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Susceptibility to Spear-Phishing Emails Open
Phishing is fundamental to cyber attacks. This research determined the effect of Internet user age and email content such as weapons of influence (persuasive techniques that attackers can use to lure individuals to fall for an attack) and …
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Joining the blunt and the pointy end of the spear: towards a common framework of joint action, human–machine cooperation, cooperative guidance and control, shared, traded and supervisory control Open
To introduce this special issue of shared and cooperative control, we will look into history of tools in cooperation between humans and aim to unify the plethora of related concepts and definitions that have been proposed in recent years, …
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GFDL's SPEAR Seasonal Prediction System: Initialization and Ocean Tendency Adjustment (OTA) for Coupled Model Predictions Open
The next‐generation seasonal prediction system is built as part of the Seamless System for Prediction and EArth System Research (SPEAR) at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat…
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Learning to Spear Hunt Among Ethiopian Chabu Adolescent Hunter-Gatherers Open
Research indicates that children in small-scale cultures acquire many subsistence skills and knowledge relatively easily and quickly at an early age. However, the precise age and the developmental sequence of acquiring skills and knowledge…
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Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France Open
Consensus in archaeology has posited that mechanically propelled weapons, such as bow-and-arrow or spear-thrower-and-dart combinations, appeared abruptly in the Eurasian record with the arrival of anatomically and behaviorally modern human…
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Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents Open
Teaching likely evolved in humans to facilitate the faithful transmission of complex tasks. As the oldest evidenced hunting technology, spear hunting requires acquiring several complex physical and cognitive competencies. In this study, we…
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The Clacton Spear: The Last One Hundred Years Open
In 1911 an eminent amateur prehistorian pulled the broken end of a pointed wooden shaft from Palaeolithic-age sediments at a seaside town in Essex. This artefact, still the earliest worked wood to be discovered in the world, became known a…
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The Weaponization of Social Media : Spear Phishing and Cyberattacks on Democracy Open
State-sponsored cyber groups have long utilized spear phishing to pierce government networks. Spear phishing relies on social engineering to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information or downloading malicious software, rather t…
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Spearfishing-induced behavioral changes of an unharvested species inside and outside a marine protected area Open
By prohibiting fishing, marine protected areas (MPAs) provide a refuge for harvested species. Humans are often perceived as predators by prey and therefore respond fearfully to humans. Thus, fish responses to humans inside and outside of a…
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Making Megaliths: Shifting and Unstable Stones in the Neolithic of the Avebury Landscape Open
This paper focuses upon the web of practices and transformations bound up in the extraction and movement of megaliths during the Neolithic of southern Britain. The focus is on the Avebury landscape of Wiltshire, where over 700 individual m…
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Spear Phishing With Large Language Models Open
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the domain of large language models (LLMs), has resulted in powerful and versatile dual-use systems. This intelligence can be put towards a wide variety of beneficial tasks, …
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Spear-won land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea Open
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A comparative study on evolutionary multi-objective algorithms for next release problem Open
The next release problem (NRP) refers to implementing the next release of software in the software industry regarding the expected revenues; specifically, constraints like limited budgets indicate that the total cost corresponding to the n…
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BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models Open
Humans are selective social learners. In a cultural landscape with many potential models, learners must balance the cost associated with learning from successful models with learning from accessible ones. Using structured interviews, we in…
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The wooden artifacts from Schöningen’s Spear Horizon and their place in human evolution Open
Ethnographic records show that wooden tools played a pivotal role in the daily lives of hunter-gatherers including food procurement tools used in hunting (e.g., spears, throwing sticks) and gathering (e.g. digging sticks, bark peelers), as…
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A Strategy for Seeding Point Error Assessment for Retesting (SPEAR) in Perimetry Applied to Normal Subjects, Glaucoma Suspects, and Patients With Glaucoma Open
SPEs contribute to a large proportion of unreliable visual field test results, particularly when using SITA-Faster. We propose a useful model for identifying SPEs early in the test that can then guide retesting using both SITA algorithms. …
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Assessing the impact of spear fishing by using competitions records and underwater visual censuses Open
Recreational fishers are increasingly competing for space and resources with commercial fishers worldwide, but have been poorly studied. In particular, the impacts of spearfishing competitions on the temperate fish assemblages have seldom …
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Secure and Private Smart Grid: The SPEAR Architecture Open
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an integral part of Critical Infrastructures (CIs), bringing both significant pros and cons. Focusing our attention on the energy sector, ICT converts the conventional electrical grid into …
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Bows and Spears in Achaemenid Persia Open
My dissertation focuses on weaponry in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), with an emphasis on bows and spears. Scholars have long recognized the importance of archery in the ancient Near East generally, and the Achaemenid Empi…
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Were tanged points mechanically delivered armatures? Functional and morphometric analyses of tanged points from an Upper Paleolithic site at Jingeuneul, Korea Open
A total of 99 tanged points have been unearthed from the Jingeuneul site in Jinan-gun, Korea. The exceptionally large number of tanged points suggests a specific site function at this location. Even though the tanged point is one of the re…
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Innovation and change in northern <span>A</span>ustralian <span>A</span>boriginal spear technologies: the case for reed spears Open
Unlike the majority of spears used by A ustralian A boriginal people, reed spears were a lightweight form that made optimal use of spearthrower technology. In the K imberleys, reed spears were mounted with small pressure‐flaked stone proje…
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Applying Large Language Model (LLM) for Developing Cybersecurity Policies to Counteract Spear Phishing Attacks on Senior Corporate Managers Open
Applying Google Gemini's generative AI capabilities, this research provided a novel approach to developing and implementing cybersecurity policies targeted at mitigating spear phishing attacks against senior corporate managers. The study d…
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Biomechanical analysis of Yang’s spear turning-stab technique in Chinese martial arts Open
The Yang’s spear turning-stab was a legendary technique, applied in ancient battles in China. It resulted in numerous famous winnings. The mythical aspect of the technique is a victory in fleeing and back-facing a fighter. Now the skill is…
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Effectiveness of social engineering awareness training in mitigating spear phishing risks in financial institutions from a cybersecurity perspective Open
Spear phishing remains a critical cybersecurity threat to financial institutions, where attackers exploit human vulnerabilities to breach sensitive systems. This review paper explores the effectiveness of social engineering awareness train…
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Productive Differences between Male and Female Plants in White Asparagus Production Using the Rootstock-planting Forcing Culture Technique Open
This study analyzes the first large-scale asparagus experiment in Japan to examine the productive differences between male and female plants using the rootstock-planting forcing culture technique. This technique has recently been developed…
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Investigation of Optimal Network Architecture for Asparagus Spear Detection in Robotic Harvesting Open
The University of Waikato, in collaboration with Robotics Plus Limited have developed a robotic asparagus harvester that utilises a convolutional neural network for spear detection. This paper serves as a starting point for selecting an op…
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The vocal development of the pale spear-nosed bat is dependent on auditory feedback Open
Human vocal development and speech learning require acoustic feedback, and humans who are born deaf do not acquire a normal adult speech capacity. Most other mammals display a largely innate vocal repertoire. Like humans, bats are thought …
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Comparison of four ballistic and thrusting target materials: An experimental and Bayesian approach using static testing of stone and steel arrow tips Open
Researchers use a variety of target materials, and sometimes combinations of materials, in their archaeological experiments to examine thrust‐spear or projectile penetration, impact angle, durability, and other issues involving prehistoric…
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“Does it Come with a Spear?” Commodity Activism, Plastic Representation, and Transmedia Story Strategies in Disney’s Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Open
Since its acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2014, Disney has been praised for its active marketing of Star Wars to fans of all backgrounds, across a variety of platforms. Disney’s strategy places the Star Wars films front and center, but relies …
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A Practical Neighbor Discovery Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Open
Neighbor discovery is a crucial operation frequently executed throughout the life cycle of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Various protocols have been proposed to minimize the discovery latency or to prolong the lifetime of sensors. Howev…