Designing Advanced Respiratory Protective Devices for Pandemics Performance Mechanism and Future Perspectives identifies emerging and critical issues that directly or indirectly influence the protective performance of Respiratory Protective Devices RPDs along with important future research directions The severity of the COVID 19 pandemic emphasizes the vital role of respiratory protection provided by PPE and RPD in novel infectious respiratory disease control A wealth of recent research on coronavirus mitigation measures is combined with prior information on infectious diseases RPDs and human physiological and psychological responses to make this a fundamental resource on recent advances innovative perspectives on respiratory protection and new applications The effectiveness of such disease control measures rely greatly on the performance of the RPD user compliance and proper use Only an interdisciplinary approach to this issue can lead to success

Why are the same planning failures that led to the loss of 2,400 Americans at Pearl Harbor apparent in the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina response, Virginia Tech shootings, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? Why are we surprised when cyber-attacks disrupt our IT systems, internal spies publish our protected information, mentally ill or volatile individuals attack police and innocent people, and trusted state or federal employees turn out to be untrustworthy and release critical secrets to enemies or the world? These are all attributable to failures in the ability of people to work together, or collaborate, for our protection. The failure is not that of the first responders or warfighters, to whom this book is dedicated. On the contrary, these heroes must show superior initiative and risk self-sacrifice while the stove-piped-organization system planners and vendors with no skin in the game risk nothing. Part I of our book explains to both the general reader and homeland security experts alike, what individual and organizational factors are needed to establish a collaborative environment. Part II, looks at the important contributions of actual homeland security practitioners. These practitioners describe the role of human collaboration in making peace, bombing the Third Reich (by a member of the Greatest Generation), disaster management, etc. Finally, in Part III, we describe a methodology for comprehensive collaboration planning (CCP) to optimize planning for day-to-day or rare "grey swan" or unexpected "black swan" events. In the end, we show that achieving these five collaboration factors ultimately requires direct interaction between the people involved in any homeland security endeavor, and not the technology they envision, develop, buy, sell, deploy, operate and sustain. It does not matter what you buy if the people who use it - or with whom they must collaborate in a crisis as well as day-to-day unexpected events - do not have their act together.

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police students career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project, following police students in seven European countries. The unique data material makes it possible to explore a wide range of topics relevant to the future development of policing, police education and police science more generally.Part I presents an overview of the different goals and models of police education in the seven participating countries. Part II describes what type of student is attracted to police education, taking into consideration educational background, political orientation and career aspirations. Part III shows the social impact of police education by examining students orientations towards emerging competence areas; students career aspirations; and students attitudes concerning trust, cynicism and legalism.The overall results show that police students are strikingly similar across different types of police education. Students in academic institutions are at least as interested in street patrolling as students in vocational training institutions. Gender and recruitment policies matters more in relation to career preferences than education models. The national context plays a more important role than the type of police education system. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology, sociology, social theory and cultural studies and those interested in how police education shapes its graduates.

Stockholm International Peac The 35th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2003 in R S4curity and conflicts o Military spending and armaments o Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control. Studies in this volume: o Iraq: the legacy o Euro-Atlantic organizations and relationships o The Iraq war: enduring controversies and challenges o Major armed conflicts and multilateral peace missions o Post-conflict justice: developments in international courts o China''s new security multilateralism and implications for the Asia-Pacific region o National defence reform and the African Union o Security sector reform in the Western Balkans o Sciences and technology-based military innovation: the United States and Europe. o World military expenditure and arms production o Military expenditure in the Middle East and the Iraq war o Arms industries in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine o International arms transfers and the suppliers of ballistic missile technology o Biological weapons and potential indicators of offensive biological weapon activities o Major trends in arms control and non-proliferation o Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, world nuclear forces and ballistic missile defence o Chemical and biological warfare developments and arms control o The SARS epidemic and biochemical weapon threats o Conventional arms control o Transfer controls and arms destruction programmes o Withdrawal from arms control treaties The annual accounts and analyses are extensively footnoted, providing a comprehensive bibliography in each subject area.

El volumen IV, que ahora prologamos, corresponde al periodo de la ejecución de la Empresa de Inglaterra, a partir del 16 de febrero de 1588, en que el duque de Medina Sidonia comunica al secretario Idiaquez el acuse de recibo de la noticia sobre la intencion real de encomendarle el mando de la armada, hasta los ultimos flecos testimoniales que dejo la jornada en buen numero de archivos españoles y extranjeros. Son 3.053 documentos trascritos varios tienen numeracion bis que agregados a los 4.171 ya publicados, suman un total de 7.224 ordenados cronologicamente. Para no alargar excesivamente la amplitud del Corpus, hemos adoptado la decision de omitir la version inglesa de los documentos españoles publicados por Martin A. S. Hume en los Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs Preserved in, or Originally Belonging to the Archives of Simancas, tal como fueron incluidos en los volumenes precedentes.