The United States and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003 with the declared intention of removing Saddam Hussein’s regime. Although it was determined after the war that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), removing a regime believed to be in possession of WMD raises the possibility that the post-9/11 US security policy is more willing than previously believed to tolerate the risk...

Several of the authors point out that while the origins of medical holism (as an oppositional movement) go back to the late nineteenth century, it attracted particular attention between the world wars. Although surprisingly few of them attempt to explain this renaissance, in aggregate these essays none the less tell us quite a lot about the conditions which fostered interwar holism. To begin wi...

ture of morale and on the science of selection?putting the right men in the right jobs. This work naturally raised some antagonism?like other psychiatric researches?and it was perhaps not surprising that after the war there was a return in the Services to previous arrangements, and less use was made of psychiatrists. There were in any case fewer in the Services to be used, for the majority had ...

American distress at the horrors produced by the atomic bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 generated a laudable desire to salvage something positive from the damage. Immediately after the war, the American government sent survey teams to the bombed cities to evaluate the extent and nature of the damage. An account of those early days has appeared in The Yale Journal [ 1,2]. The re...

Post-war planning is the theme of practically all recent engineering meetings. This Thirtieth Annual Purdue Road School is no exception. You have already heard some interesting discussions on highway post­ war planning. Other papers will be presented at the following ses­ sions dealing with this very timely subject. Engineers are generally agreed that considerable thought should be given to thi...

Nineteenth-century French scientists, mathematicians, and engineers made enormous contributions to the study of dynamics, including analyses of governors and regulators, which we now view as important precursors of the modern discipline of automatic control. By the late 1930s at least some French engineers were aware of the advances in the analysis of feedback that had been made by Black and Ny...

For the last several years, US citizens have been experiencing severe threats of terrorism. While such threats can significantly impact important factors for effective government operations such as citizens’ information demand and attitude toward the government, little is known about their potential effect on citizens’ acceptance of e-Government services. In order to fill this gap, this study e...

This paper addresses the endogeneity of ethnic settlement patterns and conflict, that is, how settlement patterns affect conflict, and how conflict in turn changes the ethnic map. I argue that the application of violence during conflict is driven by the territorial aspirations of ethnic groups. Locations where territorial claims clash should see more violence as groups struggle for control of a...

Aims: This article is designed to demonstrate the problems of infection in a time without antibiotics and to raise awareness and stimulate discussion about the future and the next steps for managing antibiotic resistance. Methods: Access was gained to original journals and letters of three doctors, who joined the army working as medical officers during the First World War. Transcripts of interv...