Top Research Papers on Defence and Strategic Studies

An extensive review of the threats of federated learning, as well as as their corresponding countermeasures, attacks versus defences, and guidelines for selecting the most adequate defence method according to the category of the adversarial attack are presented.

The present study discusses the strategic role of gastronomy in destinations from the perspective of three theoretical foundations of strategic management, namely Resource-Based View (RBV), Emergent Strategy (ES), and Positioning Strategy (PS). Several concepts from the field of gastronomy are used, such as gastronomic identity, tourist behaviours (motivation, experience, consumption), a sense of place, and food image. Utilizing this multi-disciplinary literature, the present study provides an integrative review and develops a model explaining the strategic role of gastronomy in tourism destin...

The authors attempt to provide a detailed discussion on different types of adversarial attacks with various threat models and also elaborate on the efficiency and challenges of recent countermeasures against them.

It is argued that the range of plant traits that mediate indirect defence is much greater than previously thought, and major concepts surrounding their ecological functioning are further organised.

It is demonstrated that the vanilla triplet loss shows competitive performance compared to classification-based losses, and those trained with the proposed metric learning objective outperform state-of-the-art methods.

Strategists have unique skills and abilities to connect the past and the present in order to predict what might happen in the future. The current study is the culmination of a number of research ideas in the field of Strategic Thinking (ST), Strategic Planning (SP) and Strategic Innovation (SI) in relation of Human Capital (HC). The survey method was used to collect data from 235 SMEs in the manufacturing industry of Yemen. Results indicate that ST, SP and SI have a significant effect on HC. The mediating effects of HC on the relationship between ST, SP and SI and SMEs’ performance were also e...

Findings reveal that bacterial immunity is much more complex than previously thought and the ecological impact of their diversity is revealed.

It is argued that understanding how bacteria defend themselves in nature is important for the development of new therapies and for minimizing resistance evolution.

Abstract Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce regional devastation 1,2 . Several approaches have been proposed to potentially prevent an asteroid impact with Earth by deflecting or disrupting an asteroid 1–3 . A test of kinetic impact technology was identified as the highest-priority space mission related to asteroid mitigation 1 . NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is a full-scale test of kinetic impact technology. The mission’s target as...

This paper identifies some major security attacks on intelligent connected vehicles and investigates and summarizes the available defences against these attacks and classify them into four categories: cryptography, network security, software vulnerability detection, and malware detection.

Book «The Concept of Strategizing» of Dr. Vladimir Kvint is, in essence, a reflection on the main provision of the General Theory of Strategy, which was developed by the author over his forty years in the field. The definitions, conceptual statements, and methodological and practical recommendations set forth in this book are useful for a wide range of readers, including corporate, state, municipal and military leadership, as well as management, theorists and strategists, teachers, and students.

The critical role of N nutrition in plant defences is stressed and a comprehensive understanding of how opposing virulence and defence mechanisms are influenced by interacting networks is needed.

In this review, pathogenesis of medically important fungi, fungal interaction with the host through pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and the interplay of innate and adaptive immune cells in shaping host immunity to IFI are discussed and the role of memory cells by offering long-term protection in secondary or subsequent infections is depicted.

The emerging potential to therapeutically harness cationic host defence peptides to treat infectious diseases, chronic inflammatory disorders and wound healing is assessed, highlighting current preclinical studies and clinical trials.

How TORCH pathogens access the intra-amniotic space and overcome the placental defences that protect against microbial vertical transmission is discussed.

Treatment of cancer cells with GPX4 inhibitors results in acute depletion of N-carbamoyl-l-aspartate, a pyrimidine biosynthesis intermediate, with concomitant accumulation of uridine, and the results identify a DHODH-mediated ferroptosis defence mechanism in mitochondria and suggest a therapeutic strategy of targeting ferroPTosis in cancer treatment.

Who, over the age of 20, hasn’t experienced a serendipitous event: unexpected information that yields some unintended but potential value later on? Sitting next to a stranger on a plane who becomes a business partner? Stumbling onto an article in a journal or newspaper that helps tackle a nagging problem? Creating a new drug by accident?

Purpose In globalized market, organizations of all sizes are having huge opportunities for growth. However, due to various resource constraints, it has become challenging for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of growing economies to survive in this global competition. Effective supply chain management (SCM) can be a major driving factor for success of Indian SMEs in dynamic world economy. SMEs face many operational challenges while implementing effective SCM. The purpose of this paper is to study different strategic issues for successful implementation of SCM in Indian SMEs. Design/methodolo...

The second edition of Percy and Elliott's Strategic Advertising Management continues to deal with advertising from a strategic rather than simply a descriptive standpoint and covers all the main topics on an advertising management module.

Empathy is an integral part of socioemotional well-being, but recent research has highlighted some of its downsides. Here we examine literature that establishes when, how much, and what aspects of empathy promote specific outcomes. After reviewing a theoretical framework that characterizes empathy as a suite of separable components, we examine evidence showing how dissociations of these components affect important socioemotional outcomes and describe emerging evidence suggesting that these components can be independently and deliberately regulated. Finally, we advocate for an approach to a mul...