Commanders of the Great Victory

Situation Awareness of Commanders: A Cognitive Model

This paper discusses a computational model of situation awareness (SA) for military command and control in complex battle situations. Cognitive modeling is a research method that does not forgive vagueness. How do military commanders create awareness in a highly complex and uncertain world? The model described in this paper simulates computationally some of the cognitive operations performed by...

Elicitation of British Army Commanders’ Personal Constructs

The design of information systems to aid the attainment of Situation Awareness would benefit from an understanding of the mental models that commanders reference in assessing situations. This paper presents novel experimental research conducted to elicit the personal constructs that constitute the fabric of British Army commanders’ mental models. For a given scenario, it is shown that four out ...

Victory of Community Engagement

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

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