Behavioral Science in the Army: A Corporate History of the Army Research Institute

The United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 1, 2011. This article reviews its history, evolution, and transition of its research programs as well as its scientific and military accomplishments, emphasizing the past 25 yr. During the 1990s, USARIEM published a series of pocket guides providing guidance for sustaining Warfighter health and performance in Southwest Asia, Somalia, the former Republic of Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Haiti. Issues identified during Operation Desert Storm elicited research that improved nutritional guidelines for protracted desert operations; safer use of nuclear, chemical, and biological protective clothing; equipment, development, and fielding of efficient microclimate cooling systems; and effective evaluation of pharmaceuticals to protect soldiers from chemical and biological threats. During the first decade of the 21st century, USARIEM and the Department of the Army published official medical/performance doctrines for operations in the heat and cold and at high altitude. The current Global War on Terrorism focused research to improve doctrines for hot, cold, and high-altitude operations, reduce musculoskeletal training injuries, provide improved field nutrition, more efficient planning for operational water requirements, and improve both military clothing and materiel. This article also describes the critically important interactions and communications between USARIEM and deployed units and the benefits to Warfighters from this association. This report presents USARIEM's unique and world-class facilities, organizational changes, scientific and support personnel, and major research accomplishments, including the publication of 2,200 scientific papers over the past 25 yr.

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TRADITIONAL CRAFTS OF DAGESTAN AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ART INDUSTRY

Herald of the G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art ◽

10.31029/vestiyali26/10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 68-76

Author(s):

Amirbek Dzhalilovich Magomedov

Keyword(s):

Traditional Art ◽

State Institutions ◽

Applied Art ◽

International Exhibitions ◽

History Of ◽

Soviet Time ◽

Historical Culture ◽

Professional Artists ◽

Art Industry ◽

Research Institute

The article considers the history of relations of traditional art crafts of Dagestan with the Research Institute of Art Industry (RIAI). Due to its budgetary and personnel capabilities, the Institute tried to support the art crafts of Dagestan until the late 1980s. Since 1979, the Mahachkalinsky branch of RIAI has been working here. Artists, scientific employees of the Institute helped masters in search of prospective assortment for crafts, taught them skills to study the history of crafts, revival of traditions. The most significant role in such cooperation was played by scientific employees of the Institute: E. M. Shilling, E. M. Kilchevskaya, T. M. Razin, D. A. Chirkov, etc. Important for the crafts of the region was the assistance of the artists of the Institute in the execution of samples for introduction into serial production, the production of exhibits for All-Russian and international exhibitions, orders of state institutions and museums related to celebrations in the country of various anniversary. This practice was common for art artels, state mills of the Soviet time. Working with the artists of RIAI masters of Dagestan learned to draw up (drawings with pencil, Indian ink), compositions of patterns, to drafts of products, and also to collect field material on historical culture of crafts, to work as professional artists of applied art.

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Relationship between life of mate butterflies and leading selection characteristics

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202124402028 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 244 ◽

pp. 02028

Author(s):

U. Khudayberdieva ◽

S. Navruzov ◽

N. Rajabov ◽

O. Karimov ◽

K.H. Fozilova

Keyword(s):

Life Expectancy ◽

National Economy ◽

Economic Value ◽

Breeding Work ◽

Coefficient Of Variability ◽

History Of ◽

The Republic ◽

Selection Work ◽

Research Institute

This article examines the history of silkworm breeding, the role of silkworm breeding in the national economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the role of silkworm breeding in the development of the industry. This is because the interrelationship of traits of economic value is of great importance in selection and breeding work. The experiments were conducted in 2015-2017 at the Silk Research Institute of Uzbekistan. The life expectancy of the experimental butterflies was 10.9-12.8 days and the variability was 33.9-56.6%. The coefficient of variability indicates the degree of diversity in the population on this trait. Thus, it is clear from the results that the population of “Marvarid” and “Liniya 27” has the ability to carry out selection work on the sign of life expectancy of female butterflies.

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Memory in health and in schizophrenia

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience ◽

10.31887/dcns.2013.15.4/rgur ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 399-410 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Social Cognition ◽

Episodic Memory ◽

Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

Negative Symptoms ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Present Evidence ◽

Memory Processing ◽

Flat Affect ◽

History Of

Memory is an important capacity needed for survival in a changing environment, and its principles are shared across species. These principles have been studied since the inception of behavioral science, and more recently neuroscience has helped understand brain systems and mechanisms responsible for enabling aspects of memory. Here we outline the history of work on memory and its neural underpinning, and describe the major dimensions of memory processing that have been evaluated by cognitive neuroscience, focusing on episodic memory. We present evidence in healthy populations for sex differences-females outperforming in verbal and face memory, and age effects-slowed memory processes with age. We then describe deficits associated with schizophrenia. Impairment in schizophrenia is more severe in patients with negative symptoms-especially flat affect-who also show deficits in measures of social cognition. This evidence implicates medial temporal and frontal regions in schizophrenia.

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Analysis of the survival rate of world hop varieties (Humulus lupulus L.) in the collection of the Chuvash Research Institute of Agriculture

10.26897/978-5-9675-1855-3-2021-103 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yu.S. Osipova ◽

Keyword(s):

Survival Rate ◽

Genetic Resources ◽

Plant Genetic Resources ◽

Humulus Lupulus ◽

Humulus Lupulus L ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

National Programs ◽

Research Institute

The article presents the results of research of hop varieties collected from various hop-producing countries of the world in order to preserve the genetic resources of this crop. The history of the development of the bioresource genetic collection of common hops (Humulus lupulus L.) is described. In Chuvashia in 1980, work began on the collection and creation of a collection of hops. In many countries of the world, national programs are being developed for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources, including hops.

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