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Dedic, Gordana. "Soldier’s social adaptation during the military service." Vojnosanitetski pregled 61, no. 6 (2004): 637–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/vsp0406637d.
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Soldier?s social adaptation includes his interpersonal relationships with his environment integration into the military community and the ability to fulfill his role in the military environment and to function adequately outside of it. The aim of this study was to establish the dynamics of soldier?s social adaptation during the military service. The study involved soldiers of two platoons of the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro, divided into three groups according to the period of the study: after the first month, after the basic training and at the end of the military service. The instruments applied for the study were sociodemografic questionnaire and Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was done using Stident?s t-test. The results of the study that soldier's contentment with his professional role and with the quality of his interpersonal relations was highest during the basic training, but the quality of leisure activities was lowest at the end of the military service.
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Snell, Heather. "‘I Am Also Having Mother Once, and She Is Loving Me’: Reading Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation in a Post-Network Era." Adaptation 13, no. 2 (December 28, 2019): 194–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz031.
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Abstract This article examines Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation, with a special focus on the final scene, in which a counsellor is assigned to help the protagonist deal with the trauma of having been a child soldier. While the casting of a black African actor as the counsellor in Fukunaga’s film may appear to detract from the novel’s interrogation of the uneven power relations between Africa and America, an interpretation oscillating between novel and film reveals that there may be some benefits to erasing the white saviour figure from the scene. The erasure of a white American character not only redirects the focus to relations among Africans but also comments indirectly on the circulation of transnational films via streaming services such as Netflix. Reading in between adapted text and adaptation also yields some important insights about Beasts’ critical engagement with the politics of circulation, reception, and consumption of child-soldier narratives at a time when such narratives have become popular among transnational audiences.
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Sihvonen, Jukka. "Men in motion: On the third Unknown Soldier." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 59–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00038_1.
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The third adaptation of The Unknown Soldier premiered during the celebration of the centennial anniversary of Finland’s independence in 2017. The original novel by Väinö Linna was published in 1954. This article will set the story of the novel briefly in both historical and authorial contexts. Then the discussion concentrates on characteristics of spectatorship and observations about differences between the three film adaptations of the novel, the first directed by Edvin Laine (1955), the second by Rauni Mollberg (1985) and the most recent version, again some 30 years later, directed by Aku Louhimies (2017). Analysis of this film highlights differences from the earlier adaptations as well as additions and shifts in emphasis when compared to the novel, such as the role of the home front and the focus on particular characters, especially corporal Rokka.
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Schumm, Walter R., Rose E. Rice, D. Bruce Bell, and Michelle M. V. Perez. "Trends in Single Parenting in the U.S. Army." Psychological Reports 78, no. 3_suppl (June 1996): 1311–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3c.1311.
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Dramatic increases in the percentage of female soldiers, married enlisted soldiers, spouses in the labor force, female single-parent soldiers, and dual military couples have changed the demography of the Army substantially since the end of the Vietnam War and the institution of the All Volunteer Army. The presence of single-parent families has perhaps most clearly broken the traditional pattern of the unmarried male soldier led by a married male officer. This report documents the increase of single-parent families in the U.S. Army since the early 1970s and discusses what effects, if any, such changes may have had on family adaptation, retention, readiness, and use of family social-support services.
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Schumm, Walter R., Rose E. Rice, D. Bruce Bell, and Diane Sanders. "Trends in Dual Military Couples in the U.S. Army." Psychological Reports 78, no. 3_suppl (June 1996): 1287–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3c.1287.
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Dramatic percentage increases in female soldiers, married enlisted soldiers, spouses in the labor force, female single-parent soldiers, and dual military couples have changed the demography of the Army substantially since the end of the Vietnam War and the institution of the All Volunteer Army. The presence of dual-career military families is one change that has shifted the traditional pattern of the unmarried male soldier led by a married male officer. This report documents the changes in dual military families since the early 1970s in the U.S. Army and discusses what effects, if any, there may be on family adaptation, retention, readiness, and use of services and what effects current downsizing initiatives might have on the prevalence of dual military couples in the Army.
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Kollars, Nina A. "War’s Horizon: Soldier-Led Adaptation in Iraq and Vietnam." Journal of Strategic Studies 38, no. 4 (January 3, 2015): 529–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2014.971947.
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D’arcy, Geraint. "‘Essentially, another man’s woman’: Information and Gender in the Novel and Adaptations of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Adaptation 7, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 275–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu029.
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McNaughton, Douglas. "Cold War Spaces:Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyin Television and Cinema." Journal of British Cinema and Television 15, no. 3 (July 2018): 375–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0428.
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This article examines two adaptations of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: the 1979 BBC television serial and the 2011 cinema film, in order to investigate critical orthodoxies around the aesthetics of television and cinema. It examines the dialectical relationship between space and place, concluding that filming location acts as a ‘framing place’, shaping production practices and effecting a dialogic interchange between production space and narrative place. Drawing on original research interviews with production team members, it illuminates the process of production and demonstrates the interaction between material space and social space in the interaction of location and practitioners. The article concludes that the television serial's mimetic fidelity to its source novel results in a text which is at times more ‘cinematic’ than the cinema version. The cinema film features a more fully developed visual concept throughout its aesthetic, in the motifs of cages, grids and boxes. However, in its narrative compression and unsubtle use of signifiers of place, the cinema adaptation is at times less ‘cinematic’ than the television serial.
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Harahap, Zulfikar Chandra S., Elmeida Effendy, and Nazli Mahdinasari Nasution. "The Differences of Anxiety Scores in the Pangkalan-I Defense Battalion Warriors, Belawan between the Pandemic Time COVID-19 and the Normal Period Before Pandemic." Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 9, T3 (June 12, 2021): 139–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.6367.
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Background: COVID-19 has caused changes in people's living conditions and has brought harmful psychological effects such as anxiety. The military has an important role as a health service provider in particular and accelerates control in disasters such as COVID-19. Mental health in the rapid adaptation of the military is an important thing in carrying out its duties.
Objective: This study is to determine the adaptability of the Belawan Defense Marine Battalion Soldiers in dealing with situations that have never been faced before.
Methods: This study is a paired numerical comparative analytical study using a retrospective approach. By assessing the difference in the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-State (STAI-S) score and also the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait (STAI-T) score during the COVID-19 pandemic and normal conditions before the pandemic, with the study population of Marine Defense Battalion Soldiers Base- I Belawan.
Results: the median of the STAI-S score during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Belawan Defense Base-I Marine Battalion Soldier is 35 with a minimum value of 20 and a maximum value of 55. There is a significant difference between the STAI-S score during the COVID-19 pandemic and normal conditions at Belawan I-Base Defense Marine Battalion Soldiers (p <0.001). There was no significant difference between the STAI-T score between the COVID-19 pandemic and the normal condition of the Belawan I-Base Marine Defense Battalion Soldiers (p = 0.45).
Conclusion: There was a tendency for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to normal conditions in the Belawan I Base Defense Marine Battalion soldier.
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Harmon, S. Cory, Timothy V. Hoyt, Michael D. Jones, Joseph R. Etherage, and John C. Okiishi. "Postdeployment Mental Health Screening: An Application of the Soldier Adaptation Model." Military Medicine 177, no. 4 (April 2012): 366–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/milmed-d-11-00343.
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Fisher, Mark. "The Smiley Factor." Film Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2011): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2011.65.2.37.
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A review of the Tomas Alfredson film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, adapted from John le Carré's novel and starring Gary Oldman as the British spymaster. The film is compared with the 1979 BBC TV adaptation starring Alec Guinness and the character of Smiley probed.
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Miller. "Adaptation and Survival in the Civil War: The Experiences of a German American Soldier." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 113, no. 1 (2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.113.1.0007.
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Schumm, Walter R., D. Bruce Bell, and Gary Resnick. "Recent Research on Family Factors and Readiness: Implications for Military Leaders." Psychological Reports 89, no. 1 (August 2001): 153–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.153.
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Past research on the relationship between family factors and military readiness in the Army has suggested that family issues affect retention far more than readiness. New data on individual soldier readiness were analyzed to assess the relative importance of family factors (internal and external family adaptation) compared to unit readiness, longevity, rank, and gender. Family factors were significant predictors, although external family adaptation appeared to be more important than internal family adaptation. Although variables related to retention were more strongly related to family factors than our readiness variables, the differences were less substantial than those reported previously. The data seemed to suggest that reserve-component readiness might be more affected by family stress than the active component and that officer readiness might be more strongly affected by family worries than enlisted personnel readiness, but more research is needed to confirm those results.
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Saguin, Emeric, S. Keou, C. Ratnam, C. Mennessier, H. Delacour, and B. Lahutte. "Severe rhabdomyolysis induced by quetiapine and mirtazapine in a French military soldier." Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 164, no. 2 (April 9, 2018): 127–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2018-000939.
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Rhabdomyolysis is a potential complication of psychotropic drugs use and may potentially lead to life-threatening complications, such as an acute renal failure. We describe the case of a 40-year-old military soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was admitted for an adaptation of his treatment. Mirtazapine was introduced and quetiapine increased. Two days later, the patient presented with severe rhabdomyolysis syndrome. Mirtazapine administration was paused and intravenous hydration commenced. Shortly after the creatine kinase levels decreased enabling mirtazapine to be reintroduced without complication. It is our opinion that 5-hydroxytryptamine 2a serotonergic receptors inhibition (related to mirtazapine and quetiapine) associated with muscle training was responsible for inducing rhabdomyolysis. This must be kept in mind when psychotropic medications are adjusted, especially in an athletic population such as military.
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Dedic, Gordana, and Milivoj Panic. "Soldiers suicides risk factors in the Serbian Army Forces." Vojnosanitetski pregled 67, no. 7 (2010): 548–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/vsp1007548d.
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Background/Aim. Analyses of suicide risk factors enable to undertake appropriate preventive measures within the Suicide Prevention Program in Military Environment, which was fully applied in 2003 in the Serbian Army Forces. The aim of our study was to identify the most important suicide risk factors in soldiers within the period from 1998 to 2007. Methods. Analysis of suicide risk factors was carried out on the basis of data obtained by psychological suicide autopsy. The control group was matched with adapted soldiers by socio-demographic factors. A descriptive statistical analysis was used. Comparison of groups of soldiers was done by the t-test and Pearson's ?2-test. Results. A total of 35 soldiers aged 22-49 years (21.76 ? 1.76 years on average) committed suicide within the period 1999-2007, the 2/3 within, and 1/3 out of a military compound. More than one half soldiers committed suicide after transferring to a different post. Soldiers who committed suicide had come from uncompleted, dysfunctional families (p < 0.05). In comparison with the adapted soldiers, in premilitary period they had more interpersonal problems with their comrades (p < 0.001) and problems with law (p < 0.05). During military service, alcohol consumption was less presented; they used to have fewer separation problems (p < 0.05) and to be rarely awarded (p < 0.001) in comparison with the adapted soldiers. A soldier who committed suicide was emotionally and socially immature persons. The commonest motives for suicide were: decreased capacity of adaptation to military service, actual psychic disturbance, emotional interruption, fear of environment judgment, actual family problems, but in the one fifth, motive stayed unrecognized. Conclusion. Suicide risk factors in soldiers are primary in their immature personality organization, its relation with family and military environment factors which, in coexistence with actual life accidents, result in suicide as a consequence. A suicide prevention program in Serbian Army Forces should be designed to prevent multiple suicide risk factors.
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Casadei, Delia, and Rossella Carbotti. "Towards a multitudinous voice: Dario Fo's adaptation of L'Histoire du soldat." Cambridge Opera Journal 24, no. 2 (July 2012): 201–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586712000201.
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AbstractDario Fo worked with La Scala only once, in 1978–79; the occasion was an adaptation of Ramuz and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (1918). This brief, pointedly anti-operatic work connected the dissident artist and a leading cultural institution at a time when both were re-evaluating their means of addressing the public. For Fo, as well as for the Italian Left at large, 1978 marked the ten-year anniversary of the 1968 riots and a time of deep doubt about the possibility of collective political action. For La Scala, 1978 was not only the tenth year under the bold musical directorship of Claudio Abbado, but also involved celebrations of the theatre's bicentenary. In this article we weave together the Left's crisis with a close reading of Fo's adaptation, using the notion of vocal address as an interpretative linchpin. By considering the myth of Risorgimento opera as vox populi, the figure of Stravinsky's songless soldier, the sound of babbling crowds and the recorded speaking voice of Antonio Negri, we offer a new exploration of the cross section of art and left-wing politics in the Italy of 1978.
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Myles, Timothy G. "A SECOND SPECIES OF THE DRYWOOD TERMITE GENUS MARGINITERMES (ISOPTERA: KALOTERMITIDAE)." Canadian Entomologist 129, no. 4 (August 1997): 757–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent129757-4.
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AbstractA second species of the dry wood termite genus Marginitermes Krishna is described from Baja California del Sur, Mexico, and a redescription of the genus is provided. Soldier head capsules, mandibles, antennae, labra, postmenta, and pronota are illustrated for Marginitermes cactiphagus Myles sp.nov. and Marginitermes hubbardi (Banks). Both species occur in dead skeletons of columnar cacti and other wood species. Both species differ from related drywood termites in the structure of the proventricular armature, suggestive of unique adaptation for intestinal manipulation of cactus wood fibres. Marginitermes is shown to be related to a western continental subgroup of Incisitermes comprised of I. minor (Hagen), I. marginipennis (Latreille), and I. fruticavus Rust.
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Oldham, Joseph. "‘Disappointed romantics’: Troubled Heritage in the BBC's John le Carré Adaptations." Journal of British Cinema and Television 10, no. 4 (October 2013): 727–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0172.
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This article analyses three serialised adaptations of John le Carré novels produced by the BBC: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Smiley's People (1982) and A Perfect Spy (1987). It aims firstly to position them in the context of developments and trends during the period of the serials' production. It explores how, on the one hand, they were produced as variants on the classic serial model which aimed for a more contemporary focus and aesthetic in response to concurrent developments in British television drama, and on the other, how they have a complex and ambivalent relationship with the genre of television spy fiction. Secondly, this article builds upon this positioning of the serials to explore how the themes of le Carré’s novels are interpreted specifically for the television medium. Central to this is the issue of temporal displacement, as television's process of ‘working through’, often considered as characteristic of the medium's immediacy and ‘liveness’, is in this case delayed over many years by a cycle of continual adaptation. Here a particular narrative – the defection of Kim Philby in 1963 – resonates across three decades and is worked through in a variety of approaches, initially in the novels and subsequently reworked on television. It then examines how this manifests in the television adaptations in a contemporary heritage aesthetic which is complex and highly troubled.
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Lee, Young-Soo. "Polyphonic Adaptation of Double Spy Motif in Visual Contents -Focusing on the Novel and Movie ＜Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy＞." Journal of the Korea Contents Association 12, no. 7 (July 28, 2012): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/jkca.2012.12.07.029.
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Bonelli, Marco, Daniele Bruno, Matteo Brilli, Novella Gianfranceschi, Ling Tian, Gianluca Tettamanti, Silvia Caccia, and Morena Casartelli. "Black Soldier Fly Larvae Adapt to Different Food Substrates through Morphological and Functional Responses of the Midgut." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21, no. 14 (July 13, 2020): 4955. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21144955.
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Modulation of nutrient digestion and absorption is one of the post-ingestion mechanisms that guarantees the best exploitation of food resources, even when they are nutritionally poor or unbalanced, and plays a pivotal role in generalist feeders, which experience an extreme variability in diet composition. Among insects, the larvae of black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens, can grow on a wide range of feeding substrates with different nutrient content, suggesting that they can set in motion post-ingestion processes to match their nutritional requirements. In the present study we address this issue by investigating how the BSF larval midgut adapts to diets with different nutrient content. Two rearing substrates were compared: a nutritionally balanced diet for dipteran larvae and a nutritionally poor diet that mimics fruit and vegetable waste. Our data show that larval growth performance is only moderately affected by the nutritionally poor diet, while differences in the activity of digestive enzymes, midgut cell morphology, and accumulation of long-term storage molecules can be observed, indicating that diet-dependent adaptation processes in the midgut ensure the exploitation of poor substrates. Midgut transcriptome analysis of larvae reared on the two substrates showed that genes with important functions in digestion and absorption are differentially expressed, confirming the adaptability of this organ.
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Willmetts, Simon, and Christopher Moran. "Filming Treachery: British Cinema and Television's Fascination with the Cambridge Five." Journal of British Cinema and Television 10, no. 1 (January 2013): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0121.
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The article examines the cultural importance of the ‘Cambridge spies’, the infamous traitors who betrayed British secrets to the Soviets over a period of several decades. In particular, it looks at the various ‘screen fictions’ which have drew inspiration from the well-known tale of treachery, and argues the centrality of the Cambridge spies as a Cold War narrative in British culture in the second part of the twentieth century. Aspects of the story has figured in such screen dramas as Traitor (1971), Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977), Another Country (1984), and The Cambridge Spies (2003), while this article pays particular attention to the classic BBC adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), and the screen versions of Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad (1983) and A Question of Attribution (1991). The article argues the transformative effect of the narrative of the Cambridge spies on the spy genre and its centrality to a wider critical reassessment of nationalism, state power, individual identity and citizenship in the context of imperial decline in the postwar period.
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Krueger, A. "Die moderne self as toneelpop in Woyzeck on the Highveld." Literator 32, no. 2 (June 22, 2011): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v32i2.12.
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The modern self as puppet in Woyzeck on the HighveldThis article undertakes a semiotic investigation of identifications of the self in terms of a specifically South African modernism, via an exploration of an adaptation of Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck”. William Kentridge’s production of “Woyzeck on the Highveld”(1992; 2009) marks at least three intersections of modernist and modernising discourses. Firstly, it uses as its principal source Georg Büchner’s protomodernist text, with its description of an individual alienated from his social context. Secondly, in making use of the puppets of the Handspring Puppet Company for its central characters, the play employs a style commensurate with modernist aesthetics, in terms of the objectification of subjectivity and the mechanisation of the subject. Thirdly, by re-contextualising Büchner’s German soldier as an African mineworker, the production deals with aspects of modernisation by examining the clash, confusion and concomitant syncretism of rural and urban cultures. The article concludes by identifying the all too human desire to be more than a puppet, more than machine, and the potential consequences of the fragmented modernist self on conceptions of identity and freedom.
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Shkoda, Mаryana S., and Aleksandra Pečiūrienė. "CREATION OF INTERACTIVE PLATFORM FOR ATO VETERANS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING." Management 29, no. 1 (September 4, 2019): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2415-3206.2019.1.13.
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Introduction: For many demobilized ATO soldiers, the solution to the problem of unemployment is to set up and run their own business as a tool for socio-economic adaptation, since a self-fulfilling condition for returning to a full-fledged life of a Ukrainian soldier is to achieve self-realization, to obtain a stable economic income and to ensure a proper social status. in society [15]. According to research conducted within the framework of the Annual Business Climate Assessment (ABCA 2016), ATO veterans have indicated that they first and foremost need to increase their knowledge and skills in business. Most of them lack knowledge, first of all, in the field of promotion of their business, the second place is occupied with knowledge of the legal framework and taxation. This speaks to the need for additional measures, namely, it is advisable to pay attention to the introduction of on-line training for ATO veterans through interactive platforms that will allow veterans and disabled ATO, even at a distance, to fully receive qualified training and consulting services for starting own business.Today, the system of higher education institutions has the power of an on-line training system based on the use of interactive platforms, but only some of them have been documented in the military environment using this technology of training. Therefore, the task is to explore the possibility of using interactive platforms to teach the basics of ATO veterans entrepreneurship, to analyze and establish the most effective platform, which will be easy to understand and with a simple interface in the training of ATO veterans in the basics of doing business.The hypothesis. It is envisaged that the introduction of an interactive platform for training ATO veterans the basics of entrepreneurship, will allow them to solve a number of problematic situations in the process of opening their own business, familiarize with the rules of law and the tax system in Ukraine.The purpose of the article is to theoretically investigate the prospects of implementing an on-line training system for conducting training courses on the basics of doing business for demobilized ATO soldiers using an interactive training platform.The research methodology: a systematic method of comparing the features and tools of existing on-line interactive learning platforms in the world, critical thinking – to highlight the most effective interactive platform for teaching ATO veterans the basics of doing business, the method of analogy – to study the international experience of using interactive platforms the military training process.Results: It is proposed to implement an on-line training system to implement business training courses for demobilized ATO soldiers using the popular modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment. It is proved that the process of training using the interactive training platform Moodle for ATO veterans will allow them to implement the basic methodological principles. The Moodle interactive platform mandates the download of instructions for use of the software, which allows ATO veterans to effectively manage business processes. Also, the presence of training courses and constant communication with the teacher helps ATO veterans to form entrepreneurial logic - a type of thinking with which it is possible to launch your startup in the shortest possible time.Conclusions: It can be argued that the use of an interactive platform will not only simplify the process of opening its own business by ATO veterans, but also solve a number of problems related to the socio-economic and psychological adaptation of demobilized ATO soldiers to the peaceful life in the country.
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Van der Heide, M. E., J. V. Nørgaard, and R. M. Engberg. "Performance, nutrient digestibility and selected gut health parameters of broilers fed with black soldier fly, lesser mealworm and yellow mealworm." Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 7, no. 6 (September 11, 2021): 1011–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jiff2020.0150.
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of feeding three types of insect meal on broilers’ performance and selected gut health parameters. Day-old straight-run Ross 308 broilers (n=600) were group housed in 24 pens and fed diets containing 10% of either Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm, YMW), defatted Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly, BSF) or Alphitobius diaperinus (lesser mealworm, LMW), or a control (CTRL) diet for 35 days. Feed intake and gain were recorded at days 14, 28 and 35. On day 13, four broilers from each pen were placed in metabolic cages to determine apparent total tract digestibility after adaptation to 100% of one of three types of insect meal. Birds were killed, and intestinal content was collected on days 22 and 36 for determination of pH, selected groups of intestinal bacteria and short chain fatty acids (SCFA). Footpad lesions were scored on day 36. Birds fed LMW and YMW ate less than birds fed BSF or CTRL, but feed conversion ratio (FCR) was improved when birds were fed LMW. Dry matter digestibility was similar among insects, but differences were observed in ash and fat digestibility and nitrogen retention in which the BSF meal gave the highest digestibility of these nutrients. Birds fed any type of insect meal diet had higher levels of Clostridium perfringens in caecal and ileal digesta. Footpad dermatitis severity was similar between CTRL and insect-supplemented diets. Total SCFA levels as well as butyrate in digesta of birds fed BSF was lower than the levels of these SCFA in the other treatments. The propionate concentrations in caecal and ileal digesta were high for all diets containing insect meal. In conclusion, gain was maintained when feeding BSF but not LMW and YMW due to lower feed intake. Insect meal did not affect indicators of broilers’ gut health.
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SZWED, MAGDALENA, JOANNA MITRUS, and MARCIN HORBOWICZ. "Allelopathic effect of buckwheat extract for seedlings of selected weed species." Agronomy Science 74, no. 4 (January 7, 2020): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.24326/as.2019.4.6.
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The influence of 1% aqueous extract obtained from a 14-day plants of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) on weed species was evaluated. Seedling roots of wild oat (Avena fatua L.), yellow foxtail (Setaria glauca L.), barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus galli (L.) P. Beauv.), common windgrass (Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv.), catchweed bedstraw (Galium aparine L.), scentless mayweed (Matricaria inodora L), gallant soldier (Galinsoga parviflora Cav.) and tiny vetch (Vicia hirsuta L.) were exposed to buckwheat extract and compared with control plants grown in water. The obtained results show that the buckwheat extract had lower influence on the growth of shoot than on roots of the evaluated weed species. The use of buckwheat extract in the medium caused the inhibition of root growth in all species except from tiny vetch. In the case of shoot of weeds, inhibition of growth by buckwheat extract occurred only in wild oat. Whereas in yellow foxtail, scentless mayweed and tiny vetch, the stimulation of shoot growth was demonstrated. These results may indicate that the buckwheat extracts act on directly exposed tissues. A different metabolic reaction of wild oat to buckwheat extract after 5 days of exposure than after 2 days may indicate a quick adaptation of wild oat seedlings to stressful conditions.
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Nery, J., L. Gasco, S. Dabbou, and A. Schiavone. "Protein composition and digestibility of black soldier fly larvae in broiler chickens revisited according to the recent nitrogen-protein conversion ratio." Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 4, no. 3 (August 30, 2018): 171–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jiff2018.0006.
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Specific nitrogen-to-protein (N:P) conversion factors have recently been defined for processed insect meal, because the presence of non-protein nitrogen in insects leads to an overestimation of the insect protein content. The aim of this paper was, on the basis of our previous study, to recalculate the digestibility of partially or totally defatted black soldier fly (BSF; Hermetia illucens) larva meals in broiler chickens. Sixty 26-days-old Ross 308 male chickens were randomly divided into fifteen cages (5 replicates/treatment). The chickens were fed a basal diet, and two BSF larva meal diets that differed according to their fat content. The digestibility trial lasted 10 days, and it included a 6-days adaptation period and 4-days of excreta collection. Four methods were used to recalculate the crude protein (CP) content of the diet and excreta, using either the conventional 6.25 N:P conversion ratio, the mean 5.60 N:P conversion ratio proposed in literature, or the weighted average of the specific N:P conversion ratio (5.62 for BSF meal, 5.68 for corn and 5.64 for soybean meal). The data were analysed using the t-test and differences were considered significant for P<0.05. Diet CP digestibility calculated using the conventional 6.25 N:P conversion factor was slightly lower than that calculated using the weighted average 5.66 and 5.65 N:P conversion factors (P<0.005). A significantly lower diet CP digestibility was found when using the conventional 6.25 N:P conversion factors for the basal diet and excreta and the weighted average 6.09 N:P conversion factors for the insect meal diets (P<0.005). As far as the latest developments pertaining the N:P conversion ratio in processed insect meal are concerned, the mean 5.60 N:P conversion ratio seems more accurate than the conventional 6.25 one to determine the CP content in poultry diets containing insect processed meal.
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Uematsu, Keigo, Mayako Kutsukake, and Takema Fukatsu. "Water-repellent plant surface structure induced by gall-forming insects for waste management." Biology Letters 14, no. 10 (October 2018): 20180470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0470.
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Many animals and plants have evolved elaborate water-repellent microstructures on their surface, which often play important roles in their ecological adaptation. Here, we report a unique type of water-repellent structure on a plant surface, which develops as an insect-induced plant morphology in a social context. Some social aphids form galls on their host plant, in which they produce large amounts of hydrophobic wax. Excreted honeydew is coated by the powdery wax to form ‘honeydew balls’, which are actively disposed by soldier nymphs through an opening on their gall. These activities are enabled by a highly water-repellent inner gall surface, and we discovered that this surface is covered with dense trichomes that are not found on normal plant surfaces. The trichomes are coated by fine particles of the insect-produced wax, thereby realizing a high water repellency with a cooperative interaction between aphids and plants. The plant leaves on which the gall is formed often exhibit patchy areas with dense trichomes, representing an ectopic expression of the insect-induced plant morphology. In the pouch-shaped closed galls of a related social aphid species, by contrast, the inner surface was not covered with trichomes. Our findings provide a convincing example of how the extended phenotype of an animal, expressed in a plant, plays a pivotal role in maintaining sociality.
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Kulakova, N. N. "Social Role and Peculiar Features of Military Veterans Social Organizations in the Political Space of the Russian Federation . ." Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University 9, no. 3 (December 4, 2019): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2019-9-3-25-30.
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The study of the problem of the formation of the Russian civil society is accompanied both in practical and theoretical terms by a whole complex of contradictions and complexities that originate in the ambiguous history of this phenomenon and as well in its equally multivariate interpretation by the scientific community and the general public. Admitting as a fact the common weakness of Russian non-governmental relation, the author considered, practically as an exception, the work of military veteran communities as an example of the successful civil activity of the significant part of the population of the Russian state. Social, military veteran organisations act as a social institute created by the citizens apart from the state based on solidary interests of their members. At the same time, functioning as a structural element of the civil society they simultaneously represent the mechanism of political socialisation of veterans. Modern veteran organisations are founded and presented in the social and political space of Russia widely enough. It is movements, committees, unions, funds, associations. They have an extensive ramified network the local and regional levels, co-operate with similar communities in the countries of CIS and international organisations. Veteran organisations act as intermediaries between an individual and a group on the one hand and between society and the state from the other, contribute to the strengthening of the mechanism of their interaction, and form new systems of partnership. The issue of social protection and adaptation of military personnel, in particular, the combatants, will remain urgent for the Russian society in the longer term. Modern political practice, mainly counting on the military force in international affairs, promotes further growth of the number of veterans of wars and military service. Over the last few years, more than 50 thousand soldiers and officers participating in the military campaign in Syria became the members of Russian veterans. The quality of interaction of social organisations of military veterans and state structures has a determinant influence on th participation of the former soldier in socio-political processes. Today, powerful potential of these organisations, capable effectively influence state politics, is used by state structures in an insignificant degree. It can be explained by the unwillingness of the Russian elite and Russian business to interact with civil society.
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Setyaningrum, Rina Wahyu. "IHAB HASSAN POSTMODERNISM’S INDETERMINACY AND IRONY:LAURA BROWN’S INNER CONFLICT IN THE HOURS." Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics 7, no. 2 (December 23, 2020): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v7i2.14116.
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Virginia Woolf is one of the modernist writers who write Mrs. Dalloway for which Michael Cunningham has taken Virginia’s life story into his novel, The Hours that characterized Laura Brown who reads Mrs. Dalloway. Cunningham’s literary work which foregrounds the uncertainty of sexual orientation, confusion, and difficulty of identity is suitable with postmodernism’s conventions and is valid in both Woolf's and Cunningham's novels. There have been studies conducted by the scholars in terms of various technical aspects, such as narrative, design, and structure. The other topics comprise the equivalence of characters, the parallelism of scenes, and the borrowing of themes and symbolism, in order to demonstrate the effects of the adaptation process. This paper focuses on Laura Brown’s inner conflicts which are connected to postmodernism features. From the quotations in the novel, this paper showcases the novel’s analysis based on Ihab Hassan’s theory of postmodernism’s indeterminacy and irony. It is found that Laura Brown’s inner conflicts are shown from her efforts of being a good wife for Dan. She is trying hard to answer her own question whether or not she loves her husband. Ironically, the perfect status of being a wife of a soldier who takes part in winning the World War II, a woman with a perfect family, as well as a woman living a good life, do not make her happy. Mrs. Dalloway has inspired her to find her true happiness, her former self that has disappeared.
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Xiao, Lijun, Jing Han, and Jian Han. "The Adjustment of New Recruits to Military Life in the Chinese Army." Journal of Career Assessment 19, no. 4 (May 29, 2011): 392–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069072711409710.
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In this article, the authors present the findings of two studies analyzing new recruits' adjustment to army life in the Chinese military. In the first exploratory study, we developed a scale to measure new recruits' adjustment to military life, and found that new soldiers' adaptation could be divided into two distinct types: interpersonal adjustment and training adjustment. Interpersonal adjustment was a soldier’s ability to build harmonious relationships with peer soldiers, supervisors, and military officers. Training adjustment was a soldier’s ability to achieve standards of professional competence and military training. Based on the findings of this first study, the authors conducted a second study to investigate the predictive power of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) on new recruits' adjustment. The results of this longitudinal study indicated that MMPI-2 could predict the initial stages of both interpersonal and training adjustment, as well as the subsequent change rate of these two types of adjustment. Our analyses have several important implications for recruiting, selecting, and training Chinese military leaders and human resource professionals.
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Karki, Dhruba. "Blending Myth and Modernity in the Global Chinese Cinema: The Hong Kong Action Hero in Zhang Yimou-Directed Hero." Tribhuvan University Journal 32, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v32i2.24702.
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Zhang Yimou’s Hero presents an action hero, yet in a slightly different cinematic mode than that of Stephen Chow-directed Shaolin Soccer to blend myth and modernity. In Yimou’s martial arts cinema, Jet Li-starred Nameless hero uses martial arts to combat the king’s adversaries, including Donnie Yen-starred Long Sky, Maggie Cheung-starred Flying Snow and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai-starred Broken Sword in the service to the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 207 BC). The warrior hero’s indigenous body art helps the Qin Dynasty transform the smaller warring kingdoms into a powerful Chinese Empire, a strong foundation of modern China with economic and military superpower. Like their western counterparts, including T1000 and Neo, the Hong Kong action heroes, such as the warrior hero and the Qin King have been refashioned in the Hollywood controlled twentieth-century popular culture. Different from their Hollywood counterparts in actions, the Hong Kong action heroes in Hero primarily use their trained bodies and martial skills to promote the Chinese civilization, an adaptation of the Hollywood tradition of technologized machine body. Reworking of myth and archetype in Nameless’s service to the Qin Dynasty and the emperor’s mission to incept the Chinese Empire, the Hong Kong action heroes appear on screen, a blend of tradition and modernity. The film industry’s projection of the Chinese history with the legendary action heroes, including Nameless soldier and the Qin King globalizes the indigenous Chinese culture by using modern electronic digital technology, a resonance of the western technological advancement.
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Bostic, Elizabeth, Nicholas Sifer, Terry DuBois, and Christopher Bolton. "Fuel Cell Systems for the American Warfighter." Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology 1, no. 1 (March 31, 2004): 69–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.1782922.
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Power generation and energy storage devices are essential components of the operational capabilities of the modern U. S. military. They are paramount to the tactical performance of advanced electronic systems such as Night Vision Goggles, GPS systems, and laser target designators. The modern “digitized” U.S. military relies extensively on these electronic technologies and others as they are fully integrated into combat environments. However, the demand for these electronic systems, as well as new tactical capabilities, is outpacing the supply of available power and energy devices. Recent studies from Iraq show that standard military power and energy systems, such as generators and batteries, were in high demand but short supply, which often limited operational speed and capabilities. In an effort to improve upon existing military power generation and energy storage devices, the Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs) are evaluating innovative technologies such as fuel cells for military applications. A variety of programs at the U.S. ARMY Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Fuel Cell lab are serving to fill the power and energy gap for soldier-based platforms. CERDEC serves as a test, evaluation, and program management center focused on transitioning integrated systems from the labs to the users. CERDEC has adopted a “systems of systems” approach to the development and testing of military fuel cell units and strives to develop completely packaged systems in order to rapidly transition fuel cell technology into the field. This paper will address current Army Communications-Electronics Research Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) fuel cell technology programs and their adaptation into military environments.
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Viková, Martina, and Marcela Pechová. "Study of adaptive thermochromic camouflage for combat uniform." Textile Research Journal 90, no. 17-18 (March 4, 2020): 2070–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040517520910217.
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Adaptive camouflage refers to the adaptation of an object, such as a military vehicle or soldier, to its surroundings. Although the use of camouflage by military forces dates back to the First World War, this research will address the development of an adaptive color changeable system based on selected thermochromic inks following the colors used in Czech woodland and desert combat uniforms. The printed color pattern mimics leaf design, which transforms into desert design based on thermal conditions (hot air and body temperature). Target colors were prepared using six thermochromic inks, which were combined into a suitable mixture based on measured spectral and colorimetric data. The transition temperature of each thermochromic ink was measured together with the fastness properties of the printed color pattern. The data on rubbing fastness were satisfactory. Nevertheless, at high concentrations, thermochromic ink in the printing paste caused an unacceptable decrease in fastness. The wash property of printed fabrics showed reasonably good fixation of colors to the fabric surface. From the point of view of light fastness, the results confirmed that commercial thermochromic pigments are less resistant against solar radiation, and the resulting light fastness is between 1 and 2 on the blue scale. The special hydrophobic and UV treatment applied by the knife-over-roll method improved light fastness by 3–4 times. In this research, we demonstrated the potential to create a complex and dynamic range of patterns on textiles, with the promise of using one uniform for camouflaging in different types of environment.
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Covarr, Fiona. "HYBRIDITY, THIRD SPACES AND IDENTITIES IN URSULA LE GUIN’s VOICES." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 33, no. 2 (November 18, 2015): 128–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/179.
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This article explores ideas of identity in relation to a young adult fantasy novel, Voices (2006), the second novel in Ursula Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore series. Voices is set in a university city, Ansul, which has been invaded by the Alds. Nine-year old Memer Galva is an Ansul citizen who results from her mother being raped by an Ald soldier. She thus has a hybrid identity, since she is neither fully Ansulian nor Ald, and must learn to integrate with the Alds. Memer’s identity is examined in relation to Bhabha’s (1994) concept of hybridity and the third space in his postcolonial work. Hybridity is the adaptation of identity to an individual’s social/political environment by either combining or rejecting elements of the cultures which constitute it. A third space is one occupied by an oppressed/colonised people which is neither central to their culture nor to their oppressors’/colonisers’ culture, but which aids them to negotiate the two. By negotiating various ‘spaces’ in their respective environments, the Ansuls are able to ‘hybridise’ themselves, and ultimately ‘outwit’ or overcome the Alds. Annals of the Western Shore is aimed at adolescent readers who occupy a ‘hybrid’ or liminal identity, being neither children nor adults. They must learn to adapt to and integrate with society as they become adults. Concepts of integration and identity are also relevant to South Africa, where there has been a need for hybridisation and movements into third spaces in order for its inhabitants to better adapt to the socio-political changes experienced in the country.
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Brown, William. "A (mush)room of one’s own: feminism, posthumanism and race in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled." Aniki : Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento 7, no. 1 (January 22, 2020): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n1.557.
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The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, USA, 2017) is one of several recent films to feature mushrooms as a prominent plot device. In this essay, I argue that the use of mushrooms here allows cinema to engage with issues surrounding the Anthropocene, or the period in which capitalist man has shaped the world more than the world has shaped capitalist man. I shall in particular propose that the association between women and fungi suggests that the Anthropocene entails an anthropocentric and patriarchal worldview. That is, The Beguiledsuggests that the Anthropocene is defined specifically by capitalist man – whose world must now be replaced by one that might be deemed feminist and posthuman, not least because of how the women at the film’s all-girls’ private school work with mushrooms to bring down the central male figure, Civil War soldier Corporal John McBurney.
However, The Beguiled also posits the limits of such a feminist and posthuman world. For despite the film’s Civil War setting, and despite its status as a remake-cum-adaptation of both Don Siegel’s 1971 film of the same name and Thomas P. Cullinan’s source novel, the film only deals with race as at best a structuring absence. Coppola’s (characteristic) refusal to deal directly with race nonetheless allows us to identify the whiteness of those wider issues with which the film deals, namely the Anthropocene, posthumanism, (much) feminism and perhaps cinema itself. In particular, we can draw out this latter suggestion by considering the film’s use of the Madewood Plantation House, which also features in music videos for artists like J. Cole and Beyoncé. For if cinema is a force for the white Anthropocene, it is perhaps in supposedly “unruly” media outside of cinema that black and other feminisms can intersect with posthumanism to emerge as a genuine alternative to the Anthropocene.
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Giniatullina, Luiza Midakhatovna. "Adaptation of Demobilized Soldiers and the Problem of their Employment in Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the First Postwar Years." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 9 (September 25, 2020): 113–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2020.9.18.
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In connection with the increase in military conflicts and the deterioration of the geopolitical situation in the world, the study of the history of the Eastern Front of World War II and its consequences is more relevant than ever. In the first postwar years it was a difficult task for the state to solve the problems of front-line soldiers with employment and material conditions. The adaptation of demobilized soldiers was primarily associated with the economic and political state of the country. The paper examines the issues of adaptation and employment of demo-bilized soldiers of Bashkiria during the first postwar years. The author pays attention to then-existing problems and measures taken by the Soviet bodies of the republic. The postwar life of front-line soldiers of Bashkiria during the first postwar years has both great scientific and social significance. In the course of the study, the features of the postwar situation in the country as a whole and in the republic were studied, which determined the conditions for the adaptation of front-line soldiers and its results.
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Brintz, Carrie E., Shari Miller, Kristine Rae Olmsted, Michael Bartoszek, Joel Cartwright, Paul N. Kizakevich, Michael Butler, Nakisa Asefnia, Alex Buben, and Susan A. Gaylord. "Adapting Mindfulness Training for Military Service Members With Chronic Pain." Military Medicine 185, no. 3-4 (October 17, 2019): 385–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usz312.
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Abstract Introduction Rates of chronic pain in military personnel are disproportionately high. Chronic pain is often associated with mental health and substance use disorders as comorbid conditions, making treatment of chronic pain complex. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are a promising behavioral approach to managing chronic pain and psychosocial sequelae. The unique nature of the military context may require adaptations to original MBIs for successful delivery in active-duty military populations. This study adapted the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to create a mindfulness training program that was relevant to active-duty Army personnel experiencing chronic pain. This article delineates the adaptation process employed to modify the MBSR program to the military context and discusses the resulting training program. Materials and Methods The adaptation process consisted of three iterative stages: 1) Drafting the preliminary intervention protocol with recommendations from stakeholders, including military healthcare providers; 2) Refining the preliminary protocol after pretesting the sessions with research team members and a military Veteran advisory committee; and 3) Delivering the preliminary protocol to one cohort of active-duty Soldiers with chronic pain, collecting feedback, and further refining the intervention protocol. Results Military-related adaptations to MBSR addressed three areas: military culture, language and terminology, and practical and logistical factors relevant to implementation in the military setting. This adaptation process resulted in a live, online program with six, weekly, sessions. Feedback from a military Veteran advisory committee resulted in modifications, including increasing military-relevant examples; preliminary testing with the target population resulted in additional modifications, including shortening the sessions to 75 min and structuring discussions more efficiently. Conclusions The adaptation process was successful in generating an engaging mindfulness training program that was highly relevant to the military context. Obtaining input from stakeholders, such as military healthcare providers and active-duty soldiers, and iterative feedback and modification, were key to the process. Moreover, the program was designed to maintain the integrity and core elements of MBIs while adapting to military culture. A future randomized controlled trial design will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in improving chronic pain in military personnel. This program is responsive to the military’s call for nonpharmacologic treatments for chronic pain that are easily accessible. If effective, the mindfulness program has the potential for widespread dissemination to complement standard care for Service Members experiencing chronic pain.
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Vasyuk, Andrey Grigorievich. "Features of military personnel adaptation in modern conditions of army service." Samara Journal of Science 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 234–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv2021102302.
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The paper reveals essential characteristics of military personnel adaptation to the conditions of service in the army. The author believes that to understand the essence of adaptation it is necessary to understand modified, stressful living conditions and activities causing the inclusion of physiological, psychological, and physical functional reserves of the organism, some problems of adaptation: the relationship between commanders and soldiers, the relationship between the older soldiers and recruits, the commanders of insubordination, aggressive behavior, defiant behavior and factors of maladjustment: the low stress resistance of the organism, physiological reserves, poor physical fitness, lack of personal and psychological potential, non-acceptance of new rules and conditions of life, low training and combat training, unformed value-semantic orientation. A sociological study revealed the following problems of socio-psychological adaptation: insufficient psycho-pedagogical competence of commanders in matters of socio-psychological adaptation; a lack of specialists of social work; a lack of individual psychological assistance to servicemen who have difficulties of adaptation; a lack of the programme of adaptation work; insufficient development of individual methods, techniques and technologies of work; a lack of analysis of work; insufficient work with the team. The author sees the prospect of the research in the development of methods and techniques that can help to successfully support military personnel during their adaptation.
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Pajunen, Julia, and Hanna Korsberg. "Performing Memory, Challenging History: Two Adaptations of The Unknown Soldier." Contemporary Theatre Review 28, no. 2 (November 16, 2017): 224–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2017.1365715.
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Martin, Brian. "From Balzac to Iraq: Soldiers, Veterans, and Military Adaptation." Comparatist 30, no. 1 (2006): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/com.2006.0031.
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Grüter, Christoph, Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Luana L. G. Santos, Benedikt Hammel, Uwe Zimmermann, and Fabio S. Nascimento. "Enemy recognition is linked to soldier size in a polymorphic stingless bee." Biology Letters 13, no. 10 (October 2017): 20170511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0511.
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Many ant and termite colonies are defended by soldiers with powerful mandibles or chemical weaponry. Recently, it was reported that several stingless bee species also have soldiers for colony defence. These soldiers are larger than foragers, but otherwise lack obvious morphological adaptations for defence. Thus, how these soldiers improve colony fitness is not well understood. Robbing is common in stingless bees and we hypothesized that increased body size improves the ability to recognize intruders based on chemosensory cues. We studied the Neotropical species Tetragonisca angustula and found that large soldiers were better than small soldiers at recognizing potential intruders. Larger soldiers also had more olfactory pore plates on their antennae, which is likely to increase their chemosensory sensitivity. Our results suggest that improved enemy recognition might select for increased guard size in stingless bees.
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Kim, Jae Eun, and Ji Hyeon Kim. "The Military Life Experiences and Adaptation Process of Female Soldiers." KOREAN JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 33, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 507–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.23844/kjcp.2021.02.33.1.507.
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Jang, Yoojin, Jung-Hee Ha, and Juliet Jue. "Examining the Moderating Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationship between Soldiers’ Perceived Stress and Hopelessness." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 8, 2021): 10040. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810040.
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Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which one consciously pays attention to being fully present in the moment. Research has shown that mindfulness can lower anxiety, stress, and hopelessness. This fact may also apply to people in special circumstances, such as those in the military. Therefore, we examined the relationship between perceived stress, mindfulness, and hopelessness among military soldiers. Specifically, we verified the moderating effect of mindfulness on the relationship between perceived stress and mindfulness. We surveyed 309 Korean military soldiers and a total of 257 data were analyzed through descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Our results showed that perceived stress, mindfulness, and hopelessness are interrelated, and that mindfulness moderated the influence of perceived stress on hopelessness. In other words, the lower the level of mindfulness, the greater the hopelessness when the perceived stress increased. This study suggests that conducting mindfulness training for soldiers can benefit soldiers’ adaptation to military life.
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Périard, Julien D. "Physical performance in soldiers at environmental extremes: Responses and adaptations." Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 20 (November 2017): S96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2017.09.449.
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Vyazmitinova, Svitlana. "Psychotherapy and psychocorrection of adaptation disorders at participants of martial actions at the health-resort stage." Ukrains'kyi Visnyk Psykhonevrolohii 27, no. 2 (99) (June 10, 2019): 28–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.36927/2079-0325-v27-is2-2019-6.
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The article deals with the defi nition, etiology and pathogenesis, the primary diagnosis of adaptation disturbances (AD) in demobilized combatants who are undergoing rehabilitation in sanatoriumresort conditions. Attention is paid to the effectiveness of medico-psychological rehabilitation of combatants with psychological adjustment disorders in sanatorium-resort conditions, using individual (cognitive-behavioral), group psychotherapy, as well as autogenic-training method. The degree of development of mental disorders in soldiers in a combat situation is shown. The main psychopathological manifestations in patients with AD are highlighted. The results of the study of pathogenic situational factors and premorbid personality traits contributing to impaired adaptation are presented. Key words: adaptation disturbances, demobilized members of the antiterrorist operation, the program of medicopsychological rehabilitation, sanatorium resort conditions
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Chabot, Dominique, Christopher Dillon, Oumer Ahmed, and Adam Shemrock. "Object-based analysis of UAS imagery to map emergent and submerged invasive aquatic vegetation: a case study." Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/juvs-2016-0009.
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Small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) combined with automated image analysis may provide an efficient alternative or complement to labour-intensive boat-based monitoring of invasive aquatic vegetation. A small mapping drone was assessed for collecting high-resolution (≤5 cm/pixel) true-colour and near-infrared imagery revealing the distribution of invasive water soldier (Stratiotes aloides) in the Trent–Severn Waterway, Ontario (Canada). We further evaluated the capacity of an object-based image analysis approach based on the Random Forests classification algorithm to map features in the imagery, chiefly emergent and submerged water soldier colonies. The imagery contained flaws and inconsistencies resulting from data collection in suboptimal weather conditions that likely negatively impacted classification performance. Nevertheless, our best-performing classification had a producer’s and user’s accuracy for water soldier of 81% and 74%, respectively, an overall accuracy of 78%, and a kappa value of 61%, indicating “substantial” accuracy. This trial provides an instructive case study on results achieved in a “real-world” application of a UAS for environmental monitoring, notably characterized by time constraints for data collection and analysis. Beyond avoiding data collection in unfavourable weather conditions, adaptations of the image segmentation process and use of a true discrete-band multispectral camera may help to improve classification accuracy, particularly of submerged vegetation.
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Osiak, Beata. "Biological Security of Polish Military Contingents Outside the Country." Safety & Defense 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.37105/sd.58.
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Polish soldiers have been participating in peacekeeping and stabilization missions around the world for several decades under the auspices of the UN, OSCE, NATO and the EU. They were first sent to Korea in 1953 to oversee a ceasefire between the North and South Koreas. Since then, nearly 70,000 Polish troops have taken part in 58 peace and humanitarian multinational missions on different continents (SKMP ONZ, 2019), which required from them great skills to cooperate with soldiers from other countries, to overcome cultural barriers, as well as adaptation to difficult, often completely different than in Europe, climatic conditions, and to create a system of safeguards and procedures against dangerous tropical diseases. Due to these reasons, biological safety, i.e., medical, sanitary-hygienic, and anti-epidemic security of the contingent, plays a significant role in every mission because it allows the soldiers and civilian personnel stay healthy in an unfavorable and different climate and environmental conditions.
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Franssen, Paul J. C. M. "Flipping Macbeth: PTSD, gender, and generation in adaptations by Wolfert, Kurzel, and De Man." Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 104, no. 1 (February 8, 2021): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0184767820980765.
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In recent adaptations by Justin Kurzel and Lucas de Man, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is less a play about a courageous warrior driven to murder his king out of ambition than about a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This article links these interpretations of Macbeth’s motivation to Stephan Wolfert’s one-man show Cry Havoc!!, which also relates Shakespeare’s plays in general to combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. This article argues that all three productions are symptomatic of our era in addressing Macbeth from the perspective of current constructions of masculinity as deeply problematic.
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Drinova, Elena. "Political and Communicative Interaction in Public Space Between the Russian Government and the Russian Orthodox Church: Directions and Priorities." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 4 (August 2021): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2021.4.4.
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Introduction. The aim of the work was to analyze the leading directions of interaction between the state and religious authorities in the modern public space. It is shown that the result of this interaction was the politicization of the Russian Orthodox Church (hereinafter ROC). It is proved that in recent decades the Church continues to exert direct and indirect influence on the state, which, in turn, uses its spiritual potential to stabilize the socio-political system. Methods and materials. Institutional and modernization approaches were used as the research methodology. Within the framework of the institutional approach, an analysis of the interaction of government structures and the ROC in the context of adaptation, cooperation and competition in the course of democratic transformations in the country was carried out. Within the framework of the modernization approach J. Haber formulates the fundamental thesis on the increasing role of religion in a secular (modernizing) society and its strengthening in the national state. Analysis. It is noted that in the 1990s the leading direction of interaction between the state and the ROC was exclusively the political sphere, which was associated with the democratization of public life, the involvement of the clergy in political modernization. At the beginning of the 21st century the state proclaimed a course towards depoliticizing the institution of religion. The activities of political religious parties were prohibited. Subsequently, the ruling United Russia party began to focus on mutually beneficial partnership with the ROC, priority was given to the patriotic education of young people. The result of joint activities of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the ROC was the formation of a new type of soldier, a bearer of spiritual and moral values, a statesman, defender of the Fatherland. The ROC, as the dominant religious figure in the public space, actively participates in the domestic and foreign policy of the country, challenging other confessional structures. The highest officials of the state and the church share the common values of conservatism, but at the same time, each of them defends its own interests, which initiates the limitation of their mutual support. Results. The state power, together with the ROC, solves internal political problems, including the formation of spiritual, moral, patriotic constants in modern Russian society. In the context of the sanctions policy, the activity of the ROC as a conductor of the “soft power” of the state contributes to the improvement of the countrys image. The result of the interaction of state and religious structures is the formation of a new ideological paradigm based on the principles of religious ethics, conservative values, as well as national identity, patriotism.
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Ганущак-Єфіменко, Людмила Михайлівна, and Ірина Миколаївна Гончаренко. "РЕІНТЕГРАЦІЯ ВИМУШЕНИХ ПЕРЕСЕЛЕНЦІВ ТА ДЕМОБІЛІЗОВАНИХ ВІЙСЬКОВОСЛУЖБОВЦІВ ІЗ ЗОНИ ООС (АТО)." Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Series: Economic sciences 123, no. 3 (January 13, 2019): 22–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2413-0117.2018.3.2.
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The paper provides insights to the issues of ongoing United Forces Operation (UFO) (formerly ATO) in Ukraine which resulted in a complicated military, political and socioeconomic situation, in particular in bringing the ethno-territorial tension in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with a large number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) tracked in the country (over 1,500,000 persons) as well as demobilized and wounded in a military operations zone soldiers (about 80 000). Promoting employment and self-employment of economically active population will contribute to resolve contemporary painful socioeconomic problems, improve the situation on the labour market, reduce social tension etc. The research objective is the development of theoretical positions to provide rationale to an effective algorithm for reintegration of internally displaced persons and demobilized soldiers from the UFO (ATO) zone. The study employed the following research methods: a method of expert survey to diagnose the needs and demands of job seekers (IDPs and demobilized soldiers from the UFO (ATO) zone); a method of system analysis and logical generalization – to explore and identify the role of symbiosis of innovations in the fields of entrepreneurship and training for the demobilized from the UFO (ATO) zone; a critical thinking method – to elaborate a development framework and prospects for implementing social innovations in the areas of entrepreneurship and education; a matrix method – to identify the major components of reintegration programmes for IDPs and the demobilized from the UFO (ATO) zone. The findings suggest that multivariate combinations of the above components in the system of reintegration of IDPs and demobilized from the UFO (ATO) zone will allow to develop an effective instrument in the context of adaptation of socially vulnerable groups. Building conceptual principles for the IDPs and UFO (ATO) veterans’ adaptation algorithm based on the synergistic combination of all components of the proposed reintegration programme will ensure an integrated approach to solving the burning socioeconomic problems of adaptation of socially vulnerable population.