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strategy

1. The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

2. The use of stratagem or artifice. 3. A plan of action encompassing the methods to be adopted from beginning to end of a task or endeavor, focussing on the general methods; contrasted with tactics, which is a plan for accomplishing subgoals of lesser extent than the primary goal. Thus, a strategy is a plan for winning a war, and a tactic is a plan for winning a battle. 4. Biol. A behavior evolved and exhibited by a living organism to accomplish some important goal, as a foraging strategy.

Origin: Gr., cf. F. Strategie. See Stratagem.


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living forever

... own species at its cost, but to the benefit of your offspring, they would probably spread. But you could that this is not necessarily a winning strategy in the long term. You can read on game theory and genetics to learn more on the subject. I think there is at least one chapter on the subject ...

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by canalon
Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:48 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: living forever
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Re: is it too late?(sorry might be off topic)

... bio", you could take the non-major's 100-level series, which covers much the same information but not in as much depth. One advantage of that strategy is that you will decrease your bio workload a bit and you can use that first year to get through your year of general chemistry with more time ...

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by jonmoulton
Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:29 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: is it too late?(sorry might be off topic)
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Do you think that robots could one day be living organisms?

... Saying that, there are robots that can think for themselves but in a very very small way, such as to evaluate distance and determine a movement strategy...such things we consider less than trivial.

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by Jesse2504
Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:09 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Do you think that robots could one day be living organisms?
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Views: 119

Re: ?{REGENERATION}? Is it possible ???!!

I don't have full access to the article right now, so what does it mean by: . . . using a strategy of re-expressing key developmental regulators in vivo, we identify a specific combination of three transcription factors (Ngn3 (also known as Neurog3) Pdx1 and Mafa) that ...

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by kolean
Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:35 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: ?{REGENERATION}? Is it possible ???!!
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... will get no converts here. There are plenty of forums available to you where you can happily exchange dubious quotes. Confrontation is not a good strategy for fruitful discussion. I, at least, would be more tolerant if you were willing to discuss why you hold the beliefs you do. I realize that ...

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by wbla3335
Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:20 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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