Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

Within the field of group facilitation and organization development, there have been a number of new group processes that are designed to maximize emergence and self-organization, by offering a minimal set of effective initial conditions.

The opposing view holds that, recent revelations notwithstanding, by the time McCarthyism began in the late 1940s, the CPUSA was an ineffectual fringe group, and the damage done to U. S. interests by Soviet spies after World War II was minimal.

The minimal group paradigm is perhaps the simplest process required for group formation to occur.

Even without any intergroup interaction ( as in the minimal group paradigm ), individuals begin to show favoritism towards their own group, and negative reactions towards the outgroup.

Specific examples of mathematics, statistics, and physics applied to music composition are the use of the statistical mechanics of gases in Pithoprakta, statistical distribution of points on a plane in Diamorphoses, minimal constraints in Achorripsis, the normal distribution in ST / 10 and Atrées, Markov chains in Analogiques, game theory in Duel and Stratégie, group theory in Nomos Alpha ( for Siegfried Palm ), set theory in Herma and Eonta, and Brownian motion in N ' Shima.

* Dog Brothers – a group notorious for their Gatherings which feature full-contact stick fighting and minimal protection.

Recording live as a group, with minimal overdubs, they managed to get demos for approximately seven songs.

Empirical support for the social identity perspective on groups was initially drawn from work using the minimal group paradigm.

The Poincaré group itself is the minimal subgroup of the affine group which includes all translations and Lorentz transformations, and, more precise, it is a semidirect product of the translations and the Lorentz group:

* Activation of the MAPK pathways: Of the three major MAPK cascades, TNF induces a strong activation of the stress-related JNK group, evokes moderate response of the p38-MAPK, and is responsible for minimal activation of the classical ERKs.

Beukelman and Mirenda, authors of a leading textbook on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, express strong reservations about the use of FC but nonetheless note the existence of " a small group of people around the world who began communicating through FC and are now able to type either independently or with minimal, hand-on-shoulder support.

On 22 July 2012 a contractor reported that a third of his expected staff had not turned up ; instead he was sent a group of mainly female, teenage students with minimal training, whom he turned away as he did not feel comfortable leaving them for night duties.

Specific examples of mathematics, statistics, and physics applied to music composition are the use of the statistical mechanics of gases in Pithoprakta, statistical distribution of points on a plane in Diamorphoses, minimal constraints in Achorripsis, the normal distribution in ST / 10 and Atrées, Markov chains in Analogiques, game theory in Duel and Stratégie, group theory in Nomos Alpha ( for Siegfried Palm ), set theory in Herma and Eonta, and Brownian motion in N ' Shima.

They then went on to prove that these embedded minimal surfaces are equivariant for finite group actions.

Taylor has recently been singing, rapping, and playing minimal keyboard accompaniment with Vernon Reid ( leader-guitarist of Living Colour ) in the eclectic metal-fusion-funk group Yohimbe Brothers.

In social psychology the concept stems from research by the British social psychologist Henri Tajfel, whose findings have come to be known as the minimal group paradigm.

As the group grew in confidence and ability, it began to develop the Nitzer Ebb sound — a blend of unusual analogue trickery, minimal song structure, heavy drum beats and percussion, and Douglas McCarthy's soulful vocals — either shouted, sung, or spoken.

" The group claimed that the negotiations excluded stakeholders such as " consumers, libraries, students, health advocacy or patient groups, or others users of intellectual property " and that it only offered " minimal representation of other affected businesses, such as generic drug manufacturers or Internet service providers.

* The authors present a " study of variations ", in which they repeated the experiments many times, each time making one or more minimal changes to the test method, the dates, or the date forms.

These experiments counted on volunteers of its team, and used only minimal sedation.

While human effects are currently unstudied, extrapolation using body weight from the rodent experiments indicates that 100 – 1000 times the normal anticipated exposure still probably produces a minimal cancer risk.

Between 2007 and 2008, a decade after the pioneering artists first established neurofunk's technical soundscape, the style was enhanced with a series of diverse, forward thinking debut albums set to redefine its concept production with the rough-cut antics of Break The System by Gridlok ( Project 51 / CD / 2007 ); the minimal techno-funk fueled Psycho by Phace ( Subtitles Music / 2007 ); the blending of rhythmic guitar chord progressions on Black Lotus by Mindscape ( Citrus Recordings / 2007 ); the melodic experiments of My Light Year by Telemetrik ( BSE Recordings / 2008 ), the highly conceptual and intensive Nobody's Out There by The Upbeats ( Bad Taste Recordings / 2007 ), and the innovative Black Box singles compilation ( Syndrome Audio Recordings / CD / 2008 ), featuring various artists and highlighting remixes by second and third-wave producers, among the second-wave, Phace and Misanthrop contrasting the rhythmic grit of third-wave producers Chook, Dose & Menace.

An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population.

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle.

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

By mid-2009 PCIe cards dominated the market ; AGP cards and motherboards were still produced, but OEM driver support was minimal.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.

The company had re-leased estimates covering 20 % damage to be re-insured at minimal fees when in fact the damage was over 65 % and every claim was in the millions.

It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.

The Kanagawa treaty was followed by the United States-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the " Harris Treaty " of 1858, which allowed the establishment of foreign concessions, extraterritoriality for foreigners, and minimal import taxes for foreign goods.

Carnivory was a natural transition from insectivory for medium and large tetrapods, requiring minimal adaptation ( in contrast, a complex set of adaptations was necessary for feeding on highly fibrous plant materials ).

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

In addition, a component of MinGW known as MSYS ( Minimal SYStem ), which was derived from Cygwin version 1. 3. 3, provides a minimal Unix-like shell environment including bash and a selection of POSIX tools sufficient to enable autoconf scripts to run.

Activity for the first four months was minimal as the council failed to meet.

Analysis of Sporormiella fungal spores ( which derive mainly from the dung of megaherbivores ) in the cores shows that the megafauna of that region virtually disappeared about 41, 000 years ago, at a time when climate changes were minimal ; the change was accompanied by an increase in charcoal, and was followed by a transition from rainforest to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation.

Consumers and merchants were slow to accept it, and there was minimal marketing.

As a result, growth and market penetration of EFTPOS was minimal up to the turn of the century.

Heawood noticed Kempe's mistake and also observed that if one was satisfied with proving only five colors are needed, one could run through the above argument ( changing only that the minimal counterexample requires 6 colors ) and use Kempe chains in the degree 5 situation to prove the five color theorem.

( Fermi was known for his ability to make good estimates from first principles and minimal data, see Fermi problem.

The campaign is often referred to for its successful stealthy retreat, which was completed with minimal casualties.

" In his essay on Parsons for Rolling Stone magazine's " 100 Greatest Artist " list, Keith Richards notes that Parsons ' recorded music output was " pretty minimal.