T USArmy pioneered air evacuation of casualties from the battlefield to a forward operating surgical treatment facility after the advent of the helicopter. This rotary-wing capability was initially used for casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) during the Korean War but evolved to the extent that lifesaving resuscitation was initiated en route by the US Army during the Vietnam War. More recently in Ira...

E. Abel andM. Kruger (2005) reported that the median life expectancy of Major League Baseball players after election to the Baseball Hall of Fame is 5 years shorter than that of players of the same age who are not elected to the Hall of Fame. This conclusion is surprising because there is no compelling explanation for such a dramatic reduction in life expectancy. However, the data used in that ...

Ravindra Mehta, Arvind Bagga, Rahul Patibandla and Rajasekara Chakravarthi Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; Reknown Nephrology Associates, Hyderabad, India; and STAR Kidney Center, STAR Hospit...

No-Limit Texas Hold’em is a stochastic game of imperfect information. Cards are dealt randomly, and players try to hide which cards they are holding from their opponents. Randomness and imperfect information give Poker, in general, and No-Limit Texas Hold’em, in particular, a very large decision space when it comes to making betting decisions. Evolutionary algorithms and artificial neural netwo...

Biodiesels represent more carbon-neutral fuels and are introduced at an increasing extent to reduce emission of greenhouse gases. However, the potential impact of different types and blend concentrations of biodiesel on the toxicity of diesel engine emissions are still relatively scarce and to some extent contradictory. The objective of the present work was to compare the toxicity of diesel exh...

Increased disturbance of terrestrial ecosystems in recent years for purposes of mineral extraction has created interest in development and optimization of reclamation methodologies for these lands. Currently, criteria for judging surface mine reclamation success, or progress toward reclamation goals, predominantly rely on aboveground indicators that fail to account for the abundance and composi...

The aim of the present studies was to generate implicit theories of a desire for fame among the general population. In Study 1, we were able to develop a nine-factor analytic model of conceptions of the desire to be famous that initially comprised nine separate factors; ambition, meaning derived through comparison with others, psychologically vulnerable, attention seeking, conceitedness, social...