Drought Spatiotemporal Characteristics Based on a Vegetation Condition Index in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Intimate partner violence against women in the Erbil city of the Kurdistan region, Iraq

BACKGROUND Violence against women is a worldwide problem and serious human rights abuse that occurs among all social, cultural, economic and religious groups. There is a paucity of research on intimate partner violence against women in Iraq, particularly in the Kurdistan region. This study assessed the prevalence of emotional, physical and sexual intimate partner violence against women and the ...

Factors influence on Primigravida’s knowledge regarding exclusive breastfeeding benefits in Maternity Teaching Hospital: Erbil city - Kurdistan region – Iraq

* Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction In the experts’ consensus of Geneva, on March 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) should be given to babies for the first six months. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) encouraged, promoted, and supported EBF as the model for optimal inf...

Plants used in Iraqi traditional medicine in Erbil - Kurdistan region

* Department of pharmaceutcal, College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction Herbal medicine is a traditional or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants’ seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, flowers and plant extracts for medicinal purposes. Plants are important sources of medicine for thousands of years and are the most important source of life saving drug...

Drought Monitoring Based on the Vegetation Temperature Condition Index by IDL Language Processing Method

WenHao Ou, Wei Su ** , Chen Wu, ZhongZheng Zhu, YanMin Li, Shi Shen (Collage of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083) Abstract:Landsat TM5 images are used to calculate and retrieve normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and land surface temperature (LST). Combining with two index mentioned, vegetation temperature condition index (VTCI) ca...

Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season