BACKGROUND Deployment to the 2003 Iraq War was associated with ill health in reserve armed forces personnel. AIMS To investigate reasons for the excess of ill health in reservists. METHOD UK personnel who were deployed to the 2003 Iraq War completed a health survey about experiences on deployment to Iraq. Health status was measured using self-report of common mental disorders, post-traumati...

Medical education in Iraq was one of the best educational systems in the region, especially during the 1980s. Following this golden period, the educational system suffered from regression and descent in both the academic curriculums that are taught and teaching techniques of both undergraduate and postgraduate physicians. This was due to multiple factors: including the wars, sectarian conflicts...

The article centers on Enchafèd Flood: Romantic Iconography of the Sea, a series Page-Barbour Lectures delivered by W. H. Auden at University Virginia in 1949, which he analyzed and late nineteenth-century images sea, contrasted with desert, giving partisan interpretation Melville’s selected prose (Moby-Dick particular). As his reconsideration iconography is underpinned political agenda, this I...

In this work we present the DESERT tool that allows the automatic generation of distributed monitoring systems for enhancing security and dependability of a component-based application at architectural level. The DESERT language permits to specify both the components interfaces and interaction properties in term of correct components communications. DESERT uses these specifications to generate ...

Sand glass deposits was located in the mid of the Western Desert of Iraq. It is situated within Rutba Formation (Ceno-manian). Ancient traditional mining method is still used in exploitation the unconsolidated white glass sand from glass sand quarry. The overburden thickness ranges from 2 to 4 m in average. Termite hills were observed around the glass sand quarry extending far from the quarry a...

BACKGROUND To convert deserts into arable, green landscapes is a global vision, and desert farming is a strong growing area of agriculture world-wide. However, its effect on diversity of soil microbial communities, which are responsible for important ecosystem services like plant health, is still not known. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We studied the impact of long-term agriculture on deser...

BACKGROUND This ecological study examines the relationship between food desert prevalence and academic achievement at the school district level. DESIGN AND METHODS Sample included 232 suburban and urban school districts in New York State. Multiple open-source databases were merged to obtain: 4(th) grade science, English and math scores, school district demographic composition (NYS Report Card...