In deregulated industries former monopolies often adopt asymmetric behaviors: these firms impede the entry of foreign competitors in their home market, especially using defensive political strategies, and, at the same time, aggressively develop international strategies in foreign markets. To account for this behavior, I develop a game theoretic model involving three players: the former monopoly...

When faced with a complex task, humans often identify domain-specific concepts that make the task more tractable. In this thesis, I investigate the formation of domain-specific concepts of this sort. I propose a set of principles for formulating domain-specific concepts, including a new inductive bias that I call the equivalence class principle. I then use the domain of two-player, perfect-info...

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy COOPERATIVE CONTROL STRATEGIES AND DECEPTION IN ADVERSARIAL SYSTEMS By Zachariah E. Fuchs August 2012 Chair: Pramod P. Khargonekar Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering The protection of vulnerable, high-value assets has been a chal...

member of the teaching staff in al. zahra university the lives of holy prophet and imams peace be upon them are full of points which can clarify most of fundamental policies in different scientific, gnostical, social, political and defensive fields. the careful and multilateral examintion of the holy prophet and imams' lives peace be upon them, specially by using the new methode is one of ...

Theory predicts patterns of defense across taxa based on notions of tradeoffs and synergism among defensive traits when plants and herbivores coevolve. Because the expression of characters changes ontogenetically, the evolution of plant strategies may be best understood by considering multiple traits along a trajectory of plant development. Here we addressed the ontogenetic expression of chemic...

one of the new areas in the field of studying the country's development planning is border regions. although from past to present different aspects of the problems related to these regions have been studied, but spatial planning of border regions not only its position has not been clarified in the planning system of the country's development but also its dimensions and characteristics...

We study the novel business models of patent acquisition services and assess their implications for intellectual property markets and patent litigation. Through qualitative case studies and descriptive analyses of patent and litigation data, we find that the most recent innovations in the area of defensive patent acquisition business models are indeed distinct from offensive models and from pra...

Plant-herbivore interactions dominate the planet's terrestrial ecology. When it comes to host-plant specialization, insects are among the most versatile evolutionary innovators, able to disarm multiple chemical plant defenses. Sequestration is a widespread strategy to detoxify noxious metabolites, frequently for the insect's own benefit against predation. In this study, we describe the broad-sp...

Match-merging, or BY merging, is the most common merging technique used in SAS**. Yet, how it works is not always obvious. This tutorial shows many of the technique’s nuances and subtleties, gives examples of merges where even experienced programmers have been tripped up, and demonstrates defensive programming strategies.