Technological Innovations in Sensing and Detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Threats and Ecological Terrorism

Part I. Invited and Key Lectures.- Technological Innovations to Counter CBRNE Threat Vectors and Ecotage; A. Vaseashta.- Emerging Technologies: Biosecurity and Consequence Management Implications; D. Perkins, B. Nordmann.- Bio-Inspired Computing, Information Swarms, and the Problem of Data Fusion; B. Nordmann.- Nanoparticles: A New Form of Terrorism?; A.M. Gatti, S. Montanari.- Nano Sensing Devices - Future Directions; N. Savage.- Metallic Films With Fullerene-Like WS₂ (MoS₂) Nanoparticles: Self-Lubricating Coatings with Potential Applications; O. Eidelman, H. Friedman, R. Tenne.- Disposable Membrane Sensors for Biohazardous Substances; A. Petrov.- Nano-Structured Solids and Heterogeneous Catalysts: Powerful Tools for the Reduction of CBRN Threats; M. Guidotti et al.- Part II. Policy, Regional, and International.- Nuclear Terrorism - Dimensions, Options, and Perspectives in Moldova; A. Vaseashta et al.- Integrative Convergence in Neuroscience: Trajectories, Problems, and the Need for a Progressive Neurobioethics; J. Giordano.- Nanomaterials in Environmental Contamination and their Nanotoxicological Peculiarities; G. Kharlamova, N. Kirillova.- The Transnistria Equation; A. Vaseashta, S. Enaki.- Part III. Chemical-Biological Sensors.- Real Time Detection of Foodborne Pathogens for Food Quality Monitoring & Biosecurity; V. Velusamy et al.- Nanosized and Nanostructured II-VI Semiconductors: Chemical Sensor Applications; D. Nesheva.- Nanomaterials Based Sensor Development towards Electrochemical Sensing Of Biointeractions; A. Erdem.- Emission of Weak Electrons towards Sensing Nanoobjects; Y. Dekhtyar.- Modeling of a New Type of an Optoelectronic Biosensor for the Monitoring of the Environment and the Food Products; S. Khudaverdyan et al.- Fast, Contactless Control of the Chemical Composition of Raw Materials; O. Ivanov et al.- Nanoplatforms for Detection, Remediation, and Protection against Chem-Bio-Warfare; E. Denkbas et al.- Part IV. Synthesis/Processing.- ZnO Thin Films Deposited On Textile Material Substrates for Biomedical Applications; L. Duta et al.- Synthesis of Multifunctional Acrylic Copolymers for Chemical-Biosensors; O. Slisenko et al.- Synthesis of Hollow Silica Microspheres with High-Developed Surface Area; I. Bei et al.- Inorganic Nanoparticle as a Carrier for Hepatitis B Viral Capsids; Y. Dekhtyar et al.- Glycerine Treatment of Poly-Perfluorosulphonic Acid Membrane Modified by Sulfonamide Groups; A. Andronie et al.- Pulsed Laser Processing of Functionalized Polysaccharides for Controlled Release Drug Delivery Systems; R. Cristescu et al.- Exploring the Mechanism of Biomolecule Immobilization on Plasma-Treated Polymer Substrates; E. Lock et al.- Synthesis of New Carbon Compounds: N-Doped Fullerene (C₅₀N₁₀)O₃H₁₀ and "Pyridine" Nanocarbon; O. Kharlamov et al.- Controlled Structure-Dependent Synthesis of Polymer/Nanosilver Composites for Highly Efficient Antibacterial Coatings; A. Tolstov et al.- Part V. Water - Quality, Contaminants, and Detection.- Recent Advances in Point-Of-Access Water Quality Monitoring; O. Korostynska et al.- Fe-Oxides in Water Remediation Technologies; M. Vaclavikova et al.- Electrochemical Oxidation of Synthetic Dyes in Simulated Wastewaters; G. Gallios et al.- Electrochemical Methods for Cleansing of H₂S and SO₂ in Industrial and Natural Contaminated Waters; K. Petrov.- Part VI. Information Security.- Cooperative Generation of Entangled Photons and Its Application in Quantum Cryptography; N. Enaki et al.- Lithographic Limit and Problems of Two-Photon Holograms in Quantum Optics: Application in Secured Communications; N. Enaki.- Using Informatics-, Bioinformatics-, and Genomics-Based Approaches For The Molecular Surveillance and Detection of Biothreat Agents; D. Seto.- Quantum Cryptography for Information-Theoretic Security; B. Sanders.- Part VII. Radiation Sensors.- Co-operative Gamma Ray Generation