scholarly journals Healthcare Military Logistics at Disaster Regions around the World: Insights from Ten Field Hospital Missions over Three Decades

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Naor
Keyword(s):  
Field Hospital ◽  
Military Logistics ◽  
The World

Military Labour, Animals, and the Material Production of War

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-167
Author(s):  
Pratyay Nath
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Military Logistics ◽  
Material Production ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Careful Management

This chapter explores the world of Mughal military logistics. It focuses on military labour, mobilization of animals, supply of resources, production of infrastructure, and transmission of intelligence. Shifting the focus from combat to logistics, this chapter makes three main points. First, it underlines the crucial role that the careful management of these logistical activities played in the overall military success of the Mughals. Second, it shows that much of these activities, in turn, were executed by an enormous logistical workforce, comprising a large section of the non-elite, non-combatant population of South Asia. It argues that the contribution of this non-elite workforce was no less important than the military aristocracy in creating the empire. Finally, it highlights that appreciating the complexity and importance of military logistics allows us to understand that war did not signify mere moments of rupture in Mughal history; rather, it characterized the quotidian life of the empire.

scholarly journals Calculation of Heat Exchange on the Surface of a Flexible Heat Exchanger for Use in Mobile Hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
I. L. Lokova ◽  
A. S. Kalinichenko
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchange ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Artificial Roughness ◽  
Exchange Coefficient ◽  
Heat Exchange Coefficient ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
The World

Currently, the world is characterized by quite a large number of military conflicts, manmade disasters and natural disasters. Every year, about 50 thousand people die from various natural disasters in the world. The report of the UNISDR notes that natural disasters that occurred in the world between 1998 and 2017 led to the death of 1.3 million people (more than half of them – due to earthquakes). The analysis shows that human losses could be significantly less with rapid first aid. This requires the presence of a field hospital located as close as possible to the lesion. Currently, field hospitals for various purposes are produced. The heating system of the field hospital modules plays an important role in the operation. A heating system is proposed, which includes a vortex heat generator and heating devices made of polyvinyl chloride. The system is characterized by low weight and quick access to the operating mode. However, in the literature there is no method for calculating the heat exchange coefficient in a closed space, which is formed by flexible heater surface and an enclosing wall. Based on the analysis of criterion dependences and experimental data, new criterion equations for calculating the heat exchange coefficient for an arbitrary location of heaters in space are obtained. The following dependence is built lgNu = f(lg(Gr×Pr)), which allows to determine value of heat exchange coefficient for given range of temperature. A method of intensification of the heat exchange process by creating an artificial roughness is proposed. Graph is done to determine growth rate of heat exchange СK, which is included in criterion equation. The use of artificial roughness allowed increasing the heat transfer coefficient by 28 % and the thermal power of the heating device by about 26 %.

International Emergency Medical Teams Training Workshop Special Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Albina ◽  
Laura Archer ◽  
Marlène Boivin ◽  
Hilarie Cranmer ◽  
Kirsten Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
World Health ◽  
Training Workshop ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Medical Teams

AbstractThe World Health Organization’s (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Initiative created guidelines which define the basic procedures to be followed by personnel and teams, as well as the critical points to discuss before deploying a field hospital. However, to date, there is no formal standardized training program established for EMTs before deployment. Recognizing that the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM; Madison, Wisconsin USA) Congress brings together a diverse group of key stakeholders, a pre-Congress workshop was organized to seek out collective expertise and to identify key EMT training competencies for the future development of training programs and protocols. The future of EMT training should include standardization of curriculum and the recognition or accreditation of selected training programs. The outputs of this pre-WADEM Congress workshop provide an initial contribution to the EMT Training Working Group, as this group works on mapping training, competencies, and curriculum. Common EMT training themes that were identified as fundamental during the pre-Congress workshop include: the ability to adapt one’s professional skills to low-resource settings; context-specific training, including the ability to serve the needs of the affected population in natural disasters; training together as a multi-disciplinary EMT prior to deployment; and the value of simulation in training.AlbinaA, ArcherL, BoivinM, CranmerH, JohnsonK, KrishnarajG, ManeshiA, OddyL, Redwood-CampbellL, RussellR. International Emergency Medical Teams training workshop special report. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(3):335–338.

scholarly journals Making the World a Better Place: Sharing Experiences at Malaysian Field Hospital, Bangladesh via Photos and Written Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Huzairi S ◽  
Nada SZ ◽  
Khalilah AB ◽  
Shamsul B
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Outpatient Services ◽  
Specialist Care ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Introduction: Malaysian Field Hospital (MFH) in the district of Ukhia, Bangladesh has been operating since December 2017. It is an effort by the Malaysian government to assist in the humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.Objective: To share experiences in the tertiary care services provided by MFH.Methods: Visits to the MFH and refugee camps were made by volunteers. With consent, personal interviews with staff and patients were conducted and recorded on paper or by photography.Results: MFH provides specialist care in general surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesiology, obstetrics & gynaecology, intensive care as well as general in-patient and outpatient services. It also provides X-ray imaging, transfusion, dental, pharmacist, logistic, administrative and utensil sterilization services. MFH acts as a referral centre for 286 primary health clinics and secondary hospitals including the Turkish Field Hospital, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and HOPE hospital. Up to 31st December 2018, MFH has treated 50,588 patients and conducted 1,268 surgica l procedures. In partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), MFH has been involved in the strategic planning to ease refugee influx.Conclusion: Information sharing through stories and photos depicting the actual situation in refugee camps should be facilitated to promote awareness and to positively alter the mass’ attitude and perceptions whilst preserving confidentiality and dignity.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Supplementary Issue: 2019 Page: 51

Boredom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark de Rond
Keyword(s):  
Idle Time ◽  
Good News ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Military

The author reflects on the boredom that strikes doctors and surgical staff stationed at the field hospital. In principle, boredom should have been good news—after all, no one was getting hurt—except that it left the doctors with nothing meaningful to do. And so they found themselves pining for work to come in, even if this invariably came at the expense of someone else getting hurt. Boredom can also drive doctors to criticize each other's handling of patients and treatment and discharge decisions. The military is no stranger to boredom, not even on deployment to some of the most volatile, conflict-ridden regions in the world such as Afghanistan. According to the author, the surgical staff at Camp Bastion's hospital, with idle time on their hands, became introspective.

scholarly journals A proposal to establish a field hospital including isolation units during the Novel Coronavirus crisis

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-40
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

After the rapid spread that the world is witnessing in all its countries of novel Coronavirus (covid 19), thinking has become urgent to find alternatives or solutions to deal with this disease. One of these solutions is through building field hospitals consisting of a group of cargo containers equipped with all devices and supplies for the purpose of limiting this virus in addition to the possibility of using them as fast-setting field hospitals in remote places. The research has provided those containers (hospitals) with solar energy systems where hospital ceilings can be used by supplying it with solar panels equipped for electrical energy. One of the advantages that will be talked about is the possibility of installing these containers in different places to keep their influence from the centers in addition to the ability to serve in such areas with the necessary health services. This means increasing health awareness and increasing methods of prevention and controlling epidemics and various diseases not only this virus which is currently spreading, . In addition to other advantages such as speed of construction and good insulation, as well as low costs if compared with regular hospitals.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

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