Introduction: The risk of radioactivity addresses human life directly. The natural rock radioactivity is mainly due to 232Th, 238U), and 40K series. Activities involving blasting, crushing, and processing of rocks into numerous pieces lead to release of radionuclides into the atmosphere in the form of dust particles. M...

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

BACKGROUND The current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have involved U.S. military personnel in major ground combat and hazardous security duty. Studies are needed to systematically assess the mental health of members of the armed services who have participated in these operations and to inform policy with regard to the optimal delivery of mental health care to returning veterans. M...

BACKGROUND Differences in the characteristics and mental health needs of female veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan war compared with those of veterans of other wars may have useful implications for VA program and treatment planning. METHODS Female veterans reporting service in the Iraq/Afghanistan war were compared with women reporting service in the Persian Gulf and Vietnam wars and to men rep...

Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Department of Ecology and Environment Conservation, Omsk State Pedagogical Univ...

principle." This labelling is somewhat confusing given that desert as a limiting principle is neither new, having blossomed most recently with Norval Morris several decades ago, nor compatible with empirical desert. The latter provides a specific punishment amount, while the former claims that desert can only identify the extremes that mark the outer boundaries of a broad range of punishment. S...

At 0100 hours on 17 January 1991, eight AH-64 Apaches from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) depart from a staging airfield in Western Saudi Arabia on a mission code-named “Normandy.” The decisive point of the operation is the destruction of two key Iraqi radar sites located about 35 miles apart. Split into two teams of four in order to service both targets at once, both teams conduct a...

In April 2002, 17 American prisoners of war (POWs) and 37 of their family members brought an action in federal district court in Washington, D.C., against the Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi Intelligence Service for torture the POWs alleged they endured in 1991, following their capture during Operation Desert Storm. This action was the first in which prisoners of war sued a sove...

1Directorate General of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Institute of Tuberculosis and Chest Disease, Baghdad, Iraq. 3 Department of Community Medicine, Al Nahrain Medical College, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT Over a period of 6 months the effect of home visits on compliance with directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS), was studied on 480 new smear-positive tuberculosi...