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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Weaponry"”.
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Weaponry landscape
A weapon is a device used to cause damage to living beings, structures, or systems. Weapons are used to increase the effect and efficiency of activities such as hunting, law enforcement, and warfare. In a broader context, weapons could be interpreted as a method used to gain a strategic, material, …
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Exaggerated male weaponry in New Zealand sheet-web spiders (Cambridgea)
… can influence the characteristics of male weaponry. Firstly, I establish that males use their chelicerae in agonistic contests and identify how the structure of male-male contests in C. foliata drives selection for exaggerated weaponry. I then identify how cohabitation between males and …
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Technological Systems of Small Point Weaponry of the Postclassic Lowland Maya (A.D. 1400 - 1697)
… and were key components of bow-and-arrow weaponry among multiple Mayan-speaking groups and ethnopolities known as the Itza, Xiw, Kowoj, Chak'an Itza, Kehach, Dzuluinikob, Chetumal, Lakam tun (Lacandon), and Chuj. Literature suggests that the Late Postclassic period was a time of heightened …
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Nuclear Belief Systems and Individual Policy-Makers: Duncan Sandys, Unmanned Weaponry, and the Impossibility of Defence
… nuclear policy which began with thermonuclear weaponry being placed ostentatiously at the centre of British defence planning in the 1957 Defence White Paper, and ended with the British acquiring the latest American nuclear weapon technology as a consequence of the Polaris Sales Agreement. It …
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
… the physical features of battleterrain, weaponry, troop formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the mental stresses of …
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Middle iron age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone C.400 BC to c.150 BC
… be broken down into two complementary fields: weaponry and settlement. Hillforts will be studied as part of an overall settlement pattern and not in isolation. Studies of prehistoric weaponry tend either to be typological or assume that the changes in use are the result of improved …
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Calling the President a Liar: Women, Reagan, and the Bomb in "The Day After"
… definition. Considering the presence of nuclear weaponry—and the United States’ unstable relationship with the Soviet Union—Reagan risked eliminating all families. Furthermore, because Reagan insisted on the importance of traditional family values, his claim that he hoped to protect the American …
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Littoral combat vessels analysis and comparison of designs
… Cutter augmented with offensive and defensive weaponry, a "Sea Lance" inshore combat vessel, and a Combat Patrol Craft, a variant of the Cyclone class patrol craft augmented with offensive and defensive weaponry. Equal cost force structures for the four candidate vessels are developed, and then …
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Investigating the Determinants of Fight Dynamics in the Minotaur Beetle Typhaeus Typhoeus
… are morphological traits such as body size and weaponry. Animals that possess weaponry can exhibit different morphotypes, such as size difference in horns, which can lead to differences in contest behaviour, with larger morphotypes engaging in head-to-head combat, while smaller morphotypes can …
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The Evolution of Orthopteran Mating Systems and the Reproductive Ecology of New Zealand Cave Wētā
… but without coercive mating or exaggerated weaponry. Although I was able to model the evolution of these traits, phylogenetic comparisons did not provide evidence in support of correlated evolution between them. I then move from broad questions to detailed examination of sexually dimorphic …
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Living the bomb: Martin Amis's nuclear fiction
… his political agenda and the effect of nuclear weaponry on his literature. Amis's nuclear symbolism is examined and the corrupt effect of nuclear weapons on our powers of creation (literal and artistic) and the environment is illustrated. Finally, Amis's anti-nuclear philosophy is linked with …
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Chinese Nuclear Policy
… China will place a greater emphasis on tactical weaponry, both conventional, to control escalation, and nuclear to circumvent PLA deficiencies in accuracy and countermeasure technology. Ballistic missile quantity, supersonic cruise missiles and unconventional weaponry are options China has to …
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An Overview of Body Armor and Single Plate Impact Dynamics
… with the advancement of modern combat and weaponry, particularly armor-piercing ammunition, personal body armor has evolved into more complex and effective metal, ceramic, and composite structures. This paper lays the groundwork for experimental and modeling methods used to understand the …
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Emerging Technologies and Sciences: an Examination of Some Military Implications
… to space, and strategic defenses and space weaponry. Scientific investigation and technological developments are, by nature, very fluid; concrete advances are difficult to foresee clearly. This assessment is based upon strategic experience and current perspectives. On this basis the thesis …
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The Design of Complex Weapons Systems in Scorpions: Sexual, Ontogenetic, and Interspecific Variation
… complexity of these systems, I hypothesized that weaponry design is subject to selective forces arising from differences in usage between the sexes, during ontogeny, and among closely-related species occupying different habitats. In the first of three studies, I examined sexual dimorphism in the …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
… reading cursing and prophecy as epistemological weaponry, the thesis establishes a theory of early modern terror that corresponds to the effects of these tactics on local and national levels. Readings of traditional witchcraft literature and Shakespeare's Macbeth will hopefully allow for an …
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Modular Laser Combat System for Remotely Operated Vehicles: Bridging the Gap Between Computer Simulation and Live Fire
… live flight testing without the used of live weaponry. A framework is developed here for the construction of a simulated weapon using Free Space Optical (FSO) infrared communication. It is developed in such a way to ensure compatibility with a variety of platforms including ground and aerial …
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Procurement support at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California
… in order to provide the Navy with high quality weaponry in a timely manner at reasonable cost. An integral part of this process is the system of Navy Laboratories which pursue knowledge in a three-dimensional matrix of technologies, platforms and warfare areas. The method which supports this …
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