On defense ties, Singapore began hosting a US Navy logistics command and regular stopovers by US military ships and aircraft in 1992—following the closure of US military bases in the Philippines—even as its procurement of US military equipment increased (Huxley 2000: 412–419). This was ...
Service members in the Army and Marine Corps had higher crude rates of suicide than service members from the Air Force and Navy. Finally, consistent with the baseline age pattern for suicide rates, service members in junior enlisted ranks had the highest rate of suicide. In the total cohort,...
One study in Navy recruits (n = 40) found that high hair cadmium levels were significantly correlated with lower reading levels and behavioral problems but the analysis did not consider potential confounding [2]. Another small study (n = 31) evaluated occupationally exposed workers from ...
[0129] Once potentially optimum solutions are found by using the GA, the most fit GA solution may be further optimized by local searches. An alternative embodiment of the invention uses the simplex method to further refine the optimized GA solution. [0129] [0130] The autocropping system may a...