BACKGROUND The "weekend warrior" engages in demanding recreational sporting activities on weekends despite minimal physical activity during the week. We sought to identify the incidence and injury patterns of major trauma from recreational sporting activities on weekends versus weekdays. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study using the Alberta Trauma Registry comparing all adults w...

The battlefield is a place of violence ruled by uncertainty. Timely knowledge of what’s happening around a soldier can mean the difference between life and death. The goals of an enhanced mobile infantry are becoming a reality due, in part, to the U.S. Army’s 21st Century Land Warrior (LW) program. However, the current system does not provide a “head up” display capability like that provided by...

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the powerful impact of an innovative intelligent autonomous mission planner/controller for networked multiple manned/unmanned autonomous vehicles which is applicable to the Future Combat System (FCS), Future Force Warrior (FFW), Future Special Operations Forces (SOF) systems, Land Warrior, and Homeland Defense. For the intelligent vehicles, which co...

A series of Net Warrior exercises is planned to build, demonstrate and enhance Australian Defence Force Network Centric Warfare (NCW) interoperability. Under the auspices of Task CIO 07/042 and as part of a student vactional work experience project this report describes the use and functionality of the Quality of Service (QoS) software tool developed by Adelaide University under a DSTO contract...

The need exists for educational methods which can positively influence self-esteem, especially in demanding military healthcare settings. Warrior Transition Units (WTU's) are tasked with the challenging mission of caring for seriously injured or ill U.S. Army Soldiers. This paper explored the hypothesis that an educationally-based Mental Skills Training (MST) intervention can enhance self-estee...

Swarm-founding 'Warrior wasps' (Synoeca spp.) are found throughout the tropical regions of South America, are much feared due to their aggressive nest defence and painful sting. There are only five species of Synoeca, all construct distinctive nests that consist of a single sessile comb built onto the surface of a tree or rock face, which is covered by a ribbed envelope. Although locally common...

Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) has earned the nickname "warrior gene" because it has been linked to aggression in observational and survey-based studies. However, no controlled experimental studies have tested whether the warrior gene actually drives behavioral manifestations of these tendencies. We report an experiment, synthesizing work in psychology and behavioral economics, which demonstra...

The 'gene of' is a teleosemantic expression that conveys a simplistic and linear relationship between a gene and a phenotype. Throughout the 20th century, geneticists studied these genes of traits. The studies were often polemical when they concerned human traits: the 'crime gene', 'poverty gene', 'IQ gene', 'gay gene' or 'gene of alcoholism'. Quite recently, a controversy occurred in 2006 in N...