What are likely to be the short-term and long-term consequences of the mental health and cognitive injuries sustained by troops during OEF and OIF? To address this question, this review draws upon the existing literature, extrapolates where necessary to the current conflicts, and makes policy recommendations.

In navigation that involves several moving agents or robots that are not in possession of each other’s plans, a scheme for resolution of collision conflicts between them becomes mandatory. A resolution scheme is proposed in this paper specifically for the case where it is not feasible to have a priori the plans and locations of all other robots, robots can broadcast information between one anot...

AIMS This study attempts to examine the extent and impact of human-animal conflicts visa-vis psychosocial stressors and mental health of affected people in two villages adjacent to Sundarban Reserve Forest (SRF) in the Gosaba Block, West Bengal, India. METHODS Door to door household survey for incidents of human-animal conflicts, Focus Group Discussions, In-depth Interviews, Case studies, Com...

Mental health is a fundamental issue from the public and global perspective, strongly associated with an increasing awareness that „there is no health without public mental health“(WHO 2005, Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010) as well as with the well-known slogan of WHO Alma Ata Conference (1978) „health for all in the Year 2000“. Even more, global mental health has a great importance for the...

The article gives a brief description of tactical and medical situation of Baku garrison during military conflict, and also the data concerning the character and the structure of sanitary losses, and the volume of medical care. Organizational, transportation, personnel and logistic problems of medical support of troops are also described. The proposals are given how it is possible to settle the...

Social relationships are important to health out comes. The postdeployment family reintegration literature focuses on the role of the civilian family in facilitating the transition from Active Duty military deployment to civilian society. The focus on the civilian family relationship may miss other important personal connections in veterans' lives. One such connection is the relationship many v...

Most modern platforms offer ample potention for parallel execution of concurrent programs yet concurrency control is required to exploit parallelism while maintaining program correctness. Pessimistic concurrency control featuring blocking synchronization and mutual exclusion, has given way to transactional memory, which allows the composition of concurrent code in a manner more intuitive for th...

The relationship between psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies has come under scrutiny during the past decade. Concerns are growing that financial ties of psychiatrists to the pharmaceutical industry may unduly influence professional judgments involving the primary interests of patients. Such conflicts of interest threaten the public trust in psychiatry. The goal of conflict of interest polic...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between family-work conflicts with food habits and physical activity, and whether the relationship is dependent on family structure and work-related factors. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional postal surveys were carried out in 2001 and 2002 among employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland, aged 40-60 years (n = 5346, response rate 66%; for women...