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Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...


Kuwait: Swine flu cases detected among US soldiers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Several swine flu cases have been detected among U.S. soldiers passing through Kuwait, officials said Saturday.





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Bird flu tests negative in Kuwait

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 11, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tests for avian influenza on more than 300 people in Kuwait have so far come back negative.


Call center optimization

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A research report in the current issue of the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modeling and Simulation suggests that help desks can be optimized by adding very few extra staff.


NYC woman in 50s becomes US' 11th swine flu death (AP)

NYC woman in 50s becomes US' 11th swine flu death

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th.


Jordan on alert for bird flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jordan is trying to prevent an outbreak of bird flu from crossing over from Saudi Arabia.


Engineers develop technique to help combat nuclear proliferation

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev engineers have developed a technique to "denature" plutonium created in large nuclear reactors, making it unsuitable for use in nuclear arms. By adding Americium (Am 241), a form of the ...


Military bacteria mystery may be solved

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A rare drug-resistant bacterium has spread throughout U.S. military hospitals around the world, killing at least 27 since the start of the Iraq war.


War affects Iraqis' health more after fleeing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The risk of depression is greater among Iraqi soldiers who took part in the Gulf War than among civilians. Surprisingly, on the other hand, neither of these groups showed any signs of post-traumatic stress ten years after ...


Yahoo! buys jordan-based portal Maktoob

Yahoo! extends reach into Arab world with Maktoob buy

Technology / Business

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US Internet giant Yahoo! said Tuesday it had signed a deal to purchase popular Jordan-based web portal Maktoob, expanding its reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.


China becomes a physics powerhouse

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 9

Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. Michael Banks, Physics World's News E ...


Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management ...



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