Agent-specific approach

The two major types of disaster plans are those that take the agent-specific approach and those that use the... 

The payoff of an agent-based approach is a radically new way of looking at fundamental issues of land combat. Models such as these are emphatically not to be used for prediction rather they are best used to enhance understanding. Specifically, agent-based models of combat are designed to help military theorists... 

Describe two principles of disaster planning, including the agent-specific and the all-hazards approach, and the basic components of a disaster plan. 

Regardless of the type of approach used by planners (agent-specific or all-hazard), all hazards and potential dangers should be identified before an effective disaster response can be planned. 

A more specific approach to delivering agents to biological hosts is to incorporate some selectivity mechanism - this is known as targeted delivery. Selective delivery can be achieved by controlling the size of the polymer particle (vector), or through some chemical functionality on the particle surface that is recognised by the host. 

The next stage in the model is the reduction of risk by having known adverse agents of injury or illness controlled or removed. The reduction in risk leads to the final stage, which is an improvement in health and safety status of the workforce. This general model leads to a more specific approach that can be applied at specific workplaces. 

For resolution of cardiofoxicify caused by warfare agents, miRNA approaches with specificity and timeliness offer myriad opportunities. 

There are few specific therapies available for the management of inhalational injury compared with the management of other toxic trauma (e.g. cyanide and nerve agents). The approach to the management of toxic lung injury must therefore he ... 

The development of injectable mictocapsules for deUvery of chemotherapy agents remains another active area of research. The ultimate goal is to achieve targeted deUvery of chemotherapy agents to specific sites in the body, ideaUy by injection of dmg-loaded mictocapsules that would seek out and destroy diseased ceUs. Intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy is a direct approach to targeted deUvery. The clinical appHcations of microspheres and mictocapsules in embolization and chemotherapy have been assessed (49) (see Chemotherapeutics, anticancer). 

All lation of Phenols. The approach used to synthesize commercially available alkylphenols is Friedel-Crafts alkylation. The specific procedure typically uses an alkene as the alkylating agent and an acid catalyst, generally a sulfonic acid. Alkene and catalyst interact to form a carbocation and counter ion (5) which interacts with phenol to form a 7T complex (6). This complex is held together by the overlap of the filled TT-orbital of the aromatic... 

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