The F-4 Phantom II was the United States' primary air superiority fighter aircraft during the Vietnam War. This airplane epitomized American airpower doctrine during the early Cold War, which diminished the role of air-to-air combat and the air superiority mission. As a result, the F-4 struggled against the Soviet MiG fighters used by the North Vietnamese Air Force. By the end of the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign in 1968, the Phantom traded kills with MiGs at a nearly one-to-one ratio, the worst air combat performance in American history. The aircraft also regularly failed to protect American bombing formations from MiG attacks. A bombing halt from 1968 to 1972 provided a chance for American planners to evaluate their performance and make changes. The Navy began training pilots specifically for air combat, creating the Navy Fighter Weapons School known as "Top Gun" for this purpose. The Air Force instead focused on technological innovation and upgrades to their equipment. The resumption of bombing and air combat in the 1972 Linebacker campaigns proved that the Navy's training practices were effective, while the Air Force's technology changes were not, with kill ratios becoming worse. However, the last three months of the campaign introduced an American ground radar system that proved more effective than Top Gun in improving air-to-air combat performance. By the end of the Vietnam War, the Air Force and Navy overcame the inherent problems with the Phantom, which were mostly of their own making.

Films are a reflection of their time, and portrayals of the Vietnamese in film are reflective of the attitudes of American culture and society toward Vietnamese people. Films are particularly important because for many viewers, all they know about Vietnam and the Vietnamese is what they have seen on screen. This is why it is so important to examine the racist portrayals of the Vietnamese that have been presented, where they come from, and how and why they have changed. The significance of this study is that it combines historical studies of issues such as immigration, race relations, and cultural history with literary narratives of these films to explore the reasons why the Vietnamese have been portrayed initially so negatively and why that portrayal is only recently beginning to become more positive. I use six major Hollywood films and three recurring images to explore the ways that the portrayal of the Vietnamese has changed over time. Through a study of the images of the dehumanized enemy, the Vietnamese woman as prostitute, and Vietnamese civilians as backward peasants, the changing nature of racism in the films becomes evident. Blatant racism is found in the films of the 1960s and 1970s due to a long history of racism toward Asians and Asian Americans and the nature of the war itself. The films of the 1980s and beyond, coupled with the waves of refugees and opening of relations with Vietnam begin to show the Vietnamese as human beings. The most recent film of the twenty-first century honors the former enemy. There have been vast improvements, but other advancements remain to be made in race relations on screen and in real life.

Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel on 21 July 1954 with the signing of the Geneva Accords. During the following three hundred days, between 600,000 and one million Vietnamese civilians traveled from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. Three hundred thousand of these individuals were transported in the United States Navy's evacuation efforts, dubbed Operation Passage to Freedom. The Navy recognized the propaganda value of the evacuation from areas under communist control, but American audiences did not respond to the coverage afforded to the American operation. In 1956, a year after the completion of the evacuation, Dr. Thomas Dooley released Deliver Us from Evil, a first-hand account of his own experiences in Vietnam during the evacuation. This book enjoyed literary success and became a bestseller. This study explores the reasons Dooley enjoyed propagandistic success while other pieces of propaganda failed to sustain American interest.

The purpose of this study was to identify in what way health care staff at a psychiatric facility in Vietnam support patients with mental illness to participate in society. This research is based on a qualitative interview study with inductive reasoning and semi-structured interviews. The participants were mental health professionals at the applicable facility. The respondents consisted of a total of ten health care professionals and the participants were recruited using snowball sampling. Content analysis according to Lundman & Graneheim-Hällgren (2017) was used to examine the data. The results eventuated in individual-based interventions that consist of the different ways the staff supports the individual patient such as validating, advising, coaching and encouraging. The findings also resulted in several strategies for group-based interventions such as rehabilitation efforts and creative activities. There were also interventions regarding cooperation with the family and the community where the staff work together with the community to have the patient return to a varied social life. The staff at the psychiatric facility have several ways of working with supporting the patients to participate in society; by individual-based interventions, group-based interventions and cooperation with the family and the community.

This paper examines the evolution of government policy through Congressional debate and citizen involvement on the topic of Agent Orange. Use of primary sources from newspaper and journal articles, Congressional records, scientific studies, and press releases and some secondary literature by scholars from multiple disciplines builds a picture of the ongoing debate of Agent Orange and its two component herbicides from circa 1940 to 1991. Within this paper are four primary focuses, divided into three parts. First, the Congressional discussions prior to 1970 of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, the two herbicides that comprise Agent Orange. Second and third, discussed in the same section, the involvement of the scientific community and the ratification of the Geneva Protocol. Lastly, the movement after the Vietnam War for veteran benefits due to Agent Orange exposure.

CHIKV is the prototype of Alphaviruses and it causes an acute febrile illness with rash, severely painful arthralgias, and sometimes arthritis. While CHIKV has first been identified in the 1950s in Africa, recent outbreaks of CHIKV in the islands of the Indian Ocean and particular in Italia have re-drawn attention to CHIKV. In the past CHIKV disease was considered self-limiting and non-fatal. However, a number of deaths on Reunion (Anonym, 2006) during the outbreak, which was affected directly or indirectly by CHIKV, have changed this view. To defeat CHIKV outbreaks diagnostic tools and anti CHIKV therapies are urgently needed. In this thesis, we generated tools to investigate CHIKV at the molecular level by serological tests. CHIKV was isolated from a German woman who was infected during her holidays on the Mauritius Island. To characterize this viral isolate the complete viral genome was amplified by PCR and molecular cloned. In order to analyse antibody responses of infected individuals some of the structural and non-structural genes were subcloned in bacterial expression vectors. The NSP2, proteinase, capsid, E1 and E2 were subsequently expressed in E.coli using purified successfully. In this thesis, the structural proteins were used to develop a screening test for anti-CHIKV antibodies in patient derived serum samples. These tests were evaluated with pre-characterized anti-CHIKV sera (30 samples) obtained from the BNI Hamburg and 100 serum samples from German blood donors used as negative controls. Immunoblotting analysis revealed that up to 77% of precharacterised positive sera could recognize the recombinant proteins and there were no detectable reactivity of CHIKV-negative German donor sera. The recombinant proteins were also recognized by 71.4% of positive sera in the newly established ELISA. In order to go further in analyses of the results, an in house IFA was performed. Positive sera (21 samples) were used. The results showed that all of them reacted positive, but this assay was less sensitive than the IFA from BNI. In comparison with the IFA result from BNI Hamburg, the results were not congruent in all test performed. This could be due to various drawbacks of the tests. A cross reaction in Alphaviruses and the different strains are mentioned as well as the denatured forms of the structural proteins. Besides the main structural proteins (E1, E2 and C), other proteins such as non-structural proteins, uncleaved precursor proteins could participate in the different outcomes of serological assays. In order to go further in the CHIKV diagnoses, the CHIKV recombinant proteins were applied to screen the anti-CHIKV antibodies in the Vietnamese population, who are considered to live in the high risk regions. In serological tests, 158 sera of Vietnamese donors were incubated with the recombinant proteins or the fixed CHIKV infected cells. The results showed that 24% of Vietnamese donor sera recognized the recombinant proteins in immunoblot assay, while 36% scored positive in the ELISA assay. In IFA, the sera considered positive were 11.4%. While some discrepancies in serological tests were found, these results showed that the ratio of CHIKV-positive sera seem to be equal to the other regions in the world, which are affected by CHIKV. It is suggested that CHIKV infection in Vietnam has been repeatedly misdiagnosed. This study cohort consisted only of samples originating from Hanoi area of Northern Vietnam, thus, future studies should expand to include samples from other Vietnam areas. To do this the various subtypes of the virus in the different regions should be isolated and the sequences of these viruses should be well characterized.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / OBJECTIVES: "Americans in Exile," a two-part documentary series for radio is an endeavor to shed some light on a subject which has been shrouded in confusion and, in many cases, simplistic thinking: draft dodgers and deserters in Canada. [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

Thesis advisor: Seth Jacobs / The vice presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Humphrey H. Humphrey were momentous stages in both of their political careers. After leaving the position of Senate majority leader to become John F. Kennedy’s vice president, Johnson underwent a swift, total decrease in political efficacy. Those dark years impacted how he tackled the presidency, particularly in the handling of his own vice president. As Johnson’s vice president, Humphrey also watched the political power he had accrued as Senate majority whip evaporate. In an attempt to impress Johnson, Humphrey overcompensated and became a disciple for the Johnson administration’s unpopular war in Vietnam, destroying any chance Humphrey had to further his political career past the vice presidency. I argue that while their terms as vice presidents—Johnson’s was less than three years long and Humphrey’s was four years—were short periods of time in the grand scheme of their long careers, they were highly consequential for both men and severely damaging for Humphrey. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: History.

陳美美. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1-10 (last group)). / Chen Meimei. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1987. / 撮要 / 內容目錄 / 圖表目錄 / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 滯港越南難民的來源 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 香港越南難民目前情況 --- p.5 / Chapter 第三節 --- 目前難民服務提供情況 --- p.7 / Chapter 第四節 --- 研究原因 (Rationale of the Study) --- p.9 / Chapter 第五節 --- 研究課題 --- p.13 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻探討 --- p.15 / Chapter 第一節 --- 難民問題在其它國家的研究 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二節 --- 各國提供社會服務的情況 --- p.28 / Chapter 第三節 --- 香港越南難民的問題研究 --- p.36 / Chapter 第四節 --- 難民服務在香港 --- p.46 / Chapter 第五節 --- 總結 --- p.54 / Chapter 第三章 --- 理論架構 --- p.57 / Chapter 第一節 --- 有關需要之概念 --- p.58 / Chapter 第二節 --- 成人階段的成長需要 --- p.69 / Chapter 第三節 --- 本港越南難民的需情況 --- p.75 / Chapter 第四章 --- 研究方法( Methodology ) --- p.79 / Chapter 第一節 --- 假定( Assumption ) --- p.79 / Chapter 第二節 --- 名詞界定 --- p.80 / Chapter 第三節 --- 研究設計( Research Design ) --- p.88 / Chapter 第四節 --- 研究的總體( Population )及樣本( Sampling ) --- p.89 / Chapter 第五節 --- 研究的量度工具( Measuring Instrument ) --- p.91 / Chapter 第六節 --- 預試研究 --- p.99 / Chapter 第七節 --- 資料搜集過程 --- p.100 / Chapter 第八節 --- 資料分析 --- p.105 / Chapter 第五章 --- 研究結果──研究對象的背景資料( Profile of the Respondents ) --- p.107 / Chapter 第一節 --- 被訪者的背景資料 --- p.108 / Chapter 第二節 --- 背景資料的討論與總結 --- p.125 / Chapter 第三節 --- 總結 --- p.133 / Chapter 第六章 --- 研究結果分析──五種需要的情況 --- p.135 / Chapter 第一節 --- 五種需要的特性分析情況 --- p.136 / Chapter 第二節 --- 被訪者個人社會經濟背景與各種需要之關係 --- p.161 / Chapter 第三節 --- 五種需要情況之分論 --- p.199 / Chapter 第四節 --- 總結 --- p.219 / Chapter 第七章 --- 研究結果分析──社會服務提供情況 --- p.223 / Chapter 第一節 --- 有關被訪者對社會服務的使用情況 --- p.224 / Chapter 第二節 --- 需要與社會服務二者間之關係 --- p.227 / Chapter 第八章 --- 總論及建議 --- p.236 / Chapter 第一節 --- 總論 --- p.236 / Chapter 第二節 --- 建議 --- p.240 / Chapter 第三節 --- 研究局限 --- p.247 / 附錄(一) 至(二) / 參考書目

曹仕邦. / 手稿本. / 論文(碩士) - 香港中文大學. / 參考文獻 : leaves 211-219. / Cao Shibang. / Chapter 第一編 --- 導論 / Chapter 第一章 --- 佛教對越南獨立初期在政治上所起的作用 / Chapter 第二編 --- 李朝 / Chapter 第二章 --- 李朝僧徒與政治的關係-----------兼論儒學的抬頭 / Chapter (一) --- 萬行法師與李朝的創業 / Chapter (二) --- 李太宗對僧徒的籠絡 / Chapter (三) --- 草堂法師與李聖宗 / Chapter (四) --- 枯頭國師與李仁宗空路、覺海、徐道行附 / Chapter (五) --- 阮明空與李神宗 / Chapter (六) --- 僧徒的外學修養略論 / Chapter (七) --- 李朝儒學的抬頭 / Chapter 第三章 --- 李朝度僧建寺等布施活動及政治作用 / Chapter (一) --- 度民為僧的政治作用及其影響 / Chapter (二) --- 施助建寺造鐘像及其政治目的 / Chapter (三) --- 從書寫佛經看越人對宋的觀感 / Chapter (四) --- 法會釋囚與政治上的奪權鬥爭 / Chapter 第三編 --- 陳朝 / Chapter 第四章 --- 陳朝弘揚教的政治原因與帝室敬信的真正態度 / Chapter (一) --- 得國神話的宣傳及其原因 / Chapter (二) --- 上皇出家為僧與權力的保留附後妃出家 / Chapter (三) --- 文人政治的抬頭與僧人政治勢力的衰退 / Chapter 第五章 --- 陳朝「弘揚」佛教的成績和所引起的社會經濟問題 / Chapter (一) --- 陳朝的建寺與鑄鐘 / Chapter (二) --- 冗僧問題與沙汰僧徒 / Chapter (三) --- 從儒家及佛文章看陳朝佛教的社會潛勢力 / Chapter 第四編 --- 黎朝 / Chapter 第六章 --- 從黎朝提倡儒學看佛教在社會上的潛勢力 / Chapter (一) --- 明朝對越南儒學和佛教的統治手段 / Chapter (二) --- 略論黎朝提倡儒學的政策與目的 / Chapter (三) --- 官貴的侫佛與居寺 / Chapter (四) --- 從借佛教號召起義看佛教在民間的根基 / Chapter 第七章 --- 佛教流弊所導致的社會經濟等問題與黎朝政府的對策 / Chapter (一) --- 黎朝初期對佛教的籠絡 / Chapter (二) --- 佛教本身的腐敗 / Chapter (三) --- 黎朝對建寺的限制 / Chapter (四) --- 私度及冒僧的嚴禁 / 結語 / 徵引書目