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Virtual cities management and organisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents a recent overview of the increasing use of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies for the simulation of urban environments. It builds on previous research conducted on the identification of three-dimensional (3D) city models and offers an ...
Fisher, Peter   +2 more
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Lebanon Biogeography Outlined by Tree and Shrub Species Distribution Pattern

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.
Delineate the biogeographic structure of Lebanon based on native tree and shrub species distribution using ecological niche modeling and dissimilarity indices. ABSTRACT To delineate the biogeographic structure of Lebanon based on native tree and shrub species distribution using ecological niche modeling and dissimilarity indices.
Jean Stephan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 38-53, Spring 2025.
Abstract Saudi Arabia and Iran played roles, inadvertently or not, in enabling the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel in October 2023. Before the war that ensued, Tehran aided and funded Hamas and its military wing, the Izz al‐Din al‐Qassam Brigades. Riyadh shunned the group by arresting and extraditing its members in a bid to join the US‐backed Abraham ...
Banafsheh Keynoush
wiley   +1 more source

Misrepresenting the Jordan River Basin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article advances a critique of the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia’s (ESCWA’s) representation of the Jordan River Basin, as contained in its recently published Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia.
Messerschmid, Clemens, Selby, Jan
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Challenges and Innovations in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pediatric Patients in Africa: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has proven to be a successful, developing improvement in surgical practice. Allowing surgeons to operate with minimal incisions, ensures the completion of such procedures with minimal damage to the patient and provides recovery in a shorter time.
Mert Uzun   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cement and displacement

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 31-43, February 2025.
Abstract Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement‐processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kali Rubaii
wiley   +1 more source

Toxic waters: Ibrahim Hazboun and the struggle for a Dead Sea concession, 1913-1948 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In 1930, the British Colonial Office signed a formal agreement with Moshe Novomeysky, a Jewish Russian mining engineer from Siberia and committed Zionist, creating Palestine Potash Ltd (PPL). This company was given exclusive rights over the extraction of
Norris, Jacob
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The 'Pharaoh' Anecdote in Pre-Modern Arabic Historiography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines the development of the pharaoh as a literary figure in Arabic historiography between the third/ninth and the ninth/fifteenth centuries.
Hirschler, Konrad
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Freshwater scarcity, interdependence and institutionalism in Jordanian foreign policy: towards conflict or cooperation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Freshwater scarcity is an increasingly important aspect of the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa, and is magnified when sources are shared between states.
El-Anis, I
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