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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"threat-level"”.
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Detecting Threats from Constituent Parts: A Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory Analysis of Individual Differences
… description to include tasks in which there are levels of uncertainty regarding the categorization of stimulus events. Specifically, FSDT can be used to quantify the degree to which an event is 'signal-like', i.e., the degree to which a stimulus event can be characterized by both signal and …
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Hotspots, Extinction Risk and Conservation Priorities of Greater Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Marine Bony Shorefishes
… Regional organizations tasked with managing threats to the 1,360 marine bony shorefishes of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico would benefit from a delineation of conservation priorities. However, prior to this study, conservation status was known for only one quarter of these shorefishes. …
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Citizen Science: Training Pet Dogs to Detect the Spotted Lanternfly
… detection dogs. With ubiquitous agricultural threats in the United States, there is a need for a tool to help decrease the threat level. Pet dogs could be the answer. There are millions of pet dogs in the United States and with the success of the dog sport nose work there is the potential to …
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Reaction Time: Sports and Religion
… important to pay attention to is decided with threat level, novelty, emotion, and other criteria. The current study looked at responses from 41 participants who identified high or low with University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University, and/or Christianity. The participants where shown two …
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Inflammatory and Conciliatory Rhetoric in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events
… their application in constructing a practical Threat Index are among the key contributions of this study.</p>
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Augmenting security event information with contextual data to improve the detection capabilities of a SIEM
… meteorological, calendar information and terror threat level. The SIEM is tested with each contextual data feed active and the results are recorded. The testing shows that the addition of contextual data feeds actively affects the sensitivity of OSSIM and hence results in higher alarms raised …
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The design and retrofit of buildings for resistance to blast-induced progressive collapse
… guidelines for federal buildings according to threat level, comprehensive codes have not yet been devised for blast hardening of non-federal buildings. One of the most important considerations in the strength-based design of buildings is adequate protection against progressive collapse in any …
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… factors which include protest diversity, protest threat level, and geographic terrain.
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"It’s the hardest conversation I’ve had to have" - A psychosocial exploration of teachers’ experiences of talking to children about terrorism.
The UK government threat level, used to mark the likelihood of a terrorist attack, has fluctuated between ‘critical’ and ‘severe’ over recent years. As a result, increased consideration is being given to the impact of terrorism on schools. This study is a psychosocial exploration of the experiences …
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Ontogeny of Venom Use and Venom Composition in the Western Widow Spider Latrodectus Hesperus
… venom use by adult females in the context of threat assessment. A single brief poke at the lowest threat level elicited primarily avoidance responses ("move" and "retract"), repeated prodding at medium threat incited increased silk-flicking, and gentle pinching at highest threat provoked …
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The application of spatial capture-recapture models to investigate leopard ecology and conservation in South Africa
… Leopards (Panthera pardus) are an iconic and threatened species whose conservation is hampered by a lack of robust population data, in part due to their sparse populations and cryptic nature. I used cameratrap surveys from 27 protected areas in northeastern South Africa to make inferences …
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The life and death of Section 44 (Stop and Search) Terrorism Act 2000
… professional doctorate the United Kingdom (UK) threat level stands at SUBSTANTIAL. This means that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JT AC), MI5 have assessed the intelligence that it holds and has reported to the Home Secretary that 'A TERRORIST ATTACK IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY'. However, at …
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A “Neighborhood” Approach for Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-Process Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments
… a forest-dwelling species currently considered threatened by the IUCN (<em>Handleyomys chapmani</em>). After building a Maxent species distribution model indicating climatically suitable areas, I determined deforestation tolerance thresholds (the lowest value of forest cover where the species …
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Threat assessment for safe navigation in environments with uncertainty in predictability
This thesis develops threat assessment algorithms to improve the safety of the decision making of autonomous and human-operated vehicles navigating in dynamic and uncertain environments, where the source of uncertainty is in the predictability of the nearby vehicles' future trajectories. The first …
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Towards Fast and Adaptive Byzantine State Machine Replication for Planetary-Scale Systems
… few faulty replicas. FlashConsensus achieves threat-level awareness through the incorporation of two modes of operation and BFT forensic support and guarantees liveness and linearizability under optimal resilience. Moreover, FlashConsensus allows for client-side speculation by using …
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Energy flows : empowering New Orleans
… and typology, adapted to different disaster threat level conditions particular to the area, and potentially reorganize the domestic realm according to its new added functions. Recognizing the possibility of another flood in New Orleans and understanding the effect of the Army Corps of …
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Optimization of Enantiopure tetrahydro-β-carbolines as Potent Antimalarials and Exploration of salicylic acid analogs for combating multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae
… an anti-gonorrhea treatment. Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne disease. In 2021, there were 247 million cases of malaria and the estimated number of malaria deaths stood at 619,000. Because of the rapid development of resistance to all current antimalarials, discovery of antimalarials …
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Conservation of endemic species in China
… have occurred. However, it wakes up to the threats of biodiversity in recent years. Protected areas, as an essential conservation tool to reduce habitat loss and species extinction have expanded dramatically in China. Protected areas with various other concepts such as umbrella species and …