Armies of War Without Uniforms: Mercenaries and Private Military Companies in Russia’s Interventions in Syria and Ukraine by Çağla Mavruk, Ali Gök

“…In the struggle for influence and power between states, states tend to use mercenaries and PMCs due to reasons such as the economic cost of the regular army, the negative reactions to be received from many actors in an official intervention in the target state, the sanctions of international law and the indignation caused by a possible loss of official soldiers, especially in the society. The history of mercenaries dates back to ancient times. …”
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Une bactérie multirésistante avant l’ère des antibiotiques : l’agent de la mélioïdose by Buisson, Yves

“…Its worldwide spread, outside the original endemic foci of Southeast Asia and Australia, is favoured by global warming and the diabetes mellitus pandemic, which is the main predisposing factor.In humans, melioidosis is an opportunistic infection, following professional (rice farmers, soldiers) or accidental contamination, by inhalation or inoculation. …”
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Motivation and Performance of Primary Teachers in Gasabo District, Kigali-Rwanda. by Celestin, Habumuremyi

“…The study found that there are strategies for motivation like increasing the teachers’ salary, availing a cheap market for teachers that matches their purchasing power as it is for soldiers, reduce from 14% to 5% or lessening the interest rate for teachers’ loans, not taxing the teachers’ salaries, making teachers coverable by the BDF that those without a guarantee may get loans from Umwalimu SACCO and giving them a long-term housing loan were likely motivators. …”
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Declarative Terrain Modeling for Military Training Games by Ruben M. Smelik, Tim Tutenel, Klaas Jan de Kraker, Rafael Bidarra

“…Military training instructors increasingly often employ computer games to train soldiers in all sorts of skills and tactics. One of the difficulties instructors face when using games as a training tool is the creation of suitable content, including scenarios, entities, and corresponding terrain models. …”
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Blockchain-IoT Healthcare Applications and Trends: A Review by Wafaa A. N. A. Al-Nbhany, Ammar T. Zahary, Asma A. Al-Shargabi

“…The study in this paper includes 14 blockchain IOT healthcare applications: remote patient monitoring, patient tracking, disease prediction, tracking COVID-19, image retrieval, security of medical records, smart telemedicine, securing the Internet of Medical Things, big data, blockchain and sensors, accurate medical decisions, health monitoring, tracking soldiers, and solar energy.…”
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Assessment of Changes in Executive Functions and Attention of Cadets as a Result of Military Parachute Jumping by Dariusz Jamro, Marek Kociuba, Maciej Lachowicz, Pawel Korytko, Grzegorz Zurek

“…Executive functions, which includes processes such as attentional control and cognitive flexibility, are crucial for soldiers, especially in situations requiring rapid decision-making. …”
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Treatment of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome according to the Fascial Distortion Model: A Prospective Case Control Study by Christoph Schulze, Susanne Finze, Rainer Bader, Andreas Lison

“…Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) is a common problem among athletes and soldiers. There is no proven theory that could explain the pathophysiology of shin splints. …”
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A Fatal Case of Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter Necrotizing Fasciitis: The Changing Scary Face of Nosocomial Infection by Nupur Sinha, Masooma Niazi, Dmitry Lvovsky

“…Wound infections due to A. baumannii have been described in association with severe trauma in soldiers. There are only sporadic reports of monomicrobial A. baumannii necrotizing fasciitis. …”
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Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil by Ana Penido, Suzeley Kalil Mathias, Eduardo Mei.

“…This article assumes that the countless military interventions and coups, and the decades in which both Argentina and Brazil lived under dictatorships; constitute an obstacle for democracy and reveal the importance of educating soldiers on the importance of military subordination to civilian authorities. …”
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Effect of Stress on Autonomic and Cardiovascular Systems in Military Population: A Systematic Review by Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Valentín E. Fernández-Elías, Alberto J. Hormeño-Holgado, Athanasios A. Dalamitros, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

“…Regarding military population, military operations and combat exposure are important stressors that influence acute and chronic stress response in soldiers, affecting their performance and health. A bibliographic search was carried out between April and May 2019, focusing on recent studies (2013–2019) that analysed psychophysiological response, stress, stress regulation, heart rate, heart rate variability, and posttraumatic stress disorder in military population. …”
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Vingt années de recherches à Oedenburg (Biesheim et Kunheim, Haut-Rhin) : un bilan by Michel Reddé

“…Different food waste products were found there, along with monetary offerings, deposits of pottery and Roman weapons, after the arrival of soldiers, during the second decade of our era. The soldiers settled in two successive camps, characteristic of a large troop, but smaller than the size of a legionnaire’s unit. …”
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Public Initiatives in the Process of Establishment of Lithuania University by Virginija Jurėnienė

“…The most active in this campaign were the lecturers and students of higher courses, teachers, soldiers-students, students, and clericals. The Ministry for Education proposed for the lecturers of higher courses to prepare the project of a Lithuanian university statute. …”
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Fragmenty písemností z kavalírské cesty hrabat z Clary-Aldringenu z roku 1727 by Jiří Kubeš

“…The Clary-Aldringens belonged to the wealthy Czech noble families whose ancestors had come to Bohemia as successful soldiers during the Thirty Years´ War. They created a large dominion mainly in northern Bohemia with the centre in well known spa Teplice. …”
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The tragedy of the South-Western Front: Kyiv disaster of 1941 by O. K. Maliutina, K. Z. Maliutin

“…The Red Army suffered gigantic losses: 665,000 soldiers and officers, the entire material and technical base of the front ended up in the Kiev “cauldron”. …”
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‘O breves et infaustos populi favores’. The Controversies Surrounding Lieutenant Władysław Gorzeński during the Civil War in Poland-Lithuania (1715–1716) by Marcin Różycki

“… On 1st October 1715 Władysław Gorzeński became the first marshal of the soldiers’ union which began to fight against the Saxon forces of King Augustus II on Polish-Lithuanian territory, thereby unleashing a civil war between the monarch, supported by various officials, and the Polish-Lithuanian army alongside the masses of civilian nobility, united under the Tarnogród Confederation. …”
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Matrimonial rights and the expectations related to marriage in newspaper ads by the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Croatia by Lachner Višnja Z., Kordić Ljubica M.

“…The first encompasses relevant legal acts regulating marriage at that time, including special rules for royal soldiers regar ding their rights to get married. The second part of the research is founded on newspaper announcements, specifically: matrimonial and contact ads, in which men and women express their wish to meet a potential spouse or lover. …”
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Nikola Mavroyani’nin Eflâk Voyvodalığı (1786-1790) by Sinan YÜKSEL

“…In the Ottoman-Russo-Austro wars that erupted in 1787, Mavroyani tried to defend Wallachia and its districts with an army consisting of more than forty thousand soldiers whose expenses were paid out of his own pocket and won a remarkable victory over Austria. …”
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Cycles of History: China, North Korea and the End of the Korean War by Sheila Miyoshi Jager

“…In 1895, the Chinese scholar Kang Youwei was on his way to Beijing on a Chinese steamer when his ship was abruptly boarded and searched by a party of Japanese soldiers on the North China Sea. "I was enraged when the Japanese came and searched our ship," he later wrote. …”
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A PROBLEM OF OPENING OF THE SECOND FRONT IS IN EUROPE: LOOK AFTER SEVEN DECADES by A. A. Paderin

“…The author associate himself with those historians, who support the origin of idea about the efficient strategy of attack against enemy simultaneously from different directions by the defeat of Germany, against which in the years of world war first two-front war was going: Russian army - from the east and Anglo-Franco-American soldiers from the west. The concept «second front» in its modern meaning, as it was suggested in the article, came into use widely since 1941 due to the beginning of German aggression against the USSR. …”
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Review of different types of mountain springs and mineral waters from Bulgaria based on their natural origin and health benefits by I. Ignatov

“…Mineral water has been renowned for its health benefits for over two millennia, with historical records indicating its use for rapid recovery and wound healing, especially among soldiers engaged in military activities. Over time, baths with mineral water became popular for therapeutic purposes. …”
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