Sentence examples for abms from inspiring English sources

Although conventional models can incorporate these, ABMs may be better tailored to modelling specific sectors.

Unlike many models, ABMs are not populated with "representative agents": identical traders, firms or households whose individual behaviour mirrors the economy as a whole.

The treaty mandated controlled increases, not decreases, in the Soviet arsenal, while failing to ban development of cruise missiles, space-based weapons, or the MIRVing of existing launchers by the United States or the U.S.S.R. Thus the superpowers sacrificed the right to defend their attack missiles with ABMs while failing to ensure the stability of mutual deterrence.

The college kids simply cannot see us spending hundreds of billions on Vietnams and ABMs while our cities rot and people are hungry.

That is because ABMs contain feedback mechanisms that can amplify small effects, such as the herding and panic that generate bubbles and crashes.

This feature of ABMs enables, for example, the copycat behaviour that leads to "herding" among investors.

But the Europeans refused to play along, and common interests with China which unlike Russia opposes all missile defences, including non-ABM-offending ones, because it worries these may be used someday to protect Taiwan from China extend only so far.

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Chicago anti-ABM protesters believe this came about partly through their efforts.

Last year, at the Asian-run Stockwell Food and Wine store, a five-year-old girl, Thusa Kamaleswaran, was shot and paralysed in a botched attack by the Brixton-based GAS gang (which stands for Guns and Shanks, or knives) on the Stockwell-based ABM gang (All 'Bout Money).

For America simply to tear up the ABM treaty would destroy hopes for further cuts in Russia's nuclear arsenal.