Salahaddin University-Erbil

Identity Restlessness of Feyli Kurds in Post‐Saddam Iraq: A Discursive Analysis of Political, Social and Cultural Deprivations

ABSTRACT This article asks why the post‐2003 settlement in Iraq has not closed the identity question for the Feyli (Faili) Kurds, a community that was denationalized under the Ba'thist state and now lives across an ambiguous line between the Kurdistan Region and the federal centr...

Solvation Enthalpy for Disubstituted Benzene Isomers using Multiple Approaches

Enthalpy of solvation is an essential parameter for knowing how to use chemicals in medicine and industrial sectors. There are some models in estimation solvation enthalpy using computational approaches. In this study, there are indicated various methods includes; additive scheme...

Enhancing Asphaltene Degradation Through the Piezocatalysis Process Using Cadmium Tin Oxides Rod-Like and Cubic-Like Ceramic Nanostructures

The study focused on achieving high rates of asphaltene degradation by controlling the morphology and composition of the cadmium tin oxide (CTO) piezocatalyst. A new, fast, and clean method for asphaltene degradation was employed using the piezo-catalytic process. The performance...

Recent trends and socioeconomic correlates of drug abuse and trafficking in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2014 to 2024

Abstract Background Drug abuse and trafficking have escalated significantly in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) since 2014, in a context marked by economic crises, armed conflict, and large-scale population displacement. Methods This study employs a descriptive–exploratory mixe...

A multi-index screening framework for selecting bacterial and fungal isolates for heavy-metal detoxification

Heavy-metal contamination of wastewater represents a major environmental challenge because of its persistence, toxicity, and bioaccumulation potential in aquatic ecosystems. Microbial bioremediation has emerged as a sustainable and cost-effective approach for detoxifying metal-co...

Radiogenic heat production as an indicator for geothermal energy exploration in Kurdistan Region, Iraq

The apportionment of naturally occurring radionuclides ( 238 U, 232 Th, and 40 K) within granite samples supplies essential data related to heat generation and thermal properties of the crust. Radiogenic heat production (RHP) was estimated in this work for granite rocks gathered...

Generative AI and the Reordering of Design Creativity in Architectural Education: Evidence from Undergraduate Students

Generative AI has reached the early, ideational phase of architectural design, the stage most tightly bound to conceptual creativity, yet its effect on student creativity remains unevenly investigated. This study examines the transfer of creativity from handmade concept to AI ref...

The Right Key, the Wrong Lock: TIGIT Checkpoint Blockade and the Road to Precision Immunotherapy

T-cell immunoreceptor with immunoglobulin and immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM) domains (TIGIT) emerged as one of the most promising next-generation immune checkpoint targets following the success of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), programmed death-lig...