Research on PTSD prevalence in OEF/OIF Veterans: expanding investigation of demographic variables by Lynnette A. Averill, CJ Eubanks Fleming, Pamela L. Holens, Sadie E. Larsen

“…Furthermore, given the additional risk factors for sexual minority Veterans to be exposed to trauma, the 2011 repeal of the US Military “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, and the emergence of the VA as likely the largest health care provider for sexual minority Veterans, it will be critically important to study the trauma and mental health experiences of this group. …”
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A systems analysis of tactical intelligence in the US Army by Wisniewski, Jillian Marie

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Occupational skill mismatch and the consequences to employment outcomes by Mihaylova, Alexandra.

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Broad utility : architecting flexible and robust systems for a complex operational environment by Middlebrooks, Arthur James.

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Positive Effects of a Short-Term Dog-Assisted Intervention for Soldiers With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder—A Pilot Study by Andrea Beetz, Andrea Beetz, Ira Schöfmann, Roland Girgensohn, Roger Braas, Christiane Ernst

“…Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed in 3% of German and 14–16% of US military following deployment abroad. The treatment of PTSD in soldiers is often challenging and thus new, additional interventions supporting traditional trauma therapy are employed, like animal-assisted interventions (AAI). …”
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Assessing practice pattern differences in the treatment of acute low back pain in the United States Military Health System by Erich J. Dietrich, Todd Leroux, Carla F. Santiago, Melvin D. Helgeson, Patrick Richard, Tracey P. Koehlmoos

“…Abstract Background Acute low back pain is one of the most common reasons for individuals to seek medical care in the United States. The US Military Health System provides medical care to approximately 9.4 million beneficiaries annually. …”
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The cortisol awakening response in a 3 month clinical trial of service dogs for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder by Leanne O. Nieforth, Kerri E. Rodriguez, Run Zhuang, Elise A. Miller, Arman Sabbaghi, A. J. Schwichtenberg, Douglas A. Granger, Marguerite E. O’Haire

“…The aim of this short-term longitudinal study was to quantify the impact of service dogs in US military veterans with PTSD with particular attention to the cortisol awakening response. …”
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Capturing the Dynamics of Homelessness Through Ethnography and Mobile Technology: Protocol for the Development and Testing of a Smartphone Technology–Supported Intervention by Marva Foster, Gemmae M Fix, Justeen Hyde, Shawn Dunlap, Thomas H Byrne, Naomi F Sugie, Randall Kuhn, Sonya Gabrielian, Jill S Roncarati, Shibei Zhao, D Keith McInnes

“… BackgroundUS military veterans who have experienced homelessness often have high rates of housing transition. …”
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Cohort profile of the PRoteomic Evaluation and Discovery in an IBD Cohort of Tri-service Subjects (PREDICTS) study: Rationale, organization, design, and baseline characteristics by Chad K. Porter, Mark S. Riddle, Ramiro L. Gutierrez, Fred Princen, Rick Strauss, Shannon E. Telesco, Joana Torres, Rok Seon Choung, Renee M. Laird, Francisco Leon, Jean-Frédéric Colombel, Joseph A. Murray

“…Participants: A retrospective cohort of 1000 UC and 1000 CD cases with 500 matched controls was drawn from an active duty US military personnel population with relevant inclusion criteria with three associated pre-disease and a single disease-associated archived serum samples. …”
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The 8 January 2020 theatre ballistic missile attack on US soldiers stationed at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq: case series using a concussion subtypes framework to approach a real-world,... by Alan Johnson, Jeffrey Brian Hainsworth, Shana Godfred-Cato, George J Smolinski, Kendra Jorgensen-Wagers

“…We provide feedback from using the US military’s standard acute concussion screening tool, the Military Acute Concussion Examination version 2, in a deployed, chaotic, real-world environment.Background Iran launched 27 professionally manufactured TBMs into Iraq on 8 January 2020. …”
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Description of trauma among French service members in the Department of Defense Trauma Registry: understanding the nature of trauma and the care provided by Marc A. Schweizer, Jud C. Janak, Zsolt T. Stockinger, Tristan Monchal

“…Some French service members (SMs) were treated in US Military Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs) and were recorded in the US Department of Defense Trauma Registry (DoDTR). …”
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A Rapid and Automated Urban Boundary Extraction Method Based on Nighttime Light Data in China by Xiaojiang Liu, Xiaogang Ning, Hao Wang, Chenggang Wang, Hanchao Zhang, Jing Meng

“…Three types of nighttime light data from the DMSP/OLS (US military’s defense meteorological satellite), NPP-VIIRS (National Polar-orbiting Partnership-Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite), and Luojia1-01 data sets are selected, and the high-precision urban boundaries obtained from a high-resolution image are selected as the true value. …”
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The mental health of the UK Armed Forces: where facts meet fiction by Elizabeth J. F. Hunt, Simon Wessely, Norman Jones, Roberto J. Rona, Neil Greenberg

“…There have been growing concerns regarding mild traumatic brain injury, though this appears to be low in British troops with an overall prevalence of 4.4% in comparison with 15% in the US military. The current strategies for detection and treatment of mental health problems in British forces are also described. …”
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The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism by Aimee Bahng

“…<p>Runit Dome is an eighteen-inch thick concrete dome covering the buried nuclear waste from twenty-three atomic tests conducted by the US military in the 1940s and ’50s in Pikinni Atoll in the Marshall Islands. …”
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Development of UAV Tracing and Coordinate Detection Method Using a Dual-Axis Rotary Platform for an Anti-UAV System by Bor-Horng Sheu, Chih-Cheng Chiu, Wei-Ting Lu, Chu-I Huang, Wen-Ping Chen

“…Topics under research in relation to this include electromagnetic interference guns for UAVs, high-energy laser guns, US military net warheads, and AUDSs with net guns. However, these AUDSs use either manual aiming or expensive radar to trace drones. …”
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Automated Identification of Thermokarst Lakes Using Machine Learning in the Ice-Rich Permafrost Landscape of Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) by Lara Hughes-Allen, Frédéric Bouchard, Antoine Séjourné, Gabriel Fougeron, Emmanuel Léger

“…Mask Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) instance segmentation was used to semi-automate lake detection in Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) and declassified US military (CORONA) images (1967–2019). Using these techniques, we quantified changes in lake surface area for three different lake types (unconnected alas lake, connected alas lake, and recent thermokarst lake) since the 1960s. …”
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Veteran Interactive Cases to Reinforce Service (VICTORS): Standardized Patient Assessment of Veteran-Centered Care by Monica L. Lypson, Divy Ravindranath, Paula T. Ross, Paul Pfeiffer, Jennifer J. Griggs, Stacie Buckler, Laurie Whitman, Adam Tremblay, Saul Weiner, James T. Fitzgerald

“…Health professional educators must turn their attention to the development of patient-centered competency curricula regarding the medical care of US military veterans. Due to the limited tools focusing on veteran-centered education, we have developed and implemented these standardized patient exercises that focus on post-traumatic stress disorder and military sexual trauma. …”
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Determination of clinical and demographic predictors of laboratory-confirmed influenza with subtype analysis by Woolpert Tabitha, Brodine Stephanie, Lemus Hector, Waalen Jill, Blair Patrick, Faix Dennis

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Respiratory specimens and demographic and clinical data were obtained from 3- to 80-year-old US military family members presenting for care with influenza-like illness (ILI) from November 2007 to April 2008. …”
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Association between quantitative varicella-zoster virus antibody levels and zoster reactivation in HIV-infected persons by Heather S. Pomerantz, Xiaohe Xu, James White, T. S. Sunil, Robert G. Deiss, Anuradha Ganesan, Brian K. Agan, Jason F. Okulicz

“…Objective Since qualitative VZV antibodies can determine past VZV disease or vaccination, we evaluated whether quantitative VZV antibody levels over time can predict future zoster. Study design US Military HIV Natural History (NHS) participants with a zoster diagnosis at least 5 years after HIV diagnosis (n = 100) were included. …”
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Essay Review. The Star Gate Archives by Damien Broderick

“…Two: In 1972, three Scientologists and the brother in law of the third best chess grandmaster in history were invited by the US military to launch what would become a $19.933 million program devoted to psychic powers. …”
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