The Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) system provides a unique educational experience for thousands of military and civilian dependents living in foreign countries. The blend of military life with a host nation culture creates a challenge for both students and educators. Health education in the international setting provides a social and cultural experience which is not readily f...

The U.S. Armed Forces offer educational and training benefits as incentives for service. This study investigates the influence of status configurations on military enlistment and their link to greater educational opportunity. Three statuses (socioeconomic status of origin, cognitive ability and academic performance) have particular relevance for life course options. We hypothesize that young me...

OBJECTIVE Since post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common after military deployment and affects both military service members and their families, we sought to both improve PTSD-related knowledge of military family members and to foster actions to help service members with their symptoms. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with military family members and their feedback was incorporated...

Suppression on HAART Kathryn Bello, DO; Octavio Mesner, MS; Thomas O’bryan, MD; Tahaniyat Lalani, MBBS, MHS; Anuradha Ganesan, MD; Brian Agan, MD; Jason Okulicz, MD; Internal Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX; Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD; Infectious Disease Clinical Research P...

1 Liaoning Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, China 2 Department of Oncology, Cancer center, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang 100840, China 3 Molecular Biology Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Basic Medical College of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shengyang 110032, China 4 Department of Experimental Medicine, Cancer center, General Ho...

S ince 1952, the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) Burn Center has provided comprehensive care for patients who have sustained severe thermal trauma, inhalation injury, and other diseases related to burn trauma. The Army Burn Center serves the entire population encompassed by the military health care system as well as veterans and civilian emergency patients requiring burn center ...

In this paper, we present an implementation of a turbo product codes (TPC) decoder achieved on a novel Reconfigurable Multimedia Accelerator (RMA). The RMA is based on the principle of hierarchical shared memory storage managed through a dedicated local controller favoring high data throughput, while squeezing round-trip memory latencies. The mapping methodology facilitates the characterization...

1 State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Center for Brain Sciences, Institute of Military Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Computer Science Department, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 4 School of System Science, ...