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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"military training"”.
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Evaluating Simulated Military Training Exercises
… case study for evaluation of simulated military training. JKCE places Army Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officers (ADAFCOs) into an Air Force Control and Reporting Center (CRC) simulator. From the CRC, the ADAFCO leads an air missile defense scenario, protecting friendly assets …
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A Qualitative Study of College Cadet Women's Leadership Identity Development in a Military Training Environment
… Carter, issued a directive that each branch of military avail every position to women (Pellerin, 2015). Given this and the dearth of literature on women's leader development in military environments, it was imperative to research if and how these environments shape and influence leadership …
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Stress in the Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Hormonal Mechanisms of Reproductive Suppression in Helper Males and Impacts of Military Training Activities
… living in clusters subject to two different training restriction regimes on a military installation. Males living in clusters without training restrictions had lower baseline corticosterone than those living in clusters with training restrictions, suggesting that males habituate to chronic …
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Effects of Military Training Activity on Red-cockaded Woodpecker Demography and Behavior---AND---New Territory Formation in the Cooperatively Breeding Red-cockaded Woodpecker
… issue. The first chapter investigates whether military training activity negatively affects red-cockaded woodpeckers. Military installations in the southeastern United States contain several of the largest remaining red-cockaded woodpecker populations. Six of the 15 installations harboring …
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A Common Component-based Software Architecture For Military And Commercial Pc-based Virtual Simulation
<p>Commercially available military-themed virtual simulations have been developed and sold for entertainment since the beginning of the personal computing era. There exists an intense interest by various branches of the military to leverage the technological advances of the personal computing and …
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Actual Encroachment v. Perceived Encroachment: A Case Study of Fort Jackson, South Carolina
<p>The problem of encroachment on military training lands has accelerated throughout the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century. A lack of planning and a proliferation of low density developments on the urban fringe have contributed to increased pressure on military training lands. …
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Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing
<p>Various military training activities are conducted in more than 11.3 million hectares of land (> 5,500 training sites) in the United States (U.S.). These training activities directly and indirectly degrade the land. Land degradation can impede continuous military training. In order to sustain …
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Self-Perceptions of Leadership Styles of Ex -Military Entrepreneurs and Civilian Entrepreneurs in Kenya
… that SME could be a potential career for ex-military officers and that the military training could have very important elements that can be incorporated in the entrepreneurship training.
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Changing contexts, shifting masculinities : a study of ex-combatants
… and politicization; (b) in exile through military training; and (c) in post-apartheid South Africa through cultural concepts of manhood and non-governmental organisations' (NGOs) initiatives. This qualitative study, based on six in-depth interviews, follows through the three different …
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Assessing belowground biomass changes following land management and vehicle disturbance
Military training is destructive by nature and removes vegetation, leading to excess soil degradation if not properly maintained. The Army in particular was interested in incorporating the cumulative effects of military training on vegetation into their land carrying capacity models. An …
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Physiological, Behavioral and Reproductive Responses of Black -Capped Vireos and White -Eyed Vireos to Human Disturbance
… White-eyed Vireo ( Vireo griseus) on Fort Hood Military Reservation, Texas. My research determines effects of human disturbance in wild bird populations by evaluating a variety of response measures at several levels of biological organization including behavioral, physiological, and reproductive …
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Understanding the biomechanical risk factors ofpatellofemoral pain (PFP) in military individuals
… cadets and recruits from King Abdul-Aziz Military Academy (KAMA) and two other basic military training centres in Saudi Arabia.Lower limb kinematics and muscle strength were measured during running (RUN), single legsquatting (SLS), and single leg landing (SLL) in the first week of …
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Proactive management of an endangered species on Army lands: The black-capped vireo on the lands of Fort Hood, Texas
… In the case of the U.S. Army, this may limit military training and testing activities and other land uses. In order to meet requirements of the Act while minimizing constraints on mission activities, the Army should take a proactive rather than a reactive approach to endangered species …
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More than Fighting for Peace? An examination of the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers.
… is to examine the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary analysis of where further manifestations exist of the links between military peacekeeping and the …
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The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on United States' security assistance to Southern Africa : a quantitative analysis
… security sector assistance, primarily in direct military training and law enforcement programmes. Other areas such as peace support operations assistance, border and transportation security, and counter-proliferation training were marginal, as were arms authorisations. Everything changed on …
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Combatting the war on sleep: Investigating sleep and recovery in the military
The military setting often includes continuous operations, whether in training or deployed environments. These often-stressful environments present unique challenges for service members to achieve both intra-day and inter-day recovery. This thesis aimed to investigate the physical fitness levels, …
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An analysis of promotion and retention factors among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Marine Corps officers
… such as college performance, accession source, military training and fitness report scores that explain any differences in job performance measures of Marine Corpsofficers of different ethnic backgrounds. Using data on 7,780 Marine Corpsofficers commissioned from 1999 to 2004, the findings from …
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Disturbance, Functional Diversity and Ecosystem Processes: Does Species Identity Matter?
… landscapes. Anthropogenic disturbances from military training provide a unique opportunity to examine effects of disturbance on vegetation dynamics, physicochemical soil properties, and ecosystem processes. Additionally, plant functional diversity has been suggested as the key to ecosystem …
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Updating MIT's cost estimation model for shipbuilding
… by combining the two existing models (the Basic Military Training School (BMTS) Cost Model and the MIT Math Model) in order to develop a program that can accurately determine both a ship's acquisition cost as well as its life cycle cost. Using United States Coast Guard resources, this project …
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Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education
<p>Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education</p> <p>Combat and war veterans are enrolling at institutions of higher education hoping to complete their academic degrees. Veteran students' changing identities from soldiers to students …
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