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Lung Region Segmentation Using Modified U-Net Architecture
Eurasian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2022 In order to combat the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, early infection diagnosis is essential. Lung infections can be detected using a screening technique called chest X-ray imaging (CXR).
Zhakaw Hamza Hamad, Taban Fouad Majeed
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How do Perceptions of Outgroups Indicate Barriers to Civil Society in Iraq? [PDF]
, 2005 At the Iraq "liberation" in 2003, many of us asked, "Is there really hope for civil society to emerge from the chaos?" We guessed about how Sunni, Shi'a and Kurdish factions could be brought together, and if it was likely that ethnic conflicts would ...
Gresham, Dr. JN
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights while others do not? Drawing on social psychology, I argue that exposure to political violence shapes individual attitudes by deepening in‐group and out‐group distinctions and fostering expressive solidarity towards group rights. To test this argument, the study uses nationally
Oner Yigit
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
, 2020 In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B., Yilmaz, B.
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Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
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Meta-analysis of the Studies about the Association between Ethnic Identity and National Identity in Iran Focusing on the Role of Media [PDF]
مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2018 Ethnic diversity in Iran on one hand, and attempts to create a coherent national identity since the first Pahlavi era on the other, raise the question of how ethnic and national identities are associated in Iran.
sSeyed Samad Beheshti +1 more
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
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, 2018 The Kurds inhabit an area known as Kurdistan, which roughly includes the Zagros and Taurus mountain ranges, and lies along the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Traditionally, the Kurds were nomadic pastoralists or settled agriculturalists, but now mainly live in settled agricultural communities with livestock.
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