Efficacy of Isothermic Conditioning over Military-Based Heat Acclimatization and Interval Training in Tropical Native Ma...
10.1249/MSS.0000000000002991 / MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE / 54 / 11 / 1925-1935
Myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination and non-COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis
10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00059-5 / LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE / 10 / 7 / 679-688
Education Under the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: A Content Analysis of the Physical Education Curriculum
status: published
Sexual harassment at work within Belgian Defence: a prevalence study
INTRODUCTION: Sexual harassment (SH) at work can have an impact on the general health and well-being and on the productivity of the employee. To date, the Belgian Armed Forces do not have any accurate data about SH. Therefore, this study assessed the prevalence of SH within Belgian Defence. METHODS: The prevalence of SH and staff mental well-being ...
Pluralising political forests : unpacking 'the state' by tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain
Peering through the lens of illegal charcoal production in the forested areasof Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this paper makes a case for disaggregating the notion of“the state”to better capture “the political” in contemporary political forests. It argues that to identify the fluctuating importance of different ...
Diet Quality Is Associated with Physical Performance and Special Forces Selection.
Published in Medicine and science in sports and exercise
This study determined associations between diet quality measured by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015, physical performance, and successful selection following a U.S. Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection course characterized by arduous cognitive and physical demands. The HEI-2015 scores were calculated from usual diet assessed with a Bloc...
Do transitional justice measures help foster democratic security forces?
Transitional justice faces growing expectations about its ability to support democratisation processes in countries transitioning from conflict and/or authoritarian rule. Empirical research investigating these claims, however, remains divided on its effects. Certain aspects also remain under-explored, such as transitional justice’s impact on the se...
Attracting applicants through the organization’s social media page : signaling employer brand personality
The purpose of this study is to examine how potential applicants’ exposure to an organization’s social media page relates to their subsequent organizational attractiveness perceptions and word-of-mouth intentions. Based on signaling theory and the theory of symbolic attraction, we propose that potential applicants rely on perceived communication ch...
Lower Limb Posture Affects the Mechanism of Injury in Under-Body Blast
Published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Over 80% of wounded Service Members sustain at least one extremity injury. The ‘deck-slap’ foot, a product of the vehicle’s floor rising rapidly when attacked by a mine to injure the limb, has been a signature injury in recent conflicts. Given the frequency and severity of these combat-related extremity injuries, they require the greatest utilisati...
The counterinsurgency/conservation nexus : guerrilla livelihoods and the dynamics of conflict and violence in the Virung...
The growing militarisation of nature conservation has refocused attention on the relations between counterinsurgency and conservation. This contribution analyses how these two phenomena entwine in the Virunga National Park, located in the war-ridden east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It examines how this entwinement relates to dynamics o...
