at Toulouse and Paris he eventually joined the Army of the Rhine at Strasbourg aS surgeon. He later became chief surgeon to the Army in Italy and Napoleon gave him carte blanche in the organization of the medical division. He was with Napoleon at all his battles, and on his return to Paris from Egypt in 1801 honours were showered upon him. During the pauses between campaigns he gave courses of ...

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This study aims to bridge two research streams that have evolved relatively apart from each other, namely the research streams on organizational identity and on employer branding (employer image). In particular, we posit that it is crucial to examine which factors company outsiders (applicants) as well as company insiders (employees) associate with a given employer. To this end, this study uses...

The U.S. Army Reserve struggles with retention and faces difficulties with soldier turnover. The intent of the study was to assess key psychological variables such as optimism and hope to establish how those traits might impact soldiers' level of organizational commitment and turnover intention in the Army. The sample consisted of 124 U.S. soldiers selected from an Army Reserve unit in Houston,...

Despite its long history, the classical game of peg solitaire continues to attract the attention of the scientific community. In this paper, we consider two problems with an algorithmic flavour which are related with this game, namely Solitaire-Reachability and Solitaire-Army. In the first one, we show that deciding whether there is a sequence of jumps which allows a given initial configuration...

In February 1912, the Surgeon General of the United States Army prepared a special preliminary physical examination for candidates who were to receive instruction in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. This examination and those devised over the next four years were too demanding and few candidates could pass. In response to the need to revise medical standards for aviators, Colonel Theod...

As the United States (U.S.) Army transforms into a lighter, more lethal, and more agile force, the technologies embedded in both legacy and emerging weapon systems must decrease in size while increasing in intelligence. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are one such technology that the Army as well as entire Department of Defense (DOD). Even though the DOD plans to increase the usage of ME...

Much has been written concerning the use of raiding swarms of army ants by Neotropical birds in lowland forests. Bird-ant foraging associations are much less common at higher (subtropical) elevations, and no highland species have been identified as professional or regular ant-followers. All known professional army ant followers in the Neotropics occur below 1000 meters elevation (Ridgely & Tudo...

January-February 2009  Military review Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege, U.S. Army, Retired, was one of the principal developers of the Army’s AirLand Battle concept and the founder and first director of the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.A. from Harvard University. He also attended the U.S. Ar...