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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Kurdistan Region of Iraq"”.
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Sectarianism in Kurdistan Region of Iraq Between Political and Theological Schism
… describe the current Middle East politics. Much of the existing literature presumes that most of the state and non-state actors of the region are divided over Shia and Sunni blocs led by Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabi (KSA) respectively. However, so far scholars have left out the Kurds …
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Using survival analysis to investigate breast cancer in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
The objective of this thesis is to carry out a survival analysis for patients with breast cancer. Using data from the Nanakaly and Hewa hospitals in the cities of Erbil and Suleimaniah, respectively, cases where there is hidden censoring on survival time were investigated. The aim of this study was …
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Lean-excellence business management for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Kurdistan region of Iraq
… LM practices within manufacturing SMEs in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been developed. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature, the research develops Lean-Excellence business management (LEBM), a conceptual framework resulting from the integration of lean tools with the …
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Media in an emergent democracy: the development of online journalism in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
This thesis examines online journalism in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and its role in political debate in this emerging democracy. It also focuses on the role of the internet in the public sphere, explores the historical context in which Kurdish online journalism has developed and compares mass …
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Does an antenatal educational programme decrease adverse pregnancy outcomes among obese pregnant women? A feasibility study in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Maternal obesity is associated with a wide range of health risks for the mother and new- born (Poston et al, 2011). Investigations and research about the incidence of obesity during pregnancy and its outcomes has not previously been investigated in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The aim of this …
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GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HOLOCENE CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENTAL-HUMAN NEXUS IN THEKURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ
… the KRI Moreover, it enhances our understanding of the human responses and adaptation to climate, landscape, ecosystem, and natural resources availability changes across the last millennia. The geomorphological analysis and mapping of the Northwestern and Central Kurdistan Region of Iraq offers …
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Investigating Kurdish Women’s Experiences With Education in Kurdistan With Respect to Oppression
… experiences reveal about women’s education in Kurdistan with respect to oppression? The study was framed within a postcolonial feminist framework to investigate Kurdish women’s lived experiences within education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The study used feminist research methods to …
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Techno-economic optimization and environmental life cycle assessment of microgrids using genetic algorithm and artificial neural networks
… and environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of sustainable energy generation technologies. This work is divided into five papers. The first paper discusses the techno-economic optimization and environmental life cycle assessment of microgrids located in the USA using genetic algorithm. In …
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The Implications of War and Conflict on the Mental Health of Syrian and Iraqi Displaced People
… including the Arab Spring and the emergence of Daesh. As a result, millions of civilian people were displaced from their homes. The present dissertation therefore purposes to study the experiences of the people forcibly displaced from Syria and Iraq as the two populations most affected by the …
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Total arsenic and arsenic speciation in indigenous food stuffs
The properties of an element are highly dependent on its chemical form, it’s called elemental speciation. This study evaluates the arsenic species found in a range of food stuffs together with growing environments and toxicity issues. Total arsenic concentrations in fish tissue and vegetable crops …
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Kurdish Politics in the Cauldron of the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq from Post-Invasion 2003 to the 2017 Independence Referendum
… aims to critically analyse the political system of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), with a particular focus on the 2017 independence referendum to see why its government (the KRG) has lost strength internally by losing the trust of its people and externally towards Baghdad politically, …
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Development of a Performance Assessment System to Improve Water Services Sector in Iraqi Kurdistan
In many parts of the world, the key issue for water stakeholders is the lack of reliable information about the quality of the water services sector and the performance efficiencies of the water utilities’ functional components. Without effective performance assessment over time for the water …