An achilles heel of Chinese shipbuilding
.我之前写过，世界造船业似乎集中在中国、韩国和日本，欧洲的造船业很少，北美几乎没有造船业：/2023/07/shipbuilding-disparity-and-usn.html因此，美国在海上军备竞赛的简单呼吁面临着糟糕的工业基础。现在我想补充一些信息，这些信息会对此有很大帮助，同时也会降低警报级别：中国几乎不生产船用柴油发动机。船舶通常由两种发动机类型中的一种驱动；大型船用柴油发动机或燃气轮机。燃气轮机几乎只与快速战舰有关。建造采用 COGOG 推进系统（燃气和天然气混合推进系统）的军舰是可能的，它使用两台巡航燃气轮机和两台冲刺燃气轮机，但燃气轮机在巡航方面的效率低于船用柴油机。我查阅了关
DOD Announces Web Special on Syria
4 月 14 日，国防部在国防部网页上发起了关于“国际对阿萨德化学武器的反应”的网络特别报道，网址为 https://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/Syria/。此网络特辑提供了一个位置，让记者可以找到有关国际社会对阿萨德政权使用化学武器的反应的图像、概况介绍、文字记录和官方声明
Too few kids get the HPV vaccine. Did you all not watch my video?
From the CDC: To assess progress with HPV vaccination coverage among adolescents aged 13–17 years,* characterize adherence with recommendations for HPV vaccination by the 13th birthday, and describe HPV vaccine adverse reports received postlicensure, CDC analyzed data from the 2007–2013 National Imm
Robert Weisman reports in today’s Boston Globe: While the White House seems destined to spend the next two years fending off attacks on President Obama’s health care law, the administration of Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts will push forward with the next stage of health care overhaul: tryi
You’d think we were all popping pills like crazy
But you’d be wrong: More than a quarter of Americans who take prescription drugs have skipped doses, split pills or cut other corners to save money in the last year, according to a new study by Consumer Reports… This telephone survey, of 1,154 adults who currently take at least one prescription drug
Pro-Competition vs. Pro-Business
Jay Greene of The Detroit Free Press (h/t Kaiser Health News) reports, The regulation — which establishes a competitive bidding process for companies that provide medical home equipment to Medicare patients and also limits the number of companies under contract — could drive out of business up to 90
