Kermanshah is a city in west of Iran with a specific customs and cultures between the people who are living here. According to historical documents these cultures are very ancient and belong to more than one thousand years. The climate condition in this place forces people to find the solution of their problems using the plants and natural facilities. Therefore traditional healers were so activ...

This paper examines the role and significance of Interpersonal language meta-function in understanding constructing use functions among users a business context English Central-Kurdish languages. In analyzing entrepreneurs’ public speeches, researchers employ descriptive qualitative approach with content analysis. The instrument used this study is to examine exploratory data speech discourse Ce...

OBJECTIVE There are controversial reports about factors that affect recovery from stuttering. In the ‎present study, the effect of hand dominancy, fine motor and inhibition control on late ‎recovery from stuttering was investigated among a group of Kurdish-Persian children who ‎stuttered in Iran.‎ METHOD Twenty-two Kurdish-Persian children aged 7-14 years who stuttered were followed for 6 ‎ye...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of silent strokes in the Iraqi Kurdish population, and to identify silent stroke risk factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out in Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq from January to June 2009. A sample of 200 patients attending the outpatient clinic was taken. The results of CT and MRI were analyzed, and the proportion of silent infar...

BACKGROUND The health system of Iraqi Kurdistan is severely understudied, particularly with regard to patient-physician interactions and their effects. We examine patterns of behaviour among physicians in Kurdistan, the justifications given and possible enabling factors, with a view to understanding accountability both from above and below. METHODS An ethnographic study was conducted in the S...

Gamification is a promising mechanism to motivate the contributors to citizen science projects. This paper describes our experience designing Biotracker, a gamified citizen science data collection platform. We also present important challenges facing future designers of gamified citizen science apps. Author

Since the 2000s, Turkish-Kurdish communal violence has emerged as a new mode of confrontation in recent history Turkey’s Kurdish conflict. Based upon contentious politics literature, this article traces two causal dynamics that have enabled challenge conflict: racialization and countermobilization. While already been underlined literature on conflict, I will argue, however, analytical mechanism...

Large-scale research endeavors can be hindered by logistical constraints limiting the amount of available data. For example, global ecological questions require a global dataset, and traditional sampling protocols are often too inefficient for a small research team to collect an adequate amount of data. Citizen science offers an alternative by crowdsourcing data collection. Despite growing popu...