In Iraq, solar radiation field measurements are available only for very limited locations such as some universities and research centers. This article reviews and compares the measured monthly averaged global solar radiation data for Iraqi provinces and cities available in the literature and studies over the internet especially Go...

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...

This paper presents a preliminary checklist of the Iraqi chilopod fauna based on literature data critically revised and additional fresh material. The includes 27 species 13 genera, 8 families, 4 orders. Eight are known from single locality and/or only specimens sex. history studies Chilopoda Iraq is provided; some faunistic records revised.

to win a war, it is necessary to liberate a certain strategic areas of the enemy or to destruct their forces completely. halting the iraqi army prevented them from achieving their goals, however, it didn't mean as a military defeat for them, especially that iraq had an important part of the iranian areas and border towns in his occupation and was able to put iran under pressure to gain a c...