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Neuropsychological predictors of functional disability in Gulf War Illness.
… social, and emotional functioning. Veterans with Gulf War Illness (GWI) may be particularly at risk for developing high functional disability due to their illness. However, few have examined potential factors associated with functional disability in GWI. Cognitive impairment is potentially one …
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Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Associations and Gulf War Illness (GWI)
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a multi-symptom disease of unknown etiology that was observed in veterans after the first Gulf War (1990-1991). GWI involves multiple organ systems and has symptoms suggesting the involvement of the immune system. Many studies show Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) …
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Transverse Relaxation Times of Major Brain Metabolites in Gulf War Illness
Because many neurodegenerative diseases, like Gulf War Illness (GWI), are unidentifiable on conventional MRI or other imaging modalities in their early stages, diagnosis and treatment must wait until the disease has progressed to a more debilitating and obvious phase. The first aim of this thesis …
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United States post Gulf-War policy toward Iraq: A systemic assessment
… proposes that US policy is structurally flawed toward Iraq and the Middle East in general. This structural flaw in US policy-making is a result of ignoring the regional considerations of the Middle East as a subsystem. Current US strategy toward Iraq is doomed to fail because of the unique …
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Combat in the Gulf War II: The lived experience of female veterans
… of female combat veterans who deployed to the Gulf War II? Methods: The methodology used in this qualitative inquiry is a descriptive phenomenological approach using Husserl's philosophical framework. Colaizzi's method was used for data analysis. Data Analysis: Analysis revealed seven themes: …
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Questioning the efficacy of violence to achieve security : the 1991 Gulf War
… effective against the case of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a conflict that is often seen as a clear case for the success of violence. If the security benefits of this war cannot be proven clearly, then it brings the effectiveness of violence to build security into question. The study questions the …
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ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE USE OF INVESTIGATIONAL NEW DRUGS DURING THE GULF WAR
At the onset of the Gulf War in 1992, the threat of chemical and biological weapons prompted the Department of Defense to seek a waiver from the Food and Drug Administration to use the investigational new drugs pyridostigmine bromide and botulism vaccine without first obtaining consent from those …
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PTSD and Immunological Correlations Of Attention and Working Memory in Gulf War Illness
Gulf War Illness (GWI) impacts 25 to 32 percent of those deployed in the 1991 Gulf War (White et al., 2016) and includes symptoms related to fatigue and mood/neurological disturbances. Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain the influence of trauma exposure and chemical exposure when investigating …
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Veterans of the 1st Persian Gulf War: A Study of Medically Unexplained Symptom Models
<p>In 1990-1991, shortly after the Persian Gulf War, a number of veterans began complaining about a wide range of symptoms, the most common of which were; fatigue, headache, sleep disturbance, low mood, and memory loss. These symptoms were similar to those experienced by individuals with Medically …
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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
… occur, with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, negative life stressors: wounded, traumatic war experience, frequent battle experiences, …
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The Gulf War myth: a study of the press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict
… the UK and US press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict. It outlines the propaganda model of the press identified by Herman and Chomsky and, through a qualitative study of press content, examines the extent to which the predictions of the model are fulfilled in the coverage. The state …
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Examining Neurological and Psychological Symptoms of Gulf War Illness Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
BACKGROUND: Gulf War Illness (GWI) reflects a constellation of symptoms that affect a large number of veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Reported ailments include a variety of cognitive, musculoskeletal and psychological complaints. Whereas many symptoms were originally attributed to …
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The application of DNA profiling to the identification of victims in the Gulf war (1990-1991)
… profiling of the Kuwaiti victims of the First Gulf War (1990-1991). The main challenges have involved developing the methodology in an attempt to increase the DNA recovery from the skeletal remains and also assess the preservation of DNA in the remains. In addition, work was undertaken to …
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The gulf between congress and the president over war powers: An analysis of the Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War of 1991 highlighted the gulf between the executive and legislative branches over the extent of the president's constitutional and practical war powers. President Bush appealed to his constitutional designation as commander-in-chief, among other things, as well as U.N. …
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Representing science in the UK news media: ‘Life on Mars?’, cell nucleus replacement and Gulf War syndrome
… the existence, symptoms, causes and response to “Gulf War syndrome”. The empirical research employed methodologies developed at the Glasgow Media Group, providing a comparative analysis of the production, content and reception of news media coverage of the case studies. The methods included …
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Legacy soil contamination by crude oil from the First Gulf War : geochemical characteristics, spatial pattern and environmental risk
The first Gulf War resulted in large-scale oil spills in Kuwait. Selection of appropriate soil remediation methods needs to be informed by accurate soil characterization and this knowledge is currently lacking. The aim of this PhD study was to obtain insights into the geochemical characteristics of …
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