Since the 1991 Gulf War, more than 10 years and 1 billion dollars of health evaluations and research have been invested in understanding illnesses among Gulf War veterans. We examined the extensive published healthcare utilization data in an effort to summarize what has been learned. Using multiple search techniques, data as of June 2003 from four different national Gulf War health registries a...

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An analysis of water mass flows and nitrogen fluxes in the Gulf of Maine region shows that deep Slope Water that enters the Gulf through the Northeast Channel, and Scotian Shelf Water that enters at the surface, dominate the flux of nitrogen into the Gulf. A box model is developed that examines internal vertical nitrogen fluxes, and reveals that the flux of nitrogen into surface waters is suffi...

The Arabian Gulf environmental status was assessed based on studies conducted in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen during 1983-2011. This review examines all sorts of pollutions in the Arabian Gulf area over the last three decades. Approximately 50 published studies were reviewed in order to determine the pollution status in the Arabian Gulf regar...

The primary goal of the pilot is to determine whether a 3-D current model that can supply forecasts, nowcasts, and hindcasts of currents and hydrography with sufficient accuracy to be useful to a sizeable constituency around the Gulf of Mexico. Secondary goals include better identifying and meeting the needs of the various beneficiaries of such a model, increasing our understanding of Gulf of M...

the first season of survey at qeshm, carried out during the winter of 2006, resulted in the identification of nine sites from the parthian and sasanian periods. the surface pottery from these sites suggests their trade and cultural relations with contemporary sites in the southern persian gulf and other areas. for instance, the parthian and sasanian glazed types in qeshm island are closely re...

Bu çalışma, Muğla İli, Fethiye İlçesi, Kaya Mahallesi sınırları içerisinde bulunan Agios Elefterios (Afkule) Manastırı’nın mimari ve tarihi incelemesini konu almaktadır. İncelemelerimiz kapsamında manastır kompleksinde tespit edilen 11 mekanın olası işlevi tarihsel değerlendirmeleri yapılmıştır. Afkule Manastırı, topografik konumu, yöresel malzeme kullanımı, yapım tekniği özgün yerleşim örüntül...

Variability in the circulation of coastal oceans must ultimately be driven by changes in the meteorological conditions which force currents in the coastal ocean, and by variability in the waters entering the coastal ocean from elsewhere. If a coastal ocean is to be accurately understood and modeled, the external forcing which drive the largest portions of the circulation variability must be obs...

INTRODUCTION Previous research indicates that a large cohort of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War report polysymptomatic conditions. These syndromes often involve neurocognitive complaints, fatigue, and musculoskeletal symptoms, thus overlapping with civilian illnesses from low levels of environmental chemicals, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. METHODS To test for time-dependent chan...

Figure 1: Benthic mat surfaces 24 Figure 2: Fatty acids in mats 25 Figure 3: Gas headspace from mat incubations 26 Figure 4: Hierarchical clustering of mat phylochip gradient fractions 27 Figure 5: Phylochip hydridization intensities from mat incubations 28 Figure 6: Recovered benthic mat plate 29 Figure 7: Isotope incorporation from mat incubations 30 Figure 8: Relative abundance of taxa occup...