Military Academy

About: Military Academy is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2478 authors who have published 3003 publications receiving 33188 citations.

Clustering Categorical Data: A Survey

Abstract: Clustering is a complex unsupervised method used to group most similar observations of a given dataset within the same cluster. To guarantee high efficiency, the clustering process should ensure hi...

Anthropometrical limitations in the construction of passenger vehicles : case study

Abstract: The result of anthrometrical limitations is, among other things, the usual construction of passenger automobiles for a range from a 5th-percentile woman to a 95th-percentile man driver, determining the position and adjustability (movement) of the seat, the position and angle of the windscreen, and the torso of the driver.Anthropometrical changes, especially the form of the stochastic normal function for the division of certain measures in Serbia and possibly at the global level, influence the increase in all anthropometrical values but also influence the difference between the measurements for the 5th-percentile woman and the 95th-percentile man driver, for which range the passenger automobile is usually adjusted. On the other hand, this leads to difficulties and the impossibility of normal use of the steering wheel with the hands of a small 5th-percentile aged woman because they are too near, and also the 95th-percentile aged man driver, because they are too far. Therefore, the usual design of th...

Magnetic Field Interactions of Military and Law Enforcement Bullets at 1.5 and 3 Tesla.

Abstract: Objectives: There are significant numbers of military and law enforcement bullets containing ferromagnetic materials. This study aimed to assess the magnetic field interactions for a representative sample of military and law enforcement ballistic objects at 1.5 and 3 tesla (T) to create a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatibility database. Methods: Twenty-nine different bullets underwent MRI evaluation. The deflection angle method and a qualitative torque scale were used. The samples were representative of those commonly used in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military forces (e.g., 5.56 mm NATO), law enforcement agencies (e.g., 9 mm Parabellum), and encountered in war injuries and crime-related trauma (e.g., 7.62 mm Kalashnikov). Results: At all static magnetic field strengths, all non-nickel- and nonsteel-containing bullets exhibited no movement (deflection angle = 0°; torque = 0), whereas eight bullets containing steel core, steel jacket, or nickel jacket exhibited substanti...

Pharmacological interaction between oxcarbazepine and two COX inhibitors in a rat model of inflammatory hyperalgesia.

Abstract: Oxcarbazepine, ibuprofen and etodolac have efficacy in inflammatory pain. The combination of different drugs activates both central and peripheral pain inhibitory pathways to induce additive or synergistic antinociception, and this interaction may allow lower doses of each drug combined and improve the safety profile, with lower side-effects. This study aimed to examine the effects of oxcarbazepine–ibuprofen and oxcarbazepine–etodolac combinations, in a rat model of inflammatory hyperalgesia, and determine the type of interaction between drugs. Rats were intraplantarly injected with carrageenan (0.1 ml, 1%) and the hyperalgesia was assessed by modified paw pressure test. The anti-hyperalgesic effects of oxcarbazepine, ibuprofen and etodolac and oxcarbazepine–ibuprofen and oxcarbazepine–etodolac combinations were examined. Drugs were co-administered in a fixed-dose fractions of the ED 50 and the type of interaction was determined by isobolographic analysis. Oxcarbazepine (40–160 mg/kg; p.o.), ibuprofen (10–120 mg/kg; p.o.) and etodolac (5–20 mg/kg; p.o.) produced a significant, dose-dependent anti-hyperalgesia in carrageenan-injected rats. ED 50 values (mean ± SEM) for oxcarbazepine, ibuprofen and etodolac were 88.17 ± 3.65, 47.07 ± 10.27 and 13.05 ± 1.42 mg/kg, respectively. Oxcarbazepine–ibuprofen and oxcarbazepine–etodolac combinations induced significant and dose-dependent anti-hyperalgesia. Isobolographic analysis revealed that oxcarbazepine exerts a synergistic interaction with ibuprofen, with almost 4-fold reduction of doses of both drugs in combination. In contrast, there was an additive interaction with etodolac. Synergistic interaction of oxcarbazepine with ibuprofen and its additive interaction with etodolac provide new information about the combination pain treatment and could be explored further in patients with inflammatory pain. Adverse effect analysis of the combinations is necessary to verify possible clinical use of the mixtures.

Russian Pioneers of Therapeutic Hemapheresis and Extracorporeal Hemocorrection: 100‐Year Anniversary of the World's First Successful Plasmapheresis

Abstract: On 15 February 2013 (2 February on the Julian Calendar) we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the world's first successful experimental plasmapheresis. Scientific research projects in this field were carried out by the Department of Infectious Disease, Russian Imperial Medical Surgical Academy located in Saint-Petersburg. Doctor of Medical Sciences and Professor Vadim A. Yurevich was a Principal Investigator for this research, which in 1913 resulted in the discovery of a new way of treatment. The results were published in Russki Vratch (Russian Physician) Journal no. 18 (1914) – V.A. Yurevich and N.K. Rosenberg “For the Question Regarding Washing of Blood Outside of the Body and the Vitality of Red Blood Cells”. There was no terminology offered for this medical innovation at that time. Plasma removal was performed not solely, but in combination with washing of blood cells returned to the patient. Nowadays this combination is still considered to be more effective than separate plasmapheresis. According to the published experimental protocols this new treatment was done on 15 February (2 February on the Julian Calendar or “old style”). One year later in 1914 a famous researcher, John Abel and coauthors, repeated a separate plasma removal treatment with retransfusion of the blood cells and suggested the term “plasmapheresis”, which is now official. The article entitled “Plasma Removal With Return of Corpuscles (Plasmapheresis)”, written by Abel was published 3 months later than the article by Professor Yurevich. In 1924, Dr Ivan P. Mikhailovskiy repeated experiments by Yurevich and Rosenberg in vivo on a dog model, confirmed the clinical efficiency and developed the methodology in his article “Washing of Blood In Vivo, the Methodology, Problems, and Importance for the Treatment of Toxic Conditions.”