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Perceived Motion Sickness And Effects On Shooting Performance Following Combat Vehicle Transportation, Joakim Dahlman, Torbjörn Falkmer, Staffan Nählinder

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

This study used a quasi-experimental, repeated measures design to study the relationship between targeting performance and perceived motion sickness following exposure to motion in a land-based transportation setting. The targeting performances of 22 basic training conscript soldiers were examined after repeatedly being transported in the vehicle. Soldiers also rated their perceived motion sickness according to subjective scales before and after the two exposures to transportation. Results showed that perceived motion sickness was correlated to perceived decrease in targeting performance, due to factors labelled as “Combined subjective symptoms”. The study supports the idea that motion sickness and its effect on performance …

Weathering The Storm: Leading Your Organization Through A Pandemic, Stephen Prior, Robert E. Armstrong, Ford Rowan, Mary Beth Hill-Harmon

Defense and Technology Papers

This document is a guide to help prepare your organization for survival during a pandemic. All organizations have their own culture and character, so no one easy-to-follow guide will provide all the answers for your specific group. Rather, this is designed to provide you with resource materials from which you may pick and choose to tailor a plan that is best suited to your circumstances.

Patient Education In Glaucoma: What Do Patients Know About Glaucoma?, Vital Paulino Costa, George L Spaeth, Maura Smith, Cordelia Uddoh, José Paulo Cabral Vasconcellos, Newton Kara-José

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

PURPOSE: To evaluate the knowledge glaucoma patients have about their disease and its treatment.

METHODS: One hundred and eighty-three patients were interviewed at the Glaucoma Service of Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia, USA, Group 1) and 100 at the Glaucoma Service of University of Campinas (Campinas, Brazil, Group 2). An informal, relaxed atmosphere was created by the interviewer before asking a list of 18 open-ended questions.

RESULTS: In Group 1, 44% of the 183 patients did not have an acceptable idea about what glaucoma is, 30% did not know the purpose of the medications they were taking, 47% were not aware …

The Hobbesian Notion Of Self-Preservation Concerning Human Behavior During An Insurgency, Raymond Millen

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Special Operations Forces A Strategic Resource: Public And Private Divides, Christopher Spearin

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Sponsorship By Executive Leaders: Perceptions And Influences On Engagement Among U.S. Air Force General Officers, Kevin Roots

Student Scholarship

Sponsorship is one of several factors that may influence career advancement into the executive level of an organization; but the concept of sponsorship is not well understood. This proposal presents an overview of the literature about sponsorship. The proposal makes distinctions between mentorship and sponsorship. It describes a qualitative research study that asks how U.S. Air Force general officers perceive and engage in sponsorship. The aim of this study is to understand how Air Force generals understand sponsorship, and whether (and how) they engage in it. A conceptual model is proposed that considers sponsors’ perceptions based on their own experiences, …

Sameness, Subordination, And Perfectionism: Toward A More Complete Theory Of Employment Discrimination Law, Kimberly A. Yuracko

San Diego Law Review

This Article focuses on two muddled and contested areas of sex discrimination case law - the first deals with sexuality and the second with gender nonconformity in the workplace. Both are areas in which courts, at times, impose significant accommodationist demands on employers in the name of Title VII's antidiscrimination mandate. Section II addresses cases in which employers attempt to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to protect customers' personal or sexual privacy or to provide customers with a particular kind of sexual titillation. As a general matter, courts permit discrimination in the first type of case - …

Reflections On Equality, Adjudication, And The Regulation Of Sexuality At Work: A Response To Kim Yuracko, Orly Lobel

San Diego Law Review

I make three observations on Yuracko's thesis to explain these ideas. First, in Part II, I argue that it is possible to explain the case law distinctions between various categories of BFOQ claims within the liberal model of antidiscrimination. Specifically, I turn to a more robust analysis of the antisubordination paradigm than Yuracko describes in her paper. I argue that we should consider the dangers of under-inclusion in one sector as the result of structural inequalities across the workforce. Because of the need to take a more macro approach in addressing the effects of discrimination on the market at large, …

Why Not Regulate Private Discrimination?, Matt Zwolinski

San Diego Law Review

In this Article I examine the disparity between attitudes toward regulating private discrimination and those concerning the regulation of what I will call "commercial" discrimination. My hope is to find a theory that can simultaneously explain these divergent attitudes by providing an account that fits the various aspects of our legal practices and our attitudes toward them, and justify those practices by providing an account that makes the divergence attractive from a moral point of view. I focus on an explanation of the disparity that is grounded in three different sorts of considerations: differences in our epistemological access to private …

Defining The Antidiscrimination Norm To Defend It, Mark Kelman

San Diego Law Review

We may mean very different things when we say that an actor (the putative defendant in a lawsuit designed to alter the behavior in which he would engage but-for legal intervention) "discriminates" against another person (the suit's putative plaintiff). Recognizing this difference is helpful because it demonstrates that we should be extremely clear in using a term that does not have a single, uncontested meaning. More importantly, it reveals why we have certain norms against private discrimination, particularly in the employment market and a subset of markets in which customers purchase goods and services.

Private Discrimination: A Prioritarian, Desert-Accommodating Account, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

San Diego Law Review

Most of us would consider a state's discrimination against its citizens-say, by refusing to hire them on account of their sex, race, religion, or ethnicity-clearly unjust, something in urgent need of rectification. Yet we often take a less censorious view of discriminatory acts by private individuals who choose not to share their neighborhood with, associate with, trade with, work with, befriend, marry, or be buried in the same graveyards as people of a different sex, race, religion, or ethnicity. On reflection, this asymmetry is puzzling. It cannot be explained by saying that state discrimination has graver consequences involving more people …

Reflections On Discrimination, Alan Wertheimer

San Diego Law Review

In the background are two claims that I want to put on the table. First, although it may be wrong for people to engage in a particular form of discrimination, it does not follow that the government should seek to prevent that discrimination. Second, although it may not be wrong for people to engage in a particular form of discrimination, it does not follow that it would be wrong for the government to seek to prevent that discrimination or to mitigate its effects. The wrongness of individual behavior is obviously related to the justifiability of state action, but the correlation …

Left Libertarianism: What's In It For Me?, H. E. Baber

San Diego Law Review

Left libertarianism cannot effectively promote equal opportunity for well-being. Neither direct distributions from the rent fund nor financial incentives for firms will significantly reduce gross, ongoing discrimination which locks most women into a narrow range of boring, dead-end, pink collar drudge jobs and puts minorities at a disadvantage in hiring, housing, and access to credit. Left libertarianism: What's in it for me? Not much.

Protecting The Most Vulnerable Victims: Prosecution Of Child Sex Offenses In Illinois Post Crawford V. Washington, Jennifer A. Lindt

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Comment examines the prosecution of pedophiles in Illinois after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Crawford v. Washington. The prosecution of pedophiles had frequently involved the use of extra judicial statements by victims to protect them from re-victimization after testifying at trial. The ability to use a statutorily mandated hearsay exception has been in question and is directly linked to the definition of the term "testimonial. " The author provides a test to determine whether the out of court statements by pedophilia victims are "testimonial" to make this tool for protecting the victims still viable.

Religion In The New Republic, Richard Albert

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Faith On Relational Thought , Martin J. Buss

Consensus

Paper presented at the conf "Faith, freedom and the academy: the idea of the university in the 21st century," Univ of Prince Edward Island, O 1-3 2004.

The Designed Object That We Know And See, D. M. Büchler, M. A. R Biggs

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses perception of the designed object and how our knowledge impacts on our visual perception of that designed object. It expands on the notion of interpretation both in the context of material culture and in the context of psychology. It explains how the approach to interpretation in both disciplines relies on an active observer/perceiver. The issue of perception of the designed object is approached using the theories of the perceptual psychologist Richard L. Gregory. His work is shown to be especially relevant because there is a degree of commonality between his view of interpretation and that of material …

Research Design In Design Research: A Practical Framework To Develop Theory From Case Studies, S Roworth-Stokes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Case studies have for a long time been used in design research to provide ‘rich’ insight into successful or unsuccessful new product innovation. As a methodology it has often been cited as useful to derive site specific contexts where phenomena can be observed and reported by respondents in their working environment. Yet, in practice, the primary advantage of the design case study, its ability to reveal insight into ‘real-life’ contemporary phenomena (the here and now), set against a backdrop of critical incidents, happenings or events over time (temporality), often become it’s weakness in achieving valid and credible findings. Essentially it …

Design For Dynamic Use Situations, First Steps In The Development Of A Design Method That Supports Designing For Dynamic Use Situations, M. Brouwer, M.C. Van Der Voort

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Products that are used in a dynamic situation are difficult to design with regard to usability. A dynamic use situation is a situation in which a product is used by various people, with different goals and/ or in different contexts of use. Since the use situation influences a product’s usability, a dynamic use situation can complicate the design process. We therefore propose to develop a new method to support the designer in dealing with dynamic use situations. The first step in this process is the definition of criteria for this design method. We distinguish criteria that concern analysis and evaluation …

How Can Stories Get Translated Into Future Artefacts?, Bo Westerlund

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses a workshop method suitable for use in projects with a participatory design approach. Participatory design is sometimes criticised for focussing too much on what users say. The method described here takes that into account by having users not only talk, but also do acting and make lo-fi prototypes. The method has been used in several different projects. The structure of the workshops is designed to enable the participants to express themselves by saying, doing and making. People express different aspects through different channels and by enabling people to express themselves not only by talking but also by …

Referencing The Sociocultural During Designing, Mk Strickfaden, P Rodgers, P Langdon

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The development of an artefact is inherently bound up with meanings, relationships, and value systems relative to the individuals creating them, and to the context of their immediate and external environments. This paper begins to explore the sociocultural affects on the design process through two field studies within two industrial design education studios. Two separate design groups and projects are followed for extended periods of time in order to collect naturally occurring ‘references’. These are analyzed revealing central themes and categories that are presented here as indicators of the varying context of artefact design. In doing so, a model called …

What We Don't Know Can Help Us: Eliciting Out-Of-Discipline Knowledge For Work With Intractable Conflicts, Jennifer Goldman, Peter T. Coleman

Peace and Conflict Studies

In this article, the authors present the results of a study in which a diverse variety of experts in fields outside the traditional conflict domain were interviewed about their ideas regarding intractable conflicts. The purpose of this study was to gather frame-breaking insights and practical approaches that could shed new light on complex, persistent conflict that has been particularly resistant to resolution. The authors argue that outsiders to the field are more likely to provide fresh perspective and radical approaches to the conflict field’s most intransigent problems because they are not constrained by the field’s pre-existing normative frames. This article …

Child Physical Abuse And Neglect, David K. Dilillo, Andrea R. Perry, Michelle Fortier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Although poor and inhumane treatment of children is not a new phenomenon (Doerner & Lab, 1998; Wolfe, 1999), child physical abuse and neglect were not identified as serious social problems until the 1960s, with the publication of Kempe and colleagues’ description of battered-child syndrome (Kempe, Silverman, Steele, Droegemueller, & Silver, 1962). In this influential study, Kempe and colleagues described the clinical manifestation of this syndrome in terms of the deleterious physical consequences maltreated children experienced, ranging from undetected outcomes to those that cause significant physical impairments. Rather than exploring the potential psychological sequelae of maltreated children, Kempe focused on detailing …

The Cognitive Psychology Of Circumstantial Evidence, Kevin Jon Heller

Michigan Law Review

Empirical research indicates that jurors routinely undervalue circumstantial evidence (DNA, fingerprints, and the like) and overvalue direct evidence (eyewitness identifications and confessions) when making verdict choices, even though false-conviction statistics indicate that the former is normally more probative and more reliable than the latter The traditional explanation of this paradox, based on the probability-threshold model of jury decision-making, is that jurors simply do not understand circumstantial evidence and thus routinely underestimate its effect on the objective probability of the defendant's guilt. That may be true in some situations, but it fails to account for what is known in cognitive psychology …

"Eggshell" Victims, Private Precautions, And The Societal Benefits Of Shifting Crime, Robert A. Mikos

Michigan Law Review

Individuals spend billions of dollars every year on precautions to protect themselves from crime. Yet the legal academy has criticized many private precautions because they merely shift crime onto other, less guarded citizens, rather than reduce crime. The conventional wisdom likens such precaution-taking to rent-seeking: citizens spend resources to shift crime losses onto other victims, without reducing the size of those losses to society. The result is an unambiguous reduction in social welfare. This Article argues that the conventional wisdom is flawed because it overlooks how the law systematically understates the harms suffered by some victims of crime, first, by …

Storming The Ivory Tower: The Military’S Return To American Campuses, Marc Lindemann

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Review Essays: The Quranic Concept Of War, Joseph C. Myers

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of Training In Iraqi Force Development, Gary Felicetti

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Defining Health And Health-Related Behaviors Following A Near-Death Experience, Suzanne C. Robertson Phd

Dissertations

While broad categories of health and influences on definitions of health have been identified, the process through which adults define and re-define health has not been researched. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of defining health and appropriate health-related behaviors following a near-death experience (NDE) as an adult and to articulate a grounded theory of decision-making. Five men and 15 women from the United States and United Kingdom were interviewed and the data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. The basic social process was I Still Had to Go Through the Process of Understanding. Understanding …