In his book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond points out that the most environmentally stressed places in the world are the most likely to have conflicts, which then generate refugees.
The shooting has renewed debate over the stresses placed on troops that have deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I have borne witness, firsthand, that their behavior often derives from an inability to cope with the stresses placed on them, mostly from the educational system.
At some junctures its metal skin will peel open to frame the views; at others, a grid of diagonal braces — their pattern reflecting the uneven stresses placed on the building's frame — will evoke the stays of a corset.
More complex than simple overwork, they say, it is increasingly associated with the stresses placed on this society since it began its dramatic economic slide more than 10 years ago.
Researchers from the university's Biodynamics Laboratory measured the stresses placed on the spine when 22 healthy people and 22 patients with lower back pain were put through the same set of motions and tasks, like lifting.
"The fourth quarter of 2008 is going to be remembered for the severe stresses placed on the global economy and on our industry," Dirk Meyer, A.M.D.'s president and chief executive, told analysts.
Still, Mr. Gates's decision is a sign that the administration recognizes the intolerable stresses placed on the overstretched military — and the men and women who are its core — and is committed to finding relief.
Consequently, the EX horses may be better prepared for future mechanical stresses placed upon them.
In 1892, J. Wolff, an orthopedic surgeon, stated that the internal architecture and shape of a bone were related to the direction of stresses placed upon it.
