In the week before the 2003 American attack on Iraq, the effects of authoritarianism and the social dominance orientation on support for the attack were examined. Based on prior research on the nature of these constructs, a structural model was developed and tested. As predicted, authoritarianism strengthened support for the attack by intensifying the perception that Iraq threatened America. So...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...

BACKGROUND The environment for medical education in Iraq has been difficult for many years. The 2003 invasion of Iraq accelerated a steady emigration of faculty and graduates. Kidnappings and deaths of doctors became commonplace. To understand current career plans, expectations and perceptions of medical students, three Baghdad medical schools were surveyed. METHODS Written questionnaires wer...

O n 29 March 2011 Professor Mohammed Alwan, dean of AlMustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad and my uncle, was assassinated. A bomb was planted in his car and exploded as he got in after leaving his medical practice. He was a distinguished academic and surgeon who was respected by his students, and he was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Within a week, another clinical acad...

In 2004, the Lancet published results from a survey that estimated the death toll attributable to the conflict in Iraq until then at almost 100,000. Since that moment, the topic has been subject of a large debate among scientists. Besides this publication, four other surveys conducted in Iraq reported data on mortality due to the conflict. Although each one of these studies had its own specific...

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...

The study carried out to evaluate some of the physical and chemical properties ground water samples from west Alshirqat district, Salaheddin province, IRAQ. Six wells selected, sample collected every month for 6 months (October,2021 – March 2022). In each electric conductivity (EC), pH, total dissolved solid (TDS), oxygen (DO), biological demand (BOD), hardness (TH), calcium (Ca H), magnesium (...

different patterns of pressure systems together with local factors, leads in generation, risingand spread of dust in west of iran. in this study, to investigate the factors causing the occurrence of dust inkermanshah province, 132 cases of dust phenomena (code: 06) were selected and analyzed using kermanshahsynoptic station data for the spring and summer seasons in a period of 5 years (2005-200...

In this paper we explore whether violence in Iraq is gravitating towards a steady state level of violence observed in other civil wars, such as those in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, among others. Using data from the Iraq Body Count for 2003-2007, we explore whether civilian casualties follow a power law distribution. We replicate previous analyses of civilian casualties and confirm that c...