In his book, The Minefield, published in 2007, author and former Army officer Greg Lockhart argued that the decision to establish the minefield had been "reckless"; the product of a failure to understand the prevailing nature of the insurgency in Phuoc Tuy Province, it had ended in "strategic disaster".
Pagel et al. (2006) have suggested a simple test for revealing the prevailing nature of evolution [ 99].
Any effort to group regions for comparative study will most logically be based on such factors as the traditional retained sources, the prevailing religion, the nature of the related sophisticated culture, and the environmental conditions that affect materials and activities.
Canyon heads are usually floored by sediment with a prevailing coarse-grained nature and their sampling is very difficult thus preventing the characterization of the facies of their infill.
It depends on numerous factors: the average height of the stand, the orientation of the road, the direction of prevailing winds, the nature of the soil.
However, the abstract and informal nature of prevailing pattern descriptions makes it difficult to use design patterns.
It has yet to be explained why the top quark is so much more massive than the other elementary particles, but its existence completes the Standard Model, the prevailing theoretical scheme of nature's fundamental building blocks.
Recently, IEEE 802.11 based wireless local area networks (WLAN) become increasingly prevailing with their ubiquitous nature and low cost infrastructure.
Although the notion of US input as weak runs counter to prevailing views of the nature of associative learning (as well as the associative or Hebbian LTP model of fear conditioning [36], [37]), we postulate that the 'weakness' of US input may be limited to this particular subset of neurons.
This suggests an opening up of how bodies and subjects are understood, and an exploration of the limits of prevailing discourses about the nature of persons.
This is at odds with clinically based attention to severity of dependence, prevailing conceptions of the nature of dependence itself, and also what is known in population health sciences.
