In the last decade, hundreds of civilians and soldiers died, and thousands were wounded due to numerous terrorist attacks in Israel. 1–3 This conflict led to prolonged , low-intensity damage to people and property, which is different than a total war. In the military literature, this is called low-intensity conflict. Low-intensity conflict is not peace and it is not war—the severity and distrib...

Complications of percutaneous angiography have been recorded and reported periodically throughout the literature (Abbott, Gay, and Goodall, 1952; Perese, Kite, Bedell, and Campbell, 1954). These complications range from something so minor as a transient Babinski response to immediate or eventual fatality. The following case is described so that an opportunity is afforded to visualize a vertebra...

Human-agent interaction for learning with instruction can be viewed on a continuum of instructor/agent control. At one extreme are systems that learn by instructor-driven interactions, such as learning by demonstration, examples, or imitation. The other extreme of the continuum is occupied by systems where instructor interaction is limited to responding to the questions posed by the agent or to...

Injury to the optic nerve leading to optic atrophy may be direct or indirect. Direct injury may result from laceration of the nerve fibres by a missile or sharp instrument penetrating the orbit, by a displaced fragment of bone in fracture of the optic canal, or by avulsion of the nerve at the globe. Indirect injury is well recognized in contusion injuries of the head, especially the brow, and i...

Seventeen patients with open fractures of the upper third of the femur were treated using a pelvifemoral external fixation device. All of them had grade III open fractures resulting from high-velocity missile and explosive injuries with massive foreign body contamination. Sciatic nerve injury was present in five (29.4%); abdominal viscera and thoracic wall injuries were present in two patients ...

Bullet embolization after penetrating trauma is an infrequent but important phenomenon. It presents an unexpected sequelae to the otherwise predictable injury pattern of penetrating missile injury mechanism and poses a challenging diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Bullets from penetrating wounds can gain access to the vasculature and migrate to nearly every large vascular bed. Patients can be...

The U.S. Missile Defense Review (MDR) draws attention as a central document in this area. two reviews published so far (2010 and 2019) within year of the Nuclear Posture were an important addition to National Strategy. latter is devoted clarifying Washington's political-military course, Review, MDR, Space deal with most elements military policy United States. Taking into account positi...