Abstract The concern for the manifestation of education, natural displacement human existence from past to future transits through educational paradigms, successively focusing center gravity teacher educable and learning results. By transition, concept “centered learning” suggests coherent organized solar system moving around a central element. If in there is only one constant element which all...

Military boxing, a kind of Chinese martial arts, is widespread and health beneficial. In this paper, the authors introduce a military boxing learning system realized by 3D motion capture, Web3D and 3D interactive technologies. The interactions with the system are natural and intuitive. Users can observe and learn the details of each action of the military boxing under different views and scales...

An Advanced Distributed Learning environment needs to extend beyond technical drivers to pedagogical and organizational dimensions that focus on the interaction between the learner and the learning environment. In fact, effective e-learning resources can not only be used to compliment faceto-face education or replace the classroom for distance education, but can facilitate the integration of st...

Deployed American troops suffering injuries to the extremities are best treated with regional anesthesia, which renders only a portion of the body, such as a limb, insensate. However, it is possible for long-lasting damage to occur when regional anesthesia is improperly applied. Though nerve block procedures present fairly low risk in a hospital setting, the same may not be true on the battlefi...

BACKGROUND This study seeks to quantify variation in healthcare utilization and per capita costs using system-defined geographic regions based on enrollee residence within the Military Health System (MHS). METHODS Data for fiscal years 2007 - 2010 were obtained from the Military Health System under a data sharing agreement with the Defense Health Agency (DHA). DHA manages all aspects of the D...

Following our analysis of basic MFERS, we consider MFERS with two different types of pay raises. The first type is an across-the-board pay raise—all members get identical percentage raises. This is the type of raise generally given military members each year to adjust for costof-living changes and other pay trends in the civilian sector. The second type is a skewed pay raise. In this case, thos...

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...