Veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War have reported a variety of physical and psychological symptoms, some of which remain unexplained. In an eff ort to do everything possible to understand and explain the illnesses, inform veterans and the public, and recommend changes in Department of Defense (DoD) policies and procedures to minimize such problems in the future, the Secretary of Defense in 19...

Symptoms and illnesses reported by veterans of the 1991 Gulf War era are a cause of potential concern for those military members who have deployed to theGulf region in support of more recent contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the present study, we quantified self-reported symptoms from participants in the Millennium Cohort Study, a prospective study representing all US service b...

during the fifth and sixth centuries a.h, the persian gulf faced a recession in its commerce; instead, the centrality of the international maritime trade was transferred to the red sea and mediterranean region at the time. emergence of the kish island, as a significant trade area in the persian gulf region goes back to the mid-sixth century a.h. efforts made by a local tribe known as bani qaysa...

mohammad-karim pirnia, one of the most prominent scholars of the history of iranian architecture, has recorded two major achievements: the principles of iranian architecture and the stylistics of iranian architecture. in this article we will discuss his suggested principles for iranian architecture. for this purpose, we will first show how his five principles have evolved and completed through ...

Media coverage of third party peace initiatives [1] a case of peace journalism? Inhalt 1. Media and conflict escalation 1 2. Media coverage of alternative ways to settle the Gulf War 2 2.1 Method 2 2.2 Empirical results 5 3. Limitations of quantitative analysis 7 4. Media coverage of third party peace initiatives 8 4.1 Method 8 Though the coverage of alternatives to violence can be regarded as ...

BACKGROUND Military intelligence data published in a companion paper explain how chemical fallout from US and Coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons facilities early in the air campaign transited long distance, triggering nerve agent alarms and exposing US troops. We report the findings of a population-based survey designed to test competing hypotheses on the impact on chronic Gulf War ill...