The Institute of Medicine recently called for a tobacco-free military, citing evidence that high rates of tobacco use harm readiness and create enormous costs for the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration. The pro-tobacco activities of the tobacco industry and others, sometimes supported by military authorities even when prohibited by policy, have created a culture highly hospit...

Rotary-wing aircraft (e.g., helicopters and tilt-wing aircraft) are an important component of all U.S. military services and the U.S. civil aviation industry. Our analyses of wildlife strikes to military rotary-wing aircraft, both within the United States and during overseas deployments, as well as civil helicopters, have shown there are important patterns within wildlife strike data for fl igh...

The military control throughout the nearly half-century cross-strait stand-off during the Cold War since 1949 has left Kinmen with a large number of unintentionally preserved traditional Minnan (Southern Fujian) buildings and villages along with an extensive group of military buildings, battlefield infrastructure at this forefront against communist invasion. The island has a rich architectural ...

Information systems security defines three properties of information: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. These characteristics remain major concerns throughout the commercial and military industry. In this work, we focus on the integrity aspect of commercial security applications by exploring the nature and scope of the famous integrity policy the Clinical Information Systems Policy....

Health of organization’s employees is dependent on psychosocial factors such as job stress, considerably. Job stress is related to the low quality of life, job burnout, increasing the risk of accidents and work–related injuries and cause job change and early retirement of employees. This study aimed to evaluate employees’ job stress in an industry as well as to assess its relationship by person...

Concurrent Engineering has always been an important ®eld within military industry and is gaining recognition within commercial industry as well. Studies have suggested that long-range research e€orts need to be directed to the area of integrated logistics. In order to satisfy the overall logistics objectives, product designs must incorporate consideration of the impact that design decisions hav...

MUNITIONS ABSTRACT: Like other defense industries, the munitions industry has undergone significant change during the past two decades. Three major factors, the end of the Cold War, the subsequent revolution in military affairs, and the increasing reluctance of the American public to accept loss of life and collateral damage in war, have dramatically affected the industry. The munitions industr...

initiatives, OEMs of military systems were authorized to use performance-based specifications for component procurement. At first, the industry was suddenly faced with a dilemma—to continue designing with tried and proven military-grade components or accept the risk of using COTS components in a manner historically considered unacceptable. But since then, there have been volumes of papers autho...