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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"casualties"”.
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America's Vietnam casualties--victims of a class war?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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The Australian experience of psychological casualties in war, 1915-1939
… from the sustaining of the first psychological casualties at Gallipoli to the beginning of the next war. By this time many psychological casualties from the first great conflagration had still not been cured.
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A Composite Cognition Instrument for Nursing Care of Combat Casualties
… of caring for military and civilian combat casualties, military nurses must make rapid, accurate decisions. When developing methods to teach nurses essential content for combat casualty care, it is important to understand the cognitive and learning processes involved in acquiring that …
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Examining the influence of civilian casualties on insurgent attacks in Iraq
… have been several attempts to tabulate civilian casualties in the Iraq War, the effect of these casualties on the Iraqi population and insurgent organizations has not been thoroughly examined. From the literature of the motives and mechanisms behind the formation and expansion of insurgencies, as …
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Effectiveness of Saskatchewan Government Insurance 2014 Traffic Safety Initiatives on Reducing Casualties
… a very high reduction of about 40% in traffic casualties. Intervention Analysis, which took into consideration several covariates, confirmed the existence of reductions in collision casualties but with a smaller percentage change of 20%. It can be inferred from these two analytical approaches …
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TV Casualties: The Negative Impact Of Political Messages In Non-News Programs
<p>Prior works in the social sciences have demonstrated the importance that television can have in shaping the views and outlooks of viewers. Studies have examined how it is that overtly political broadcasting, such as political commercials or ideological cable news channels, can impact viewers. …
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A Reinforcement Learning-based Scheduler for Minimizing Casualties of a Military Drone Swarm
… show that Hector significantly reduces casualties than a baseline round-robin algorithm. Further, Hector can offer comparable performance to a high-performing greedy scheduler, which assumes complete knowledge of global information.
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The treatment of evacuated war neuroses casualties in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
The conventional historiography of the treatment of war neurosis in Canada is limited and suggests that "shell shocked" soldiers were diagnosed and assigned treatment based on their rank and social class. According to the literature this meant that officers and soldiers from the upper classes were …
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A follow-up study of the adjustment of neuropsychiatric casualties in the armed forces
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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The Investment Casualties of War: Global Impacts of Armed Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows
<p>Abstract: Involvement in the outbreak of an armed conflict can present a variety of potential risks to an involved nation’s economy. In this paper I examine if one one of those risks, specifically that a new war could scare away foreign investment actually occurs and whether the intensity of the …
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Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
… the trends in each war and the impact that these casualties exerted at the time they happened. In addition, this thesis explores the lessons the Armed Forces leaders applied between the wars in an effort to reduce non-hostile losses for the next war.
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Consequences of Traffic Casualties in Relation to Traffic-Engineering Factors - An Analysis in Short-term and Long-term Perspectives
… a method to describe the consequences of traffic casualties, and to explain the influence of different traffic engineering factors on these consequences for society and individuals over time. A more detailed objective was to examine whether available short-term indicators can be used to predict …
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The development of evidence-based guidelines to inform the extrication of casualties trapped in motor vehicles following a collision
Background Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are a common cause of injury and death throughout the world. Following an MVC some patients will remain in their vehicles due to injury, the potential for injury or physical obstruction. Extrication is the process of removing injured or potentially injured …
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The Irish Home Front 1914-18 with Particular Reference to the treatment of Belgian Refugees, Prisioners-of-War, Enemy Aliens and War Casualties
This study examines three distinct aspects of Irish life during the First World War. These are the accommodation of Belgian Refugees, the internment o f ‘enemy aliens’ - mainly Germans and Austrians - and the return of wounded from action in Europe. In each case there were state-led responses to …
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No Winning Moves: Calculated Casualties and Damages of a Nuclear Attack on the United States by Russia for First and Second Strike Scenarios
… Russian first strike resulted in 49.73 million casualties and all oil refineries and major shipping ports and 2,809 HV transformers destroyed with 132—-225 surviving U.S. silos and 520 unused warheads. The Russian second strike with strategic warning resulted in 69.86 million casualties; all oil …
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Essays in financial economics : terror, consumption, and investment, currency options and liquidity premium, and purchasing power parity
… conflict. An increase in terror casualties triggers households to alter their perceived personal security and expected future income. Only ex-post do households distinguish a temporary from a permanent increase in terror casualties. A temporary increase in the number of terror …
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Epidemiology, cost and prevention of road traffic crash injuries in Strathclyde, Scotland
… and society. In the UK, the number of RTC casualties is underestimated if based solely on police records, as many casualties are unreported to the police. “Safety” (speed and red light) cameras have shown to be an effective way of combating RTCs and in 2000 a national scheme was rolled out …
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Predicting earthquake casualty rates accounting for community vulnerability
Casualties are one of the most severe results of earthquakes. Prediction of casualty rates due to earthquakes plays an important role in seismic risk management. A predicted casualty rate reflects the vulnerability of a community of interest. An accurate prediction of earthquake casualty rates may …
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