Publications by authors named "Alma Cooper"
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- The U.S. Army struggled to meet its 2022 recruitment goals, prompting consideration of raising BMI eligibility standards to widen the pool of potential recruits.
- A data analysis using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey identified five clusters based on metabolic syndrome risk, with two clusters exceeding current Army BMI thresholds.
- While recruits in Cluster 1 pose significant health risks and costs, those in Cluster 3 seem to have comparatively low risks, suggesting they may be suitable candidates to help boost recruitment numbers.
This research seeks to support reconnaissance efforts against homemade explosives (HMEs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which are leading causes of combat casualties in recent conflicts. The successful deployment of a passive sensor to be developed for first responders and military must take expense, training requirements, and physical burden all into consideration. By harnessing the size-dependent luminescence of quantum dots (QDs) being electrospun into polymer fibers, the authors of this work hope to progress toward the development of lightweight, multivariable, inexpensive, easy to use and interpret, field-applicable sensors capable of detecting explosive vapors.
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