purpose : to review ocular surface abnormalities caused by exposure to mustard gas and current approaches to manage its delayed-onset complications methods : a total of 198 medical articles related to mustard gas were reviewed using known international medical databases, 114 articles were more relevant to the main aim were selected. results : mustard gas-related ocular injuries can be divided i...

With chemical warfare becoming an imminent threat, medical systems need to be prepared to treat the resultant mass casualties. Medical preparedness should not be limited to the triage and logistics of mass casualties and first-line treatment, but should include knowledge and training covering the whole medical spectrum. In view of the unique characteristics of chemical warfare casualties the us...

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In 1952, during the Korean War, it was claimed that United States forces were using bacteriological warfare against China and North Korea. The allegation was dismissed by western governments, but a six-strong international scientific commission (ISC) visited China and concluded that bacteriological warfare had taken place. On their return, the scientists, of whom the best known was the British ...

As modern weapon systems become complex and expensive, there is an increasing need to predict the effectiveness of a new weapon system before the actual development. In this paper, we present an ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) simulator to measure the effectiveness of a TAS (Towed Array Sonar) on smart phones. Our simulator is composed of Red and Blue submarine model, Environment model (i.e. sea) ...

Poker poses cognitive challenges like those of warfare, business and other real world domains. This makes poker a good test bed for basic research on how people make Command and Control decisions and for applied research on how systems might help people make better decisions. In this paper, I compare the cognitive challenges of poker and warfare, and present a new suite of “Pared-down Poker” ga...