This study analyzes Kurdistan’s potential for effectively using mobile telecommunication. It identifies key factors determining the adoption of mobile telecommunication service. A conceptual model is specified, and several hypotheses are tested with a sample of 1,458 Kurdish mobile phone users in 2010. A discrete choice methodology is used to test two models of mobile telecommunication acceptan...

The aim of this thesis was to carry out an epidemiological study on mental health related issues in the Kurdish population of Iran. This part of Iran suffered directly during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Iran is an Islamic republic with strict adherence to Islamic traditions, which has implications for the way of life and gender issues. Suicide is prohibited according to Islamic teaching, but s...

To the Editor: The increased rate of leukemia in several Iraqi cities has been linked to exposure to depleted uranium, which was used during the consequent wars in Iraq from 1990 to 2010.[1‐4] Here, we investigated leukemia occurrence in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate (SG), which has been exposed to wars and crises at the same level as the rest of Iraq.[5] To the best of our knowledge, this study...

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...

Jamal Seidi, Fatemah Alhani, Mahvash Salsali, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing and midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Associate professor, Department of Nursing, faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran of U...

erythraeus (zaracarus) coleopterus mortazavi, hajiqanbar & saboori, 2012 (acari: parasitengona: erythraeidae) was described based on a single specimen from kerman province, southeastern iran, associated with a scarabaeid beetle, cyphonoxia sp. (coleoptera: scarabaeidae). this species reports for the second time from stored grain (off host) in saqqez and baneh cities, kurdistan province, western...

The research aim at the following: constructing a Theoretical knowledge scale for excellent stage handball's player in Kurdistan-Iraq. In order to do that researcher used descriptive method with survey, research's society are handball Kurdistan-Iraq season (2020-2021) composed of (197) divided sample into two called( construction, and applied) sample, construction include (153) on other side ap...

The title of this research is "conflict and political discourse in Kurdish novels as an example the (ashty   Kurdistan- Sagur - Kurdare)", purpose study to analyze most important conflicts discourses novel ( ashty Kurdistan  Sagur- kurdare) On other hand, trying distinguish between facing writer on one hand reader other, main task type discourses, content research.  It consi...