10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATTRITIONAL»
Discover the use of
attritional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
attritional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archeological Sites
In paleobiology, this kind of profile is commonly referred to as "attritional." In the
context of a hunter-gatherer site, an attritional profile could imply scavenging from
carcasses dead of "natural" causes. Alternatively, it may imply a hunting method,
...
2
The Evolution of Human Hunting
distinguishing between catastrophic and attritional mortality profiles, since they
tend to be equally abundant in both. Excluding the young individuals then, Figure
7 (below) suggests that successively older age classes contain subequal or even
...
Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki, 1987
One basic mortality type is referred to as "attritional" or "normal" mortality. It is
modeled as a frequency distribution of age classes in which very young and very
old individuals are overrepresented relative to their live abundances, and ...
4
Recent Advances in Palaeodemography: Data, Techniques, Patterns
The space for attritional mortality was formalised via a mix of Gompertz-
Makeham and extreme value distributions. The full set of extreme value
distributions admits a parametric notation that is dependent on three parameters:
location, scale ...
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, 2008
5
SLOW VIOLENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENTALISM OF THE POOR
Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today.
6
Psychotherapy Revised: New Frontiers in Research and Practice
These four studies illustrate the range of attritional loss in the studies re» ported
by Landman and Dawes (1982); more careful research reporting might make
some studies less attrition-ridden, but loss of subjects from study inception,
through ...
7
Understanding Pottery Function
So the attritional information on sherds can indeed be instructive. But most
researchers will be interested in employing attritional traces to infer vessel use
and this is best explored on larger pieces. I have found that the best way to
record ...
8
Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory and Practice
The contributors here consider the multifarious aspects of the Anglo-American approach to war. All the contributors are concerned to base their work on the overall historical context.
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Operational Risk Modelling and Management
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The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American ...
Combat. Physics. and. the. Ugly. Realities. of. Attritional. Warfare. BEFORE
EXAMINING THE COMBAT PERFORMANCE ofthe AEF's junior leaders and the
challenges they faced in battle, it is im— portant to discuss the nature ofcombat
that ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATTRITIONAL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
attritional is used in the context of the following news items.
Women's World Cup: Clutch Carli, peaking properly and the USWNT …
All too quick to lump it long and play a grinding, attritional style that was liable to get exposed against the likes of Germany and Japan. It looked ... «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
Levadia Tallinn boss Marko Kristal ready for a Champions League …
Tallinn emerged with a goalless draw following last week's attritional first qualifying round, first leg at Seaview. It gives Crusaders a fighting ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jul 15»
Kyrgios out-guns Raonic for Wimbledon upset
After levelling matters, the third set was once more attritional on serve before Kyrgios exploded into life by taking six straight points in the crucial ... «Betting.betfair, Jul 15»
Tour de France heads into low country promising anything but flat calm
... a hellish surface that ought to provide no end of entertainment on Tuesday, as the peloton clatters across seven sectors of these attritional, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
America's July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we …
In Korea, we spent two years negotiating a truce, even as brutal attritional fighting continued. In Vietnam, peace talks lasted for five years, with ... «Salon, Jul 15»
Kargil : How Much 'By The Throat' Did The Pakistan Army Have Us?
Waves of Indian Infantry undertook daring assaults in almost complete attritional mode, employing multi directional approaches simultaneously ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
Postcard from . . . Alpe d'Huez
Audiences are drawn to cycling's grand tours by the gladiatorial suffering, that attritional triumph of determination over agony. On the screen ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Ashes 2015: Michael Vaughan says England must exploit home …
"It was attritional, boring cricket and nobody was that excited by it, but they won 3-0. I would say prepare a pitch like Lord's or Headingley versus ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Copa America final preview: Ominous signs for Chile as Lionel …
Somebody is going to bring their drought to an end and, after a long period of attritional drift, the momentum has begun to swing behind ... «The National, Jul 15»
Mentor backs his protégé ... and England
... which under Flower and captain Alastair Cook successfully clawed their way up the rankings ladders by playing low-risk, attritional cricket, ... «cricket.com.au, Jul 15»
