It pointed to three discrete threats: Iran's nuclear and missile programmes, its active support for the Hizbullah militants in Lebanon, and its steady output of ideological rhetoric denying Israel's legitimacy.In this section How not to make a friend of Iran Influence or confluence?
Separately from the risk rating, the reports are also broken down into classifications; for instance "concern for minor raised" and "self-harm threat" are discrete incident categories.
But he has tried to disaggregate the threat into discrete tactical campaigns - reluctantly forced into overt military action in Iraq while keeping Syria at arm's length, a broad international and regional approach to Nigeria's Boko Haram, and nominally covert campaigns in Pakistan and Yemen.
This emphasis on the dual use threat associated with discrete "pieces" of research fails to take into account the complexity of innovation processes and the intangible barriers that would need to be overcome in order to exploit any single "piece" of research for the purposes of bioweapons development (second unknown known).
But what if the threat were something less discrete than a well — the air, the water, the very ground beneath our feet?
The book, Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, examines 36 such operations by the US in the past 20 years.
But terrorism is an amorphous and invisible threat, whereas paramilitary groups are discrete and visible, making them easier to counter.
Although cefotaxime-resistant salmonellae mainly originate in discrete geographic areas, they represent a global threat.
Despite these commonalities, researchers have also proposed a functional dissociation between the CeA and BNST, with the CeA promoting responses to discrete stimuli and the BNST promoting responses to diffuse threat.
In summary, C. elegans perceives 21% O2 as a threat, and responds to it via a discrete set of O2-sensing neurons whose tonic activity coordinates an altered global organismic state.
