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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Arms Race"”.
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Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race
… moths are an example of a diffuse evolutionary arms race - a situation where groups of prey and predator species evolve increasingly sophisticated means to out-compete the other. Chapter one provides an overview of this arms race. Bats capture night-flying insects using highly sophisticated …
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A Stochastic Analog to the Richardson's Arms Race Model
… thesis, a stochastic version of the Richardson's arms race model is developed through the method of birth-death processes. The expected value of the model is explored and shown to be analogous to the original deterministic arms race model. The numerical method of randomization is then expanded and …
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Moths fight back: arms race in the cloud forest
Moths and bats engage in a coevolutionary arm race, where the same signals bats use to find moths are being used by moths to avoid bats. Moths evolve not only behavioral but acoustic responses to avoid predation by bats. This research examines one small component of a complex, multispecies arm race …
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Arms Race, Military Expenditure and Economic Growth in India
… the effect of defence on development. First, the arms race between India and Pakistan is analyzed by using a Richardson action-reaction model and cointegration techniques. The empirical results provide robust evidence to support the existence of an enduring arms race between India and Pakistan, …
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Signatures and forgeries: optimality in a coevolutionary arms race
When species interact antagonistically, ‘arms races’ played out on coevolutionary battlegrounds can drive the rapid evolution of intricate and complex adaptations in each species. However, evolution in one species may prevent optimality in these adaptations from being realised in the other. In the …
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Complement evasion strategies of human pathogens - the evolutionary arms race
Although the complement system, a pivotal component of innate immunty, is centrally involved in host defense against pathogens, its overactivation or deregulation may excessively amplify inflammation and contribute to immunopathology. Periodontitis, an oral infection-driven chronic inflammatory …
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Hypersonic Hype: An Analysis of the Emerging Sino-American Arms Race in the Pacific
… from an emboldened China. The resultant emerging arms race in what the United States has dubbed a “New Era of Great Power Competition” I argue is counterproductive to the vital security interests of both countries and is—most importantly—not inevitable. The fundamental issues at stake in the …
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From adversarial arms race to model-centric evaluation motivating a unified automatic robustness evaluation framework
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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The role of a toxin-antitoxin system in the arms race between bacteria and phage
… highlighting the intense, ongoing evolutionary arms race between phages and their bacterial hosts. Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread phage defense systems in bacteria comprising a bacteriostatic or bactericidal toxin and an antitoxin that normally keeps the toxin inactive. Following …
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Keeping time on the plant-pathogen arms race : a role for the plant circadian clock in immune response
In this study, Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) in the Columbia-0 (Col-0) background showed time-of-day variation in susceptibility to the plant-pathogen Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 pathovar tomato (P. syringae DC3000) when infected under constant light and temperature conditions. Wild type …
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Nuisance to nemesis: nuclear fallout and intelligence as secrets, problems, and limitations on the arms race, 1940-1964
Fallout sampling and other nuclear intelligence techniques were the most important sources of United States strategic intelligence in the early Cold War. Operated as the Atomic Energy Detection System by a covert Air Force unit known as AFOAT-1, the AEDS detected emissions and analyzed fallout from …
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Plagues, paranoia, and Cold War blowback: The continuing national security risk of the Soviet-United States biological arms race
The Cold War biological arms race is a site of contention within the geopolitical landscape under the theories of containment and mutually assured destruction. Rapid proliferation of biological weapons creates instability within the construction of biosecurity and is further complicated by the …
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What Drives Defense Spending in South Asia?: An Application of Defense Spending and Arms Race Models to India and Pakistan
… on defense rather than try to engage India in an arms race that they would assuredly lose. On the other hand, Pakistan' defense spending bureaucracy is stronger than India's, so that Pakistan finds it more difficult to cut defense spending than does India.
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The technical, legal and political implications of remote sensing satellites
… satellites and their role in the present arms race. While volumes of material have been written on the arms race in general, or the weapons race in particular, very little has been written on the role of satellites in this conflict and almost nothing has been written on the role of …
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The German naval menace: the relationship between the press and diplomacy in the Dreadnought Era 1904-1914, an era of misperception?
… interdisciplinary approach to the Anglo-German arms race in the early twentieth century by combining press histories and international relations theories. The thesis suggests that the British misperceived German naval and imperial ambitions and pressed for a retraction of German power and an …
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Anti-CRISPRs and CRISPR-Cas: Characterization and Biotechnology
… viruses) have been undergoing an evolutionary arms race for billions of years, whereby bacteria evolve mechanisms to inhibit phage infection and phages evolve mechanisms to evade bacterial defenses. Consequently, there are several mechanisms used by bacteria to inhibit phage infection. These …
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Automatic identification and removal of low quality online information
… information consumers are entrenched in a spam arms race. To break free of this arms race, we propose two solutions. One solution involves refining the statistical learning process by associating disproportionate weights to spam and legitimate features, and the other solution leverages the …
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U. S. and Soviet security policy and the "Missle Gap": Controversy, origins, and impact
… consequences for later phases of the strategic arms race. In examining the missile gap issue, a number of questions are asked of Soviet and American defense policies, true (as compared to estimated or projected) capabilities for each side, and domestic political catalysts and constraints. In …
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