Veterans Studies Calls

Pharmacoepidemiological Studies Using the Veterans Affairs Decision Support System

Chapter 18 War Psychiatry Follow Up Studies of Veterans

War Psychiatry 458 Marion Greenwood The Dental Front 1945 Marion Greenwood created a series of watercolors depicting the work of the U.S. Army Medical Department at the England General Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey during World War II. This watercolor portrays wounded soldiers waiting for their next medical procedure, in this case a visit with the dentist. Many of these seriously-wounde...

House calls.

House calls provide a unique perspective on patients' environment and health problems. The demand for house calls is expected to increase considerably in future decades as the U.S. population ages. Although study results have been inconsistent, house calls involving multidisciplinary teams may reduce hospital readmissions and long-term care facility stays. Common indications for house calls are...

Alarm Calls

Animals commonly vocalize when threatened by a predator. These signals, usually termed alarm calls (from old Italian all arme ‘to arms’ on the approach of an enemy), have continued to bewilder and fascinate for a number of reasons, the first of which is mainly practical. In animal research, it is often difficult to break down the continuous behavioral stream into discrete and meaningful units, ...

Probabilistically Tracking System Calls

Monitoring system calls made by an application is useful for debugging, for diagnostics as well as for security applications. Existing tools for monitoring system calls either suffer from a large runtime overhead, or require root permission to change the kernel of the operating system. We propose an approach that tackles both of these issues. We implemented a tool that runs completely in user s...