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On the occasion of the International Women's Day 2008, the Institute for Women'sStudies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University, inpartnership with the British Council of Lebanon, dedicated this day to the memory of a very special Lebanese woman, the late Mai Ghoussoub.

Nowadays, the issue of teaching military students is paid attention to the formation of professionally significant competencies by means of a foreign language in our country. The relevance of the research is conducted by the author of the article. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of learning military English language by students for military areas of training. Taking into account which allows to determine the specifics of the military topics of foreign language communication and the requirements for training materials. The research is based on a contextual approach to professionally oriented learning, which suggests that information should be assimilated in context by modeling the subject and social content of professional activity in the military English language classes. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that it contributes to the study the issue of creating a foreign-language professional communication environment with the help of modern educational technologies that allow students to immerse themselves in a foreign language environment, observe culturally specific realities and hear samples of modern foreign speech

This details the expenditures of the Citadel's allocation from the CARES Act and its plan for emergency aid distribution to students.

This details the expenditures of the Citadel's allocation from the CARES Act and its plan for emergency aid distribution to students.

This details the expenditures of the Citadel's allocation from the CARES Act and its plan for emergency aid distribution to students.

A prevalence study of personnel on a Royal Naval Air Station revealed that 23.0% of 2479 personnel were carrying a meningococcus. Selected groups of personnel were subsequently swabbed monthly for a year. We have shown that it is only by repeated swabbing and the use of optimal methods including enrichment media that one can have a hope of identifying the 'true' carriage rate. A presumed virulent strain of Neisseria meningitidis B15 P1.16 was repeatedly isolated from three personnel who remained well, as did their colleagues both at their work place and socially. The study served to emphasize our lack of knowledge of the virulence factors associated with N. meningitidis.

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The sleep characteristics of 37 military combat veterans (17 with PTSD and 20 without PTSD) of recent wars were analyzed to determine if combat deployment, with its resultant wartime sleep restriction, may be an alternative explanation for the sleep duration complaints found among combat veterans with PTSD (as determined by PCL-M scores). Participants completed sleep actigraphy and a self-report measure of sleep duration over a 1-week period. Although strongly correlated, a comparison of subjective (e.g., self-report) and objective (e.g., actigraphy) sleep duration revealed a significant difference in sleep duration based on method of assessment. With respect to group differences, actigraphy data did not reveal a significant difference in sleep duration based on the presence of PTSD, whereas there was a significant difference based on self-report. Veterans without PTSD self- reported a significantly longer sleep duration than what was recorded by actigraphy; a difference of one hour and 11 minutes (p = 0.000); the difference was one hour and nine minutes. In an effort to determine why veterans without PTSD perceived that they slept longer than they actually did, factors related to sleep quality were examined. The results indicated that measures of hyper arousal (anger, anxiety, nightmares) were significantly correlated with sleep duration, suggesting a pattern of autonomic arousal that is known to interfere with restful sleep. Further research is necessary to determine if the sleep of veteran with PTSD is actually different from that of combat veterans without PTSD, and if such differences are actually amenable to treatment for PTSD. ; 2015-08-01 ; M.S. ; Sciences, Psychology ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

Evidenced-based medicine drives best practices. The Lessons Learned (LL) process in clinical medicine for deployed and military support services drive the NATO Military Medical Center of Excellence (MILMED COE). This review article focuses on the Lessons Learned process and its use in NATO and partner countries medical services. Organizational learning drives development and progress; capturing lessons from mistakes, colleagues' interactions and institutional experience can be lost without an organized lesson learned process. Therefore, in 2014, NATO institutions and Centers of Excellence across disciplines began to focus on the quality management, information sharing and evidence-based practices to maximize outcomes. Since this inception, NATO has implemented the Lessons Learned process and expanded the impact across the alliance in order to save life and prevent illness. The Lessons Learned process and sharing of experience is also a way to improve the quality of care in the military medicine, from preventive, epidemiological, trauma related, casualty evacuation and forward surgical care, among many others, to the medical standardization and organization of military medical services. The Lessons Learned process is an undertaking and an instrument that can also be used to achieve better international and civil-military cooperation. Finally, we deal with the current situation and use of the information obtained from the areas of military health care.

In North Korea, the upcoming leadership transition in the Kim Jong-il regime will be a precarious time for the Kim family's hold on power. A collapse of the North Korean government could have several dangerous implications for East Asia, including "loose nukes," a humanitarian disaster, a regional refugee crisis, and potential escalation to war between China and the United States. To respond to a collapse and these problems, neighboring countries may perform several military missions to stabilize North Korea. These include the location and securing of North Korean weapons of mass destruction, stability operations, border control, conventional disarmament, and combat/deterrence operations. Assuming that collapse occurs in a relatively benign manner, military missions to stabilize North Korea could require 260,000 to 400,000 troops. If collapse occurs after a war on the peninsula, or if it sparks civil war in North Korea, the number of missions—and their requirements—would grow. Because of the size and complexity of these missions, and because of the perils associated with mismanaging them, advance and combined planning is essential. Combined planning should include those actors (e.g., China, South Korea, and the United States) that could otherwise take destabilizing action to protect their own interests.

This edited volume examines threat inflation, and its role in framing US foreign and security policy since 9/11.

While numerous studies explore veteran and current military member reintegration challenges from a psychological or sociological perspective, few have examined the impact of discourse on the ability to locate a post-service or post-deployment identity within larger society. To that end, this research investigates veterans' and active duty military members' interpretations of the ritualistic expression of "thank you for your service," and other public acknowledgments and disclosures of their military service. This paper describes two studies each employing qualitative and quantitative methodologies for data analysis and verbatim transcriptions are interwoven throughout the corresponding results sections to support the qualitative findings. The multi-methodological application of focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth personal interviews revealed that "thank you for your service" was regarded by study populations as an injunctive norm that frequently elicited feelings of awkwardness, objectification, impostor syndrome, and even resentment. Further, study subjects expressed a general unwillingness to disclose their military service with anyone beyond their self-ascribed ingroup, demonstrating an underlying fear of being labeled as either a hero or victim. To explain their responses and their fears, this paper proposes the hyper-humility model, which describes the confluence of sense of duty, guilt, and/or shame from a perceived comparative lack of hardship or elevation to the standing of those perceived as more deserving, and acute manifestation of imposter syndrome. Lastly, this paper offers a path toward more meaningful civilian-military interaction, by broadening discourse to include more personalized, genuine dialogic exchanges.

During 2002 member states made progress towards enabling the European Union to carry out its crisis management tasks by 2003. However, institutional & technical accomplishments notwithstanding, progress in improving the EU's military capabilities has been only moderate. One major political achievement was the agreement on the issue of EU access to NATO assets. The EU effort in the civilian area resulted in the launching of its Police Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The European Convention encouraged EU members to start a debate & produce innovative ideas on security & defense issues that go beyond the original Helsinki Headline Goal. Adapted from the source document.