PROFESSOR John Scarborough in a recent article in this journal has discussed the relationship between doctors and the Roman army, but his methods and his conclusion, which may seem to some to compel assent, demand a cautious and thorough examination before being accepted.' As Sigerist saw, it is necessary to exclude modern preconceptions and to avoid the obfuscation of an account by the introdu...

A military surgeon is a physician who works in a standard clinical field, but who also has to learn to adapt his skills to exceptional circumstances and must cope with special challenges due to his deployment in crisis regions, a fact that is one of the major factors influencing military medical strategy planning. The only certainty is that these special circumstances differ fundamentally from ...

1OI)AV, in most countries in the world, there are women practising medicine; I think I am correct in saying that they specialise in every branch; opportunities vary in different countries and even in different parts of the same country. In Australia there is a Flying Doctor Service, carried on by two women who are in general practice; they cover thousandls of miles and deal with all types of em...

results mean age was 41.6 ± 9.2 for the military truck drivers and 43.4 ± 10.9 for commercial truck drivers (p > 0.05). no significant difference between military and commercial drivers was found in terms of driving experience, number of mvcs, binocular va, frequency of color vision defects and cs scores. in contrast, the last ocular examination was significantly earlier in military drivers tha...

Abstract While scholars have argued that membership in Regional Organizations (ROs) can increase the likelihood of democratization, we see many autocratic regimes surviving power albeit being members several ROs. This article argues this is case because these are often “Clubs Autocrats” supply material and ideational resources to strengthen domestic survival politics shield from external interf...

Cooperative behavior, visible in many animal species, is achieved through varying degrees of communication (e.g. chemical clues from ants, a bees “dance”). When looking at military operations, groups communicate. In the networking of computers and their coordination, communication is necessary to achieve goals. In the same way, cooperative behavior for autonomous vehicles will require some leve...

This chapter explores the recent history of Latin America from the Great Depression of the early 1930s, through the development of modernizing states overseeing rapid change in the postwar era and the military clampdown of the 1960s and 70s, to the dawn of a new democratic era in the 1980s. The Great Depression that followed the Wall Street crash of 1929 had a significant impact on the form of ...

Safety cases have become popular, even mandated, in a number of jurisdictions that develop products that have to be safe. Prior to their use in software certification, safety cases were already in use in domains like aviation, military applications, and the nuclear industry. Argument based methodologies/approaches have recently become the cornerstone for structuring justification and evidence t...

The oppressive policies of military regimes occasioned political instability in the Democratic. Republic Congo (DRC). This oppression led to formation armed groups leading persistent conflict. study was based on understanding role warfare DRC. aims included: investigating origin DRC, examining how is a colonial legacy, determining rebel perpetuated conflict, and root conflict A qualitative rese...

Evangelical Christians are a rapidly growing share of the population in most Latin American countries, yet there is substantial cross-national variation in this religious minority’s involvement and success with electoral politics. This paper examines one possible explanation for the electoral success or failure of evangelical politicians—the effect on voting behavior of their ties to former dic...