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...

This research paper takes from some of the narrative structures in novel “The Scattered Fatty” by Mohsen Al-Romali as its subject. It also moves to talk about another structure on which was based, is language that narrator used his narration techniques he adopted course events. The researcher sought cite texts fit position theoretical aspects were mentioned multiplications order complete artist...

In the week before the 2003 American attack on Iraq, the effects of authoritarianism and the social dominance orientation on support for the attack were examined. Based on prior research on the nature of these constructs, a structural model was developed and tested. As predicted, authoritarianism strengthened support for the attack by intensifying the perception that Iraq threatened America. So...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...

BACKGROUND The environment for medical education in Iraq has been difficult for many years. The 2003 invasion of Iraq accelerated a steady emigration of faculty and graduates. Kidnappings and deaths of doctors became commonplace. To understand current career plans, expectations and perceptions of medical students, three Baghdad medical schools were surveyed. METHODS Written questionnaires wer...

O n 29 March 2011 Professor Mohammed Alwan, dean of AlMustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad and my uncle, was assassinated. A bomb was planted in his car and exploded as he got in after leaving his medical practice. He was a distinguished academic and surgeon who was respected by his students, and he was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Within a week, another clinical acad...

In 2004, the Lancet published results from a survey that estimated the death toll attributable to the conflict in Iraq until then at almost 100,000. Since that moment, the topic has been subject of a large debate among scientists. Besides this publication, four other surveys conducted in Iraq reported data on mortality due to the conflict. Although each one of these studies had its own specific...

Massoud Sokouti, Peyman Rezaei, Morteza Ghojazadeh, Mohsen Sokouti, Ramin Sadeghi, Saeid Pashazadeh, Saeid Eslami. Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Health Information Technology, School of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Liver & ...

Hyun Yong Jin, Hiroyo Oda, Maoyi Lai, Rebecca L Skalsky, Kelly Bethel, Jovan Shepherd, Seung Goo Kang, Wen-Hsien Liu, Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi, Bryan R Cullen, Klaus Rajewsky and Changchun Xiao* Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, Kellogg School of Science and Technology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, Department of ...