Developing a Serious Game to Explore Joint All Domain Command and Control

Changes in the geopolitical landscape and increasing technological complexity have prompted the U.S. Military to coin Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) and Joint All-Domain Command and Control as terms to describe an over-arching strategy that frames the complexity of warfare across both traditional and emerging warfighting domains. Teaching new and advanced concepts associated with these terms requires both innovation as well as distinct education and training tools in order to realize the cultural change advocated by senior military leaders. BSN, a Collectible Card Game, was developed to teach concepts integral to MDO and initiate discussion on military strategy

Addressing the mental health needs of the rural underserved: Findings from a multiple case study of a behavioral telehealth project

Behavioral telehealth is a reasonable solution to the accessibility to mental health care problem that exists in many rural communities. This paper reports the results of a multiple case study of a behavioral telehealth program administered through a marriage and family therapy training program. The results suggest that mental health services can be effectively delivered using existing distance education technology to underserved rural populations. Rural communities have unique barriers to accessing mental health care, some of which can be overcome through the distance delivery of services and some of which cannot. In order to effectively deliver treatment, accommodations to the technology must be made by both therapist and client

Evolution of architectural floor plans

Layout planning is a process of sizing and placing rooms (e.g. in a house) while a t t empt ing to optimize various criteria. Often the r e are conflicting c r i t e r i a such as construction cost, minimizing the distance between r e l a t ed activities, and meeting the area requirements for these activities. The process of layout planning ha s mostly been done by hand, wi th a handful of a t t empt s to automa t e the process. Thi s thesis explores some of these pa s t a t t empt s and describes several new techniques for automa t ing the layout planning process using evolutionary computation. These techniques a r e inspired by the existing methods, while adding some of the i r own innovations. Additional experimenLs are done to t e s t the possibility of allowing polygonal exteriors wi th rectilinear interior walls. Several multi-objective approaches are used to evaluate and compare fitness. The evolutionary r epr e s ent a t ion and requirements specification used provide great flexibility in problem scope and depth and is worthy of considering in future layout and design a t t empt s . The system outlined in thi s thesis is capable of evolving a variety of floor plans conforming to functional and geometric specifications. Many of the resulting plans look reasonable even when compared to a professional floor plan. Additionally polygonal and multi-floor buildings were also generated

Evidence of strategic periodicities in collective conflict dynamics

We analyze the timescales of conflict decision-making in a primate society. We present evidence for multiple, periodic timescales associated with social decision-making and behavioral patterns. We demonstrate the existence of periodicities that are not directly coupled to environmental cycles or known ultraridian mechanisms. Among specific biological and socially-defined demographic classes, periodicities span timescales between hours and days, and many are not driven by exogenous or internal regularities. Our results indicate that they are instead driven by strategic responses to social interaction patterns. Analyses also reveal that a class of individuals, playing a critical functional role, policing, have a signature timescale on the order of one hour. We propose a classification of behavioral timescales analogous to those of the nervous system, with high-frequency, or $\alpha$-scale, behavior occurring on hour-long scales, through to multi-hour, or $\beta$-scale, behavior, and, finally $\gamma$ periodicities observed on a timescale of days.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Journal of the Royal Society Interfac

(S)-(+)-1-(2-Bromo­phen­yl)ethanol

The title compound, C8H9BrO, crystallizes with two mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit. The structure displays O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding, generating zigzag chains evolving around a screw axis along [100]

1,3,5,7-Tetra­kis(4-iodo­phen­yl)adamantane benzene tetra­solvate

The title mol­ecule, C34H28I4·4C6H6, has crystallographic symmetry and crystallizes with four symmetry-related benzene solvent mol­ecules. The phenyl group is eclipsed with one of the adamantane C—C bonds. The tetra­phenyl­adamantane units and the benzene solvent mol­ecules are connected by weak inter­molecular phen­yl–benzene C—H⋯π and benzene–benzene C—H⋯π inter­actions. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked along the c-axis direction via the iodo­phenyl groups by a combination of weak inter­molecular I⋯I [3.944 (1) Å] and I⋯π(phen­yl) [3.608 (6) and 3.692 (5) Å] inter­actions

Tris(ethane-1,2-diamine-κ2 N,N′)cobalt(II) cis-aqua-2κO-μ-cyanido-1:2κ2 C:N-hepta­cyanido-1κ7 C-bis­(ethane-1,2-diamine-2κ2 N,N′)cobalt(II)molybdenum(IV) dihydrate

The title compound, [Co(C2H8N2)3][CoMo(CN)8(C2H8N2)2(H2O)]·2H2O, is isostructural with the NiII analogue. The MoIV atom is coordinated by eight cyanide ligands, one of which forms a bridge to a CoII atom that is itself coordinated by two bidentate ethane-1,2-diamine (en) ligands and one water mol­ecule. Another CoII complex, coordinated to three bidentate en ligands, acts as the counter-ion. The crystal structure contains O—H⋯N/O, N—H⋯N/O and C—H⋯N/O hydrogen bonds, which form a three-dimensional network

Achieving urban water conservation: a handbook

September 1977.Bibliography: pages 159-167.OWRT project no. A-030-COLO; supported by U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Water Research and Technology, under Grant Agreement nos. 14-34-0001-6006, 14-34-0001-7011, 14-34-0001-7012

Diethyl 2,5-bis­[(1E)-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl­methyl­idene)amino]­thio­phene-3,4-dicarboxyl­ate

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C20H20N4O4S, the azomethine group adopt E conformations. The pyrrole units are twisted by 10.31 (4) and 18.90 (5)° with respect to the central thio­phene ring. The three-dimensional network is close packed and involves N—H⋯O, N—H⋯N, C—H⋯N and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonding

Aging, Resistance Training, and Diabetes Prevention

With the aging of the baby-boom generation and increases in life expectancy, the American population is growing older. Aging is associated with adverse changes in glucose tolerance and increased risk of diabetes; the increasing prevalence of diabetes among older adults suggests a clear need for effective diabetes prevention approaches for this population. The purpose of paper is to review what is known about changes in glucose tolerance with advancing age and the potential utility of resistance training (RT) as an intervention to prevent diabetes among middle-aged and older adults. Age-related factors contributing to glucose intolerance, which may be improved with RT, include improvements in insulin signaling defects, reductions in tumor necrosis factor-α, increases in adiponectin and insulin-like growth factor-1 concentrations, and reductions in total and abdominal visceral fat. Current RT recommendations and future areas for investigation are presented