Extract of Water Hyacinth used in the Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organophosphate and Organochlorine Pesticides by Abubakar Habib Idris, Oliver Maitera, Andrew Peingurta Fartisincha, Warji Miuhammad

“…In conclusion, the research aimed to achieve AgNPs have higher activity against organophosphate (Sniper) than Organochlorine (DDT).…”
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Savremeno naoružanje i vojna oprema za broj 4-2014/Modern weapons and military equipment for issue 4-2014 by Mladen R. Tišma

“…. / New radar technology for enhanced air defence missile system Patriot PAC-3 MSE; Precision-guided air bomb AASM debuted on non-French aircraft; Project for the new Latin American training aircraft; Airbus plans to give Eurofighter maritime strike capability; China plans to build domestic carriers by 2017; Boeing revealed details about Phantom Swift for VTOL X-Plane; Iomax offers the concept of a light aircraft Arckangel; "Simplified" version of the NH90 transport helicopter planned; A prototype S-97 helicopter Raider closer to first flight; Russian T-50 PAK-FA in the phase of weapons flight tests; MANPADS Verba entered service with of Russian paratroopers; Iran launched a new version of the Nazeat rocket; Renault presented demonstrator vehicles 6x6 under the designation BMX-01; Israeli IWI offers a new sniper rifle Day .338; Colt showed assault rifle CK901; Aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" commisioned with the Indian Navy; The patrol ship of the Navy of Montenegro "Kotor" sails again.…”
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Global Neural Activities Changes under Human Inhibitory Control Using Translational Scenario by Rupesh Kumar Chikara, Li-Wei Ko

“…In the battlefield scenario, the signs of fixation, go and stop were replaced by images of a sniper scope, a target and a non-target. The battlefield scenario is a shooting game between the enemy and the soldiers. …”
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Prediction of Human Inhibition Brain Function with Inter-Subject and Intra-Subject Variability by Rupesh Kumar Chikara, Li-Wei Ko

“…In present study, we used a battleground scenario where a sniper-scope picture was the background, a target picture was a go signal, and a nontarget picture was a stop signal. …”
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Accelerating genomic workflows using NVIDIA Parabricks by Kyle A. O’Connell, Zelaikha B. Yosufzai, Ross A. Campbell, Collin J. Lobb, Haley T. Engelken, Laura M. Gorrell, Thad B. Carlson, Josh J. Catana, Dina Mikdadi, Vivien R. Bonazzi, Juergen A. Klenk

“…We benchmarked six variant calling pipelines, including two germline callers (HaplotypeCaller and DeepVariant) and four somatic callers (Mutect2, Muse, LoFreq, SomaticSniper). Results We achieved up to 65 × acceleration with germline variant callers, bringing HaplotypeCaller runtimes down from 36 h to 33 min on AWS, 35 min on GCP, and 24 min on the NVIDIA DGX. …”
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FASTA: Revisiting Fully Associative Memories in Computer Microarchitecture by Esteban Garzon, Robert Hanhan, Marco Lanuzza, Adam Teman, Leonid Yavits

“…System-level evaluation performed on the Sniper simulator shows that the VMWA cache exhibits lower Misses Per Kilo Instructions (MPKI) for the majority of benchmarks. …”
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Recent Advances in Genome-Editing Technology with CRISPR/Cas9 Variants and Stimuli-Responsive Targeting Approaches within Tumor Cells: A Future Perspective of Cancer Management by Khaled S. Allemailem, Saleh A. Almatroodi, Ahmad Almatroudi, Faris Alrumaihi, Waleed Al Abdulmonem, Wafa Abdullah I. Al-Megrin, Adel Nasser Aljamaan, Arshad Husain Rahmani, Amjad Ali Khan

“…Some of the high-fidelity Cas9 variants have been ranked as Sniper-Cas9, eSpCas9 (1.1), SpCas9-HF1, HypaCas9, xCas9, and evoCas9. …”
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Investigation of UTR Variants by Computational Approaches Reveal Their Functional Significance in <i>PRKCI</i> Gene Regulation by Hania Shah, Khushbukhat Khan, Yasmin Badshah, Naeem Mahmood Ashraf, Maria Shabbir, Janeen H. Trembley, Tayyaba Afsar, Ali Abusharha, Suhail Razak

“…UTR-localized SNPs in the PRKCI gene were evaluated using the PolymiRTS, miRNASNP, and MicroSNIper for association with miRNAs. Furthermore, the SNPs were subjected to analysis using GTEx, RNAfold, and PROMO. …”
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Overpressure Exposure From .50-Caliber Rifle Training Is Associated With Increased Amyloid Beta Peptides in Serum by Bharani Thangavelu, Christina R. LaValle, Michael J. Egnoto, Jeffrey Nemes, Angela M. Boutté, Gary H. Kamimori

“…This pilot study evaluated the amplitude of traumatic brain injury (TBI)–associated biomarkers in serum as a consequence of repeated OP exposure from .50-caliber rifle use over training multiple days.Objective: To determine the acute temporal profile of TBI-associated serum biomarkers and their relationship with neurocognitive decrements or self-reported symptoms among participants exposed to low-level, repeated OP from weapons used in a training environment.Methods: Study participants were enrolled in .50-caliber sniper rifle training and exposed to mild OP (peak pressure 3.8–4.5 psi, impulse 19.27–42.22 psi-ms per day) for three consecutive days (D1–D3). …”
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Freinet en España (1926-1939) - Freinet in Spain (1926-1939) by José Luis Hernández Huerta, José María Hernández Díaz, España

“…Thus, the incipient freinet’s spanish movement was taking shape and, in a little time, this had a battalion of sniper teachers, who wanted to apply those ideas, a solid organization and a promising future truncated by the beginning of the civil war. …”
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Utilization of LiDAR and IKONOS satellite data for security hotspot analysis based on realism of 3D city model by Hashim, Mazlan, Marghany, Maged, Mahmud, Mohd. Rizaludin, Anuar, Mohd. Hafiz

“…The main output of the study is the identification of potential spots, best to enclave prospective snipers given the effective shooting ranges and clear viewshed to the target of interest. …”

Life and fate / by Grossman, Vasily, Chandler, Robert, 1953-

“…Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves. …”

El testimonio del escritor Joseph Kessel* sobre la insurrección de Cataluña en octubre de 1934 by Juan Herrero Cecilia

“…Through this character, Kessel explains the behaviour of several young men who, facing the defeat of the «Catalan state», decided to honourably show their insurrection by becoming snipers in order to end up their lives shooting the Spanish soldiers from the roofs of Barcelona.…”
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Listening to silence – trauma and recovery in post-golpe Chile by Lindsey Kent

“…I felt the distrust of and anger towards the police who lined rooftops with snipers and the military units which filled side streets with water cannons. …”
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Freinet teacher’s first movements in Extremedura: teachers, schools and papers by Antonio García Madrid

“…<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>There was in Spain an inicial «army of teachers» freinetians, a group of snipers commited to the renovation of the system of education which was born and grew in the shade of the Republic. …”
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MIND MGMT: Paranoid Nightmares of a Fugitive Reality. by Pepe Rojo

“…From 2012 to 2015, Matt Kindt created Mind MGMT, an ultra-paranoid world filled with mental hermaphrodites, children books and pop records that cause riots and revolutions and psychic snipers, all woven together through the elusive Mind Management program. …”
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TACTICAL AND CRIMINALISTIC ASPECTS OF POLICE NEGOTIATIONS IN CRISIS SITUATIONS by Dorota Semków

“…Police negotiations are treated as an alternative to enforcement solutions of crisis situations, such as the police forces’ storm without reconnaissance, police forces’ storm after reconnaissance or using snipers. The first full-time negotiation section in Poland was established in 1992. …”
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Optimizing Weapon Precision by Kendall, Thomas P.

“…Finally, we model a similar device intended for civilian hunters and military snipers which guarantees minimized deviation at an estimated range.…”
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DIRECTIONS OF ACTIVITIES REGARDING THE KEEPING ROCKET-ARTILLERY AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM OF OBJECTS PROTECTION FROM AIR ATTACKS by Vasyl V. Shulezhko, Yevhen O. Riabokon, Valerii H. Patаlakha

“…In order to ensure these requirements the following directions are offered: allocation of present resources for protecting the most important objects; using of raids and manoeuvres; providing of camouflage security of a rocket-artillery air defence system of objects protection against optical-electronic, radio- and radiotechnical, radio-location, thermal and other technical intelligence equipment; grounding on directions where is not support a fire zone maximal realization on the small heights of anti-aircraft snipers and air defence artillery squads of ZU-23-2 or radio electronic warfare stations which jam to a flight safety system on small heights; installation of false positions of a rocket-artillery air defence system of objects protection. …”
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Neutrophil equanimity: Function in health and diseases in periodontium by Pallavi Sharma, Komal Fanda, Vikas Jindal, Ranjan Malhotra, Amit Goel, Malvika Thakur, Shivali Vashisht

“…However, rather than accurate snipers, neutrophils are often seen as crude and unrefined legionnaires, whose successful missions are usually liable for significant collateral damage. …”
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