To the Editor: We studied all active-duty Persian Gulf War–era veterans who remained on active duty at the conclusion of deployment (July 31, 1991), not as Leisure et al. stated in their letter “selected, mostly healthy, active-duty Persian Gulf War veterans enlisted as of 1994.” Our study was restricted to hospitalizations of active-duty service members because these were the only service memb...

Persian Gulf is a highly turbid and optically complex marginal sea. Satellite remotely sensed chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) products have been widely used in this marine area, despite uncertainties due to oceanic atmospheric optical properties. In study, accuracy of daily merged multi-sensor Ocean Color Climate Change Initiative (OC–CCI), Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Service (CMEMS) GlobC...

Abstract This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) type [VERB+VERB]. In this code-switched structure, a lexical verb from donor language English is combined with light native Persian. We tested hypothesis that in BCVs occupy nominal slots monolingual Persian complex predicates [NOMINAL+VERB]. Two methodologies were used. A conversational-corpus an...