The Military Recruitment Target Population

2014 ◽  
pp. 125-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenke Apt
Keyword(s):  
Target Population ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
The Military ◽  
Recruitment Target

Consideration of Demographics and Variance in Regression Approaches to Estimating Body Dimensions for Spatial Analysis of Design

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal Nadadur ◽  
Matthew B. Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Residual Variance ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Target User ◽  
Digital Human Models ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Marginal Improvement ◽  
The Military ◽  
Digital Human

A common objective in designing for human variability is to consider the variability in body size and shape of the target user population. Since anthropometric data specific to the user population of interest are seldom available, the variability is approximated. This is done in a number of ways, including the use of data from populations that are well-documented (e.g., the military), proportionality constants, and digital human models. These approaches have specific limitations, including a failure to consider the effects of lifestyle and demography, resulting in products, tasks, and environments that are inappropriately sized for the actual user population, causing problems with safety, fit, and performance. This paper explores a regression-based approach in a context where the demographic distributions of descriptors (e.g., race/ethnicity, age, and fitness) are dissimilar for the database and target population. Also examined is a stratified regression model involving the development of independent anthropometry-estimation models for each racial group. When using regression with residual variance, stratification on the predictor demographics to obtain estimates of gender, stature, and BMI distributions is shown to be sufficiently robust for usual database-target population combinations. Consideration of demographic variables in development of the regression model provides marginal improvement, but could be appropriate in specific situations.

scholarly journals Políticas de profissionalização do excepcional no período da ditadura militar

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Maria Edith Romano Siems-Marcondes
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Military ◽  
Education In Brazil

This paper aims to analyze the policies of professionalization and insertion in the labor market of the target population of Special Education in Brazil during the period of the Military Dictatorship (1964/1985). We investigated the professionalization policies established in the set of goals and projects of the National Center for Special Education (CENESP) and how these policies were materialized in orderly actions in the Federal Territory of Roraima, Brazil. The study is based on documentary analysis under a historical outlook, as well as interviews provided by the first teachers who dedicated themselves to the development of activities in the area. We highlight that the Territory was constituted in a field of application of the proposals and the projects according to what was recommended by national policies.

Canada’s military could face cuts after COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Budget Cuts ◽  
State Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
The Military

Significance This comes as COVID-19 has necessitated state support payments to Canadians, skewing the government’s budget and spending priorities. Canada’s military faces possible budget cuts at a time when Ottawa is attempting to modernise the military and maintain commitments to allies. Impacts Canada’s military will struggle to modernise its equipment, much of which is becoming outdated. Military recruitment and morale could be negatively affected by budget cuts. Further COVID-19 spikes would further strain Canada’s budget and increase its deficit. The military will be used to support the government’s COVID-19 management.

We Were Beautiful Gods

Max Eastman ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Irmscher
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
Personal Risk ◽  
Recruitment Effort ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Military

This chapter is devoted to Max Eastman’s tempestuous relationship with the radical actress Florence Deshon (Florence Danks, 1893–1922). On behalf of the People’s Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace, Max lectures at great personal risk to large audiences across the nation against American involvement in World War I. Along with fellow contributors to The Masses, he survives two trials for obstructing the military recruitment effort and founds The Liberator, with Crystal as co-editor. He pays tribute to Deshon in a second volume of poetry, Colors of Life (1918), lives with her in Croton, and, after her move to Hollywood, bombards her with love letters. During a visit he introduces her to Charlie Chaplin as well as to Margrethe Mather, who takes significant photographs of Deshon and Max. Florence has an affair with Chaplin, while Max takes up with the dancer Lisa Duncan. Frustrated with Hollywood and Max, Deshon returns to New York, where she dies, likely by her own hand, on February 4, 1922. Max’s book on The Sense of Humor is dedicated to Deshon and evokes her memorable smile.

scholarly journals Review: Screening for vulnerability to psychological disorders in the military: an historical survey

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Jones ◽  
K C Hyams ◽  
S Wessely
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Populations ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Military

Objectives: To evaluate attempts in the military to screen for vulnerability to psychological disorders from World War I to the present. Methods: An extensive literature review was conducted by hand-searching leading medical and psychological journals relating to World Wars I and II. Recent publications were surveyed electronically and UK archives investigated for British applications. Results: Despite the optimism shown in World War I and the concerted efforts of World War II, followup studies showed that screening programmes did not succeed in reducing the incidence of psychological casualties. Furthermore, they had a counter-productive effect on manpower, often rejecting men who would have made good soldiers. Continued experimentation with screening methods for psychiatric vulnerability failed to yield convincing results during the post-war period. Conclusions: Although well-measured variables, such as intelligence, have been shown to predict success in training and aptitude, no instrument has yet been identified which can accurately assess psychological vulnerability. Previous attempts have failed because of false-positives, false-negatives and reluctance in the target population because of stigma. Early findings suggest that psychological surveillance, if not screening, may yield valuable results when applied to military populations exposed to stress.

Military culture and sexual issues: The sex-stress phenomenon

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S590-S590
Author(s):  
L. French
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Military Population ◽  
Sex Abuse ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Military Cultures ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

IntroductionSex abuse within the military has long been an open-secret afflicting both male and female veterans whose etiology is often attributed to character deficits (personality disorders or paraphilic disorders). Few studies look at the sex-stress phenomenon as a feature of military life itself and the role this plays in sex abuse within the military milieu. While much attention is focused on US forces, this problem in endemic within military cultures per se. The recent sex abuse scandal involving the French military in the Central African Republic illustrates the pervasiveness of the problem.Objectives/aimsTo explore the psycho-cultural mechanisms of stress and its sexual expression and how certain scenarios within the military milieu exacerbates this impulse-control reaction. To address the relationship of the availability of sex-release options – without and/or without the military population (and how increased enlistment of women has changed the nature of the target population in today's military).MethodsLook at the problem historically (from WWII – present) with particular illustrations. Evaluate common (often failed) approaches to addressing the problem, including the fallacy that superior officer know best how to handle these cases. Explain the psycho/physiology of the sex-stress phenomenon – mechanism of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-gonad axis. Look at the relationship between sex-trauma and suicides among veterans.Results/conclusionsOffer a viable assessment/diagnostic of sexual problems within the military culture along with a treatment model that offers both psychotherapeutic (cognitive-behavioral protocols…) as well as identifying acute clinical symptoms that may respond to psychotropic medications.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Teaching acronyms to the military: A paper-based DDL approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Yolanda Noguera-Díaz ◽  
Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Target Population ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Active Learner ◽  
The Military

This research investigates the use of Data-driven learning (DDL) tasks in the teaching and learning of acronyms in a specialised corpus. Our target population is professional military staff (n=16). The researchers collected and analysed the Salvage and Rescue of Submarines Corpus (SAR) where the patterning of acronyms, neglected in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), plays a substantial role. Using a mixed-methods methodology, this research looked at the students’ interaction with DDL, as well as at the subsequent interviews with the students. Deductive and inductive paper-based DDL tasks with concordance lines of acronyms were used with two groups of students of different rank. Both groups found the tasks challenging and showed mixed reactions towards concordance lines. While there has been a much-needed emphasis on tools and corpus methods training in DDL, we suggest that conversations with adult, professional students about the nature of instructed language learning and language patterning are absolutely essential to promote a more active learner role in DDL approaches.

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