The Navy and Marine Corps provide the Nation with a flexible and joint instrument of security policy with which to promote stability, project maritime power landward, and exercise American sovereignty abroad. Naval forces shape the global security environment; help assure access to regions of vital interest; and permit timely, and frequently, the initial crisis response from the sea. The abilit...

Previously conducted field studies using shipboard U.S. Navy personnel during at-sea operations in the Persian Gulf have shown that crew members experience mood changes and degradations in general physical health. The objectives of this study were to: (a) examine the relationship between mood and health complaints among personnel deployed in the Persian Gulf; and (b) extend previous research us...

The relationships between otolith score, a function of increasing stain visibility, and the ratio of alizarin complexone (mg) to fish biomass (g) for 0.1, 0.6 and 7 g black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri show that acceptable marks are produced in all size classes using a stain-to-biomass ratio of 3.3 mg g(-1) following an immersion period of 24 h.

Some Navy families are subject to unusual stress in that the active duty parent may be deployed for several months at a time. This study examined children and adolescents from Navy and civilian families who were admitted to a private psychiatric hospital. Deployment of the father placed Navy children and adolescents at risk for psychiatric hospitalization, but mainly in non-intact families wher...

This paper tackles various issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically we ask how pay, promotions, positions, peers affect worker retention. Random variation task assignments job promotions allows us to explore factors that causally impact retention personnel. We develop a number key insights: (i) incr...

Abstract The textile industry is expanding globally and considered the backbone of world’s largest source foreign exchange. development has caused environmental contamination due to its dye waste, which complex very difficult resolve with chemical physical treatments. Azo one most widely used dyes in other industries. It significantly toxic dyes, when released water bodies, it causes a serious ...

The Navy’s promotion-retention process involves two successive decisions: The Navy decides whether an individual is selected for promotion, and then, conditional on the Navy’s decision, the sailor decides whether to reenlist or leave the Navy. Rates of promotion and retention depend on individuals’ demographic and other characteristics, wars and economic conditions and factors that the Navy ...

Although U.S. Navy diving is remarkably safe, because of the high-risk environment in which military divers work, accidents and mishaps do occur. Failures in leadership and situation awareness (particularly in risk and time assessment) were found to be the two most common causes of fatal and nonfatal U.S. Navy diving accidents and near misses. Responses to an attitude survey showed that junior ...