In 1917 at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference, it was acknowledged that venereal diseases were not being contained either in France or England and they were seriously impeding the fighting capacity of the forces.

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Seawater intrusion is also an issue, said Tareq Al-Ansari, a graduate trainee at Imperial College in London, in a presentation at the conference.

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The data showed the average forces of a soccer-ball header were similar to those exerted on the head by punches from amateur boxers, according to Daniel Plant, a researcher in Imperial's department of mechanical engineering, who presented the data Friday at a helmet-safety science conference at the university.

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