03701nam a2200433 i 4500 ebr10904178 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 100203s2010 dcuad ob f000 0 eng|d 9780160855016 9780160920349 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)891394551 n-us--- Q317.5 .B56 2010eb 358/.38 22 Bio-inspired innovation and national security / edited by Robert E. Armstrong [and three others]. Washington, District of Columbia : Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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 / Jo�ao 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Bionics. Biomimetics. Biological warfare. Bioterrorism Prevention. National security United States. Electronic books. Armstrong, Robert E., 1948-2008, editor. National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, publisher. Print version: Bio-inspired innovation and national security. Washington, District of Columbia : Published for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press, 2010 xxii, 348 pages ; 23 cm. 9780160855016 (DNLM)101524037 (DLC) 2010002967 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10904178 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 49937 49937