In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women only serve a few years before transitioning to the civilian workforce. Although the fraction of the mil...

Neural-network classifiers were used to detect immunological differences in groups of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients that heretofore had not shown significant differences from controls. In the past linear methods were unable to detect differences between CFS groups and non-CFS control groups in the nonveteran population. An examination of the cluster structure for 29 immunological fact...

In 2015, an estimated 18.8 million U.S. adults were military veterans (1). Although the prevalence of tobacco-attributable conditions is high among veterans (2), there is a paucity of data on use of tobacco products, other than cigarettes, in this population. To monitor tobacco product use among veterans, CDC analyzed self-reported current (i.e., past 30-day) use of five tobacco product types (...

OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and impaired work functioning among American service members returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom-Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF-OIF). METHODS Participants were 797 OEF-OIF veterans, of whom 473 were employed. They were referred for further psychiatric assessment by primary care providers at si...

Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technological innovation and emerging cultural practices. Significantly, also, they are starting to transcend the everyday lifeworlds of users and permeat...

People encounter an almost overwhelming quantity of information about human behavior and the social world everyday. Despite this information overload, humans are markedly adept at finding signal in the noise, interpreting the inputs in their complex environments in a way that both simplifies and makes meaning. People use a variety of shortcuts or heuristics to make sense of these stimuli (Tvers...

Three hundred and five traditional college students and 159 baby boomers (40–55 years old) in China participated in the study with Kogan’s Attitude toward Old People [Kogan (1961) Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 62(1), 44–54] being used. Results from ANOVA showed overall, baby boomers held more positive attitudes toward older people than college students. There was a significant inte...

I show that multiproduct firms suffer less than single-product firms from the “Diamond Paradox”. Equilibrium prices are high because rational consumers understand that visiting a store exposes them to a hold-up problem when they have search costs. However a store with more products attracts more consumers with low valuations, and therefore charges lower prices. Advertising a few products at low...

The Chinese social security system is undergoing a series of reforms. These reforms are often the government's short-term responses to imminent financial and social pressure. The long-term impacts, especially those on economic efficiency, are often ignored. The background of the Chinese social security system reform is unique. Like many other countries (mainly more advanced economies), China is...

Collaboration and interoperability are pervasive topics today as organizations struggle to attiain competitive edge in today’s global market fostered by new economies of scale. Moreover, the deep introduction of Internet in our lives both at personal and business level is changing all aspects of our economies and societies and the way enterprises and individuals interoperate and collaborate. In...