If Eurasian jays' preference to cache near vertical landmarks is a cache protection tactic, then they should cache in out-of-sight locations when conspecifics are present, but not when they cache in private.
The contributions of introspection in relation to the concept of ethnicity are then clarified: (1) the feeling of belonging to an ethnic group (or ethnicity) is experienced only through social interaction; and (2) ethnicity is an ongoing process that is organized around self-protection tactics.
But in the 1970s lawmakers switched to September, an incumbent-protection tactic designed to give challengers little time to mobilize before November.
Jon Leibowitz, chairman of America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is concerned by drugmakers filing frivolous additional patents on their products to put off the day when their protection expires.Another tactic is "pay-for-delay", in which a drugmaker facing a legal challenge to its patent pays its would-be competitor to put off introducing its cheaper copy.
Hours before the cocktail bar meeting, Inspector General al-Shereqi watched Northern Irish police display firearms, close protection and public order tactics at a remote army base in South Down.
Two years ago, when the America Invents Act sought (unsuccessfully) to put a stop to such shenanigans, Babbage labelled the trolls' shakedown tactics a "Tony Soprano" protection racket (see "Programmed nonsense", October 7th 2011).
Like other supporters of the Owenses, Simwinga said that the couple's achievements in the valley — the introduction of effective tactics to wildlife protection, and the projects in the villages that brought health care to people who previously had none — outweighed whatever harm may have come to subsistence poachers and their families.
The new use of sonar, air escorts, specially designed rescue ships, and voice radio communications permitted convoys to be more easily coordinated, and afforded greater protection against the new German tactics of marshalling U-boats into "wolf packs" of 8 or even 20 submarines that would intercept convoys and attack them at night en masse.
Switching to this kind of adaptive tactics provided greater protection for soldiers in Iraq. .
