Document destruction

safe and reliable destruction of bank notes, classified printed documents and digital storage media may become necessary in a number of situations encountered in civilian as well as military environment. For these purposes, solutions based on energetic materials have the advantage to meet with the aforementioned requirements and to be independent of any electrical power energy supply as, for example document shredder. 

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This loose powder mixture, scaled in a plastic bag together with a transfer line such as the end of a length of delay fuse (the latter provided with some adhering first-fire mixture at its flash end) is a safe, cool-burning starter for such items as mixtures of paper and nitrate for document destruction. 

Letter dated 31 March 1982 from the heads of the delegations of Indonesia and the Netherlands transmitting a document entitled Indonesia and the Netherlands-working document-destruction of about 45 tons of mustard agent at Batujajar, West-Java, Indonesia, Conference on Disarmament document, CD/270, 31 Mar. 1982... 

Metal-fluorocarbon pyrolants are highly effective infrared emitters. Besides the exploitation of this effect for both decoy flare and igniter applications, it can also be used for destructive purposes. Thus, metal/fluorocarbon-based energetics finds use in incendiaries, document destruction devices, agent defeat payloads and reactive... 

Figure 1J.1 Swiss made document destruction sheet with pyrolant coating (a) and partially removed exposing the NC substrate (b).

Overview The U.S. Air Force has classified material that must be destroyed. Disintegrators provide an alternative to incineration for the destruction of classified materials. Disintegrators are able to handle the destruction of paper, thick documents, video cassettes, microfilm or reels, CD-ROMs, microfiche, and diskettes. Disintegrators are available with a capacity of 50 to over 7500 lbs. per hour. Disintegrators work in the following way ... 

Typically, neurotoxic effects of drugs on monoamine neurons have been assessed from reductions in brain levels of monoamines and their metabolites, decreases in the maximal activity of synthetic enzymes activity, and decreases in the active uptake carrier. In the present study, the traditional markers described above have been used, including the measurement of the content of monoamines and their metabolites in brain at several different timepoints following drug administration. Since reports in the literature have documented that MDMA and MDA can inhibit the activity of tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), the rate-limiting enzyme in serotonin synthesis (Stone et al. 1986 Stone et al. 1987). it is unclear whether MDMA-induced reductions in the content of serotonin and its metabolite 5-hydroxyin-doleacetic acid (5-HlAA) may be due to suppressed neurotransmission in otherwise structurally intact serotonin neurons or may represent the eonsequenee of the destruction of serotonin neurons and terminals. 

Destructive solid sample preparation methods, such as digestion and mineralisation, are well known as they have been around for some time they are relatively cheap and well documented [13-15]. Decomposition of a substance or a mixture of substances does not refer so much to the dissolution, but rather to the conversion of slightly soluble substances into acid- or water-soluble (ionogenic) compounds (chemical dissolution). 

The absence of a tap root in vegetatively propagated tea might conceivably represent a hazard during extended drought periods, but there is no documented evidence of such preferential damage to clonal tea. Biological identity also affords the possibility for widescale destruction as a... 

Both the destruction of documents and their transfer to other departments were against French orders. Summoning the purchas-... 

No mention of the defense s fraudulent concealment and destruction of documents No acknowledgment that Tribunal No. 6 had a legal interest in the suppressed evidence No judicial embarrassment because the prosecution had discovered that the defense had made monkeys out of two governments, with systematic violations of the laws of two zones ... 

In this chapter, we review some results in the field of emulsion metastability, emphasizing the destruction of concentrated emulsions (droplet volume fraction

70%) through coalescence. The review concerning Oswald ripening (Section 5.2) is more concise, as this mechanism is fairly well understood and has been extensively documented in the literature. So far, the destruction of concentrated emulsions through coalescence is much less understood and has motivated many recent studies and developments that we summarize (Sections 5.3 to 5.6). 

Somejurisdictions recognize a separate cause of action for damages for spoliation of evidence. The destruction of documents or other evidence can lead to criminal indictments for obstruction ofjustice. 

More typically, the failure to preserve evidence can hurt the company in a lawsuit. For example, where a defense expert in a product liability case conducts destructive testing on the product, thereby rendering it unfit or unavailable to the plaintiff s expert, the court may sanction the conduct by excluding the testimony of the defense expert. Alternatively, if crucial documents are destroyed or lost, thejudge may instruct thejury to assume the worst—that the documents contained information harmful to the defendant s position in the litigation. 

In 1974 Midwest Research Institute operated a pilot-scale multiple chamber incinerator to evaluate for EPA the operational variables for pesticide incineration (8). The system included a. pilot-scale incinerator, a three-stage scrubber system, and a scrubber water treatment system. Nine pesticides (aldrin, atrazine, captan, DDT, malathion, mirex, picloram, toxaphene, and zineb) in 15 liquid and solid formulations were studied. Destruction efficiencies generally exceeded 99.99% over a range of temperatures and retention times ( 950 to 1100°C, 1.2 to 6 s, and 80 to 160% excess air). This study also documented the generation of measurable quantities of cyanide in the incinerator off-gas during the incineration of organonitrogen pesticides. 

Over the past few decades, the use of natural products as drugs and dietary supplements has raised an increasingly important question What impact does it have on biodiversity The widespread popularity of some natural products has resulted in their rapid destruction in the environment. One of the best-documented examples of this pattern is the decimation of wild echinacea resources throughout the United States. Sales of the plant in 2002 amounted to more than 32 million, and manufacturers are eager to obtain as much as they can from American sources. As a result, the plant is rapidly being depleted from its natural habitat, which ranges across large parts of the Midwest. 

A plethora of other effects on cell constituents from proteins to lipids to DNA is also documented in the early literature without, however, establishing any link between these reactions and the toxic consequences. Such an inability to deduce a toxic mechanism is not necessarily surprising. After all, aminoglycosides are highly aggressive drugs that kill cells and tissues, and a cell in the process of destruction will show a multitude of deranged biochemical and molecular pathways. 

Return shipping documents indicating what study drug went back to sponsor or destruction certificate indicating what was destroyed at site (once study has started)... 

Document (may be in protocol or investigator s brochure) with full details of study drug including details of stabihty, method of destruction, etc. 

There are stability problems in urines stored for analysis. Fifty percent of delta-aminolevulinic acid was lost in specimens stored without preservative and exposed to light for 24 hours (V3). The loss increased to 80% in 48 hours, 85% in 72 hours, and 95% in 2 weeks. However, the same specimens acidified with tartaric acid and stored in the dark lost 2% of the aminolevulinic acid in 72 hours and 6% in 2 weeks (V3). The destruction of catecholamines collected in nonacidified urine specimens is well documented (Cll). Urinary acid phosphatase was destroyed on freezing (S15). The effect was related to increasing salt concentration during freezing and was prevented by the addition of albumin (S15). 

Thermite mixtures have foimd application as incendiary compositions and spot-welding mixtures. They are also used for the intentional demolition of machinery and for the destruction of documents. Thermites are usually produced without a binder (or with a minimum of binder), because the gaseous products resulting from the combustion of the organic binder will carry away heat and cool the reaction. 

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