We examine the effectiveness of an agent’s approximate theory of mind when interacting with human players in a wartime negotiation game. We first measure how accurately the agent’s theory of mind captured the players’ actual behavior. We observe significant overlap between the players’ behavior and the agents’ idealized expectations, but we also observe significant deviations. Forming an incorr...

JEL Classification: I12, Z13 We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality rates) experienced higher mortality rates at older ages, but that men who were from more cohesive companies were statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress. Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from ischemic...

This paper documents progress to date on a research project, the goal of which is wartime event prediction. The paper describes the operational concept, the datamining environment, and the data-mining techniques that use Bayesian networks for classification. Key steps in the research plan are (1) implement machine learning, (2) test the trained networks, and (3) use the technique to support a b...

Unique and expanded applications of staged operative management are undergoing careful evaluation in many civilian level I trauma centers under the rubric of damage control surgery. Recently there have been advocates for its broad application to the early management of critically injured combat casualties. However, the enormous logistic requirements for such strategies are contrary to the deman...

Our social consciousness reserves the role of fighter solely for men. Women are not considered as being authoritative or decisive actors in the context of war and violence. During armed conflicts or other violent crises, female acting subjects seem to leave the public (i.e. media) stage – a place where they are underrepresented even under normal circumstances. Furthermore, media coverage of war...

Although reports of wartime atrocities in the former Yugoslavia began circulating at the onset of the conflict in 1991, it was not until news stories began featuring evidence of widespread rape and sexual violence that the general public began pressuring their leaders to effectively respond. Women’s groups around the world were particularly vocal in demanding that the international community ta...

The intention of this contribution, which will be concluded in the next issue, is to review some of the lessons learnt by psychiatrists serving in the Forces in the World War; to indicate certain differences between the social conditions imposed by war and by peace; and to advance suggestions about the psychiatric service of the future. The scope of the present article is to describe the specia...

Piecework versus Timework in British Wartime Engineering The British engineering industry experienced extreme production and employment pressures during the rearmament period that preceded the Second World War and in the early war years. Did it react by placing a greater emphasis on incentive-compatible payment methods? This paper examines the relative employment and wage effects on pieceworker...

Psychiatrists made a distinctive contribution to the work and life of the armed services in addition to the traditional role of treatment of mental illness by furthering a positive mental health policy, by selection, elimination of the unfit and by advice on leadership, on the handling of men and on morale. It was quickly realized that psychiatry would not do its duty by the service if it merel...

Abstract The entrenched understanding of the law governing nationality does not permit a state to look beyond ship's flag and registration ascertain its during peacetime. Nonetheless, this very also allows pierce veil enemy character wartime. However, war in Ukraine has witnessed fresh practice whereby states have claimed equivalent rights peacetime as well, thus encouraging concordant interpre...