In The Law of Loopholes in Action [Gel05], David Gelernter argues that “every loophole will eventually be exploited; every loophole will eventually be closed.” His thesis applied to terrorism means that terrorists will find security loopholes via continual exploration and that, once discovered, specific defensive measures have to be put in place to close each loophole. The net effect of the Law...

There is increasing evidence that geographic and climatic clines drive the patterns of plant defence allocation and defensive strategies. We quantified early growth rate and both constitutive and inducible chemical defences of 18 Pinaceae species in a common greenhouse environment and assessed their defensive allocation with respect to each species' range across climatic gradients spanning 31° ...

We set up a game theoretic framework to analyze a wide range of situations from team sports. A fundamental idea is the concept of potential; the probability of the offense scoring the next goal minus the probability that the next goal is made by the defense. We develop categorical as well as continuous models, and obtain optimal strategies for both offense and defense. A main result is that the...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

Abstract This paper analyses politicians’ selection of adverbs certainty and extreme case formulations (ECFs) in both the 1975 Referendum Brexit (2016). analysis helped discover if politicians Brexit: (a) framed a similar or different reality through their discourse choices (b) used same types ECFs with frequency. For this purpose, we contrasted time (the vs. Brexit) position (Anti-Europe Pro-E...

Offering an apology is a strategy brands use in response to negative electronic word of mouth. However, its effectiveness equivocal and may depend on combination with other strategies. In this paper, the offering webcare conversations between airlines complaining customers Twitter investigated. Study 1, corpus study was conducted examine whether how apologies occurred 480 conversations. most fr...