Visual interpretation of satellite images is a very significant technique to recognize and interpret structural features, which indicate lateral growth folds, the origin dating folds using exposure method. In this study, Landsat 8 (ESSRI) Google Earth are used features at Pira Magroon, Surdash, Azmar anticlines in Sulaimaniyah vicinity, Kurdistan Region, north Iraq. The mentioned outstanding ge...

Anaplasma spp. are significant arthropod-borne bacteria globally, but documented information about anaplasmosis in small ruminants the north of Iraq is insufficient. Hence, this study was conducted to determine prevalence and identify sheep goat tick vector populations Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. The population consisted 470 145 goats from 45 livestock farms 10 geographical locations Govern...

Even when American decision-makers were denying it, ordinary Iraqis in the neighborhoods of Baghdad fearfully anticipated the dangerous consequences of the U.S.-led invasion. We use two unique Iraq datasets to analyze the self-fulfilling neighborhood specific forces set loose following the U.S.-led invasion. Sectarian criminal violence by Shia militia disproportionately forced Sunni residents f...

Mishrif Formation is the main reservoir in oil-fields (North Rumaila, South Majnoon, Zubair and West Qurna) which located at Basrah southern Iraq. The Inductively coupled plasma-Mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) was used for water chemistry analysis Scanning Electron Microprobe (SEM) purpose of mineralogy diagnosis. A weak acidic salinity six-time greater than seawater plays a role generating formatio...

Sustainable design, green architecture and sustainable construction are new methods for design and construction that are employed for environmental and economic challenges. Clay and bricks proved as sustainable building materials. In this paper, crush brick in the concrete mixture instead of normal coarse aggregate will be used. STAAD Prov8i software was applied for the designed of a hypothetic...

Drought was a severe recurring phenomenon in Iraq over the past two decades due to climate change despite fact that has been one of most water-rich countries Middle East past. The Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) is located north Iraq, which also suffered from extreme drought. In this study, drought severity status Sulaimaniyah Province, four provinces IKR, investigated for years 1998 2017. Thus, L...

The sequence of the coastal siliciclastic facies Paleocene-Eocene Zagros Foreland Basin is well exposed in Chwarta-Mawat area, north Sulaimani Governorate, northeastern Iraq. According to previous studies, this designated as Red Beds Series (RBS), consisting more than 2000 m fine and coarse red grey clastics. present study found recently recognized lithologies (RRLs) about 100 thick inside seri...

From the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Rubaii, Al-Ward) and the Department of Dermatology and Venereology (Al-Waiz), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Bab-Al-Mu’adham, Baghdad, Iraq. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Makram Al-Waiz, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, PO Box 61301, Postal Code 12114, Bab-AlMu’a...

There is an urgent need to build Research and Development (R&D) capacity for leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 17 viral, bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic infections that often have high morbidity but low mortality, causing disabilities through their impact on child development and ed...