VOLLEYBALL EVOLUTION. ASPECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN VOLLEYBALL by Ioan AUGUSTIN, Andrei DRAGOMIR, Alexandru MURESAN

“…Though it appeared in the US it quickly spread worldwide due to a consistent and sustained promotion, but also brought by the US military and the First World War. Romania contributed as well to the development of the game, being a founding member of the International Federation. …”
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Human Factor Airworthiness Evaluation Method for Carrier-based Aircraft Flight Deck by SUN Shidong, HUANG Dan, MA Qinglin, QIU Chaoqun

“…In combination with the characteristics of carrier-based aircraft, the human factor airworthiness regulations, including US military standards, SAE standards, China standards and China military standards, are analyzed, and the framework of human factor criterions on flight deck airworthiness design is given. …”
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Viral gastroenteritis associated with genogroup II norovirus among U.S. military personnel in Turkey, 2009. by Salwa F Ahmed, John D Klena, Manal Mostafa, Jessica Dogantemur, Tracy Middleton, James Hanson, Peter J Sebeny

“…The present study demonstrates that multiple NoV genotypes belonging to genogroup II contributed to an acute gastroenteritis outbreak at a US military facility in Turkey that was associated with significant negative operational impact. …”
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A tale of two statues: Contemporary conflict reporting constraints and the Battle of Baghdad by Stephen Ellmers

“…Yet if the iconic moment of the Second Gulf War came when Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square was toppled, then it was at the expense of another image event which unfolded earlier a short distance away.  Because the US military’s violent destruction of the equestrian statue close to the ‘Hands of Victory’ monument better encapsulates the conflict than the sterile bloodless ‘cakewalk’ description it’s usually labelled with.  …”
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The militarization of conservation: a different perspective by P Corkeron

“…Coincident with this new reason for concern regarding elephant poaching, a US-based conservation NGO employed staff from US military intelligence to develop and run an intelligence fusion center with the Kenya Wildlife Service. …”
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When empathy predicts greater support for intergroup violence: Counter-dominance against the U.S. in Syria and Lebanon by Felicia Pratto, Shana Levin, Aleksandra Rusowicz

“…We tested the novel hypothesis that people higher in empathy might support attacking the US military to enact counter-dominance. Using random samples of 200 Syrian and 198 Lebanese residents in March, 2010, we examined whether approval of violence was predicted by empathic concern and counter-dominance orientation, and the personal values underlying each. …”
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Are the Hawks Watching Closely? Reports on China’s Military Power for the US Congress, 2001–2021 by Nenad Stekić

“…The reports’ features were then qualitatively studied through a series of global security crises, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US military retreat from Afghanistan, military alignment in the Indo-Pacific, and regional security dynamics in the Arctic. …”
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Explaining key factors and drivers of the future of Yemen by 1406 by omid voghofi, Ali Asghar Ghasemi, Ebrahim Hajiani

“…Out of 78 effective Propulsions in the future of Yemen, 20 final drivers were selected and then using the cross-matrix analysis method, five key drivers: US military intervention in Yemen, Yemen's breakdown, the failure of the revolutionary government, the establishment of a federal government in Yemen, and the positions of the world powers against Ansarullah, were identified. …”
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An Initial Report of the Antimicrobial Activities of Volatiles Produced during Rapid Volatilization of Oils by Sangeetha Ramamurthy, Jonathan Kopel, David Westenberg, Shubhender Kapila

“…Specifically, a petroleum middle distillate known as the fog oil (FO) has been used in US military battlefields to create obscurant smoke screens. …”
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Iraq and Rockffler Institution for Charity 1929 – 1944 by حيدر حميد رشيد

“…The research finds out that the view that Iraq was largely hopeful to be included in the Rockefeller Foundation for charity programs for the advancement of its own health deteriorated situation , and it seems that the global economic crisis that hit the United States of America in the thirties of the last century had the impact on the Rockefeller Foundation for charity and its preoccupation with the activities of supporting the US military in the years of World war II , as well as a the engagement of the foundation with the implementation of the Foundation charitable projects in various regions of the world has hampered the inclusion of Iraq to their programs in the health field operations.…”
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VOLLEYBALL EVOLUTION. ASPECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN VOLLEYBALL by Ioan AUGUSTIN, Andrei DRAGOMIR, Alexandru MURESAN

“…Though it appeared in the US it quickly spread worldwide due to a consistent and sustained promotion, but also brought by the US military and the First World War. Romania contributed as well to the development of the game, being a founding member of the International Federation. …”
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AMERICAN CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON: HAS DONALD TRUMP CHANGED THE DYNAMIC? by J. W. MATISEK

“…However, Trump’s  demonstration of a “hands-off” approach to national security strategy appears to have given the US military more  autonomy than is typical of most presidential administrations. …”
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Black and Korean: Racialized Development and the Korean American Subject in Korean/American Fiction by Jeehyun Lim

“…The black-Korean encounters in these texts demand a heuristic of comparative racialization that goes beyond the discussion of the black-white binary as a national construct and seeks the reification and modification of this racial frame as it travels along the routes of US military and economic incursions in the Pacific. …”
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Adjuvants in the Driver’s Seat: How Magnitude, Type, Fine Specificity and Longevity of Immune Responses Are Driven by Distinct Classes of Immune Potentiators by Elke S. Bergmann-Leitner, Wolfgang W. Leitner

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Policy of the D. Trump administration in Latin American countries: prediction and prospects by Kateryna Vakarchuk

“…Key issues of developing a common position on the crisis in Venezuela and the possibility of US military intervention on security issues, improving trade and economic cooperation and restoring democracy in Latin America. …”
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Our Friends in the South: Anti-Colonial Universalisms and Sino-Vietnamese Solidarity in the Global 1960s by Benjamin Kindler

“… In 1964, the Foreign Languages Publishing House of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam released a series of letters in English, French, Chinese and other languages as part of its campaign of international solidarity against the US military presence. These letters, having initially been published in Vietnamese for domestic consumption, collected the exchanges between resistance fighters in southern Vietnam and their lovers, friends and families in the north, offering a varied and harrowing portrayal of a protracted guerrilla struggle. …”
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Virtually Treatable: Temporalities and Encodings of Traumatic Experiences by Michael Friedman, Kathrin Friedrich

“…While the nature of Freudian trauma is temporally unpredictable, we claim that two current virtual reality (VR) technologies used by the US military promise exactly the opposite. The first, called Bravemind, offers soldiers a way to control their experienced traumas by codifying them in virtual scenarios with visual and haptic interfaces under the paradigm of virtual treatment; the second, STRIVE, prepares solders who have not yet been deployed on the battlefield for possible future traumas. …”
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Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data by Alexey Bessudnov

“…<b>Contribution</b>: This paper evaluates social inequalities in fatalities in the Russian military in Ukraine and compares these findings with research on US military casualties.…”
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The Provision of Indirect Military Support by US Administration to the Afghan Mujahideens in the 1980s by Taisiуa V. Rabush

“…The author also presents a brief overview of the main methods and means of US military aid to the Afghan rebels in the 1980s, as well as a detailed consideration of the process of providing such assistance. …”
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PENGHORMATAN PRINSIP-PRINSIP KEMANUSIAAN TERHADAP TAWANAN PERANG DALAM KONFLIK BERSENJATA MENURUT KONVENSI JENEWA III TAHUN 1949 (Studi Kasus Penyiksaan Tawanan Perang AS Di Penjar... by Danial Danial

“…This happens because of differences in the interpretation of the Articles in International Humanitarian Law so as to cause the indication practices inhumane treatment, no legal protection, not considered welfare and not related to the outside world at Guantanamo will be undertaken by the US military guards.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><em>Keywords: Respect, Humanity, Prisoner of War, Armed Conflict, Guantanamo</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>…”
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