After more than one hundred years, a new drywood termite of the genus Proneotermes is described from the tropical dry forest in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Morphological and genetic analyses are given for Proneotermes macondianussp. n. This termite occurs in tropical dry forests in small colonies inside thin branches of dry wood. The soldier of Proneotermes macondianus is smaller and the g...

33j F. P. Staples, Staff Assistant Surgeon. In the belief that recorded observations on the above disease in this country are rare, and that descriptions of its pathological anatomy are equally so, it is hoped that the following notes of a fatal case which was lately under my treatment may be of interest. An isolated case of measles was admitted into the depot hospital here on the 3rd of Septem...

Although military deployment has been suggested as a possible cause of increases in domestic violence, little is known about it. The purpose of this study was to determine if deployment of 6 months to Bosnia predicted early postdeployment domestic violence. Active duty recently deployed (N = 313) and nondeployed (N = 712) male soldiers volunteered to take an anonymous questionnaire. Deployment ...

In Quang Nam Province, then South Vietnam, on August 26, 1971, a convoy of United States Army armored patrol cars was returning to base at the end of the day. A rocket-propelled grenade struck one of the vehicles, and subsequently five of the soldiers were killed in action (KIA) while one was missing in action (MIA). After-action reports from eyewitnesses to the event described the MIA soldier ...

The Soldier Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (SLEE) is designed based on the biological characteristics of the soldier movement. It is a wearable intelligent device that integrates human body with exoskeleton in order to improve the soldier’s ability of load-carrying. The virtual prototype model in the UG was built, the FEA model was built, and the strength is studied of the SLEE’s key parts by fini...