The Rise of Instruments during World War II

BIBLIOGRAPHY 293 Law during World War II " (

In this doctoral thesis (Amsterdam, 1990), parts of which were published before as articles, it is argued "that far more facts about revolutions and collective violence exist on file than we can cogently explain, and that this predicament owes to fallacies of concept, theory, and method namely, essentialism in defining 'revolution', reliance on the volcanic model to explain it, and resort to 'i...

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Hierarchies and the Survival of Prisoners of War During World War II

U a comprehensive database of American prisoners of war during World War II, we find that survival from captivity generally declines as the hierarchy of a prisoner’s group becomes steeper or more closely matches the military’s established hierarchy. There is no evidence that survival is enhanced by being held in more hierarchical groups. One interpretation of these findings that is consistent w...

RENAL INJURIES IN MASHHAD UNIVERSITY DURING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. A COMPARISON WITH WORLD WARS I AND II, AND VIETNAM

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...

Surgery in World War II

group of fungi. On the other hand, actinomycetes have been included, although they are true bacteria and entirely unrelated to the fungi. The author's reason for including them, namely, that they occupy a similar ecological niche, does not appear compelling. These personal criticisms do not, of course, in any way detract from the value of the book. Physiology of Fungi can be recommended to all ...