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Turkish University Students' Perceptions towards Their Syrian Classmates

Education and Science, 2016
The war in Syria is five years old now. This long-lasting phenomenon has caused a historic case of mass forced migration. That is, millions of Syrians have been forced to displace and escape from the war in Syria to several transnational destinations.
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Exploring the Quest for Refuge in America and Around the Globe [PDF]

, 2016
Panel discussions, film screenings and guest lecturers will provide myriad opportunities for the community to engage in informed dialogue on the current state of refugees around the ...
Public Affairs, Roger Williams University
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Can conflict-generated diasporas be moderate actors during episodes of contested sovereignty? Lebanese and Albanian diasporas compared [PDF]

, 2011
Conflict-generated diasporas are considered likely to maintain radical behaviours. This article seeks to explain why and how they nevertheless adopt moderate claims, especially when advocating highly sensitive issues such as state sovereignty.
Koinova, Maria
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Contrasting CO2‐response strategies in Pardina lentils: Yield maximization in a commercial cultivar and seed composition adjustment in a landrace

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Assessing crop's responses to elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) is crucial for global food security. This study examines the impact of eCO2 (700 μmol mol−1) on the cultivars of lentil (Lens culinaris), local Pardina Verde Rayada lentil (PVRL), and commercial Pardina lentil (PL) in terms of the productivity and nutritional composition ...
Mohammad Abdullah, Idoia Garmendia, Cristina Mallor, Nieves Goicoechea, Johann Martínez‐Lüscher   +4 more
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spotlight europe #2013/02-February 2012. Syria: from rebellion to all-out war [PDF]

, 2013
The situation in Syria at the beginning of 2013 could hardly be worse. Dead, wounded, refugees, a humanitarian disaster. President Assad is destroying his country and waging war against his own people. Russia and Iran back the regime.
Hanelt, Christian-P., Helberg, Kristin
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Biogeography and diversification patterns in the Irano‐Turanian biodiversity hotspots inferred from a molecular phylogeny of the subendemic Iris subgenus Scorpiris (Iridaceae)

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The Irano‐Turanian Floristic Region harbors a rich flora, but our understanding of the development of this diversity is limited by a lack of data on phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic patterns of endemic and more widespread plants. Hypotheses of in situ diversification versus allopatric diversification were tested using Iris subgen. Scorpiris,
Mona Salimbahrami, Hojjatollah Saeidi, Ali Bagheri, Carol A. Wilson, Gerald M. Schneeweiss   +4 more
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Sect and House in Syria: History, Architecture, and Bayt Amongst the Druze in Jaramana [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the connections between the architecture and materiality of houses and the social idiom of bayt (house, family). The ethnographic exploration is located in the Druze village of Jaramana, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
A. Maria A. Kastrinou, Abu Chakra E., Alamuddin N. S., Bahloul J, Batatu H, Betts B. R., Bourdieu P., Chatty D, Delaney C, Eickelman D., Engels F., Fahmi F.,, Firro K. M., Geertz C., González-Ruibal A., Haddad B, Hazran Y., Herzfeld M, Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Kapytoff I, Kastrinou Theodoropoulou A. M, Khalaf S. N., Khuri F. I., Layish A., Lévi-Strauss C., Lévi-Strauss C., Makarem S. N., Makdisi U., Mitchell T., Rabo A., Rugh A. B., Salamandra C. A, Seale P., Shaaban B., Shannon J. H., Strathern M., Van Dam N., Watenpaugh K. D, Waterson R., Yeoh S. G.   +41 more
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter, Ebba Henrekson, Filip Wijkström   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syrian Refugees and Quality of Education in Jordan [PDF]

, 2016
The Syria crisis has considered the world's largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. In other words, it has triggered the world's biggest refugee's crisis currently.
Bataineh, Abdullah Omar Ahmad
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Book Review: Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India [PDF]

, 2001
A review of Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India by ...
Thangaraj, M. Thomas
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