Multivariate analyses indicate threats do not form distinct "syndromes" (clusters of threats) but rather a single "mega-syndrome" with high degrees of overlap between most threats.
The idea is for law enforcement or intelligence agencies to be alerted immediately to patterns in otherwise unremarkable sets of data that might indicate threats, allowing rapid reviews by human analysts.
Both groups displayed enhanced late positive potentials and more prolonged heart rate deceleration to pictures indicating threat, relative to non-threat, and larger skin conductance responses to pictures indicating threat, relative to non-threat, at time one.
The current study was designed to examine event-related brain potentials and autonomic responses to pictures indicating threat, relative to non-threat, and acoustic startle reflexes in traumatized youth diagnosed with PTSD, relative to non-exposed children, before and after receiving psychotherapy.
British newspapers had reported that some of the material found by Pakistan when it arrested Mr. Khan had indicated threats against unspecified targets in Britain.
As the cases of Argentina, Bolivia and Haiti indicate, the threat to stability today bears little resemblance to the classic Latin American military coup.
The Environment Agency currently has nine severe flood warnings – which indicate a threat to life – in place in Wales, the Midlands and the south-west.
The figures reflect a trend established in the previous year, and the authorities fear they indicate a threat to the industry.
But their report found "no toxicological or ecological data" to indicate a threat to human health from levels thought present in the environment, although the data available to the task force to was "inadequate", its authors said.
