The Geographic Institute of the Army is the cartographic production institution responsible for the base map of Portugal at a scale of 1:25k, which is used in most geoinformation systems for civilian and

The Monograph is the result of scientific and practical cooperation Ministry Defense Ukraine, General Staff Armed Forces Command Medical Forces, Ukrainian Military Academy, SE “L.I. Medveds Research Center Preventive Toxicology, Food Chemical Safety Health Ukraine”, State University “Na-tional Scientific Radiation Medicine National Academy Sci-ences Ukraine” in field radioprotection, namely - p...

Diarrheal disease is one of the main causes of death in developing countries. This study was performed to the prevalence of bacterial causes of diarrhea in patients admitted to the Military hospitals and Imam Khomeini Medical Center Hospital. This cross-sectional study was conducted in a period of 9 months from June 2014 to February 2015, 435 non-duplicative diarrheal stool samples were collect...

Wage Growth in the Civilian Careers of Military Retirees iii PREFACE More than 20,000 individuals retire each year from the U.S. military who are eligible to receive a guaranteed annuity amounting to half or more of their basic military pay. Separating from the military at an average age of 43, the overwhelming majority of these retirees enter second careers in the civilian sector. This book se...

Games, with features such as voluntariness, fantasy, specific rules/goals, artificial gains/payoffs, competition or cooperation, sensory and motor involvement, challenge, control, low costs of trial and error, and associated amusement (Garris, Ahlers, & Driskell, 2002), might have existed as a type of leisure activity as early as the dawn of civilization, when adults had sufficient food and chi...

To the Editor: On July 27, 2011, I attended the casing of the colors of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and on August 27, the last patient was transferred from that closing facility to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The new, integrated facility became known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on September 15.1 As one who spent about o...

The question of whether sickle cell trait (SCT) is potentially dangerous to military aircrew personnel who have it and, consequently, whether such individuals should be allowed to fly in military aircraft is a very emotional issue. This article traces the evolution of how the U.S. military has dealt with the problem, and the present status of individuals with SCT in the U.S. military aviation c...

On June 14, 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a three-part report on the future of emergency care, underscoring the evolving crisis in access to urgent medical care in the United States.1 The clear threat of future terrorist activity and recent experience with natural disasters highlight the need to develop a comprehensive response system based on the integration of civilian and military...