Notes on Organization and Training, By a Regimental Officer

Thomas Crawford, regimental medical officer in the Crimea, 1855.

Thomas Crawford was an Ulsterman, born in the year 1824 at Dumbrain, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan. His family had their origins in Ayrshire and came from Scotland in 1698 after the main plantation of Ulster. Crawford studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated there in 1845. On February 18th, 1848, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the 51st Regiment of Foot (Kings Own Light Infantry) and saw serv...

Regimental Medical Officer Charles McKerrow: saving lives on the Western Front.

Ayrshire general practitioner Charles McKerrow was appointed regimental medical officer (RMO) to the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1915. At this time, fundamental restructuring of the military medical service on the Western Front had two main effects: surgical capability was moved forward as close to the front as possible and specialist stretcher bearers were trained to apply emerg...

John Bathurst Thomson MD 1813-1850. An insight into the times of a regimental medical officer.

Notes on GMRES Algorithm Organization

The Generalized Minimum Residual (GMRES) iterative method and variations of it are frequently used for solving systems of linear equations of the form Ax = b, where A is a large sparse nonsingular nonsymmetric matrix. We discuss ways to reorganize the algorithm to improve its efficiency.

effect of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of strategies

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...