a Visiting Professor to go for at least three months to Baghdad. The Ministry requested the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to nominate some" one to go and I was invited to do so by the President in May 1955. The University of Bristol, to whom I am grateful, agreed to grant me leave of absence far three months. The British Council in Baghdad arranged for me to go to Turkey on ...

he discovery, from the 1960s until the present, of a small corpus of about twenty texts concerning strings, tuning, and performance from ancient Iraq (loosely equivalent to “Mesopotamia”) and Syria has transformed our view of the earliest stages of music history. Not only is this corpus by far the earliest recorded expression of what might be called “music theory,” but these texts also belong t...

This research paper presents the workplace cultural diversity of a developing country (Iraq) and its role to make position is better than before. will examine vision diversity, in an organization, workplace, help organization success. The methods were used recognize importance using framework with specific measures, evaluate points view administrators decision-makers number companies Kurdistan ...

OUR PREVIOUS ARTICLE 1 DEscribed the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) screening efforts to identify mental health concerns among soldiers and Marines as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan using the Post-Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA). However, the article also raised concerns that mental health problems might be missed because of the early timing of this screening. It cited preliminary d...

BACKGROUND There is growing concern about an alleged rise in violent behaviour amongst military personnel returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of violence in a sample of U.K. military personnel following homecoming from deployment in Iraq and to examine the impact of deployment-related experiences, such as combat trauma, on v...

BACKGROUND Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a national survey). Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), which was conducted in 2006 and 2007, provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq. METHODS The IFHS is a nationally representative survey of 9...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Mosquitoes transmit diseases to >700 million people annually. Malaria kills three million persons every year, including one child every 30 sec. Worldwide there are >3000 mosquito species. In Iraq, 37 species have been identified in different surveys over several decades. We conducted an entomological survey to determine the mosquito species and their distribution in Iraq...

BACKGROUND Team training has been identified as a key strategy for reducing medical errors and building a culture of safety in health care. Communication and coordination skills can serve as barriers to potential errors, as in the modern deployed U.S. Military Healthcare System (MHS), which emphasizes rapid movement of critically injured patients to facilities capable of providing definitive ca...

BACKGROUND The increase in the quantities of central nervous system (CNS)-acting medications prescribed has coincided with increases in overdose mortality, suicide-related behaviors, and unintentional deaths in military personnel deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Data on the extent and impact of prescribing multiple CNS drugs among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (IAVs) are...