The researchers calculated that a population which followed a Nash strategy would contract 100 times more infections than one which followed a utilitarian strategy.

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The current strategy depends on the prison population remaining stable, but this is something over which it NOMS has no control, Mrs Hodge said.

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Dr Boyd showed that when punishers were introduced to the mix, even if they started in only one group, their strategy spread rapidly through the population.

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He said it will not be possible to protect the Afghan population -- the key to any counterinsurgency strategy -- without a substantial input of additional resources.

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But actually on the ground the military strategy is different because we are in fact securing a population, and in fact we have never done that before.

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The Public Services Department is heading up the waste strategy, and is trying to involve as broad a sample of the population as possible.

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"Certain funeral and cemetery operations were identified as not being well aligned with our long-term growth strategy, primarily because of their lack of geographic proximity to the major population areas of North America, " Service Corp.

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Launching a new alcohol strategy, Cornwall Council said about a quarter of the county's 500, 000 population was putting itself "at risk".

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