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MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed Bedcheck Charlie, who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women\u27s shower was accidentally blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.
The reader is spared nothing, and at times I shared with the authors an understanding of the emotional effect medical work in a war zone can cause. -- BMJ
The great difference between the MASH on TV and the MASH on the battlefield, Apel and his collegues later felt, was that the latter had casualties -- Booklist review
A superb book. . . . Reading this fine nonfiction account of an army surgeon in the Korean War will make you wish you had been there treating casualties. It did me! -- Journal of the American Medical Association
Well written and researched, this book provides entertainment as well as historical value. -- Library Journal
Most readers will find Apel\u27s memoirs fascinating, horrifying, humorous, and heartbreaking. -- Library Lane
One of the most readable memoirs that I have come across. A real contribution to the history of the Korean War. -- Mac Coffman
This memoir is about war, but it addresses a different aspect of war: the struggle of men and women in the U.S. Army who were called upon to expend their efforts and their lives preserving human life during this vicious combat. -- McCormick (SC) Messenger
His descriptions are full of detail, often vivid, regularly most critical of the US Medical Corps. -- Medicine, Conflict, and Survival
The authors have skillfully blended the surgeon’s personal experiences into the bigger picture of military medicine, providing the reader with an informative and interesting account of the MASH and its impact during the Korean War. -- Military
Exposes the true nature of the Korean conflict from a medical perspective. . . . An excellent account of the history of MASH units and how they operated in Korea. -- Navy Medicine
Apel shows the true side of the Army hospitals. -- Ohio Today
The book is a wonderful paean to all our men and women who served in Korea. -- Ohioana Quarterly
Provides a close look at the way a MASH functioned. . . . The Apels have produced a well written and useful book. -- Southern Historianhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_military_history/1037/thumbnail.jp
Heisenberg antiferromagnet with anisotropic exchange on the Kagome lattice: Description of the magnetic properties of volborthite
We study the properties of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet with spatially
anisotropic nearest-neighbour exchange couplings on the kagome net, i.e. with
coupling J in one lattice direction and couplings J' along the other two
directions. For J/J' > 1, this model is believed to describe the magnetic
properties of the mineral volborthite. In the classical limit, it exhibits two
kinds of ground states: a ferrimagnetic state for J/J' < 1/2 and a large
manifold of canted spin states for J/J' > 1/2. To include quantum effects
self-consistently, we investigate the Sp(N) symmetric generalisation of the
original SU(2) symmetric model in the large-N limit. In addition to the
dependence on the anisotropy, the Sp(N) symmetric model depends on a parameter
kappa that measures the importance of quantum effects. Our numerical
calculations reveal that in the kappa-J/J' plane, the system shows a rich phase
diagram containing a ferrimagnetic phase, an incommensurate phase, and a
decoupled chain phase, the latter two with short- and long-range order. We
corroborate these results by showing that the boundaries between the various
phases and several other features of the Sp(N) phase diagram can be determined
by analytical calculations. Finally, the application of a block-spin
perturbation expansion to the trimerised version of the original spin-1/2 model
leads us to suggest that in the limit of strong anisotropy, J/J' >> 1, the
ground state of the original model is a collinearly ordered antiferromagnet,
which is separated from the incommensurate state by a quantum phase transition.Comment: 21 pages, 22 figures. Final version, PRB in pres
Hydrodynamics of internal solitons and a comparison of SIR-A and SIR-B data with ocean measurements
Large internal solitary waves have been observed by Shuttle SIR-A and SIR-B at locations in the Andaman Sea and the New York Bight. Satellite imagery and oceanographic measurements are used in conjunction with hydrodynamic interaction and electromagnetic scattering models to estimate the expected SAR image intensity modulations associated with the internal waves. There is reasonable agreement between the predicted and observed internal wave signatures
A new Proposal for a Quasielectron Trial Wavefunction for the FQHE on a Disk
In this letter, we propose a new quasielectron trial wavefunction for
interacting electrons in two dimensions moving in a strong magnetic field in a
disk geometry. Requiring that the trial wavefunction exhibits the correct
filling factor of a quasielectron wavefunction, we obtain angular
momentum eigenfunctions. The expectation values of the energy are calculated
and compared with the data of an exact numerical diagonalization.Comment: 8 page
Integrating the common variability language with multilanguage annotations for web engineering
Web applications development involves managing a high diversity of files and resources like code, pages or style sheets, implemented in different languages. To deal with the automatic generation of
custom-made configurations of web applications, industry usually adopts annotation-based approaches even though the majority of studies encourage the use of composition-based approaches to implement
Software Product Lines. Recent work tries to combine both approaches to get the complementary benefits. However, technological companies are reticent to adopt new development paradigms
such as feature-oriented programming or aspect-oriented programming.
Moreover, it is extremely difficult, or even impossible, to apply
these programming models to web applications, mainly because of
their multilingual nature, since their development involves multiple
types of source code (Java, Groovy, JavaScript), templates (HTML,
Markdown, XML), style sheet files (CSS and its variants, such as
SCSS), and other files (JSON, YML, shell scripts). We propose to
use the Common Variability Language as a composition-based approach
and integrate annotations to manage fine grained variability
of a Software Product Line for web applications. In this paper, we (i)
show that existing composition and annotation-based approaches,
including some well-known combinations, are not appropriate to
model and implement the variability of web applications; and (ii)
present a combined approach that effectively integrates annotations
into a composition-based approach for web applications. We implement
our approach and show its applicability with an industrial
real-world system.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional AndalucÃa Tech
Quantum Hall Ferromagnets: Induced Topological term and electromagnetic interactions
The quantum Hall ground state in materials like GaAs is well known
to be ferromagnetic in nature. The exchange part of the Coulomb interaction
provides the necessary attractive force to align the electron spins
spontaneously. The gapless Goldstone modes are the angular deviations of the
magnetisation vector from its fixed ground state orientation. Furthermore, the
system is known to support electrically charged spin skyrmion configurations.
It has been claimed in the literature that these skyrmions are fermionic owing
to an induced topological Hopf term in the effective action governing the
Goldstone modes. However, objections have been raised against the method by
which this term has been obtained from the microscopics of the system. In this
article, we use the technique of the derivative expansion to derive, in an
unambiguous manner, the effective action of the angular degrees of freedom,
including the Hopf term. Furthermore, we have coupled perturbative
electromagnetic fields to the microscopic fermionic system in order to study
their effect on the spin excitations. We have obtained an elegant expression
for the electromagnetic coupling of the angular variables describing these spin
excitations.Comment: 23 pages, Plain TeX, no figure
Absolute calibration of the LOPES antenna system
Radio emission in extensive air showers arises from an interaction with the
geomagnetic field and is subject of theoretical studies. This radio emission
has advantages for the detection of high energy cosmic rays compared to
secondary particle or fluorescence measurement methods. Radio antennas like the
LOPES30 antenna system are suited to investigate this emission process by
detecting the radio pulses. The characteristic observable parameters like
electric field strength and pulse length require a calibration which was done
with a reference radio source resulting in an amplification factor representing
the system behavior in the environment of the KASCADE-Grande experiment.
Knowing the amplification factor and the gain of the LOPES antennas LOPES30 is
calibrated absolutely for systematic analyses of the radio emission.Comment: 5 pages, Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio
EeV Neutrino detection Activities: ARENA, May 17-19, 2005, DESY Zeuthe
Investigation of the Properties of Galactic Cosmic Rays with the KASCADE-Grande Experiment
The properties of galactic cosmic rays are investigated with the
KASCADE-Grande experiment in the energy range between and
eV. Recent results are discussed. They concern mainly the all-particle energy
spectrum and the elemental composition of cosmic rays.Comment: Proc. RICAP 09, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in pres
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