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ROSE, EDWARD P. F. "BRITISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MALTA, PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY FOUNDATIONS." Earth Sciences History 40, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 503–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-40.2.503.
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Malta, an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, was fortified as a base for the Knights Hospitaller 1530–1798 and to provide major harbours for the British Royal Navy after 1813. Men with British military associations (all subsequently to attain some distinction in public and/or academic life) were amongst the many pioneers of Maltese geology who established the essence of its outcrop stratigraphy and structure: a circa 300-metre-thick sequence of near-horizontal mid-Cenozoic fossiliferous limestones punctuated by a ‘blue clay/marl’, cut by a series of major faults and penetrated by several caves and fissures whose infill contained significant remains of Pleistocene vertebrates. Between 1843 and 1856, Lieutenant (later Vice-Admiral) Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888) defined major units in the bedrock sequence, Colonel (later Major-General) Sir William Reid (1791–1858) promoted publication of a geological memoir, and a 1:31,680-scale geological map prepared by the 3rd Earl of Ducie on a Royal Engineers topographical base map was published under Royal Engineer auspices. Mostly between 1860 and 1866, Captain (later Professor) Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1836–1905) and Surgeon (later Deputy Surgeon-General and Professor) Andrew Leith Adams (1827–1882) made field observations that refined earlier interpretations of stratigraphy and structure and generated revised but small-scale maps. They also collected specimens that facilitated specialist identifications of Malta’s fossil faunas, including foraminifera by Thomas Rupert Jones (1819–1911), Professor of Geology at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Rock specimens were sent in 1888 by Surgeon-Captain David (later Surgeon-General Sir David) Bruce (1855–1931) and the former engineer Lieutenant (and later Professor) Osbert Chadwick (1844–1913) to the pioneer oceanographer John (later Sir John) Murray (1841–1914). They stimulated Murray’s benchmark study 1889–1890 of Malta’s sedimentary sequence and fossil foraminifera, and their palaeoenvironmental interpretation, plus his compilation of a 1:129,254-scale geological map. These prompted extensive local studies and collection of macrofossil specimens by schoolmaster (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John Henry Cooke (1862–1933). By the end of the century, representative Maltese fossils had been presented for specialist study and identification or description to major museums in England, Scotland and Italy, facilitating improved correlation of Maltese strata with Oligo-Miocene successions elsewhere.
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COTTEE, JOHN. "ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE DUNTROON." Australian Planner 32, no. 1 (January 1994): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.1994.9657652.
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Reynolds, Jonathan. "The Road to Camp Bastion: Training to be a Military Surgeon." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 95, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363513x13500508917215.
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November 2008. It is 4am and i am sitting in a shallow grave keeping watch at the perimeter of a harbour area, ostensibly keeping an eye out for the 'enemy'. This is a new and wholly unfamiliar aspect to my life starting out as an army surgeon. The situation is the heathland exercise area behind the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and the 'enemy' are the instructing staff, who assured us that they would be watching us with night vision scopes. 'Do NOT fall asleep,' they commanded. Well, i could not do so even if i wanted to, thanks to periodic unstoppable shivering.
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Harding, Marion. "Soldiers of the Queen: photographs of Africa, 1867-1902 in the National Army Museum." African Research & Documentation 68 (1995): 9–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021646.
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By way of introduction, and to put the body of this paper in context, it may be helpful to say a few words about the National Army Museum and its Collections.The Museum received its Royal Charter in 1960 when it was established at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and moved to its present location in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, where it opened to the public in 1971. Under the terms of its Charter, the Museum is responsible for collecting, preserving and interpreting items relating to the the history of the British Army from 1485 to the present day, the Indian Army until 1947, and the land forces of Britain's overseas possessions until their respective dates of independence.
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Rennie, A. Michael. "Here, there and everywhere: psychologists and the training of British Army officers at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst." Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 165, no. 2 (February 2, 2019): 109–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2018-001126.
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The Department of Communication and Applied Behavioural Science is one of the three departments in the academic faculty at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The aim of the Department is to equip officer cadets with the skills, knowledge and personal qualities in order for them to develop their own potential, as both individuals and leaders in the British Army. The members of the Department have a range of backgrounds, with most having served in various capacities across UK Defence, both in uniformed and/or civilian crown servant contexts. Several members of the faculty are qualified psychologists, while others have related academic and professional backgrounds. The academic and applied discipline of psychology is the fundamental thread that runs through the various courses and projects delivered by the Department. This paper provides a brief overview of the activities undertaken by the Department, with a specific focus on the psychology components of the academic and applied activities. Although mainly serving in academic teaching roles, this paper illustrates the work of the psychologists outside the classroom, such as via field exercises and deployments overseas. It also touches on the importance of the outreach undertaken by the psychologists in the Department, which supports their ongoing research.
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Everest, Ali, and N. Taylor. "Heat illness during initial military training." BMJ Military Health 166, no. 5 (May 13, 2020): 366–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001473.
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IntroductionExertional heat illness (EHI) is recognised as a significant problem for fit young individuals taking part in strenuous activity in temperate climates. The aim of this research was to relate episodes of reported EHI against known risk factors for heat illness and determine whether modification of the training programme had an effect on the number of cases reported. Publication was not possible when the work was originally conducted in 2000 because of barriers within Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) at the time.MethodsA retrospective study examined the medical data for Officer Cadets in training at the RMAS for a 2-year period ending April 2000.Results60 cases were initially reported as EHI, in 58 individuals. Using the following criteria; dizziness, collapse, reduced conscious level, headache, nausea, vomiting, elevated core (rectal) temperature and the results of urine and blood tests, 35 cases were diagnosed as EHI and 25 cases had other diagnoses recorded after investigation. Minority of cases (n=12) had an identifiable risk factor but the majority appeared to be fit young individuals who were susceptible to EHI in conditions where the rest of the population was unaffected.DiscussionFurther work is planned to study individuals during strenuous activity events in the hope of accurately identifying those at risk and further reducing the incidence of EHI. EHI is common, case definition is poor, risk factors are not present in all individuals but modification of training programmes is effective.
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Fellows, N. A., and P. C. Barton. "Royal Military College of Science light gas gun facility." Review of Scientific Instruments 68, no. 10 (October 1997): 3823–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1148034.
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LEARY, T. J. "KIPLING, STALKY, REGULUS & CO.: A READING OF HORACE ODES 3.5." Greece and Rome 55, no. 2 (August 18, 2008): 247–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383508000557.
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Although born in India, like others of his class and generation Rudyard Kipling was sent back to England for his schooling. From 1878 he attended the United Services College (USC) at Westward Ho! in North Devon, a school that had been recently established under the headmastership of a family friend, Cormell Price, to accommodate the children of Indian Army officers unable to afford the fees of institutions such as Wellington College, originally established to prepare boys for the military academies at Sandhurst and Woolwich. The school was later to provide the inspiration for Kipling's Stalky & Co., a collection of stories first assembled for publication in book form in 1899 and re-issued, with five further tales, in 1929. The reception of this work and the characters within it was not universally favourable, the school upon which it was based was in many ways atypical of the standard English public school (if ever such a thing existed), and, although unquestionably a ‘school story', it is not in line with the tradition fathered by Tom Brown.
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Hennessy, Michael. "Great Leadership is Timeless." Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 4, no. 3 (January 31, 2022): 142–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v4i3.4163.
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On November 26, 2021, Dr. Michael Hennessy, Professor of History and War Studies at Royal Military College of Canada, presented on Great Leadership is Timeless: Lessons from Outstanding Military Leaders. The presentation was followed by a question and answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The topics discussed included gaps in military leader development, valued traits of successful military leaders, and examples of great senior leaders.
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Redruello-Guerrero, P. "Royal Colleges of Surgery of Barcelona and Madrid in the 18th century." ACTUALIDAD MEDICA 105, no. 105(811) (December 30, 2020): 202–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15568/am.2020.811.rev01.
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On the occasion of the anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Colleges of Surgery of Barcelona and Madrid, this review presents the life and activity of both colleges, as well as the illustrious people who were in charge of them. The decline of surgery in the early 18th century prompted the creation of Royal Colleges of Surgery by the Bourbon Monarchy. The Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona, promoted by Pedro Virgili, with the previous experience he acquired at the Royal College of Surgery in Cádiz, was created with the intention of supplying the Royal Army of Spain with well-trained surgeons. The Royal College of Surgery of San Carlos in Madrid was inaugurated to use the training it offered to treat not only the military and sailors, but also the rest of the population. One of the most important figures in these institutions was Antonio Gimbernat, among others, whose life and academic career were linked to the evolution of the three Royal Colleges founded in Spain.
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Kaufman, Matthew H. "Dr David Maclagan (1785–1865): distinguished Military Surgeon, President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College Physicians of Edinburgh, founder of a medical and military dynasty." Journal of Medical Biography 14, no. 2 (May 2006): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/j.jmb.2006.05-33.
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Nott, David M. "Taking Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills to the Needy." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 94, no. 5 (May 1, 2012): 172–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363512x13311314196014.
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For the past ten years or so I have been involved with the Definitive SurgicalTrauma Skills (DSTS) course at the Royal College of Surgeons. The course was set up by Professors Jim Ryan and Peter Roberts and continued by NigelTai. I now convene the course and have also been involved in the faculty of the Military Operational SurgicalTraining (MOST) course also run at the College. MOST teaches military surgeons, anaesthetists and ancillary surgical staff before going to war, convened and orchestrated by Mark Midwinter, defence Professor of Surgery.
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Andrews, Jason David, and James Connor. "UNSW and the establishment of the Faculty of Military Studies at the Royal Military College, Duntroon: 1965-1968." History of Education Review 44, no. 2 (October 5, 2015): 153–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-04-2013-0016.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the establishment of the Faculty of Military Studies (FMS) at the Royal Military College (RMC) at Duntroon between 1965 and 1968. And, in so doing, detail the academic culture and structure of the FMS at its inception in 1968. Design/methodology/approach – Given the small body of literature on the subject, the chronology of events was developed primarily through archival research and interview transcripts, supplemented by correspondence and formal interviews with former academic staff of the FMS (UNSW HREAP A-12-44). Findings – This paper reveals the motivations for, issues encountered, and means by which UNSW’s administration under Sir Philip Baxter were willing and able to work with the Army to establish the FMS. In so doing, it reveals the FMS as a “compromise institution” in which the role of UNSW and the academic staff was to deliver a professional education subordinate to the imperatives of the RMC’s socialization and military training regime. Research limitations/implications – Primary materials were restricted to archived documentation comprised of correspondence and meeting minutes as well as a limited group of witnesses – both willing and able – to provide insight into UNSW and RMC in the mid-1960s. Originality/value – This paper presents an original account of the establishment of the FMS and the role of Sir Philip Baxter and the UNSW administration in pioneering the institutional forbearer of the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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Ledington, P. W. J. "Creating an information management perspective: The experience at the Royal Military College of Science." International Journal of Information Management 6, no. 4 (December 1986): 249–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0268-4012(86)90026-5.
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Gillespie, Greg. "Go army! beat RMC? the history of the United States military academy‐royal military college of Canada hockey rivalry." International Journal of the History of Sport 17, no. 1 (March 2000): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523360008714115.
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Wallace, Duncan, Carla Meurk, Diana McKay, Andrew Khoo, Jon Lane, and Ed Heffernan. "Keeping military in mind: The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Military and Veterans’ Mental Health Network." Australasian Psychiatry 28, no. 3 (February 12, 2020): 274–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856219895199.
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Objective: The objective of this study is to introduce The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Military and Veterans’ Mental Health Network (The Network) and profile its inaugural members. Methods: We implemented an online survey of demographic, professional and practice characteristics of network members; self-rated knowledge of military and veterans’ mental health; reasons for joining The Network; and suggestions as to how The Network could best support members’ needs. Quantitative survey responses were analysed descriptively. Qualitative responses were analysed thematically. Results: Thirty-two out of 60 network members returned the survey. The membership was predominately male and 50 years of age or older. One-half had completed their fellowship or specialty 20 or more years ago. A high level of self-rated knowledge with respect to the assessment and management of current and ex-serving military personnel was reported. Knowledge of the assessment and management of current and ex-serving emergency services personnel was lower. Conclusion: There are RANZCP members with an active interest, expertise and knowledge in the field of military, veterans’ and emergency services personnel mental health; this affirms the significant role the RANZCP can play in this area. There is a need to expand, diversify and ensure sustainability of the workforce.
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Heil, K. M., and A. Thornback. "Initial Naval Training for Medical Officers: successes and opportunities." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 105, no. 3 (2019): 198–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-105-198.
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AbstractIn 2012, the Initial Officer Training (INT(O)) pipeline for Royal Navy Medical and Dental Officers (RN MODOs) was reorganised to ensure the same key training objectives were met by all Officers in the RN. This modernisation programme was initiated by the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM) and Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), to guarantee that MOs possess the leadership and military skills required for service in the Royal Navy.This article describes the course and how it has developed over the seven years since its introduction. It aims to give an understanding of what initial MO training involves, some areas of opportunity, and intends to inform potential RN Medical Service applicants about what they can expect during initial training.
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Navarro-Loidi, Juan. "Cadet Selection for the Royal Artillery in Spain, 1764–1808." Vulcan 4, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 27–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134603-00401002.
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This article studies the selection of cadets in the Military College of Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Corps of Artillery (Colegio Militar de Caballeros Cadetes del Real Cuerpo de Artillería) of Segovia, from its opening in 1764 to the beginning of the Peninsular War in 1808. As a product of the Enlightenment, this college was concerned with excellent teaching, but it also accepted the pre-eminence of the nobility. Although its academic excellence was based on rigorous instruction in mathematics, applicants did not have to demonstrate any previous knowledge for entry. Nobility was the sole selection criterion; college admission was limited to sons of noble families, who had to provide written proof of their noble origins. As the college’s success attracted growing numbers potential candidates, selection became a serious problem. The college’s regulations gave priority to the sons of officers of artillery, but in practice, sons of the low nobility (hijosdalgo) with good contacts at court overtook the other candidates by obtaining special priority from the king. To place this question in context, the admission criteria for artillery officers in Spain before and after this period are also considered in order, as are the situation in France and England during these decades.
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Bennett, L. G. I., and P. A. Beeley. "The multi-role nature of the SLOWPOKE-2 facility at the Royal Military College of Canada." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Articles 180, no. 2 (May 1994): 339–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02035925.
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Malhan, Neeraj K., Tessa Greenslade, and Piers D. Mitchell. "George Guthrie's clinical trial at the Napoleonic War Battle of Toulouse in 1814." Journal of Medical Biography 17, no. 3 (August 2009): 139–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2009.009031.
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Summary George James Guthrie (1785–1856) was a British military surgeon who came to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–15). He wrote several books on military surgery and was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England three times. However, his most innovative and important achievement has largely gone unrecognised by modern historians. In 1814, at the battle of Toulouse in the Peninsular Campaign, he performed a landmark early trial of the treatment of musket wounds to the thigh. Here we not only discuss this clinical trial and place it in its social context, but also present the pathological skeletal specimens of two wounded British soldiers who took part in it.
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Hartley, Frank R. "The royal military college of science, a service college run in partnership with a university: Contractorization in the field of higher education." Defense Analysis 3, no. 3 (September 1987): 269–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07430178708405306.
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Stanyon, Wendy, and Daniel Desjardins. "Promoting greater mental health awareness and resilience: A successful collaboration with the Royal Military College of Canada." Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health 6, S3 (December 1, 2020): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-2020-0018.
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Dececchi, T., M. E. Timperon, and B. B. Dececchi. "An Analysis of Male/Female Academic Performance for Engineering Students at The Royal Military College of Canada." Journal of Engineering Education 85, no. 2 (April 1996): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.1996.tb00222.x.
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Croke, DavidT. "NATO-ASI on photobiological techniques, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 1–15, 1990." Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 7, no. 2-4 (November 1990): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/1011-1344(90)85173-t.
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Wawrzynczak, Edward J. "Treatment of military cases of cerebrospinal fever during WWI: the concerted efforts of the RAMC, MRC and Lister Institute to make serum therapy work." BMJ Military Health 166, no. 5 (May 23, 2019): 347–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001226.
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Cerebrospinal fever was rare in the British Army prior to World War I. An outbreak of the disease on Salisbury Plain in late 1914 posed new challenges. The War Office established the Central Cerebrospinal Fever Laboratory at the Royal Army Medical (RAM) College early in 1915 to conduct research, develop diagnostic tests and coordinate the military response. The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) set up dedicated cerebrospinal wards for the hospitalisation and treatment of patients. The new Medical Research Committee (MRC) supported bacteriological studies of epidemic strains of the meningococcus responsible for the outbreak. The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, an independent research institution, acted as a key supplier of antimeningococcus serum. The mortality of military patients during 1915 was poor because the testing infrastructure was still developing, the RAMC had limited experience of treating cases, and the therapeutic serums available at the time seemed ineffective. The survival rate of home troops improved during the war—through the concerted efforts of the RAMC, MRC and Lister Institute—due to timely diagnosis, and early, intensive and prolonged treatment with improved serums. The Official History of the War highlights subsequent trials undertaken with strain-specific MRC serums in late 1918 and 1919 but fails to acknowledge that in late 1917/early 1918 the Lister Institute supplied the RAM College with large quantities of an efficacious multivalent serum and corresponding monovalent serums that were not included in a formal trial.
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Lewis, W. J., L. G. I. Bennett, and P. Teshima. "Improving the beam quality of the neutron radiography facility using the SLOWPOKE-2 at the Royal Military College of Canada." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 377, no. 1 (July 1996): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(96)00113-1.
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Shrestha, Rabindra Man, and Asal Acharya. "An Interview with the First Orthodontist of Nepal." Orthodontic Journal of Nepal 10, no. 1 (September 4, 2020): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ojn.v10i1.31013.
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Born on July 4, 1952, Dr Shambhu Man Singh is the first orthodontist of Nepal. He completed his BDS degree from Kerala University in 1974 and D. Ortho from Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 1989. He started specialist orthodontic service in Kathmandu in 1990. He joined Nepal Army in 1977, where he served for thirty years till 2007 when he retired as a Brigadier General. Dr Singh is an Honorary and Life Member of Orthodontic & Dentofacial Orthopedic Association of Nepal. Besides his glorious involvement in military and civil health services, he is recognized as a humble and gentle person in Nepalese dentistry.
Here is an excerpt of the interview between Dr Shambhu Man Singh and the representatives of Orthodontic Journal of Nepal.
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Kelly, David G., Ron D. Weir, and Steven D. White. "An investigation of roof runoff during rain events at the Royal Military College of Canada and potential discharge to Lake Ontario." Journal of Environmental Sciences 23, no. 7 (July 2011): 1072–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1001-0742(10)60552-9.
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Mackintosh, Alan. "Warfare and the launch of medical reform in Britain, 1793–1811." Medical History 65, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 267–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.18.
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AbstractUntil the beginning of the nineteenth century, registering and regulating the training of any medical practitioners in Britain had rarely been attempted, unlike in many other European countries. During the Revolutionary War with France, fevers swept through British armies, leading to numerous fatalities and crushing military defeats, especially in the disastrous expedition to St Domingo. The problem, as forcibly advocated by Robert Jackson, the leading expert on military fevers, seemed to be poor medical care due to both lack of compulsory medical training and the unsuitability of whatever training was available for army medical practitioners. With the simultaneous rapid advance of French military and civilian medical training and the threat of a French invasion, regulating British medical training and excluding the unqualified became a military necessity, and suddenly medical reform was receiving widespread attention. Emphasising the benefits to the Britain’s fighting ability, the reform effort, led by Edward Harrison, a very provincial Lincolnshire physician, under the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal Society, gained the support of leading politicians, including three Prime Ministers. For a short time, comprehensive medical reform seemed inevitable: but the opposition of the medical corporations, especially the London College of Physicians, could not be circumvented, and although Harrison persisted in his efforts for 6 years, no legislation was achieved. Nevertheless, within months, the Association of Apothecaries continued the process by pressing for a more limited reform, culminating in the 1815 Apothecaries Act. The long march towards the full regulation of doctors in Britain was started by the perceived military needs of the country during the war with France.
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Cozzi, Enzo. "Political Theatre in Present-Day Chile: a Duality of Approaches." New Theatre Quarterly 6, no. 22 (May 1990): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x0000419x.
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In NTQ15 (1988) Catherine Boyle surveyed the paradoxically rich variety of theatrical practices that have come to life in Chile under conditions of extreme hardship since the military takeover of 1973. She concluded that ‘there is more to be said about Chilean theatre and other interpretations to be made’. The following piece puts forward one such interpretation, by examining some of those practices in terms of the larger social and political questions at stake, and by drawing theatrical and historical parallels between the work of the two most important dramatists of the period – Juan Radrigán and Marco Antonio de la Parra – and the work and thought of Piscator. This article was written well before the developments that have brought Chile to the brink of a re-establishment of some kind of democracy, with the elections of December 1989 won by the opposition to Pinochet: but it still reaches an optimistic conclusion, which we can only hope is borne out by events. Enzo Cozzi is a Chilean who came to exile in Britain in the aftermath of the military coup. He now teaches in the Department of Drama at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. University of London, and runs a puppet theatre company. Travesura, devoted to Latin American popular culture.
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Carter, G. Clifford. "North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Underwater Acoustic Data Processing, 18–29 July 1988, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84, no. 5 (November 1988): 1951. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.397121.
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Stevelink, Sharon A. M., Margaret Jones, Lisa Hull, David Pernet, Shirlee MacCrimmon, Laura Goodwin, Deirdre MacManus, et al. "Mental health outcomes at the end of the British involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: a cohort study." British Journal of Psychiatry 213, no. 6 (October 8, 2018): 690–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.175.
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BackgroundLittle is known about the prevalence of mental health outcomes in UK personnel at the end of the British involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.AimsWe examined the prevalence of mental disorders and alcohol misuse, whether this differed between serving and ex-serving regular personnel and by deployment status.MethodThis is the third phase of a military cohort study (2014–2016; n = 8093). The sample was based on participants from previous phases (2004–2006 and 2007–2009) and a new randomly selected sample of those who had joined the UK armed forces since 2009.ResultsThe prevalence was 6.2% for probable post-traumatic stress disorder, 21.9% for common mental disorders and 10.0% for alcohol misuse. Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan and a combat role during deployment were associated with significantly worse mental health outcomes and alcohol misuse in ex-serving regular personnel but not in currently serving regular personnel.ConclusionsThe findings highlight an increasing prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and a lowering prevalence of alcohol misuse compared with our previous findings and stresses the importance of continued surveillance during service and beyond.Declaration of interest:All authors are based at King's College London which, for the purpose of this study and other military-related studies, receives funding from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). S.A.M.S., M.J., L.H., D.P., S.M. and R.J.R. salaries were totally or partially paid by the UK MoD. The UK MoD provides support to the Academic Department of Military Mental Health, and the salaries of N.J., N.G. and N.T.F. are covered totally or partly by this contribution. D.Mu. is employed by Combat Stress, a national UK charity that provides clinical mental health services to veterans. D.MacM. is the lead consultant for an NHS Veteran Mental Health Service. N.G. is the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Lead for Military and Veterans’ Health, a trustee of Walking with the Wounded, and an independent director at the Forces in Mind Trust; however, he was not directed by these organisations in any way in relation to his contribution to this paper. N.J. is a full-time member of the armed forces seconded to King's College London. N.T.F. reports grants from the US Department of Defense and the UK MoD, is a trustee (unpaid) of The Warrior Programme and an independent advisor to the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD). S.W. is a trustee (unpaid) of Combat Stress and Honorary Civilian Consultant Advisor in Psychiatry for the British Army (unpaid). S.W. is affiliated to the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Emergency Preparedness and Response at King's College London in partnership with Public Health England, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and Newcastle University. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR, the Department of Health, Public Health England or the UK MoD.
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Ajpru, Haruthai, Sarayuth Junprapas, and Vacharaporn Choeisuwan. "Evaluation on Activities Conducted for the First Year Nursing Students at the Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing to Promote Discipline and Military Characteristic Development." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 116 (February 2014): 5009–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.1064.
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Mohammad, M., and J. HP Quenneville. "Bolted woodsteel and woodsteelwood connections: verification of a new design approach." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 28, no. 2 (April 1, 2001): 254–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l00-105.
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This paper covers the verification tests carried out at the Royal Military College of Canada on woodsteelwood and woodsteel bolted connections. Thirty groups of specimens were tested. Specimen configurations were selected in such a way to include fundamental brittle and ductile failure mode cases. Comparisons between experimental results and predictions from proposed equations developed from steelwoodsteel bolted connections are given. Proposed design equations were found to provide better predictions of the ultimate loads than current CSA Standard O86.1 design procedures especially for bearing. However, row shear-out predictions seem to overestimate the strength. An adjustment using the reduced (effective) thickness concept is therefore proposed. Experimental observations on specimens that failed in row shear-out indicated that shear failure occurred over a reduced thickness. Stress analysis confirms findings on the reduced thickness. The research program is described in this paper along with the results and the proposed design equations for woodsteelwood and woodsteel bolted connections loaded parallel-to-grain.Key words: woodsteelwood, woodsteel, bolt, connection, strength, failure, design, thickness.
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Akhras, Georges, Stephen Gibson, Stephen Yang, and Richard Morchat. "Ultimate strength of a box girder simulating the hull of a ship." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 25, no. 5 (October 1, 1998): 829–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l98-017.
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An important feature of ship design is the ability to describe the structural behaviour of the hull and to accurately predict its ultimate strength. Research on the ultimate strength of hulls has been carried out by many experimental research groups. Recently, the consensus reached is to simulate the behaviour of the hull by loading a box girder up to its ultimate strength. A box girder was tested at the Royal Military College of Canada. The objective of this experiment is to study the structural behaviour and compare the experimental results with the predictions of two computer codes. The construction of the model follows typical hull construction methods. The girder was subjected to pure bending until failure occurred. Provisions were taken so that collapse would occur due to buckling and not to plastic failure. Residual stresses and initial geometrical imperfections were measured and considered in the analysis. In previous publications, details of the design, fabrication, and loading were presented. In this paper, the experimental results are described and discussed.Key words: box girder, ship's hull, bending, ultimate strength, residual strength, residual stresses, initial imperfections.
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Rose, Edward. "British pioneers of the geology of Gibraltar, Part 3: E. B. Bailey and Royal Engineers 1943 to 1953." Earth Sciences History 33, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 294–332. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.33.2.41034242256m4671.
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Edward Battersby Bailey (1881-1965), Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, visited the 6-km2 Gibraltar peninsula twice in 1943, in transit from/to England and the Mediterranean island of Malta. He spent only five days in total on Gibraltar, but submitted two influential reports to its Fortress Headquarters, guided by rock features exposed by recent quarrying. On his recommendation, a deep borehole was drilled below the northern isthmus in an attempt to locate a supposed aquifer in Cenozoic sandstones believed to extend south from Spain, and A. L. Greig (a graduate of Imperial College, London, serving locally in the ranks of the Royal Engineers) prepared a new geological map (at 1:5,280) and a report to help guide tunnel excavation within the bedrock. Between 1945 and 1948, Lieutenant (later Captain) G. B. Alexander (a graduate of the University of Cambridge also serving in the Royal Engineers) generated a much more detailed map (at 1:2,500) of the bedrock plus superficial deposits, together with associated diagrams and geotechnical reports. These unpublished documents, and fossils collected during their preparation, influenced a re-interpretation of Gibraltar (as the remnant of an overturned limb of a klippe of Early Jurassic dolomitic limestone thrust into position during the Betic-Rif Orogeny), published by Bailey in 1953. A report to accompany Alexander's map was never completed, but documents constituting the most complete record known of his Gibraltar work are now preserved within the archives of the British Geological Survey. Reserve army officers later compiled a geological map of Gibraltar (at 1:10,000) published by the Royal Engineers in 1991. Thereafter, as garrison strength became greatly reduced, work under military auspices was increasingly superseded by civilian research.
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Rook, J. C., K. P. Weber, and E. C. Corcoran. "Advanced MCNP Simulation of the Neutron and Photon Flux and Absorbed Dose Rates for the SLOWPOKE-2 Nuclear Reactor at the Royal Military College of Canada." Nuclear Technology 206, no. 12 (March 10, 2020): 1861–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1720557.
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Antonacopoulou, Elena P., Christian Moldjord, Trygve J. Steiro, and Christina Stokkeland. "The New Learning Organisation: PART II - Lessons from the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy." Learning Organization 27, no. 2 (January 12, 2019): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-10-2018-0160.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper – PART II – is to present the lived experiences of Sensuous Organisational Learning drawn from the educational practices and learning culture of the Norwegian Defence University College, Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy’s (RNoAFA) approach to growing (Military) leaders. Design/methodology/approach The paper reflects the co-creation of actionable knowledge between military officers, academics at the RNoAFA and international scholars engaged as research collaborators. The objective is to present the benefits of “practising knowing through dialogical exchange” (MacIntosh et al., 2012) as an approach to co-creating knowledge for responsible action. In this case, the authors present the conceptualisation and illustration of the idea of the New Learning Organisation they advance. Findings The Sensuous Organisational Learning – 8As framework explains how Attentiveness, Alertness, Awareness, Appreciation, Anticipation, Alignment, Activation and Agility form an integral part of the educational strategy that enables the RNoAFA to respond to the wider Educational Reforms and Modernisation programme of Norwegian Defence. The RNoAFA is presented as an illustration of how the New Learning Organisation serves the common good if Institutional Reflexivity and High Agility Organising were key aspects of the Learning Leadership it fosters. Research limitations/implications Consistent with MacIntosh et al.’s (2012) dialogical exchanges the authors present the relational and intersubjective nature of meaningful dialogue between the co-authors that provides scope for integrative stories of practice. The resulting illustrative example of the New Learning Organisation, is an account of the learning experienced. Hence, this paper is presented neither as a traditional empirical paper nor as a self-disclosing or even auto-ethnographic account. Instead, it is one of a series of research outputs from innovative research collaboration between the authors all committed to “practising knowing”. Practical implications The New Learning Organisation promoted here focuses on responsible action to serve the common good. Investing in Institutional Reflexivity becomes critical in continuing to broaden the ways of being and becoming. As individuals, communities and organisations, that comprise the institution (in this case Norwegian Defence) grow and elevate their practical judgements to serve the common good the capacity to engage in reflexive critique heightens organisational agility and leadership. Social implications Embedding care as the essence of learning not only enables accepting mistakes and owning up to these mistakes, but reinforcing the strength of character in doing so demonstrating what it means to be resilient, flexible and ready to respond to the VUCA. This is what permits High Agility Organising to foster learning on an ongoing basis driving the commitment to continually renew operational and professional practices. By focussing on how the common good can be better served, the New Learning Organisation cares to pursue the higher purpose that social actions must serve. Originality/value Advancing leadership as a personal, relational and organisational quality supported by an orientation towards practising goes beyond single, double and triple loop learning. In doing so, the Learning Leadership that drives the New Learning Organisation energises Attentiveness, Alertness, Awareness, Appreciation, Anticipation, Alignment, Activation and Agility. This paper marks a new chapter in Organisational Learning research and practice by demonstrating the value of sensuousness as a foundation for improving the practical judgements across professional practices.
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Tracy, Dale. "Tailor Made, Skylarking, and Making in the Humanities." University of Toronto Quarterly Forthcoming (July 16, 2021): e2021003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.91.1.003.
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Reacting to the symbolic features and historical artefacts that invite institutional self-reflection at the Royal Military College (RMC), I created a performance project leading to two storytelling events. Everyday campus life at RMC already offers opportunities for cultivating a meta-perspective—a higher-order awareness—of the institution, and the storytelling events called attention to such opportunities. I argue that, likewise, art-based projects in the humanities call attention to the creativity—the making—involved in the humanities more broadly. The first storytelling event, Tailor Made (2017), comprised stories focused on the uniform as a model and the body wearing it as an actual bearing out that model. Social and cultural life is made of the difference between models and actuals, and each story engaged the ways that rules, systems, and practices meet with individuals in hurtful, inconvenient, funny or messy ways. The second event, Skylarking (2018), included stories of the institutionally condoned pranks called “skylarks” and coincidentally occurred against the backdrop of a campus-wide punishment that elicited a skylark response. This event and its context showed that marking disruption with more disruption (marking failure with punishment and marking punishment with prank) is a recursion that invites higher-order thinking about existing orders.
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Tracy, Dale. "Tailor Made, Skylarking, and Making in the Humanities." University of Toronto Quarterly 91, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.91.1.03.
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Reacting to the symbolic features and historical artefacts that invite institutional self-reflection at the Royal Military College (RMC), I created a performance project leading to two storytelling events. Everyday campus life at RMC already offers opportunities for cultivating a meta-perspective – a higher-order awareness – of the institution, and the storytelling events called attention to such opportunities. I argue that, likewise, art-based projects in the humanities call attention to the creativity – the making – involved in the humanities more broadly. The first storytelling event, Tailor Made (2017), comprised stories focused on the uniform as a model and the body wearing it as an actual bearing out that model. Social and cultural life is made of the difference between models and actuals, and each story engaged the ways in which rules, systems, and practices meet with individuals in hurtful, inconvenient, funny, or messy ways. The second event, Skylarking (2018), included stories of the institutionally condoned pranks called “skylarks” and coincidentally occurred against the backdrop of a campus-wide punishment that elicited a skylark response. This event and its context showed that marking disruption with more disruption (marking failure with punishment and marking punishment with prank) is a recursion that invites higher-order thinking about existing orders.
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Van Der Pryt, Richard, and Ron Vincent. "A Simulation of the Reception of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Signals in Low Earth Orbit." International Journal of Navigation and Observation 2015 (August 23, 2015): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/567604.
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Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is an air traffic surveillance technology in which aircraft transmit position and identification. The development of space-based ADS-B will allow precise control of aircraft in areas that are not covered by radar, such as oceanic regions and high latitudes. The Royal Military College of Canada has developed a spaceborne ADS-B receiver scheduled to fly on the Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment-7 (CanX-7) satellite. The payload is planned to collect data over the North Atlantic region, which will then be compared to truth data provided by air traffic services. A model was created to determine power levels arriving at the satellite to provide confidence in the ADS-B receiver and antenna proposed for CanX-7. The model takes into account neutral atmosphere and ionospheric effects, aircraft-satellite geometry, and antenna radiation patterns. A simulation was run by inserting real aircraft data from the North Atlantic Track System into the model and placing the satellite at altitudes of 400, 600, and 800 km. Results of the simulation indicate that power received at the satellite, ranging between −98.5 dBm and −103 dBm for the selected altitudes, will be sufficient to successfully conduct the mission.
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Fedirko, Igor, and Nataliia Kosiuk. "Helpful Hand of a Canadian Medical Team for the Severely Wounded Ukrainian Defenders." Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology 2, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 36–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.23999/j.dtomp.2019.2.1.
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Oleh M. Antonyshyn, MD, FRCS(C) is a Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery (University of Toronto) with a subspecialty practice in craniomaxillofacial surgery. Dr. Antonyshyn established a Clinical Fellowship in Adult Craniofacial Surgery in 1993, providing post-residency specialized training in adult craniofacial surgery to candidates from Canada, the United States, Ireland, Israel and the Middle East. In 2008 he was awarded the A. Freiberg Plastic Surgery Resident Teaching Award. Also, Dr. Antonyshyn serves as: • Head, Adult Craniofacial Program (founded by Dr. Antonyshyn in 1996), Sunnybrook Hospital (Toronto, ON, Canada). • Affiliate Scientist, Physical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto, ON, Canada). • Full time clinical staff, Division of Plastic Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada). • Member, Global Advisory Board of the Advanced Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Forum. • Member, Examination Board in Plastic Surgery for the Royal College. The impact of contribution of Dr. Antonyshyn, his medical team (Fig), and a Canada-Ukrainian Foundation Mission is enormous. A lot of saved faces, given hope for a better quality of life due to novelty complex rehabilitation operations, multiple prosthesis and plenty of minor esthetic procedures for the Ukrainian defenders. The statistics of the Canadian team (doctors, medical assistants) from 2014 to 2018 is numerous, and keeps increasing. In the National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Hospital” (Kyiv, Ukraine) together with the Ukrainian team of Maxillofacial, Neurocranial, Orthopedic, and Otorhinolaryngology Departments were performed 346 consultations and 239 surgeries to the severely wounded defenders of Ukraine. Predominant amount of patients (85 percent) consists of patients with post-traumatic defects, maxillofacial deformities, cranial, and limbs` injuries. So, the grateful words for Dr. Antonyshyn and Canadian team are endless.
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Pang, Allan. "1 An evaluation of burnout amongst defence medical services anaesthesia trainees." BMJ Military Health 167, no. 4 (July 23, 2021): 222.1–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2021-stats.1.
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IntroductionMultiple studies have found burnout to be the highest amongst Anaesthetists and Intensivists. A recent report by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) in 2017 reported a burnout rate of 85% amongst anaesthetic trainees. This project aimed to evaluate following questions:What are the levels of burnout among defence anaesthetic trainees?What are the main causes of burnout among defence anaesthetic trainees?MethodsWe conducted an on-line anonymous survey across all trainees within the military anaesthesia cadre which consisted of the following sections:DemographicsOldenburg Burnout InventoryBaseline Mental Health (PHQ 9 & GAD 7)Stressors (Severity and Frequency)ResultsWhilst the burnout rate appears relatively high at 57.9%, it was comparatively lower against the RCoA report. Army (53%) and RAF (46%) trainees had similar rates of burnout whilst the Navy (76.9%) had notably a higher rate. Gender and seniority did not seem to have an effect on burnout. The findings of this study are more in line with other baseline burnout studies than the RCoA welfare report.ConclusionsThe effect of work on personal/family life and administrative burdens seem to be consistent regardless of burnout status. The perceived degree of workload and staff/resource availability appears to be discriminatory to those labelled low risk potentially mirroring the differences seen between services and highlights potential areas to modify our risk of burnout within our cadre.
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Papaeti, Anna. "Humour and the Representation of Fascism in Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg: Adorno contra Brecht and Hanns Eisler." New Theatre Quarterly 30, no. 4 (October 21, 2014): 318–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x14000669.
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Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg occupies a key but under-recognized place in debates about humour in anti-fascist art in the late 1950s and early 1960s – debates largely dominated by Theodor W. Adorno's critique of Brecht's satirical plays on the Third Reich. In this article Anna Papaeti examines the artistic strategies and reception history of Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg in the context of such debates. Focusing in particular on Eisler's musical additions for the parodic ‘higher regions’ interludes, as well as on the controversies sparked by the 1959 West German premiere, she analyzes the play's role in stimulating key debates, showing how Brecht's play and Eisler's music attain a more complex and defensible position of resistance to fascism than was allowed in Adorno's critique. Anna Papaeti has a doctorate from King's College London, has worked at the Royal Opera House, London, and as Associate Dramaturg at the Greek National Opera, Athens. Her postdoctoral research includes a DAAD fellowship on Hanns Eisler (Universität der Künste, Berlin, 2010) and a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (University of Göttingen, 2011–14) on the use of music by the Greek military junta. She has previously published in such journals as Opera Quarterly, Music and Politics, and The World of Music, and in edited scholarly volumes.
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Bathurst, Richard J., Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Dave L. Walters, Peter G. Burgess, and Tony M. Allen. "The influence of facing stiffness on the performance of two geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls." Canadian Geotechnical Journal 43, no. 12 (December 1, 2006): 1225–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/t06-076.
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Current limit equilibrium-based design methods for the internal stability design of geosynthetic reinforced soil walls in North America are based on the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Simplified Method. A deficiency of this approach is that the influence of the facing type on reinforcement loads is not considered. This paper reports the results of two instrumented full-scale walls constructed in a large test facility at the Royal Military College of Canada. The walls were nominally identical except one wall was constructed with a stiff face and the other with a flexible wrapped face. The peak reinforcement loads in the flexible wall were about three and a half times greater than the stiff-face wall at the end of construction and about two times greater at the end of surcharging. The stiff-face wall analysis using the Simplified Method gave a maximum reinforcement load value that was one and a half times greater than the measured value at the end of construction. Furthermore, the surcharge pressure required to reach the creep-limited strength of the reinforcement was about two times greater than the predicted value. The results demonstrate quantitatively that a stiff facing in a reinforced soil wall is a structural component that can lead to significant reductions in reinforcement loads compared to flexible facing systems.Key words: geosynthetics, retaining walls, reinforced soil, wrapped face, structural facings.
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Fear, Nicola T., Ruth V. Reed, Sarah Rowe, Howard Burdett, David Pernet, Alyson Mahar, Amy C. Iversen, Paul Ramchandani, Alan Stein, and Simon Wessely. "Impact of paternal deployment to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and paternal post-traumatic stress disorder on the children of military fathers." British Journal of Psychiatry 212, no. 6 (April 18, 2018): 347–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2017.16.
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BackgroundLittle is known about the social and emotional well-being of children whose fathers have been deployed to the conflicts in Iraq/Afghanistan or who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).AimsTo examine the emotional and behavioural well-being of children whose fathers are or have been in the UK armed forces, in particular the effects of paternal deployment to the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan and paternal PTSD.MethodFathers who had taken part in a large tri-service cohort and had children aged 3–16 years were asked about the emotional and behavioural well-being of their child(ren) and assessed for symptoms of PTSD via online questionnaires and telephone interview.ResultsIn total, 621 (67%) fathers participated, providing data on 1044 children. Paternal deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan was not associated with childhood emotional and behavioural difficulties. Paternal probable PTSD were associated with child hyperactivity. This finding was limited to boys and those under 11 years of age.ConclusionsThis study showed that adverse childhood emotional and behavioural well-being was not associated with paternal deployment but was associated with paternal probable PTSD.Declaration of interestN.T.F. is a trustee of the Warrior Programme, a charity supporting ex-service personnel and their families. She is also a member of the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD). S.W. is a trustee of Combat Stress, a charity supporting ex-service personnel and their families, and President of the Royal Society of Medicine. S.W. is partially funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Emergency Preparedness and Response at King's College London in partnership with Public Health England (PHE), in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and Newcastle University.
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Karaim, Malek, Mohamed Tamazin, and Aboelmagd Noureldin. "An Efficient Ultra-Tight GPS/RISS Integrated System for Challenging Navigation Environments." Applied Sciences 10, no. 10 (May 23, 2020): 3613. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10103613.
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides an accurate navigation solution in the open sky. However, in some environments such as urban areas or in the presence of signal jamming, GPS signals cannot be easily tracked since they could be harshly attenuated or entirely blocked. This often requires the GPS receiver to go into a signal re-acquisition phase for the corresponding satellite. To avoid the intensive computations necessary for the signal re-lock in a GPS receiver, a robust signal-tracking mechanism that can hold and/or rapidly re-lock on the signals and keep track of their dynamics becomes a necessity. This paper augments a vector-based GPS signal tracking system with a Reduced Inertial Sensor System (RISS) to produce a new ultra-tight GPS/INS integrated system that enhances receivers’ tracking robustness and sensitivity in challenging navigation environments. The introduced system is simple, efficient, reliable, yet inexpensive. To challenge the proposed method with real jamming conditions, real experiment work was conducted inside the Anechoic Chamber room at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). The Spirent GSS6700 signal simulator was used to generate GPS signals, and an INS Simulator is used for simulating the inertial measurement unit (IMU) to generate the corresponding trajectory raw data. The NEAT jammer, by NovAtel, was used to generate real jamming signals. Results show a good performance of the proposed method under real signal jamming conditions.
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Taylor, Heather, Melissa Vreugdenburg, L. Sangalli, and Ron Vincent. "RMCSat: An F10.7 Solar Flux Index CubeSat Mission." Remote Sensing 13, no. 23 (November 24, 2021): 4754. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13234754.
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The F10.7 solar flux index is a measure of microwave solar emissions at a wavelength of 10.7 cm or 2800 MHz. It is widely used in thermosphere and ionosphere models as an indicator of solar activity and is recorded at only one terrestrial observatory in Penticton, Canada during daylight hours. The lack of geographical and temporal coverage of F10.7 measurements and no external redundancy to the existing system has led to the development of the RMCSat mission, which seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of collecting microwave solar flux emissions from a space-based platform. RMCSat is the first CubeSat mission by the Royal Military College of Canada. It offers a training environment for personnel in space mission analysis and design, satellite assembly, integration and testing, and satellite operations. This paper introduces the mission concept and preliminary design of a space-based solution that captures solar density flux measurements during each orbit as the Sun passes through the boresight of the primary payload antenna. In addition to two channels recording the 2800 MHz frequency (2785 MHz and 2815 MHz), a third channel records 2695 MHz using the same calibration standard to determine if the United States Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) could be leveraged to supplement the existing F10.7 solar flux measurements and improve solar flux approximations. The RMCSat mission, satellite design, and system budgets are demonstrated here as being viable. Future design considerations pertain to the payload antennas and achievable launch orbits.
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Woledge, Roger C. "Douglas Robert Wilkie. 2 October 1922 – 21 May 1998." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 47 (January 2001): 481–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2001.0029.
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D.R. Wilkie entered University College London (UCL), which was to be his lifelong academic home, in 1940 to study medicine on the shortened wartime course. He soon showed his great academic ability and won the Rockefeller Scholarship that took him to Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, for the last year of his medical education, where he obtained his MD. He returned to University College Hospital as house physician in 1944 and, quite exceptionally, obtained his MRCP in that same academic year. The Physiology Department of UCL appointed him to an assistant lectureship in 1945 when he was 23 years old and, apart from a period of military service at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Farnborough, from 1948 to 1950, he worked there until his retirement in 1988. During the period 1951–54 he held a Locke Fellowship of The Royal Society. In 1945 A.V. Hill, F.R.S., then nearly 60, had returned to his laboratories at UCL to resume the muscle research interrupted by the war. Wilkie evidently soon fell under his spell and he took up some of Hill's lifelong interests: the mechanics of muscle, its relation to human performance and the application of thermodynamics to muscle contraction. In addition, he adopted something of Hill's style of research, characterized by the application of basic principles and measurements from physics, mathematics and chemistry to the understanding of the behaviour of human or muscle, together with ingenuity in the invention of methods. Wilkie's research work started with the application of muscle mechanics to human movement. He critically tested the current theories of muscle mechanics and then took up the question of the supply of chemical energy for muscle contraction. Through initiating collaborations he brought together the experimental study of the chemical changes in muscle with that of the output of energy as heat and as work. These experiments, along with his 1960 review (12)*, put this subject of ‘chemical energetics of muscle contraction’ back on the thermodynamic rails from which it had strayed and allowed the subject to make further progress, exposing again the limitations of the current theories. In 1969 A.F. (later Sir Andrew) Huxley, F.R.S. (P.R.S. 1980–85), head of UCL's Physiology Department, stepped aside to take a Royal Society Chair and it was natural that Wilkie, by then holder of a personal chair and a major force in medical education, should be asked to lead the department. He filled that role conscientiously for 10 years. Although his personal involvement in scientific experimentation had consequently to be reduced during this period, his interest in muscle energy supply led to a new enthusiasm: the application of magnetic resonance spectroscopy, first to the study of isolated muscles, in collaboration with G.K. Radda (F.R.S. 1980) and D.G. Gadian in Oxford, and then, with his UCL colleagues R.H.T. Edwards (Medicine), D.T. Delpy (F.R.S. 1999) (Medical Physics) and E.O.R. Reynolds (F.R.S. 1993) (Paediatrics), to the study of the brains of newborn babies. Wilkie was elected to Fellowship of The Royal Society in 1971 and to Fellowship of UCL in 1972.
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Rabbani, Khawar, Mike Daniels, Neil Walker, and Bez Shirvani. "Material Behaviour Modelling for Finite Element Vehicle Crash Simulation." Key Engineering Materials 410-411 (March 2009): 521–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.410-411.521.
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Vehicle safety has increasingly become an economical factor for vehicle manufacturers and this has become most apparent in car safety [1-4]. Manufacturers are now spending considerable resources on safety research. Government requirements on safety have compelled manufacturers to carry out considerable number of crash tests to validate the safety of their cars [6-7]. The data from these tests is important in the development of simulation models employing finite element (FE) software. Many companies predict crashworthiness using commercially available software such as PAMCARSH and LS-DYNA. These simulations are based on mathematical constitutive equations and hence any simulation created is only as representative as the constitutive equations used. This project has studied the reliability of the material models used by LS-DYNA. Material models selected for analysis are used extensively by impact simulations software and were namely: Power Law Plasticity and Cowper/Symonds. Piecewise Linear Plasticity was also selected because it is based on a true stress/strain and is expected that the simulation would be representative. The models were developed using Belytschko-Lin-Tsay shell elements and were compared with experimental tests employing uni-axial tension strips carried out on three materials – aluminium, high strength steel and mild steel. The tests were carried out using a DARTEC tensile testing machine (up to strain rate of 2.0s-1) at UCE in Birmingham. Testing for the higher strain rates (aluminium up to 269.1s-1, mild steel up to 460s-1, and high strength steel up to 456.9s-1), were carried out at The Royal Military College, Shrivenham using a ROSAND tester.