In battles, opponents exhibit positive illusions in both believing they can win. With great costs of failure and uncertain success, this represents extreme risk-taking behaviour. Conflict may be expected if one side is cornered, a sacrificial pawn in an overall war strategy, or demanded into action by politicians. However, in many cases even patently weaker forces fight despite nonviolent optio...

Abstract Historically, access to contraception has been supported in a bipartisan way, best exemplified by consistent congressional funding of Title X—the only federal program specifically focused on providing affordable reproductive health care American residents. However, an era partisan polarization, X become political and symbolic pawn, part because its connection family planning organizati...

A pulsed power generator, Pawn, has been assembled at the Naval Research Laboratory. It employees inductive energy storage and opening switch power conditioning techniques with high energy density capacitors as the primary energy store. The energy stored in the capacitor bank is transferred to a vacuum inductor in "'15 ps. Wire fuses provide the first stage of pulse compression. Futiher power c...

Abstract The purpose of this short article is to offer a typology the speech acts deployed by Chinese scholars who wrote in Western languages late Qing era. By identifying passages dealing with Taoism their writings, and classifying them into five types arguments – 1) using orthodox-heterodox dichotomy; 2) ignoring it; 3) presenting it as an already defeated rival Confucianism; 4) describing su...

Cryptocurrency is a type of virtual currency that works similarly to real money and enables users virtually send payments for transactions involving business. With the development crypto assets today, several pawn loan institutions accept as collateral objects. In case pawning, default can also occur which requires from debtor be confiscated in event default. The purpose this study determine le...

Co-supervision of doctoral theses is on the rise worldwide, but we know little relational dynamics co-supervisory team and student. These teams often must work together for several years, during which supervisors may come go. We interviewed 19 students about their experiences co-supervision found a complex climate characterised by prior relations, merit- network-gaining activities, ‘cushioning’...