Grassland humus forms have been investigated morphologically in the field and with the microscope (Barratt 1960, 1964). They are divisible into two main groups: mulls and mors. In mulls, organic residues are finely conllninuted and intimately mixed with the colloidal-sized fraction of the mineral soil. In mors, organic residues accumulate predominantly above the mineral soil surface, but show p...

The strategy and operations of any war can be understood only in the light of conditions of the ten or twenty years before its beginning. Technology, organization, doctrine, training, command and staff appointments—all the essentials of action in war—are put in place and developed in peacetime. The testing experience of combat will bring about change, but prewar elements continue to affect many...

The 61 personnel, 60 male, evacuated from the Gulf to Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital on medical grounds between late October 1990 and mid March 1991 are reviewed with particular regard to previous medical history, previous medication, and appropriate PULHHEEMS grading. The percentage evacuated was 0.24% of Army personnel involved in "Operation Granby" which is considered acceptably small.

The present study examined the structural validity of the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) in a large sample of U.S. veterans with military service since September 11, 2001. Participants (N = 1,981) completed the 25-item CD-RISC, a structured clinical interview and a self-report questionnaire assessing psychiatric symptoms. The study sample was randomly divided into two subsam...

The aim of this study was to quantify time changes in the body dimensions of male Australian Army personnel. Following a systematic review, two studies were identified and matched for occupation and age (n = 669) with time changes in 12 absolute and 11 proportional body dimensions assessed between 1977 and 2010-12. Changes in means were expressed as absolute, percent and standardised changes, w...

Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death for Americans in 2015 and rates have been steadily climbing over the last 25 years. Rates are particularly high amongst U.S. military personnel. Suicide prevention efforts in the military are significantly hampered by the lack of: (1) assessment tools for measuring baseline risk and (2) methods to detect periods of particularly heightened risk. Two sp...

BACKGROUND The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps (IDF MC) institutional review board (IRB) is one of approximately 50 IRBs active in Israel. In addition to routine IRB considerations it must also address in its deliberations specific safeguards in place in the IDF to protect research volunteers in the military environment. In this report, we present the characteristics of the IDF IRB, includi...

BACKGROUND Development and use of e-learning has not taken place to the same extent in military medicine in the Nordic countries. The aim was to explore the similarities and differences in education and training in military medicine for health professionals in the Nordic countries, and more specifically to identify the specific challenges regarding education and training of military medicine, a...

The stories shared in this book show contemporary readers that within nurses’ disciplinary heritage there exists vast knowledge and skills to address these challenges, if nurses will broaden their view to encompass not just a narrow slice of current scientific evidence but also the sound evidence and theoretical wisdom that the discipline has amassed since Nightingale sailed for Scutari and tra...