Cancer is a disease of gradual increase in incidence overall the world. Kurdistan Region in Iraq has been exposed to several carcinogenic hazards. There are few reports about the increased risk of cancer in different cities in Iraq. These reports did not cover Kurdistan region. The aim of this paper was to study cancer incidence and to identify possible risks of cancer in this region. Cancer re...

â  process of development in developed countries shows that rural development is a basic requirement for national development and it should be considered at first priorities in development programs. rural population in kurdistan, live in an unstable environment and geographically, villages are extremely diverse and about 40.51 percent of population live in villages more than68 percent of popula...

The present study is a morphological description of Cerambyx cerdo L. 1758 which was collected from different localities Duhok province, Kurdistan region-Iraq. species morphologically has been described and illustrated in detail. most important diagnostic taxonomic characters were studied. locality, general distribution, collecting date host plant this recorded

Background Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease in respiratory system and obesity is another inflammatory disease which incidence rate is increasing. Although, many studies have been conducted on severity of asthma and its relationship with obesity, but different results have been obtained. This study aimed to determine a relationship between asthma severity, Body Mass Index (BMI) and pulmo...

kurdistan province is located in western iran and its geographical position as a corridor has always been routs of attacks by western invaders from the most ancient times including assyrians. so, inhabitants of this region to protection against enemies have created defensive fortification structure by which they could protect themselves. studying and evaluating these habitats can help us to ach...

buprestid beetles are one of the important components of the biodiversity of forest ecosystem in kurdistan province. different characteristics of biodiversity of buprestid beetles were studied by use of window trap, colored pan and colored sticky trap in these forests during 2009 and 2010. a total of 1205 specimens of 44 species were caught by use of considered traps during appearance of adults...

the climatic, geographic and topographic characteristics, ecological conditions, forest and pastures, strong water resources, high vegetation, wild life and various hunting areas of kurdistan province are strong tourist centers. in this research using gis potential of suitable zones for claiming, rocking, ranging, visiting the nature, thermal spring, ski and winter sport, water sports and fishi...

A total of 47 species belonging to 46 genera, 34 subfamilies, 23 families and 7 orders predator parasitoid insects were collected identified. The survey was conducted throughout the program held by General Directorate Agriculture-Duhok, in cooperating with College Agricultural Engineering Sciences Duhok Province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq from May 2013 April 2014. hosts, collecting date, locality ...

Industry clusters have been the focus of scholars and governments since the second half of the 20th century. During a cluster’s growing process, the government plays an important role. In order to show the growing law of the clusters and how government did for co-agglomeration, we proposed two kinds of models: Logistic model and BA model with parameter α to describe the single and mass clusters...