Mortality of first world war military personnel: comparison of two military cohorts

Mortality of first world war military personnel: comparison of two military cohorts

OBJECTIVE To identify the impact of the first world war on the lifespan of participating military personnel (including in veterans who survived the war). DESIGN Comparison of two cohorts of military personnel, followed to death. SETTING Military personnel leaving New Zealand to participate in the first world war. PARTICIPANTS From a dataset of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, we rand...

Modeling and Using an Actor Ontology of Second World War Military Units and Personnel

This paper presents a model for representing historical military personnel and army units, based on large datasets about World War II in Finland. The model is in use in WarSampo data service and semantic portal, which has had tens of thousands of distinct visitors. A key challenge is how to represent ontological changes, since the ranks and units of military personnel, as well as the names and ...

Burnout in Military Personnel

Psychological Health of Military Personnel

The House of Commons Defence Select Committee1 has stated that more resources are needed to support military personnel, particularly in mental health services. This note examines the impact of military service on the psychological health of serving personnel, reservists, veterans and their families. It outlines the effectiveness of interventions, and highlights areas for further research. Overview

Allied Military Model Making during World War II

It is generally accepted that the three-dimensional nature of the digital terrain model enhances our visualization of surfaces. Modern techniques enable a detailed landscape to be constructed as a facsimile of reality that provides an opportunity to move through or fly over the landscape. Given these benefits, it is little surprise that simulations using digital terrain models are employed as e...