebooks, in the way Foucault himself did in his research on antiquity. We also mobilize Foucauldian concepts from his lectures on the “Care of the Self” and the “Hermeneutics of the Subject” to account for our empirical observations. By comparing two series of entrepreneurship guidebooks issued by the US government in the mid-1940s and the late 1950s-1975, we argue that a major shift occurred between these two periods. In the 1940s, the future was supposed to be meditated upon: entrepreneurs were incited to mentally consider the dangers of running a business, and they were given mental techniques, along with basic paper technologies (e.g. checklists), in order to do so. A bit more than a decade later and for the decades to follow, entrepreneurs were told to plan their new businesses thoroughly, and thus to devise their future; they were provided with more advanced paper technologies (accounting technologies and business plan templates). The future was no more an object of meditation: it had become a methodical project.

Der Aufschwung des Katastrophen-Kapitalismus

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (143) ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
Naomi Klein
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

Fitting to its doctrine of preventiv war, the Bush Administration founded a bureau of reconstruction, designing reconstruction plans for countries which are still not destroyed. Reconstruction after war or after a “natural disaster” developed to a profitable branch of capitalist investment. Also the possibilities to change basic political and economic structures are high and they are widely used by the US-government and institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

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