Background: The coexistence of human beings requires the observance of moral etiquette, which is called civil ethics in ethics and leads to normative order. In order for civil ethics to have an executive guarantee, a set of laws was formed in the society under the title of civil procedure. One of the lawsuits in this regard is the harassment lawsuit. There are complex issues in the harassment l...

Civil Sphere Theory (CST) provides a more dynamic, cultural, and democratically oriented model of contemporary society than either conflict or modernization theory. Civil spheres expand and contract in contradictory ways. Utopian periods of utopian repair trigger defensive efforts that primordialize and exclude. Late 20 century civil repair generated new relations of economic production and mor...

This chapter is based on a presentation “Lessons from the DoD Gulf War Illnesses Research Investment – Neuroepidemiology, Environmental Exposures, and Soldier Well-being” made at the NATO/PfP Workshop on Environmental and Industrial Health Hazards (EIHH) and Public Health Concerns in International Missions in Umea, Sweden, on 14 October 2004. A more comprehensive version is being prepared for p...

IN 1883, one year before the invention of the dirigible, Albert Robida’s book War in the Twentieth Century envisaged a sudden, crushing air strike, while Ivan S. Bloch’s 1898 treatise on warfare expected bombardment from airships in the near future. With the evolu­ tion of airships—in particular, the flights of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s dirigibles toward the end of the first decade of the ...

Entertainment software developers face significant challenges in designing games with broad appeal. One of the challenges concerns creating nonplayer (computer-controlled) characters that can adapt their behavior in light of the current and prospective situation, possibly emulating human behaviors. This adaptation should be inherently novel, unrepeatable, yet within the bounds of realism. Evolu...

A s Surgeon General for the Canadian Forces (CF), I am also the commander of the Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS), which is responsible for delivering quality health care both in Canada and on deployments around the world. Providing health care in an operational setting is always a challenge, especially when this occurs in a hostile or combat setting with limitations posed by tactical and...

A quantitative understanding of cities' demographic dynamics is becoming a potentially useful tool for planning sustainable growth. The concomitant theory should reveal details of the cities' past and also of its interaction with nearby urban conglomerates for providing a reasonably complete picture. Using the exhaustive database of the Census Bureau in a time window of 170 years, we exhibit he...

so slow to grasp the implication of the use of whole blood in World War I, limited though that experience was; why it did not take advantage of the successful bloodprogram used during the Spanish Civil War; and why it did not immediately make use of the British experience in the early months of World War II when the necessity and value of whole blood for combat casualties were so clearly proved...