Building resilience with the Stress Resilience Training System: Design validation and applications.

Background: Resilience to stress is critical in today's military service. Past work has shown that experts handle stress in more productive ways compared to novices. Training that specifically addresses stress regulation, such as the Graduated Stress Exposure paradigm, can build individual and unit resilience as well as adaptability so that stressors trigger effective stress coping skills rather than stress injury.

Police department personnel stress resilience training: an institutional case study.

The objective of this case study was to test the impact in law enforcement personnel of an innovative self-regulation and resilience building program delivered via an iPad (Apple Inc, Cupertino, California) app and personal mentoring. The Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS) app includes training on stress and its effects, HRV coherence biofeedback, a series of HeartMath self-regulation techniques (The Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, California), and HRV-controlled games. The stressful nature of law enforcement work is well established, and the need for meaningful and effective stress resilience training programs is becoming better understood, as it has been in the military.

Flaw strength distributions and statistical parameters for ceramic fibers: the normal distribution.

The present paper investigates large sets of ceramic fibre failure strengths (500 to 1000 data) produced using tensile tests on tows that contained either 500 or 1000 filaments. The probability density function was determined through acoustic emission monitoring which allowed detection and counting of filament fractures. The statistical distribution of filament strengths was described using the normal distribution.

Leadership 99. Interview by Terese Hudson.

Cost control, customer service and collaboration among health care sectors rank as top concerns with panelists in H&HN's annual Leadership Report. Efforts to improve community health are a priority, too, but are often frustrated by financial and other constraints. The 16 panelists represent managed care, physicians, and hospitals and health systems.