A Persian City During the Great War

Stress Exposure in the Persian Gulf War

This chapter reviews available data concerning the degree to which deployment to the Persian Gulf theater was experienced as a stressful event by military personnel. After a brief overview of potential stresses faced by deployed personnel both during and after deployment, the chapter describes groups postulated to be at particularly high risk of negative reactions to stress exposure. Finally, t...

Hospitalizations after the Persian Gulf War.

To the Editor: In “Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Republic of Korea” (1), the term eradication was, in my judgment, inappropriately used. In 1981, Yekutiel proposed that eradication is “The purposeful reduction of specific disease prevalence to the point of continued absence of transmission within a specified area by means of a time limited campaign” (2). In 1984, Hinman propose...

The Government of a Great American City

Farsightedness in a coalitional Great Fish War

We explore the implications of the farsightedness assumption on the conjectures of players in a coalitional Great Fish War model with symmetric players, derived from the seminal model of Levhari and Mirman (1980). The farsightedness assumption for players in a coalitional game acknowledges the fact that a deviation from a single player will lead to the formation of a new coalition structure as ...

Pyridostigmine bromide intake during the Persian Gulf War is not associated with postwar handgrip strength.

Many Persian Gulf War veterans took pyridostigmine bromide (PB) during the Persian Gulf War. Previous research suggests that PB intake and insecticide exposure may reduce muscular strength. During 1994 and 1995, we examined the relationships between self-reported PB intake, self-reported exposures, and handgrip strength among 527 Gulf War veterans (GWVs) and 969 nondeployed veterans of that era...