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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Physical Defense"”.
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Advancing Biosecurity in the Age of AI: Integrating Novel Detection, Suppression, and Evaluation Approaches
… exponential biological phenomena, yet current defenses remain dangerously inadequate—often blind to novel pathogens until too late and lacking barriers against rapid airborne transmission. This thesis argues that robust biosecurity enables, rather than hinders, progress, and advances three key …
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HIDE AND SEEK: AN EXPLORATION OF ANTIPREDATOR AND PREDATOR AVOIDANCE MECHANISMS IN ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFERA IN RESPONSE TO PREDATION FROM TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS
… hypothesis states thoracic setae serve as a physical defense that prevents <em>Tx. rutilus</em> from grasping <em>Or. signifera</em>. The third hypothesis states <em>Or. signifera </em>possess a chemical defense indicated by aposematic coloration. To test the first hypothesis larval <em>Or. …
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Ecological significance of seed traits in the genus Macaranga
… for germination, investment in seed chemical and physical defense, and seed persistence in the soil. Empirical measurements of germination and seed persistence in the soil were made at Lambir Hill National Park in Borneo, and coupled with analyses of the physical and chemical defense …
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Protecting critical infrastructure systems using cyber, physical, and socio-technical models
… have seen cyber-attack campaigns in addition to physical attacks on various critical infrastructure systems around the world. Thus it is important to protect such systems from adversarial physical and cyber threats. In this dissertation, we propose to protect critical infrastructure systems by …
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Understanding How Whole Genome Duplication in Plants Impacts Herbivore-plant Interactions
… changes in trichome morphology, an important physical defense against insect herbivores. The results corroborated the findings of Chapter 1 by showing that preference of both herbivore species was unaffected by WGD in their host plant. There were, however, modest effects of WGD on herbivore …
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Hardware security design from circuits to systems
… large Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The physically unclonable function (PUF) is a promising building block for hardware security, as it exposes a device-unique challenge-response behavior which depends on process variations in fabrication. It can be used in a variety of applications …