Este trabajo pretende incidir en el tema de la lanza Castellana, realizando una propuesta sobre su origen, y poniendo de manifiesto nuestra postura ante un problema latente: la cuestión ha sido ...abordada por gran parte de la historiografía desde diversos enfoques que, lejos de despejar dudas, han generado cierta confusión. Uno de ellos es el marco temporal, pues, aunque los datos disponibles permiten establecer un ámbito cronológico concreto para la aparición de la lanza en Castilla, algunos autores han planteado ciertas hipótesis, como resultado de rastrear antecedentes semánticos en todo tipo de textos, principalmente literarios; o a través de pistas indiciarías de carácter organizativo-militar. Otra línea de investigación, también de carácter militar, ha orientado sus pesquisas a buscar equivalencias en el entorno europeo bajomedieval.
Reports and data provided by North American Treaty Organization (NATO) member States indicate a grave deficit still exists in the participation of women in the military, decision-making functions, ...military operations, humanitarian and peacekeeping missions for the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU). In a two part comparative series between women in Romania’s military and women in the United States (US) military, we will highlight the access and challenges to the military for women and the consolidated efforts to ensure integration, diversity and equal opportunity in the military. Part I: Historical Accomplishments of Military Women, provides a historical perspective of women’s roles in the military to clearly illustrate how women’s past accomplishments opened opportunities regardless of the limitations imposed. Part II***: Military Women in the 21st Century, details the progression and challenges of the military educational systems, occupation and mission opportunities available to military women throughout the 21st Century.
The shift toward using a transfusion strategy in a ratio to mimic whole blood (WB) functionality has revitalized WB as a viable option to replace severe blood loss in civilian health care. A ...military‐civilian collaboration has contributed to the reintroduction of WB at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway. WB has logistical and hemostatic advantages in both the pre‐ and in‐hospital settings where the goal is a perfectly timed balanced transfusion strategy. In this paper, we describe an event leading to activation of our emergency WB collection strategy for the first time. We evaluate the feasibility of our civilian walking blood bank (WBB) to cover the need of a massive amount of blood in an emergency situation. The challenges are discussed in relation to the different stages of the event with the recommendations for improvement in practice.
We conclude that the use of pre‐screened donors as a WBB in a civilian setting is feasible. The WBB can provide platelet containing blood components for balanced blood resuscitation in a clinically relevant time frame.
Drawing on the concept of micro-political resistance, this article presents an empirical analysis of how officers of the Finnish Defence Forces challenge, resist, and reinforce the collective ...military identities constructed within the prevailing organizational discourses. There is a need for identity work to meet the norms and ideals of the military, but individuals can also work as change agents. Micro-political resistance derives from feelings of otherness as well as conflict between the dominant organizational identities and individuals’ personal interests. This study presents a thematic discourse analysis based on texts written by 108 officers and 12 interviews on the theme of “the ideal soldier.” Three main discourses of micro-political resistance were identified: perceiving the profession of a military officer as a job like any other rather than a sacred calling, putting family first, and being oneself instead of embodying the traditional masculine ideal soldier.
This commentary discusses Michael Desch’s book The Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. Desch offers a respectable and important overview of the ...history of national security within the social sciences from World War I through current times. He focuses on the gradual irrelevancy of political science and particularly the field of international security. Desch, however, neglects the recent university activism and political narratives infusing academic writings and classroom discussions. This review argues that what contributes to the irrelevancy of social science and particularly national security is the new “cult” itself: demands placed on academia and students to become political activists, and not social scientists nor theorists who contribute rigorous academic research affecting domestic and foreign policy. It is the political advocacy narrative itself, embraced by university cultures, that pushes social science and the study of national security down the path of irrelevancy.
Organizational culture has a strong impact nature that can play an important role in internal control of employee behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational ...culture in preventing organizational behavior. The research population consisted of 500 staff members of Khatam-ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Station. 220 samples were selected using Cochran sampling formula and stratified sampling method. This research is a descriptive and correlational method. For this purpose, the required information was collected using two questionnaires of organizational culture (Denison, 2000) and Bass & Perry's Misbehavior and Aggression Questionnaire (1992). Their reliability was 81% and 76%, respectively. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation test, multivariate regression) and analyzed using SPSS software. The research hypotheses were analyzed. Analysis of the data showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational culture and organizational behavior, and organizational culture can significantly predict organizational behaviors.
Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine Welling, David R.; Ryan, James M.; Burris, David G. ...
World journal of surgery,
March 2010, Volume:
34, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The need for humanitarian assistance throughout the world is almost unlimited. Surgeons who go on humanitarian missions are definitely engaged in a noble cause. However, not infrequently, despite the ...best of intentions, errors are made in attempting to help others. The following are seven areas of concern: 1. Leaving a mess behind. 2. Failing to match technology to local needs and abilities. 3. Failing of non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) to cooperate and help each other, and and accept help from military organizations. 4. Failing to have a follow-up plan. 5. Allowing politics, training, or other distracting goals to trump service, while representing the mission as “service”. 6. Going where we are not wanted, or needed and/or being poor guests. 7. Doing the right thing for the wrong reason. The goal of this report is to discuss these potential problems, with ideas presented about how we might do humanitarian missions more effectively.
The second part in the comparative series of military women in the Romanian and United States (US) militaries, details the progressive inclusion of women in the military’s education system, ...occupation and mission opportunities, highlighting the access and challenges thereof. Part I***: Historical Accomplishments of Military Women, focused on a historical perspective to the breakdown of barriers through women’s deeds that surpassed expectations and limitation. Part II: Military Women in the 21st Century, focuses on how modern military women have further broken down existing stereotypes and misconceptions about their abilities in their fight for full integration into all aspects of the military.
This article argues that military organizations display a more rigorous form of collective sensemaking than ordinary bureaucratic organizations. Military organizing is predicated on the rigorous ...modes of thinking and acting that follow from the particular military propensity to impose order on chaos. This trait is antithetical to modern notions of “the learning organization,” in which exploring variety and experimenting and testing out unproven methods are central. We identify two sets of structural conditions that constitute the sociocognitive landscape of military organizations and discuss how the military logic of action might be enacted in different sociocultural contexts. Our framework is brought to bear on recent research on international military missions, and in the concluding section, we summarize our arguments and discuss their wider implications in terms of trade-offs between adaptability and other capabilities in the design of military forces.
Rates of completed suicide in the military have increased. Options are limited for acute relief of depression and suicidal ideation. Traditional treatments' effects take weeks to months. A novel, ...rapid, therapeutic target has emerged with the N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ketamine. Previous studies suggest that a single dose of intravenous (IV) ketamine rapidly alleviates depression and suicidality.
In this proof of concept study, an active duty convenience sample population presenting to the emergency department (ED) meeting criteria for inpatient psychiatric admission as a result of depression and suicidal thinking were randomized to receive either a subdissociative dose (0.2 mg/kg) of IV ketamine or equivalent volume of normal saline (placebo). Subjects were evaluated for symptoms throughout a 4-hour ED course, at hospital discharge, and 2 weeks postdischarge.
Methodological problems limited analyzable data to 10 subjects. Two of three who received ketamine experienced dramatic decreases in suicidality and hopelessness within 40 minutes. No such improvements were seen in any of seven controls over the 4-hour observation in the ED. At discharge from the hospital, there was no clinically significant difference. No subjects described adverse symptoms.
Despite methodology difficulties noted in this pilot study, there was statistical improvement in intervention group versus controls.
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