Advanced Sensors for Safety and Security, 2013 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics Series

Preface.- Part I. Invited and Key Lectures - Challenges and Opportunities.- Ecosystem of Innovations using Nanomaterials based CBRNE Sensors and Threat Mitigation.- New Terahertz Security Opportunities Based on Nanometric Technology.- Structured Inorganic Oxide-Based Materials for the Absorption and Destruction of CBRN Agents.- The Quirra Syndrome: Matter of Translational Medicine.- Part II. Policy, Diplomacy, Verification, Compliance, Implementation.- The Yin and Yang of Countering Biological Threats: Public Health And Security Under The International Health Regulations, Biological Weapons Convention, and The UNSCR 1540.- Timely Detection of Outbreaks in the Public Health Surveillance System of the Republic Of Moldova.- Advanced Sciences Convergence to Analyze Impact of Nanomaterials on Environment, Health and Safety.- Conversion Disorders in Patients with Discogenic Radiculopathy.- Part III. Chemical-Biological Sensors.- Use of Metal oxide, Porous Silicon and Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensors for Safety and Security.- Chemical Sensors Based on Nano-Hexagonal Tungsten Oxide: Synthesis and Characterization.- Noise Reduction in (Bio-) Chemical Sensors Functionalized With Carbon Nanotube Multilayers.- Polymer Nanocomposite Films as a Potential Sensor.- Carboxyhemoglobin in blood of smokers and nonsmokers determined by gas chromatography with thermal conductivity detector.- Electron Emission Standed Nanodosimetry and Gas Detection.- Part IV. Optical Sensors.- Photoelectric  Properties Of Selectively Sensitive Sensors for The Detection Of Hazardous Materials.- Portable Point-Of-Care Optical Device to Detect Brain Injury.- Absorbance Control of Liquids Employing Transmission Sub-Wavelength DLC Diffraction Grating.- Detection and Monitoring Of Surface Deformations in Armenia Using INSAR Satellite.- Applications of an Effect Based on Electromagnetic Field-Matter Interactions for Investigations of Water.- Part V. Water Security and Water Contaminations Sensors.-Real-Time Monitoring Of Water Contaminants for Situation Awareness Using Electromagnetic Field Sensing System.- Development of Polymeric Cryogels as Potential Matrices for Removing Antibiotics From Wastewater.- Part VI. Radiation Sensors.- On The Concept of System to Detect Unclaimed Inclusions of Fissile And Radioactive Materials In Hand Luggage And Cargo Trucking.- New Model of Spectral Analysis of Integral Flux of Radiation.- Cyclic Amino Acid Derivatives as New Generation of Radio-protectors.- New Polymeric Materials for Medicine and Rehabilitation of Buildings and Different Surfaces Exposed To Radioactive Contamination.- Application of New Heavy Scintillation Crystals for Remote Detection of Fissile Materials.- Part VI. Synthesis/Processing.-Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles: From the Lab to Applications.- Porous Silicon by Galvanostatic Electrochemical Anodisation of Epitaxial Silicon, Polycrystalline Silicon and Silicon on Insulator Layers.- Advanced Materials for IR Sensors.- Small Carbon Molecules and Quasi-Fullerenes as Products of New Method of Hydrocarbons Pyrolysis.- Hetero-Carbon: Heteroatomic Molecules and Nanostructures of Carbon.- A Preliminary Analysis of Wind-Hydrogen System in Bulgaria.- Part VIII. Indexes.