Bio-inspired innovation and national security / edited by Robert E. Armstrong ... [et al.].
| Other author | Armstrong, Robert E., 1948-2008. |
| Other author | National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.], 2010. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 348 p.) : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS125698 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Biotech impact on the warfighter / Thomas X. Hammes -- New biological advances and military medical ethics / Edmund G. Howe -- The life sciences, security, and the challenge of biological weapons : an overview / Michael Moodie -- Biological warfare : a warfighting perspective / John B. Alexander -- Abiotic sensing / James J. Valdes ... [et al.] -- Biosensors and bioelectronics / Dimitra Stratis-Cullum and James Sumner -- Bioenzymes and defense / Adrienne Huston -- Bioenergy : renewable liquid fuels / Michael Ladisch -- Bio-inspired materials and operations / Erica R. Valdes -- Learning unmanned vehicle control from echolocating bats / Eric W. Justh -- Neurorobotics : neurobiologically inspired robots / Jeffrey Krichmar -- Biomimetic, sociable robots for human-robot interaction / Eleanore Edson, Judith Lytle, and Thomas McKenna -- Biomechanically inspired robotics / John Socha and Justin Grubich -- Biological automata and national security / Yaakov Benenson -- Enhanced human performance and metabolic engineering / James J. Valdes and James P. Chambers -- Functional neuroimaging in defense policy / Richard Genik III, Christopher Green, and David C. Peters II -- Forging stress resilience : building psychological hardiness / Paul Bartone -- Neuroplasticity, mind fitness, and military effectiveness / Elizabeth Stanley -- Bio-inspired network science / João Hespanha and Francis Doyle III -- Ethics and the biologized battlefield : moral issues in 21st-century conflict / William D. Casebeer -- Legal issues affecting biotechnology / Joseph Rutigliano, Jr. -- Building the nonmedical bio workforce for 2040 / Timothy Coffey and Joel Schnur. |
| General note | GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bio-inspired innovation and national security. xxii, 348 p. |
| GPO item number | 0378-H-01 (online) |
| Govt. docs number | D 5.402:B 52/4 |
| Stock number | 008-046-00264-9 GPO $32.00 paper |