Projections of the casualties expected during peacekeeping operations allow medical planners to assess in advance the medical resources needed to support such operations. Data detailing fatalities incurred in previous peacekeeping operations were extracted from several U.N. sources. From these data, rates of killed-in-action were computed for the deployed forces. One hundred eighty-eight peacek...

While linkages between some macroeconomic phenomena and suicides in some countries have been explored, only two studies, hitherto, have established a causal relationship between fiscal austerity and suicide, albeit in a single country. The aim of this study is to provide the first systematic multiple-country evidence of a causal relationship of fiscal austerity on time-, gender-, and age-specif...

• The first aircraft structural composite components were reinforced with flax in 1940. Flax fibres used adapted technologies (preg, untwisted fibres…). potential to reinforce polymers was already demonstrated Over the past 80 years, varieties and fibre yields have changed significantly. However, geometry mechanical properties of remained stable. last years seen significant changes industrial t...