pollutions. recently, both persian gulf and gulf of oman are experiencing several types of pollution including oil spills and heavy metal pollutions as well as harmful algal bloom (hab) caused by biological and environmental changes. theiroccurrence of the red tide or harmful algal bloom during fall and winter 2008-2009 caused numerous unknown factors in the strait of hormuz, persian gulf and g...

Military personnel deployed to the Middle East included an unprecedented number of women, many of whom were mothers. Using a structural equation modeling approach, we examined the predictors of children’s adjustment problems in data collected from a representative sample of 263 Air Force mothers 2 years after the Gulf War. Using a retrospective survey, we found that the main predictors of child...

CHIEMI HAYASHI, World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum has developed three scenarios for the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to 2025.1 From the underlying models of economic, social, and political development used to create the scenarios, it is possible to derive forces that will shape the economic environment of the GCC and assess their implications for the compet...

The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...

In this paper Development issues of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab States are investigated in the context of Internet and Innovation Dynamics. For business strategy reasons as well as technological ones, a sound understanding is required of the dynamics of interaction between businesses, economies, and Internet & Web Technologies. The Paper also outlines some original and innovative resear...

A new talitrid amphipod species, Talorchestia qeshm sp. nov., is described from Qeshm Island in the south-eastern Persian Gulf. This is the westernmost confirmed record for Talorchestia and places the genus firmly in the western Indian Ocean.

In 1990 and 1991, approximately 697,000 U.S. troops were deployed in the Persian Gulf during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The United States suffered relatively few casualties during the brief air and ground war against Iraq. Since returning home, however, many veterans have developed illnesses that appear to be related to their military service in the Gulf. Researchers caution tha...

Pidgin languages across the world are characterized by a universal set of linguistic features that, therefore, can be utilized for their identification. Among these linguistic traits, two are found in Gulf Arabic Pidgin (GPA); an overt reduction of sophisticated linguistic items and an increased regularity of less complicated linguistic items used to fulfill other linguistic functions (Nass, 20...