Studies of the political determinants of economic inequality have usually focused on the national government, but in federalist systems subnational governments may also be important. In recent decades, the U.S. national government has been less active in fighting inequality, but increasing devolution means that states wanting to address this problem have had a greater incentive and perhaps mean...

The evolution of fatal fighting was investigated using evolutionary game theory. General considerations about the lifetime consequences of fighting behaviour are first discussed. A sequential assessment game is then developed in which a fight can end because a contestant either gives up or is killed. The results show that the balance between the value of the contested resource and the value of ...

The objective of the study was to shorten the design cycle and evaluate the performance of infantry fighting vehicle using advanced multi body dynamics (MBD) environment before physical prototypes built. The MBD model is built with tracked vehicle module consisting of tracks (Links), sprocket, Support rollers, and hydro pneumatic suspension with suitable connections. Hull, turret are characteri...

This has remarkable implications. Since this quantity never changes sign, only one of R and G can ever be zero. If the initial value of (3) is positive, for example, only G can equal zero, and so only red can win. So this quantity is key in determining who will win the battle, and a side’s fighting strength – we shall call rR and gG the red and green forces’ respective fighting strengths – vari...

The aim of this paper is to identify morphological and motor structures which determine the achievement of top results in karate in the age group of younger cadets. With this purpose, a set of 18 morphological measures and a set of 12 motor tests were used on a sample of 60 male and 51 female Croatian karateka aged 13 to 15. Different morphological structures were isolated by factor analysis ac...