Risk management of asymmetrical hearing impairment in an armed forces population

2000 ◽  
Vol 114 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. M. Caldera ◽  
C. R. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Impairment ◽  
Management Principle ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri ◽  
The Cost

The prevalence of asymmetrical hearing impairment in the entire service population (1490 individuals) of a Royal Air Force flying station was estimated from routine audiometric testing recorded in individuals’ medical records. Criteria for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning to exclude the possibility of vestibular schwannoma were determined in accordance with the risk management principle that the cost of the screening should not exceed the value of the likely benefit. MRI scanning should be carried out in the presence of an asymmetrical sensorineural hearing impairment of (a) 15 dB or more at two adjacent frequencies, or (b) 15 dB or more averaged over 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 kHz.

The outcome of root canal treatment. A retrospective study within the armed forces (Royal Air Force)

BDJ ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 190 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Peak ◽  
S. Hayes ◽  
S. Bryant ◽  
P. Dummer
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Root Canal ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Root Canal Treatment ◽  
Royal Air Force

Aetiological Factors in Homosexuality as Seen in Royal Air Force Psychiatric Practice

1964 ◽  
Vol 110 (466) ◽  
pp. 381-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
High Incidence

I have been interested in the conflicting attitudes of the legal and psychiatric branches of the Service towards homosexuality. The legal branch sees homosexuality as a crime which still carries severe penalties. As a Service psychiatrist I have been impressed by the seemingly genuine desire to be cured shown by many homosexuals who come to me for help and I was struck by the high incidence of neurotic symptoms in them. To find out how many of the homosexuals seen by me were ill and to learn about the aetiology of homosexuality as seen in the Armed Forces I compared 50 consecutive homosexuals with 50 neurotics picked at random from my out-patients during the same period (1958–59).

Importance of an Eye Examination in Identifying the Cause of Congenital Hearing Impairment

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine W. Campbell ◽  
Robert C. Polomeno ◽  
John M. Elder ◽  
Jane Murray ◽  
Anne Altosaar
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Impairment ◽  
Hereditary Factors ◽  
Eye Examination ◽  
Congenital Hearing Impairment

The medical records of 84 children with severe-to-profound bilateral congenital sensorineural hearing loss were reviewed. Records of an eye examination were available for 64 children. In 5 patients (8% of those examined), an eye examination confirmed a previously suspected cause of deafness, and in another 5 children (8%), a diagnosis that had not been suspected was made. Congenital syndromes caused by environmental or hereditary factors, which involve sensorineural hearing impairment and abnormal eye findings, are reviewed. The importance of an eye examination for all children with congenital sensorineural hearing impairment is stressed.

LAWRENCE RICKARD WAGER (1904–1965): A DISTINGUISHED GEOLOGIST WHO HELPED TO PIONEER AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR ALLIED FORCES IN WORLD WAR II

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
EDWARD P. F. ROSE
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
World War ◽  
Skaergaard Intrusion ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT ‘Bill’ Wager, after undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer at the University of Reading in southern England in 1929. He was granted leave in the 1930s to participate in lengthy expeditions that explored the geology of Greenland, an island largely within the Arctic Circle. With friends made on those expeditions, he became in June 1940 an early recruit to the Photographic Development Unit of the Royal Air Force that pioneered the development of aerial photographic interpretation for British armed forces. He was quickly appointed to lead a ‘shift’ of interpreters. The unit moved in 1941 from Wembley in London to Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire, known as Royal Air Force Medmenham, to become the Central Interpretation Unit for Allied forces—a ‘secret’ military intelligence unit that contributed significantly to Allied victory in World War II. There Wager led one of three ‘shifts’ that carried out the ‘Second Phase’ studies in a three-phase programme of interpretation that became a standard operating procedure. Promoted in 1941 to the rank of squadron leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, he was given command of all ‘Second Phase’ work. Sent with a detachment of photographic interpreters to the Soviet Union in 1942, he was officially ‘mentioned in a Despatch’ on return to England. By the end of 1943 the Central Interpretation Unit had developed into a large organization with an experienced staff, so Wager was allowed to leave Medmenham in order to become Professor of Geology in the University of Durham. He resigned his commission in July 1944. Appointed Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford in 1950, he died prematurely from a heart attack in 1965, best remembered for his work on the igneous rocks of the Skaergaard intrusion in Greenland and an attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1933.

The Present Situation The State of Affairs in the Royal Air Force

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (663) ◽  
pp. 393-394
Author(s):  
C. T. Nance
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Line Strength ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The Past ◽  
Direct Support ◽  
The Face ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Cost

Over the past ten years the RAF has cost the country an average of some £500 m per year. Of this sum about £200 m has been spent with the aircraft and electronic industries, of which about half has been for new aircraft and weapons, the remainder being needed for spares, modifications and ground equipment. A further £200 m is expended on service and civilian manpower, the majority of whom have been employed on the maintenance of technical equipments or are needed to provide direct support for personnel so employed. Thus we have a situation where something like £200 m a year—almost half of the total budget—is spent upon maintenance.As the cost of modern weapons systems needed to achieve the necessary operational performance is increasing rapidly, the front line strength of the Royal Air Force will be weakened unless substantial savings in these maintenance costs can be made, and this in the face of increasing complexity of aircraft equipments.

scholarly journals The outcome of root canal treatment. A retrospective study within the armed forces (Royal Air Force)

BDJ ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 190 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
J D Peak ◽  
S J Hayes ◽  
S T Bryant ◽  
P M H Dummer
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Root Canal ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Root Canal Treatment ◽  
Royal Air Force

What Should the Space Force Do? Insights from Spacepower Analogies, Doctrine, and Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-180
Author(s):  
Peter L. Hays
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Separate Branch ◽  
The Right ◽  
Space Acquisition ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses opportunities and challenges facing the U.S. Space Force, a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces within the Department of the Air Force that was created in December 2019. Major initial priorities for the Space Force include developing space doctrine and incubating a space-minded culture; blunting counterspace threats; improving space acquisition; and accelerating creation of wealth in and from space. To assess the evolution of spacepower doctrine, the chapter uses Dennis Drew’s doctrine tree model and David Lupton’s four schools of thought about the strategic utility of space capabilities: sanctuary, survivability, control, and high ground. The chapter also addresses several cautions and concerns including the relatively small size of the Space Force; significant dissimilarities between creation of the U.S. Air Force in 1947 and the Space Force in 2019; unintended consequences in impeding airpower development from the United Kingdom’s creation of a relatively small and weak Royal Air Force in 1918; and potential concerns stemming from the highly politicized environment that birthed the Space Force. The chapter concludes by reminding readers that new organizations do not guarantee success and by urging application of the right lessons from past missteps.

The Design and Construction of Airfield Pavements

1952 ◽  
Vol 56 (504) ◽  
pp. 877-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Second World ◽  
Design And Construction

Before the Second World War there were few airfields in Great Britain with paved runways.The grassed flight strips of the pre-war years could carry the wheel loads of the aircraft then in use with little maintenance, other than grass cutting and rolling clinker or stone into local soft patches. From 1939 onwards, the increasing weight of aircraft, and more intensive flying, made it necessary to construct airfields with paved runways to permit operation in all weathers.From 1939 to 1945, 444 airfields were constructed with paved runways for the Royal Air Force at a cost of £200,000,000, excluding the cost of building construction. Since 1945 the emphasis has been upon airfields for civil use, and the great airfields at Idlewild, Boston, Johannesburg and London Airport have been built.

The Art of Developing Aero-Engines

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (584) ◽  
pp. 429-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Lovesey
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Aero Engine ◽  
The Government ◽  
Aero Engines ◽  
First World ◽  
Engine Development

The first ten years following the end of the First World War saw a steady “run down” in the armed forces and during this period what still existed in the field of aero-engine development was inspired, mainly, by participation in long range pioneering flights, distance records and international speed events—such as the Schneider Trophy Contest.Research and development were limited by the funds available and it was not until about 1935, when the Government decided on an “all out” policy to re-equip the Royal Air Force with equipment to match the growing aerial strength of Germany, that aero-engine development received the support it needed. It was somewhere in this period that marked the “renaissance” of the development of aero-engines.

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