Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) has been recognised for some time. In the military environment one group of personnel at risk are Army helicopter aircrew who are exposed to continuous noise levels of up to 100 dB(A) in flight. The evidence for the damaging effect of this occupational noise is reviewed and some of the difficulties in drawing conclusions are highlighted. The current protection ...

Introduction The use of soft contact lenses in flight by RAF aircrew has recently been the subject of a trial at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine (lAM). The trial is complete but the report is yet to be published. The Army is the only service to permit some pilots to fly wearing contact lenses. Currently 7 Army pilots are allowed to do so. Because of the recent interest in this aspect of ...

The U.S Army depends heavily on the readiness and operability of its weapon systems. Maintaining these weapon systems requires that spare parts be available where and when they are needed. Thus, the responsive functioning of the logistics chain for spare parts is critical to keeping equipment ready to operate. A responsive logistics chain for spare parts is also critical in deployments. When Ar...

This is one of the valuable volumes comprising the official history of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army in World War II, prepared by the Historical Unit, and published in the professional or clerical and technical series now including 29 volumes. Four volumes have been published in the administrative or operational series. The Surgeon General, in a Foreword, notes the delineation of the ...

BY Major M. A. C. DOWLING, M.R.C.S., D.P.H., D.T.M.&H. Royal Army Medical Corps AND R. D. HUGHES, Ph.D., B.Se. Formerly Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps INTRODUCTION FOLLOWING the occurrence of a number of cases of malaria in naval personnel who had been ashore at Pulau Tioman, a survey of the island was carried out on 29th June, 1955, on behalf of the Royal Navy and with the consent of the...

Frequent moves have a considerable impact on military children. It erects the social, educational, and emotional development of these Sometimes officers kids are living in Dhaka. The lack accommodation facilities posted area regular posting personnel interesting for enforces staying with 'Single Parent' home town, villages, some cases capital city, Few steps were taken to address it recent past...

The Army has been an all-volunteer force since 1 July 1973 when the draft was finally discontinued due to the controversy surrounding the Vietnam War. According to Simpson (1994), the last draftee entered basic training in June 1973. In FY 1997, for only the second time since its conversion to an all-volunteer force, the Army came very close to not meeting its annual recruiting goal of 89,700 n...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the longer term occupational outcome in UK military personnel who require hospital-based treatment for mental health problems. AIMS To examine the documented occupational outcomes following hospital-based treatment for mental health problems within the British Army. METHODS Hospital admission records were linked to occupational outcome data from a database u...

Solving the quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problem is in general NP-hard. Only a few subclasses of the QCQP problem are known to be polynomial-time solvable. Recently, the QCQP problem with a nonconvex quadratic objective function over one ball and two parallel linear constraints is proven to have an exact computable representation, which reformulates the original proble...