Brothers in Arms

Brothers in arms

War is the father of all things, Heraclitus believed. The military’s demand for better weapons and transportation, as well as tools for communication, detection and surveillance has driven technological progress during the past 150 years or so, producing countless civilian applications as a fallout. The military has invested heavily into high-energy physics, materials science, navigation system...

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Brothers in Arms? On AI Planning and Cellular Automata

AI Planning is concerned with the selection of actions towards achieving a goal. Research on cellular automata (CA) is concerned with the question how global behaviours arise from local updating rules relating a cell to its direct neighbours. While these two areas are disparate at first glance, we herein identify a problem that is interesting to both: How to reach a fixed point in an asynchrono...

Panic and hypertension: brothers in arms through 5-HT?

S. J. Davies Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. C. A. Lowry Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, USA. D. J. Nutt Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Journal of Psychopharmacology 21(6) (2007) 563–566 © 2007 British Association for Psychopharmacology ISSN 0269-8811 SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Sin...

Brothers in arms: Libyan revolutionaries bond like family.

What motivates ordinary civilians to sacrifice their lives for revolutionary causes? We surveyed 179 Libyan revolutionaries during the 2011 conflict in Libya. These civilians-turned-fighters rejected Gaddafi's jamahiriyya (state of the masses) and formed highly cohesive fighting units typical of intense conflicts. Fighters reported high levels of "identity fusion"--visceral, family-like bonds b...