Everything about Non-commissioned officer

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Non-commissioned officerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The utility of the psycholexical approach for identifying military core values: Illustrated in a sample of Swiss career officers and NCOsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: BackboneThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: NCOS and D-branes in time-dependent backgroundsCited 44 times
5. Go sideways: MessA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Comparison of United Kingdom and United States military ranksA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• NCOS and D-branes in time-dependent backgrounds

  Rong-Gen Cai, Jian-Xin Lu, Nobuyoshi Ohta · 2003 · Physics Letters B · 44 citations

• 1+1 DIMENSIONAL NCOS AND ITS U(N) GAUGE THEORY DUAL

  IGOR R. KLEBANOV, JUAN MALDACENA · 2001 · International Journal of Modern Physics A · 29 citations

• $1+1$ dimensional NCOS and its $U(N)$ gauge theory dual

  Igor R. Klebanov, Juan Maldacena · 2000 · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics · 25 citations

• Near‐field confocal optical spectroscopy (NCOS): subdiffraction optical resolution for biological systems

  P. G. HAYDON, S. MARCHESE-RAGONA, T. A. BASARSKY · 1996 · Journal of Microscopy · 13 citations

• The Influence of Training, Reluctance, Efficacy, and Stigma on Suicide Intervention Behavior Among NCOs in the Army and Marine Corps

  Lynsay Ayer, Rajeev Ramchand, Lily Geyer · 2016 · The Journal of Primary Prevention · 12 citations

• Personality Attributes as Predictors of Psychological Well-Being for NCOs

  H. Canan Sumer, Reyhan Bilgic, Nebi Sumer · 2005 · The Journal of Psychology · 12 citations

• On the nature of the Hagedorn transition in NCOS systems

  Jose L.F Barbón, Eliezer Rabinovici · 2001 · Journal of High Energy Physics · 11 citations

• What Factors Influenced Turkish Military Officers’ and NCOs’ Motivation to Serve Prior to the July 2016 Coup Attempt?

  Cihan Aydiner, Ugur Orak, Ozgur Solakoglu · 2019 · Armed Forces & Society · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The utility of the psycholexical approach for identifying military core values: Illustrated in a sample of Swiss career officers and NCOs

  Nadine Eggimann Zanetti, Willibald Ruch, Hubert Annen · 2023 · Military Psychology · 4 citations

• Military Professionalism, Power, and the Division of Labor: The Case of the Reintroduction of NCOs in the Swedish Armed Forces

  Christopher Dandeker, Karl Ydén · 2022 · Armed Forces & Society · 3 citations

• Degrees of Canal Stenosis, Levels of Interleukin-6 (IL-6) And C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Preoperative as Predictors of the Output of Neurogenic Claudication Outcome Score (NCOS) 8 Weeks Post-Decompression-Stabilization-Fusion in Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Patients

  Nyoman Gede Bimantara, I Ketut Suyasa, I Gede Eka Wiratnaya · 2022 · International Journal of Health Sciences and Research · 1 citations

• A Study on Variables Affecting Learning Agility: Focusing on Army Officers & NCOs

  The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, Soonwon Choi · 2023 · The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence · 0 citations

• NCOS Online and the Future of Port Operations: Insights from the Digital Integration at the Port of Hamburg, Germany

  Hisham Elsafti, Stefan Leschka, Prema S. Bhautoo · 2024 · International Maritime Transport and Logistic Journal · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• BackboneJulia Dye · 2011
• Handbook for Marine NCOsRobert Debs Heinl · 1970
• HirschfeldWolfgang Hirschfeld · 1996
• 📕Aids to scouting for NCOs and menRobert Baden-Powell · 1919
• The NCO guideDan Cragg · 1982
• Handbook for Marine NCOsKenneth W. Estes · 1996
• NCO guideFrank Cox · 1992
• NCO guideRobert S. Rush · 2010

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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