The authors review the visit of Commander Charcot and the crew of his ship, the "Pourquoi Pas?", to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1908, where he stayed for eight days, while en-route as part of the second French expedition to the Antarctic. It was a glamorous stay as Commander Charcot was treated as a true star and international celebrity, befitting his position.

This research examined the role of implicit instructions and the effect of feedback on commander trust using a combination of interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and empirical investigation. System behaviour protocols were developed following a series of SME interviews. The protocols defined commander requirements of AS behaviour to implement the implicit, explicit and intent-based co...

The aviation combat element (ACE) provides combat power and operational capability to the MAGTF. Individual aircraft combined and task organized into an ACE, provides a highly capable, responsive, force multiplier to the MAGTF commander. The ACE’s unique capabilities complements other MAGTF elements. The ACE is not a substitute for any MAGTF element. The ACE contributes to mission accomplishmen...

Peter the Great brought technological enlightenment to Russia. In his lifetime, two special schools for training engineers were established, the Engineering School in 1700, and the Mathematical-Navigation School in 1701. Peter the Great introduced engineering training into other institutions as well, not only into the Naval Academy, but also regimental schools and even religious colleges. (See ...

This article applies the theory of massive electrodynamics to the Dirac equation with the aim to find the generalized Volkov solution with massive photon field. The resulting equation is the Riccati equation which cannot be solved in general. We use the approximative Volkov function for massive photons and consider an electron in the periodic field and in the laser pulse of the δ-function form....