Combat behavior

Explore emergent properties and/or other novel behaviors arising from low-level rules (even combat doctrine if it is well encoded) Are there any universal patterns of combat behavior ... 

Users are also given an opportunity to construct a context for understanding their own conjectures about dynamical combat behavior. The agent-based simulation is therefore a medium in which questions and insights continually feed off of one another. 

Weaver, W.G. 1970. Courtship and combat behavior in Gopherus berlandieri. Bull. Fla. State Mus. Biol. Sci. 15 1-43. 

Fig. 11.13 Illustration of how mobile CA (here used to model elementary combat ) can be used to explore the relationship between primitive rules governing behavior on the micro-scale and emergent behavior on the macro-scale see text.

To combat attacks with fast-acting agents in the terminals, continuous visual surveillance of densely populated areas and observation of behavior patterns may be as useful as any detector. The TSA should study the feasibility of the widespread deployment of surveillance cameras in populated areas, coupled with behavioral-pattern-recognition software, as an alternative to chemical agent detectors. Such cameras could also provide a dual-use value in improving the overall security environment. In addition, many critical nodes in the air transportation system (control rooms, emergency-response centers, and so on) are supplied with air that is recirculated from publicly accessible areas this makes them vulnerable to being disabled by the release of... 

In the second study, Ruscio, Ruscio, and Keane (2002) examined the taxonicity of PTSD in a large sample of male combat veterans (N = 1,230), who were seen at the Behavioral Sciences Division of the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System s National Center for posttraumatic stress disorder between 1985 and 2000. All the participants completed the Mississippi scale (Keane, Caddell,. Taylor, 1988), a 35-item measure of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms rated on a five-point scale a subset of this sample (n = 841) was assessed with the Clinician Administered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale (CAPS), an interview measure of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms that a clinician rates on a five-point scale. According to the CAPS, 68% of the sample qualified for a posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis. 

What would be the most efficient way to deliver a drug like BZ If employing an aerosol, what particle size would be most effective Would BZ really be a practical agent for use in combat and if so, under what circumstances What kinds of unpredictable behavior might one have to anticipate ... 

Panic disorder is characterized by the occurrence of panic attacks that occur spontaneously and lead to persistent worry about subsequent attacks and/or behavioral changes intended to minimize the likelihood of further attacks. Sporadic panic attacks are not limited, however, to those with syndromal panic disorder as they do occur occasionally in normal individuals and in those with other syndromal psychiatric disorders. The hallmark of panic disorder is that the panic attacks occur without warning in an unpredictable variety of settings, whereas panic attacks associated with other disorders typically occur in response to a predictable stimulus. For example, a person with acrophobia might experience a panic attack when on a glass elevator. A patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with contamination fears may have a panic attack when confronted with the sight of refuse, and a combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may experience a panic attack when a helicopter flies overhead or an automobile backfires. 

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The same distinction holds true for PTSD. Reminders of the tranma (e.g., sexual intimacy for a rape survivor loud noises for a combat veteran) can trigger panic attacks. Furthermore, PTSD is associated with a variety of avoidant behaviors that can resemble agoraphobia. In the case of PTSD, the avoidance is specifically targeted at reminders of the trauma. For example, places or people who in some way cue memories of the traumatic event are avoided. As for agoraphobia, the avoidance tends to be less specific. It is any sitnation from which it would be difficult to escape should a panic attack occur that is avoided. 

In a pair of papers published in 2004 and 2005, Corbett, Otto, and Sanders described similar theoretical analyses of relatively simple DCLs, as well as the development and testing of a new tool for simulating DCL behavior, appropriately dubbed DCLSim [83]. The authors described the potential for DCL selections to yield something other than the fittest binder as the tendency of DCLs to maximize the binding interactions in the entire library [84]. As in the cases described by Severin, this tendency could be combated by careful choice of initial library conditions. 

Patients with combat-related PTSD compared to healthy controls had enhanced behavioral, biochemical, and cardiovascular responses to the a2 antagonist yohimbine, which stimulates central NE release (Southwick et al. 1993, 1997). Moreover, a positron emission tomography study demonstrated that PTSD patients have a cerebral metabolic response to yohimbine consistent with increased NE release (Bremner et al. 1997b). 

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a single-stranded RNA retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which individuals are at increased risk for developing certain infections and malignancies. The virus is found in two major forms HIV-1, the most prevalent worldwide, and HIV-2, the most common in western Africa. More than 22 million people have died of HIV infection, and 40 million are believed to be infected worldwide. AIDS epidemics threaten populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Russia. In the United States about 450,000 deaths have occurred and another 900,000 people are estimated to carry the virus. Although the development of new drugs, complex multidrug regimens, and behavioral modification have done much to combat the spread of HIV in-... 

Experimentally measured pure-component adsorption characteristics of O2, N2, CO2, and SO2 on H-mordenite were correlated to predict the behavior of multicomponent mixture of these gases. These correlations, based upon the relationships developed by Myers and Prausnitz, were successfully substantiated experimentally. The CO2 and SO2, which are the predominantly adsorbed components, controlled the fate of the multi-component sorption. This prevailed even at the concentration levels where the pure-component data indicate comparable affinity for both the strongly and the weakly adsorbed species. Hence, indications are that adsorption may be effectively useful in exhaust gas cleanup processes. The temperature sensitivity of the pure components contributes significantly to the selectivity of the sieve for the various components, and the data obtained indicate that this also tends to favor the desired applications in pollution combat. 

Also, unlike other means of combat, chemical warfare can be controlled and confined to the battlefield unkvs deliberately used clHew bcrc, for the laws governing the behavior of gases are as definite and w ell understood as the law of gravity. 

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