This paper addresses the problem of activity recognition for physically-embodied agent teams. We define team activity recognition as the process of identifying team behaviors from traces of agent positions over time; for many physical domains, military or athletic, coordinated team behaviors create distinctive spatio-temporal patterns that can be used to identify low-level action sequences. Thi...

background and aim: hepatitis b is a major health problem in the world and also in our country, iran. presence in war zones is among the most important risk factors for developing hepatitis b. this study was conducted to compare liver enzymes variations and hepatitis b risk factors among military and civilian chronic carriers of hepatitis b. methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive-analy...

The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as Alternative (APS), was a chain of countercultural newspapers and magazines created in the middle 1966 by publishers five early underground «The East Village Other», Los Angeles Free Press», Berkeley Barb», Paper» «Fifth Estate». By 1974 majority papers USA ceased to exist but they had an impact on journalistic processes during 1970-s that le...

Emerging surveillance applications of UAV teams rely on secure communication to exchange information, coordinate their movements, and fulfill mission objectives. Protecting the network by identifying malicious nodes that are trying disturb system is an important task, particularly in military domain. This paper presents design evaluation UAVouch, identity location validation scheme combines a p...

The incidence of post-operative wound infections in Belize in 1986 and 1987 was studied. Both military practice in the military hospital and civilian practice in the rural hospitals of the local towns were included. Despite previous misgivings and sub-optimal conditions in the rural hospitals an acceptably low incidence was found in both areas of work.

NASA’s Expansive Reach Each year, NASA produces Spin­ off, a report outlining its con­ tributions to the US (see www. sti.nasa.gov/tto). Many derivative technologies in medicine and per­ sonal comfort have emerged from NASA missions, positively affect­ ing our lives. However, beneficial technologies have also emerged in computing and information processing over the more than 60 years since the ...

In this briefing report, we introduce a new concept (war algorithms) that elevates algorithmically-derived choices and decisions to a, and perhaps the, central concern regarding technical autonomy in war. We thereby aim to shed light on and recast the discussion regarding autonomous weapon systems. We define war algorithm as any algorithm that is expressed in computer code, that is effectuated ...