Several contrasting uses of the terms macro(large) and micro(small) pore can be identified in soil science literature. In some cases macropores are (i) considered to be pores > 15 (Marshall, 1959) or 100 /im in diam (Bouma et al., 1977) or (ii) implied to be even larger when described in terms of wormholes (Ehlers, 1975), root channels (Aubertin, 1971). and shrinkage cracks (Lewis, 1977). The s...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between frequency and duration of deployment of UK armed forces personnel on mental health. DESIGN First phase of a cohort study. SETTING UK armed forces personnel. PARTICIPANTS Operational history in past three years of a randomly chosen stratified sample of 5547 regulars with experience of deployment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Psychological distress (gener...

BACKGROUND Approximately 18,000 personnel leave the UK Armed Forces annually. Those leaving before completing the minimum term of their contracts are called early Service leavers (ESLs). This study aims to identify characteristics associated with being an ESL, and compare the post-discharge mental health of ESLs and other Service leavers (non-ESLs). METHOD A cross-sectional study used data on...

OBJECTIVE Third Location Decompression (TLD) is an activity undertaken by UK Armed Forces (UK AF) personnel at the end of an operational deployment which aims to smooth the transition between operations and returning home. We assessed whether TLD impacted upon both mental health and postdeployment readjustment. METHOD Data collected during a large cohort study was examined to identify personn...

Governor of Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Napolitano Superintendent of Public Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Horne Student Regent (voting), appointed to June 2004 ....

This study investigated the injuries sustained by an Australian specialist police division. Injury records spanning four-years were analyzed. The role being performed when the injury occurred, injury cause, body part injured, and injury-related costs were quantified. The percentage of personnel injured multiple times was documented. One hundred and thirty eight personnel reported injuries, 58 o...

In the present study, a large scale, structured problem regarding the routing and rostering of security personnel is investigated. Structured problems are combinatorial optimization problems that encompass characteristics of more than one known problem in operational research. The problem deals with assigning the available personnel to visits associated with a set of customers. This objective j...

Worldwide, military personnel have been recognized as a population at elevated risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV; however, it is not well understood how the military occupation itself is implicated in the production of sexual risk behavior. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected from the Belize Defense Force (BDF), we employed a grounded theoretical framework an...

In CSCW systems, the end results are subject on how personnel participate and work specifically in a flexible dynamic environment. Thus, it has become imperative to develop a comprehensive system whereby the analysts can understand and analyze the workflow in order to enhance personnel support, cooperation processes and the final results. In other to achieve this goal, a system whereby individu...