BACKGROUND Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face exposure to combat during wars across the globe. The health effects of traumatic war experiences have not been adequately assessed across the lifetime of these veterans. OBJECTIVE To identify the role of traumatic war experiences in predicting postwar nervous and physical disease and mortality using archival data from military and medical reco...

After the fall of Abbasid dynasty in 1258 due to attack Mongols, mecca great Islamic power began move Ottoman Empire and Timurid Empire. The two powers were led by Sultan Bayazid Timur Lenk, respectively. development possessed these rulers brought them point where they competed with each other spreading political influence. Policies undermine other's territory are inevitable. They finally met w...

Prisoner-of-war camps were one of the most numerous types military sites to be established in Britain during Second World War and yet are least studied. Most comprised a series temporary huts that erected from prefabricated components, whilst some put new uses following war have now been cleared. The former Weston Hostel near Crewe Cheshire is such camp appears originally 35 which 23 survived v...

For the last decade, World War II prisoner-of-war camp and battery at Sværholt in northernmost Norway have been objects of archaeological investigation. This article presents results from excavations associated studies, including new descriptions extant structures found artefacts, comparative osteological analyses middens, their implications. Our purpose presenting these is to: 1) explore what ...

Imagine the following scenario. Two prisoners, prisoner A and prisoner B, who are in the prison for the same crime, are being interrogated simultaneously in separate rooms. They are each given 2 options: (a) Either cooperate with the other prisoner by staying silent or (b) Betray the other prisoner by snitching him out. They are each given deals (reduced prison sentences) for betraying the othe...

The main objective of this paper is to argue that Nash equilibria, which were introduced as termination criteria of games [1], can be used to discourage malicious perturbations in stabilizing distributed systems. But let us start, from the beginning, by describing how a Nash equilibrium can be used as a termination criterion for a well-known game called the two-prisoner dilemma [2]. Consider a ...