At the present time several hundred hydrofoil craft are in service throughout the world. The upsurge in the use of these craft did not really begin until the late 1950s, although fascination with the idea of supporting small boats with underwater wings dates well back into the nineteenth century. About he turn of the century, hydrofoil flight was achieved, to be followed in a few years by Bell ...

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old during the conflict, or were more directly involved through their parents, received less education than comparable individuals from nonwar countries, such as Switzerland and Sweden. We also show that t...

This study aims to explain the background, direction and policy objectives of Sukutu occupation government (SCAP) (Supreme Commander Allied Powers) under General Douglas MacArthur in Japan after World War II. research is a library with qualitative methods. Library (library research), that utilizes sources obtain data. The United States' since 1945 was against background Japan's involvement II w...

Missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. Of 4500 patients admitted to the Ghaem Medical Center in the first two years of the Iran-Iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. The mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with World War I, 60% and World...