Abstract Is there a meaningful offense–defense balance of technological, geographical, and human factors that substantially affects war likelihood severity? Key contemporary policy debates are certainly infused with the notion, from dangers crisis instability in East Asia to possible first-move advantages cyber weaponry. Defensive realist theory, meanwhile, raises possibility inferring intent e...

The article is devoted to the problems of investigating timber smuggling, responsibility for which established by Art. 201-1 Criminal Code Ukraine. relevance issue lies in fact that smuggling one most dangerous criminal phenomena sphere social life country, because it causes damage not only financial and economic systems state, but also other types offenses are closely related it, particular, o...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of Hurricane Katrina on displaced students' behavioral disorder. METHODS First, we determine displaced students' likelihood of discipline infraction each year relative to non-evacuees using all K12 student records of the U.S. state of Louisiana during the period of 2000-2008. Second, we investigate the impact of hurricane on evacu...

Team offense in basketball games consists of a set of offensive actions carried out with the cooperation of two or more players. Of these actions, the most commonly used in the last decade is the on-ball screen called the "pick and roll." The aim of this study was to analyze all of the pick and rolls conducted in the Euroleague championship from all of the 24 participating teams and to investig...