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- initialism military fuel-air explosive
- initialism field applications engineer
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Examples
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I'm reading the tipping point at the moment (awesome book) and it talks about the psych term FAE (fundamental attribution error) whereby humans tends to oversimplify things to reduce the amount of info we have to process.
TPN :: GDay World 2009
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Simply put, the FAE occurs when people overestimate the importance of supposedly "fundamental" personality traits and underestimate the importance of variables like context.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Jonah Lehrer none@example.com 2009
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and IF you can find them, maybe YOU can hire the FAE-TEAM.
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FAE occurred where a mother who consumed alcohol during pregnancy had a child who did not have all the characteristics of FAS, but nevertheless suffered certain of the effects, which included permanent brain damage, said Viljoen.
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In certain areas the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) was as high as 40 percent.
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Coupled with the large number of missiles in Syria and those in Iran, the Hezbollah rockets posed, and continue to pose, a truly grave strategic threat to Israel if FAE warheads are used.
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The use of advanced-conventional fuel-air explosive (FAE) warheads on the Katyushas would have had a much more profound effect in Israeli cities.
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The alternative is the use of FAE (fuel air explosive) technology weapons and neutron bombs (a type of nuclear weapon that produces a higher short-term radiological output and less blast output than normal nuclear weapons).
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Generally the Israelis have shown themselves to be prepared for chemical warfare, however a chemical war attack following closely behind a FAE attack (to open up bunkers and apartment buildings) would have greater effect.
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The use of FAE submunitions on the larger missiles capable of hitting any target in Israel would have given Hezbollah the firepower of low-yield nuclear weapons without crossing the nuclear threshold.
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