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Eating Behaviors in Australian Military Personnel: Constructing a System of Interest for a Social Marketing Intervention

, 2020
Background: Eating behaviors are complex and have particular significance for military personnel who require sound nutrition to support health and physical fitness for job performance.
Anibaldi, R, Rundle-Thiele, S, Carins, J
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Efficiency and Perceptions in Public CSR: An Integrated Efficiency–Perception Analysis of Spanish Defence Delegations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez, Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survey Role of Outsourcing in Nutrition Unit: Comparison of selected Hospitals with military Selected Hospitals in Tehran.

بیمارستان, 2015
Background: Today, one of the effective ways of providing services is contracting with outside of organization and outsourcing. Objective: The current study aimed to investigate effect of outsourcing on performance of nutrition unit in studied hospitals.
omid Khalilifar, bayram nejati zarnaghi, mohammad bakhtiari aliabad, ameneh valadkhani   +3 more
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Uncle Sam Wants Whom? The Draft and the Quality of Military Personnel [PDF]

It has been argued the draft may enable the military to attract more able individuals than a volunteer military and thus increase welfare. We find this may be the case if a volunteer military simply takes the least able individuals.
Timothy Perri
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Fish Scales: A Multifunctional Biomaterial from Nature

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fish scales demonstrate nature's solution to impact protection through overlapping multilayered architecture. This biological design combines mineralized surfaces with collagen networks to achieve both flexibility and fracture resistance. The structural principles inspire advanced protective materials and biomedical implants, where damage tolerance ...
Liyao Dong, Xiaojie Sun, Xiguang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Privateers in Australia’s conflict and disaster zones [PDF]

, 2015
The private security industry has become an established component in the conflict and disaster zones where the Australian Government operates and looks set to be an enduring feature of the security landscape.
James Brown
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Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neuroenhancement in Military Personnel:

, 2023
Military personnel face harsh conditions that strain their physical and mental well-being, depleting resources necessary for sustained operational performance. Future operations will impose even greater demands on soldiers in austere environments with limited support, and new training and technological approaches are essential.
van Erp, Jan B.F., Beaudoin, Monique E., Brunyé, Tad T., Feltman, Kathryn A., Greenwald, Hal, Heaton, Kristin J., McKinley, Richard A., Vartanian, Oshin, Vergin, Annika, Whittaker, Annalise, Wester, Brock, Ohiri, Korine, Hamilton, Leslie   +12 more
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How emerging market firms learn to lead in complex product systems: Evidence from China's civil aircraft industry

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary The rise of emerging market lead firms (LFs) in global value chains (GVCs) challenges the prevailing view that only multinational corporations (MNCs) from advanced economies lead systems integration, design, and innovation activities.
Yuanyuan Wu, Paola Perez‐Aleman
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of British Military Masculinities through Symbolic Resources [PDF]

Within military culture there is a protected version of masculinity. The theory of symbolic resources (Zittoun, Duveen, Gillespie, Ivinson & Psaltis, 2003) recognises that people are positioned within different symbolic streams in the socio-cultural ...
Hannah C Lambert
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