Turkey and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Relations: A Soft Power Approach towards Kurdish Question

Turkey has long regarded Kurds as a homogenous entity that could threaten its territorial integrity and national security. There is ‎animosity by the Turkish government towards the Kurds. ‎This article attempts to analyze why there has been a paradigm shift and enhancement in Turkey-KRG relations, especially during AKP tenure, while analyzing the extent to which the ‎effectiveness of the Turkey-KRG relationship can help Turkey resolve its Kurdish ‎issue in peaceful ways. This research uses offensive realism as an analytical tool while deploying qualitative methods through ‎explanatory and descriptive approaches in answering the problems raised. The ‎study shows that the paradigm shift and the enhancement in Turkey-KRG relations can occur because Turkey seeks to pursue its goal, ‎being a regional hegemon. In this way, Turkey can guarantee its survival, increase ‎welfare, and preserve its political doctrine. However, the enhancement of Turkey-‎KRG relations shows less significant effectiveness in overcoming the Kurdish ‎issue. As the Kurdish question is a domestic issue, it is Turkey itself that must find ‎a solution‎ t

Observations from Space: A Unique Vantage Point for the Study of the Environment and Possible Associations with Disease Occurrence

Health providers/researchers need environmental data to study and understand the geographic, environmental, and meteorological differences in disease. Satellite remote sensing of the environment offers a unique vantage point that can fill in the gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease. The field of geospatial health remains in its infancy, and this program will demonstrate the need for collaborations between multi-disciplinary research groups to develop the full potential. NASA will discuss the Public Health Projects developed to work with Grantees and the CDC while providing them with information on opportunities for future collaborations with NASA for future research

Edición, traducción y estudio de "Muzil Al-Hasr Fi Mukatabat Ahl Al-'Asr", de Abu Al-Jayr Ya'Qub Ibn Muhammad

El presente trabajo constituye el primer análisis de Muzīl al-ḥaṣr fī mukatabāt ahl al-‘aṣr,el manuscrito, que hasta el momento no ha sido editado. El objetivo principal de esta investigación científica es resaltar el importante papel desempeñado por la ciencia de la edición de manuscritos y el arte de la correspondencia en el resurgimiento de la historia y la literatura en la gestión administrativa dentro de la comunidad árabe. La estructura de este estudio está estrechamente relacionada con los principales objetivos, es decir, resaltar el importante papel desempeñado por la edición de manuscritos y el arte de la redacción en el renacimiento de la historia y la literatura administrativas árabes, a través de un estudio analítico del manuscrito Muzīl al-ḥaṣr fī mukatabāt ahl al-‘aṣr, que presuntamente habría sido escrito por Al-Qalqašandī. Para ello, este trabajo de investigación se ha estructurado en tres partes, aparte de la introducción, las conclusiones y recomendaciones y la bibliografía. En la introducción se explican el proceso y las razones de la selección de este tema, los objetivos principales y secundarios, la metodología utilizada, los estudios anteriores sobre temas cercanos al nuestro, así como la estructuración del trabajo. La primera parte se centra en la biografía de Al-Qalqašandī, para acercar al lector su obra literaria más importante y los escritores previos que influyeron en él. A continuación, realizamos una comparación para encontrar las similitudes entre el libro Ṣubḥ al-a΄ša fī sinā´at al-inšā’ y nuestro manuscrito, en cuanto a contenido y análisis social y literario. El propósito principal de esta comparación es determinar si el texto manuscrito objeto de este estudio se puede atribuir a Al- Qalqašandī o no. A continuación, realizamos un estudio teórico sobre el impacto de la correspondencia en la vida social dentro de la sociedad árabe. En cuanto a la segunda parte, consistirá en una traducción del manuscrito Muzaīal al-ḥaṣr fī mukatabāt ahl al-‘aṣr. Se explica el vocabulario del texto, que se compone de dos artículos, uno sobre la redacción de correspondencia y otro, compuesto a su vez de tres apartados, sobre la categorización del remitente y el receptor de la correspondencia y las características de los escritos según cada uno de ellos. Resultando en varias secciones: tipos de felicitaciones, agradecimientos, condolencias, intimidaciones, citas, arrepentimientos y respuestas. Hemos procedido a traducir el texto al español académico-literario y explicar algunos términos que irán indicados en las notas..

Partially Synthesised Dataset to Improve Prediction Accuracy (Case Study: Prediction of Heart Diseases)

The real world data sources, such as statistical agencies, library data-banks and research institutes are the major data sources for researchers. Using this type of data involves several advantages including, the improvement of credibility and validity of the experiment and more importantly, it is related to a real world problems and typically unbiased. However, this type of data is most likely unavailable or inaccessible for everyone due to the following reasons. First, privacy and confidentiality concerns, since the data must to be protected on legal and ethical basis. Second, collecting real world data is costly and time consuming. Third, the data may be unavailable, particularly in the newly arises research subjects. Therefore, many studies have attributed the use of fully and/or partially synthesised data instead of real world data due to simplicity of creation, requires a relatively small amount of time and sufficient quantity can be generated to fit the requirements. In this context, this study introduces the use of partially synthesised data to improve the prediction of heart diseases from risk factors. We are proposing the generation of partially synthetic data from agreed principles using rule-based method, in which an extra risk factor will be added to the real-world data. In the conducted experiment, more than 85% of the data was derived from observed values (i.e., real-world data), while the remaining data has been synthetically generated using a rule-based method and in accordance with the World Health Organisation criteria. The analysis revealed an improvement of the variance in the data using the first two principal components of partially synthesised data. A further evaluation has been con-ducted using five popular supervised machine-learning classifiers. In which, partially synthesised data considerably improves the prediction of heart diseases. Where the majority of classifiers have approximately doubled their predictive performance using an extra risk factor

A Massive Tuberculosis Abscess at the Erector Spinae Muscles and Subcutaneous Tissues in a Young Man

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic granulomatous infection which can present in an atypical form. Isolated muscle involvement is very rare. We report a 25-year-old man who presented with a massive cystic swelling on the right side of his back, extending from the lower thoracic to the gluteal region. He had a history of contact with a friend who was suspected of having TB. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that the origin of the cyst was from the erector spinae muscles. The result of a fluid aspirate showed acid fast bacilli. The swelling disappeared after treatment with anti-tuberculous medications. Muscular involvement in TB is very rare. In our patient, the reports of an ultrasound and MRI confirmed isolated muscle and subcutaneous involvement without bony lesions. This case is reported to increase physician awareness regarding soft tissue TB. Although it is rare, similar cases may be seen in the future

Experiencing transformation: the case of Jordanian nurse immigrating to the UK

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Pyrolysis of azetidinone derivatives: a versatile route towards electron-rich alkenes, C-1 allylation and/or homologation of aldehydes

Pyrolysis of beta-lactams and beta-thiolactams led essentially to stereoselective synthesis of the high energy electron-rich Z-alkenes. Extension of this methodology to the pyrolysis of 3-allyloxy derivatives gave a simple direct route to the synthetically important 4-pentenal. These pyrolytic transformations convert aldehydes to aryloxyalkenes (a protected homologation) and 4-pentenal (a C-1 allylation and homologation). The starting 3-aryloxy and 3-allyloxy-beta-lactams were synthesized by the standard Staudinger ketene-imine [2 + 2] cycloaddition. The corresponding beta-thiolactams have readily been obtained in good yields by thiation of beta-lactams with Lawesson's reagent.University of Kuwait/SC 02/11GF-S/GS01/01, GS02/01, GS01/03, GS01/0