Prior to 1847, Detroit fought to maintain the capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had many reasons for wanting a move inland, including the need to increase defensibility by moving the state government away from the Canadian border.
Furthermore, the effects of increasing the patch perimeter and group size on measures of defensibility were largely additive.
This amplification is what's driving the near exponential growth and increasing defensibility of breakout social commerce companies.
In this paper, I attempt to build stronger inferences about the nature of defensive decision-making by characterizing the defensibility of a given landscape and treating it as a population from which a sample of archaeological sites may be considered.
Of the things Madonna has been criticised for lately, this slips lower on the defensibility scale than a cheeky nipple-flash.
Baxter shows the defensibility of that theory against past dismissive interpretations, especially of Hume's stance on infinite divisibility.
I then calculate the defensibility of a large region in Gulf of Georgia and lower Fraser River valley of British Columbia, and assess the defensibility of a large sample of recorded pre- and post-contact archaeological sites in light of the baseline defensibility of the landscape.
In the context of the consortium's findings, this definition now raises some fundamental questions about the defensibility of those patents.
First, one-sided characterizations of legitimacy and priority are very likely, at least over the long term, to undermine the political credibility of their proponents and the defensibility of the rights they regard as preeminently important.
Within a technocracy, the only thing that matters is the defensibility of one's arguments, not the backstory of the person making them, or how good they are at telling jokes.
