Poor performance on tasks requiring response inhibition has been observed among chronically ill veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Semantic difficulties have also been reported. We collected event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral data from 25 Gulf War veterans who complained of cognitive difficulties and from 23 matched controls, who were deployed but not symptomatic, while they perfo...

Beyond the information stored in pages of the World Wide Web, novel types of "meta-information" are created when pages connect to each other. Such meta-information is a collective effect of independent agents writing and linking pages, hidden from the casual user. Accessing it and understanding the interrelation between connectivity and content in the World Wide Web is a challenging problem [Bo...

OBJECTIVE This longitudinal study investigated the health effects of experiences during World War II among veterans by examining how well-being changed across the postwar years and varied by prewar individual attributes. METHOD The subjects were men from the Stanford-Terman data archives who served in World War II and were born before 1925 (N = 328). Of these veterans, 236 were known to have ...

political developments in algeria throughout the years after the second world war have attracted the attention of many analysts. a country that, due to its fights for independence as well as against colonialism, was a source of inspiration for many freedom fighter movements of the world, during the ending years of the last century, exposed to one of the most terrible violence and civil war. so ...

PURPOSE This article emerged from pilot research exploring experiences of war and suffering among African American veterans who served in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. Men's experiences as soldiers reflected both racism and the social change that occurred in the Unites States while they served. DESIGN AND METHODS We used techniques of narrative elicitation, conducting qualitative...

The principal thrust of this essay is to describe the current state of interaction between mathematics and the sciences and to relate the trends to the historical development of mathematics as an intellectual discipline and of the sciences as they have developed since the seventeenth century. This story is interesting in the context of the history of present-day mathematics because it represent...

In this article I examine the potential feeling of time travel – historical immersion – in the World War II games Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Wolfenstein 3D and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. To accomplish this, I make a semiotic analysis of visual and auditory signs based upon the three categories of space, time, and sound. I also consider the element of myth to be a...

The reports and studies of large numbers of cases of traumatic haemothorax, both during the 1939-45 war and at its termination, were of value from two points of view: they were immediately reflected in the treatment of patients, and they provided a record of developing treatment, which will enable future generations of physicians and surgeons to start where those of 1945 left off, should the ne...

JOHN LADA and FRANK A. REISTER (editors), Medical statistics in World War II, Washington D.C., Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1975, 8vo, pp. xvii, 1215, illus., $19.50. In World War II American troops were deployed in eight theatres, forming the largest force ever mobilized by the nation. This book contains, in 1129 pages of tables, the data concerning the battle casualt...

The Nanking Massacre of 1937 frequently has been described as a forgotten genocidal act or "Holocaust." Concentrating on atrocity as reflected in Japanese popular historical writing for children and adolescents since the 1960s, this essay argues that such war crimes are far from ignored. Representations of the Nanking Massacre in particular, and of Japanese World War II atrocities in general, h...