The academic community has yet to settle on the manner and mechanisms by which economics-based counterinsurgency initiatives affect violence levels. This piece considers the effect of local-business revitalization initiatives on insurgent violence by analyzing Iraqi First, an initiative implemented by the U.S. military in Iraq through which billions of dollars were committed to local commodity ...

Spherical particles based on bauxite-type raw materials, commonly referred to as proppants, are state-of-the-art for particle receivers of concentrated solar power plants. Particles heated in a fluidized reactor by focused sunlight and transported heat-exchanger or storage tank. Therefore, key properties absorber high absorptance mechanical endurance. Due their relatively poor content color-giv...

Low-cost magnesium aluminate spinel ceramics were successfully synthesized from the minerals of magnesite(M) and bauxite(B) via one-step sintering method. The effect ratio bauxite to magnesite on phase evolution, microstructure, as well mechanical properties was thoroughly investigated. structural analysis indicated that Mg2+ or Al3+ ions dissolved in lattice formed Mg-rich/Al-rich MgAl2O4 (MA)...

In the present study, prediction of Alumina recovery efficiency (A.R.E), the amount of produced red mud (A.P.R), red mud settling rate (R.S.R) and bound-soda losses (B.S.L) in Bayer process red mud has been carried out for the first time in the field. These predictions are based on Lime to bauxite ratio and chemical analyses of bauxite and lime as Bayer process feed materials. Radial basis func...

Sanctions were imposed on the people of Iraq in 1990. Iraqi people are still suffering, especially children. Infant mortality (IM) has increased more than five times. Previously it had decreased from 139 in 1960 to 20 in 1989, which was comparable to developed countries. In 1992 it went up to 111. In 1999, a decade later, IM was still high at 104. The Gulf War and trade sanctions caused a three...

A total of 313 Orbiculate batfishes Platax orbicularis were studied from the Iraqi marine waters at the shallow tip of the Arabian Gulf during the period from March to September 2015. This species is an omnivore (planktivorous) which migrate between surface and bottom for feeding activity. Length –Weight relationship and growth rate were calculated for the 222 specimens. The highest growth rate...

In this paper we present a wearable, headset integrated eyesand hands-free speech-tospeech (S2S) translation system. The S2S system described here is configured for translingual communication between English and colloquial Iraqi Arabic. It employs an n-gram speech recognition engine, a rudimentary phrase-based translator for translating recognized Iraqi text, and a rudimentary text-tospeech (TT...

This paper discusses Tactical Iraqi, a video game developed at the University of Southern California with funding from the U.S. military that is designed to accelerate a learner’s acquisition of spoken Arabic to assist in the rapid deployment of soldiers into volatile tactical situations. This paper analyzes three distinct aspects of the Tactical Iraqi mission game: how “trust” is constituted i...

This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not vio...