BACKGROUND Deployment to the 2003 Iraq War was associated with ill health in reserve armed forces personnel. AIMS To investigate reasons for the excess of ill health in reservists. METHOD UK personnel who were deployed to the 2003 Iraq War completed a health survey about experiences on deployment to Iraq. Health status was measured using self-report of common mental disorders, post-traumati...

one of the great schools of medical knowledge that had been the light of the past to the future is jundishapur school.we sought to introduce just a little of this magnificent persian civilization in this study. the aim of this study was reviewing the effect of jundishapur medical school and hospital on baghdad medical school and hospital. effectiveness of this great scientific center at that ti...

background: this study aims to assess the frequency of some hygienic behaviors that is, tooth brushing and hand‑washing, in iranian school students at national level. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 elementary, secondary and high school students who were selected by random cluster stratified multistage sampling from 30 provinces in iran. we used the global...

adnan al_sayegh is one of the dominant poets of the war who is belong to 80 decade of iraq. he spent a lot of his time in challenging with death in war time and because of this he is very averse of it. he has several collects of poems and most of the subjects of his poems are about  political and social issues in iraq. he is the most complete instance of current poem in iraq. he writes free poe...

In the week before the 2003 American attack on Iraq, the effects of authoritarianism and the social dominance orientation on support for the attack were examined. Based on prior research on the nature of these constructs, a structural model was developed and tested. As predicted, authoritarianism strengthened support for the attack by intensifying the perception that Iraq threatened America. So...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...

Two new reports conclude that the health costs of war are unaffordable A war on Iraq could cause half a million deaths and devastate the lives, health and environment of the combatants, Iraqi civilians, and people in neighbouring countries and beyond. The details are examined in an independent report entitled Collateral damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq, prepared by heal...

The issue of the entry Imāmite/Twelver Shīʿism into Iran is one most controversial issues in History Islamic Sects. According to established general opinion, it after Safavids that Shī’ite groups question became dominant thought Iran. Before, they were only a minority. However, this study reveals Imāmite was not minority be underestimated even before Safavids.
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In 2004, the Lancet published results from a survey that estimated the death toll attributable to the conflict in Iraq until then at almost 100,000. Since that moment, the topic has been subject of a large debate among scientists. Besides this publication, four other surveys conducted in Iraq reported data on mortality due to the conflict. Although each one of these studies had its own specific...