Important challenges confronting DOD/military medical care are that of maintaining or increasing quality of care and increasing the effectiveness of treatments for warriors diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) secondary to their combat deployments to Iraq and/or Afghanistan. Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy with Arousal Control (VR-GET) has demonstrated a positive treatmen...

Classical xanthinuria type II is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by deficiency of xanthine dehydrogenase and aldehyde oxidase activities due to lack of a common sulfido-olybdenum cofactor (MoCo). Two mutations, both in the N-terminal domain of the Human Molybdenum Cofactor Sulfurase (HMCS), were reported in patients with type II xanthinuria. Whereas the N-terminal domain of HMCS w...

We report here the main characteristics of 'Blautia phocaeensis' strain Marseille-P3441 sp. nov. and 'Lachnoclostridium edouardi' strain Marseille-P3397 sp. nov., that were isolated from a faecal specimen of a 42-year-old female Saudi Bedouin. We used a bacterial culturomics approach combined with taxono-genomics.

BACKGROUND Giardiasis is a common protozoan infection with clinical manifestations in children ranging from asymptomatic carriage to persistent diarrhoea with malabsorption. It can lead to growth and developmental retardation. AIM The study evaluated risk factors for the initial symptomatic giardiasis (SG) episode among Arab-Bedouin children in Israel. METHODS A community-based, prospective...

We report here the main characteristics of a new bacterium named 'Beduinella massiliensis' strain Marseille-P2846(T) (CSURP2846P) that was isolated from a faecal specimen of a 50-year-old Saudi Bedouin female and propose the creation of a new family 'Beduinellaceae'.

We report here the main characteristics of 'Beduinibacterium massiliense' strain Marseille-P3337T gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Massilimaliae massiliensis' Marseille-P2963T gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Provencibacterium massiliense' Marseille-P2780T gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Oscilibacter massiliensis' Marseille-P2778T sp. nov., all isolated from the stool of a Bedouin from Saudi Arabia. We used a bacterial cul...

The Garden is a new architecture for evolving Core Wars programs, short, assembly-language like creatures which battle in a simulated computer environment. With an agressive direct-compilation scheme, the Garden avoids nearly all external overhead for evaluating Core Wars programs. The resulting eÆciency allows us to explore and compare di erent evolutionary methods at a scale (thousands of war...

OBJECTIVE The purposes of the present study were to estimate individual intake from common-plate meals among Bedouin Arabs using a modified 24 h recall questionnaire, and to evaluate reported energy intake (EI) by comparison with estimated energy requirement (EER). DESIGN Weighed records were used to develop a method of quantifying intake from common plates. Reported EI and nutrient intakes w...