Male armaments are hypothesized to have evolved under intrasexual selection. Such traits may function as signals, weapons, or both, in male–male mating competition. Primate sexually dimorphic canine teeth and body size two potentially weaponized whose a signal and/or weapon remains unclear, largely due the difficulty of collecting detailed measurements morphology on large free-ranging mammals. ...

The presence of large heavy metal concentrations in soil polluted with chemical weapons causes serious operational restrictions against cultivation of agricultural crops like wheat. To solve this problem, the usage of zeolite has been proposed as one of the most efficient practical approaches. The main objective of this research is the investigation of the influence of natural Iranian zeolite o...

Since 1995, BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support (EI&S) has been developing and demonstrating the Commander‘s Decision Aid (CDA), a generalized sensor/information fusion processor and resource/response manager for integrated defense of ground combat vehicles. The CDA was developed under several contracts to Prime Contractor United Defense for the U.S. Army Tankautomotive & Armaments ...

described most erroneously as Shrapnel will be falling in the streets.” Winston S. Churchill, 1940 (1). By the time of his appointment as the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill had served in military action in Cuba, India and South Africa during the end of the 19th Century. Prior to WW1, his unceasing study of armaments and force of will contributed to the development of a modernise...

Surface texture and its measurement are becoming the most critical factors and important functionality indicators in the performance of high precision and nanoscale devices and components. Surface metrology as a discipline is currently undergoing a huge paradigm shift: from profile to areal characterization, from stochastic to structured surfaces, and from simple geometries to complex free-form...

INTRODUCTION After decades of neglect, recent empirical research on exaggerated female traits (e.g., ornaments, armaments, aggression, acoustic signals, etc.) has revived interest in this widespread but poorly understood phenomenon, and shown that these traits often function in the context of femalefemale competition (West-Eberhard, 1983; Amundsen, 2000; Clutton-Brock, 2009; Rosvall, 2011a; Sto...

In November 1997, the NATO Naval Armaments Group on Ship Design (NG/6) established a Specialist Team on Simulation Based Design and Virtual Prototyping (ST-SBDVP). The purpose of the Team is to share information on the benefits, risks, and costs of instituting the technologies and processes of SBDVP applied to the acquisition of naval warships. A specific challenge undertaken by the Team is an ...

This paper provides, through both numerical analyses and physical tests, a validation of the optimality of structural designs obtained from a topology optimization process. Issues related to the manufacturability of the topology-optimized design are first addressed in order to develop structural specimens suitable for experimental validation. Multidomain and multistep topology optimization tech...

The purpose of the scientific article is to find out ways commit illegal manufacture, processing or repair firearms falsification, removal alteration their markings, manufacture ammunition, explosives explosive devices. methodological basis research a set methods and techniques knowledge necessary achieve specific goal, specifics object subject research. use ensured validity reliability results...

Context. Modern theory and practice of preparation conduct hostilities on land, at sea, in the air, recently cyberspace dictates relentless modernization military equipment. The development fundamentally new weapons is carried out considering one main requirements – maximum automation operational processes, which allows combatants to distance themselves from each other as much possible.
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