Thetheory of Markov chains was fruitfullyapplied to estimating theexpectedmine-sweepercasualtiesofthetwo forms ofthe progressive sequence sweeping technique.
However, before he was demobbed, he was drafted on duty aboard another minesweeper with responsibility for clearing the inshore minefields between Boulogne and Dieppe off the French coast.
To breed a better mine-sweeper, the Hunter researchers took advantage of the recent discovery of a receptor in the rodent brain for the odor of a chemical known as 2, 4-dinitrotoluene (DNT), which is essentially the same as TNT, which stands for trinitrotoluene.