Browsing by Keyword "Kuwait"
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Birth Outcomes in a Prospective Pregnancy-Birth Cohort Study of Environmental Risk Factors in Kuwait: The TRACER Study
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)Background—Rapid development and westernisation in Kuwait and other Gulf states have been accompanied by rising rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma, and other chronic conditions. Prenatal experiences and exposures may be ... -
Climate Change and Health: Implications for Cardiovascular Diseases and Inherently Hot Regions
(2022-06-06)The warming of our planet is unevenly distributed. In inherently hot and hyper-arid countries like Kuwait, temperatures are already soaring to unprecedented record-high levels and not a lot is known about what climate ... -
Pulmonary Toxicity in Hamsters of Smoke Particles from Kuwaiti Oil Fires.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1998)The Kuwaiti oil wells set on fire by retreating Iraqi troops at the end of the Persian Gulf War released complex particles, inorganic and organic gases, and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere, damaging the environment where ... -
Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision Making: Insights from Ambient PM2.5 and COVID-19 Case Studies
(2023-05-08)Risk assessment is the art and science of estimating risk based on the evidence which is currently available. It seeks to characterize the state of knowledge and, to the extent possible, produce probabilistic estimates of ... -
Scientific Wealth in Middle East and North Africa: Productivity, Indigeneity, and Specialty in 1981–2013
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Several developing countries seek to build knowledge-based economies by attempting to expand scientific research capabilities. Characterizing the state and direction of progress in this arena is challenging but important. ... -
The Gulf War: An International History, 1989-1991
(2023-06-01)This dissertation uses the Gulf War of 1991 as a lens through which to explore competing American and Arab visions of sovereignty and order at the dawn of the post-Cold War era. It argues for expanding the aperture of the ...