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The Syriac Letters and e-Abacus Diagram II
The Syriac language is one of the oldest languages in the world. So far, some people speak it, for example in Iraq, Syria, southeastern Turkey and other countries. In this work, the Syriac letters were coded according to what was adopted by Sami and Mahmood in 2017 using the e-abacus diagram. More than one method is used to encode the English letters or diagrams that follow the concepts of partition theory. Each of them was taking its own path and the vision was to start with what Mohommed et al looked like in 2015 through the orbit concept. Then make the comparisons to observe the most efficient, fastest and most accurate method that could be followed.
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The Syrian Revolution
Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities of the grassroots resistance, this book demands we rethink the revolution. Having lived in Syria for over fifteen years, Yasser Munif is expert in exploring the micropolitics of revolutionary forces. He uncovers how cities are managed, how precious food is distributed and how underground resistance thrives in regions controlled by regime forces. In contrast, the macropolitics of the elite Syrian regime are undemocratic, destructive and counter-revolutionary. Regional powers, Western elites, as well as international institutions choose this macropolitical lens to apprehend the Syrian conflict. By doing so, they also choose to ignore the revolutionaries' struggles. By looking at the interplay between the two sides, case studies of Aleppo and Manbij and numerous firsthand interviews, Yasser Munif shows us that this macro and geopolitical authoritarianism only brings death, and that by looking at the smaller picture - the local, the grassroots, the revolutionaries - we can see the politics of life emerge.
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Destruction of chemical warfare agents using metal–organic frameworks
A porous metal–organic framework with ultrawide channels and excellent chemical stability is now shown to be highly efficacious for the catalytic decomposition of chemical warfare agents containing phosphate ester bonds.
Chemical warfare agents containing phosphonate ester bonds are among the most toxic chemicals known to mankind
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. Recent global military events, such as the conflict and disarmament in Syria
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, have brought into focus the need to find effective strategies for the rapid destruction of these banned chemicals. Solutions are needed for immediate personal protection (for example, the filtration and catalytic destruction of airborne versions of agents), bulk destruction of chemical weapon stockpiles, protection (via coating) of clothing, equipment and buildings, and containment of agent spills
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. Solid heterogeneous materials such as modified activated carbon or metal oxides exhibit many desirable characteristics for the destruction of chemical warfare agents
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,
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,
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. However, low sorptive capacities, low effective active site loadings, deactivation of the active site, slow degradation kinetics, and/or a lack of tailorability offer significant room for improvement in these materials. Here, we report a carefully chosen metal–organic framework (MOF) material featuring high porosity and exceptional chemical stability that is extraordinarily effective for the degradation of nerve agents and their simulants. Experimental and computational evidence points to Lewis-acidic Zr
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ions as the active sites and to their superb accessibility as a defining element of their efficacy.
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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.
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Rates and trends of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an epidemiology study
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer and has a high survival rate when properly managed. Prognosis is correlated with many factors such as age, gender, white blood cell (WBC) count, CD10, French-American-British (FAB) classification, and many others. Many of these factors are included in this study as they play a major role in establishing the best treatment protocol. This study aims to demonstrate clinical and laboratory features of childhood ALL in Syria. They were treated at Children’s University Hospital, the only working major cancer centre in Syria at the time of the study. Data of 203 patients who aged 0–14 years were obtained for this study. Most patients (48.8%) aged (5–9) years with a male predominance (60.9%). The major features for ALL included lymphadenopathy (82.9%), presenting with systemic symptoms (74.9%), T-ALL subclass (20.2%), L2 FAB classification (36.1%), low educational levels for fathers (53%) and mothers (56.2%), having a high risk (48.4%), and having a duration of symptoms before evaluation for more than 4 weeks (42.6%). Only three (1.5%) patients had normal full blood counts (FBC) and only one (0.5%) patient had an isolated high WBC count at time of presentation. Most patients had either abnormal platelet count (89.3%) or low haemoglobin level (88.8%) when presenting with only (2.0%) having normal levels for both. This suggests that having normal haemoglobin and platelet count can be used for quick screening in crisis time like in Syria for prioritising patients. Many prognostic factors were significantly different from medical literature which emphasises the importance of local studies in the developping countries. This study included a high prevalence of T-all, L2 FAB classification, high-risk and other variables which require further studies to evaluate the aetiology of these features, especially that treatment protocols may have a higher mortality in developing countries when not adjusted to local variables.
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The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Turkey
The Syrian Conflict generated forced immigration from northern Syria to southeastern Turkey. Arrival of refugees resembles a natural experiment, which offers good opportunities to study the economic impact of immigration. I study three main outcomes: labor markets, consumer prices, and housing rents. I document moderate employment losses among native informal workers, which suggests that they are partly substituted by refugees. Prices of the items produced in informal labor intensive sectors declined due to labor cost advantages generated by refugee inflows. Finally, refugee inflows increased the rents of higher quality housing units, while there is no effect on lower quality units.
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The image of Syria in the world media, and its impact on the implementation of the anti-crisis strategy
The article presents an analysis of the image of Syria in the world's leading media (for example, the British, Chinese and Russian media). The need for such an analysis is due to the fact that based on the results obtained, it will be possible to predict the effectiveness of the implementation of the developed anti-crisis strategy of Syria. The results of the study reflect the degree of awareness of the general population about the events of Syria, as well as the tonality of publications about the country. The calculations revealed trends in the level of interest in the country, as well as the ratio of positive and negative information about it in the media. The predicted values of the analyzed data were calculated and recommendations were made on the introduction of the anti-crisis strategy of Syria (on its revision).
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