In this article a snapshot of casualty presentations to the UK Role 3 hospital in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, will be briefly described. The observations allow reflection on the advances and strength of clinical provision at the time of the incident, written from a medical command perspective.

Introduction At th e end of a journey to the Beer Sheva, whilc studying the medical aspects of Alle nhy's Palestine Campaigns, I visitcd the British Military Cemetery ror those who were kllled in the area during these campaigns. What began as an aimless visit, soon became a search for RAMC servicemen who might he buried there. An hour later, J stood in front or a tombstone of Captain John FoxRu...

objectives to examine the military service predictors resulting in worsening drug abuse status. patients and methods a cross-sectional study with 3140 young soldiers was conducted in summer and autumn of 2010 and; the participants completed three questionnaires, namely the texas christian university drug screen (tcuds) ii, the addiction severity index and a questionnaire designed by the researc...

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

There is strong interest in the development of tunable lasers and optical filters for a number of optoelectronic applications. From a telecommunications standpoint, compact, efficient, and affordable tunable sources and filters could find immediate widespread use for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems, enabling incredibly dense optoelectronic communications over a single optical fib...

This paper addresses the problem of antenna array processing in non-Gaussian noise and interference conditions. Such conditions arise due to man-made interference in indoor and outdoor mobile communication channels as well as in military communications. In this paper M -estimators of the array (pseudo-)covariance matrix based upon complex data set are introduced. Estimates of the noise and sign...

Large-scale hybrid networks that include wireless, wired, and satellite based communications are becoming common in both military and commercial situations. This paper describes a scalable simulation environment called GloMoSim (for Global Mobile Information System Simulator) that effectively utilizes parallel execution to reduce the simulation time of detailed high-fidelity models of large com...

Even though the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, it has not been until 10-15 years ago that widespread use of wireless communications has begun. While before then it was mainly used by police and military, now the capability of communicating without being constrained to a fixed physical location is within everyone’s reach. The booming industry which has been growing at such an astoun...