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Urban Integration Of Historic Centers: Analytical Study Of The Factors Of Urban Integration At Al-Karkh Historic Center, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Mohammed Mahdi Hussein Apr 2026

Urban Integration Of Historic Centers: Analytical Study Of The Factors Of Urban Integration At Al-Karkh Historic Center, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Mohammed Mahdi Hussein

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Historic centers are considered one of the tangible forms of civilization in terms of depicting the extensions of the past. They form one of the intensively proposed controversies in the modern field in regard to the possibility of dealing with them, the objectives of development and conserving them as they represent the merge of the old and the new. This is manifested in the merger of contradictions and the changing value resulting from urban interference in order to link the historic centers with other parts of the city through linear streets that penetrate its urban structure and divide its urban …

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Wall Between The Structure Of The Intent And Mechanics Of Writing In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Laheib Ali Abdulhussain Al-Sayigh Apr 2026

Wall Between The Structure Of The Intent And Mechanics Of Writing In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Laheib Ali Abdulhussain Al-Sayigh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The current search trying to study deeply the semantic relations generated from the adoption of mechanisms written with a certain intent on the board (the wall), as a means of displaying architectural text which is of semantically cumulative as it described as a traces .Where the Architected text is the writing about a topic not attaching pictures of the past and heritage. To establish by the search the structure of conceptual and assume to that a wall is not physically dividing line between inside and outside of the space but dialogue bridge between the designer and his intellectual reference at …

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Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed Apr 2026

Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The urban expansion of the Gulf cities included many multi-storey housing projects of urban form types similar to those built in Britain during the post Second Wold War period of reconstruction. According to the literature, these types of urban form are associated with a number of social problems in relation to the health of some residents, anti-social behaviour of some youngsters, and some types of crime. The aim of this research is to identify the types of urban form in the context of the British built environment and to conduct a pilot study to investigate the presence of social problems …

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Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori Apr 2026

Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is the content of human events, it is the most important products through history with all its structure of the formal elements, relations between them and the regulations governing the organization of space and movement patterns and formations that form the lives of their inhabitants to achieve the highest performance of the material without displacing the local building techniques and modern engineering into account the rules and the investment component of the site in order to find the structure of architectural humanism the surrounding elements of the natural environment to achieve the requirements basic, so the architecture is the …

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Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan Apr 2026

Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies have addressed the problem of visual distortion a and disharmony in urban facades in terms of styles , formations , compositions and materials ... Etc., which reflected negatively on the urban form and aesthetic character of the city, and as a result of imposing of colors and clear dissonant in its design harmony . This research deals with the concept of harmony in architecture in general and urban design in particular, draw the most important formulas to achieve Color harmony in the urban facades, the research problem states that "there is no clear perception of the formulas to …

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Visual Chaos Of The Formal Order Of The University Buildings Case Study – University Of Technology, Zainab Ibrahim Apr 2026

Visual Chaos Of The Formal Order Of The University Buildings Case Study – University Of Technology, Zainab Ibrahim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This Paper Studies Visual Chaos phenomenon in the University of Technology, after the development and rehabilitation of its Buildings, Which was the reason for the absence of the formal order Unity of its Buildings. So the aim of this paper is to built a base Knowledge to visual chaos phenomenon, Order and Formal Order. The research hypothesis was “there is a visual chaos in the formal order of the elevations and the master plan of the University of Technology”. The research defines the visual chaos as the absence of order in the formal pattern. The research has built a theoretical …

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The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat Apr 2026

The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Man searches for a tool to reflect his thoughts and simulate what is around him of features, and through the various and different drawing techniques he can now portray what is around him and demonstrate it with different means as an integral whole. Where using the techniques requires using the experience and skill by drawing and architectural performance. The research problem was determined by the scientific need to know the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques in internal architecture, where the research tries to disclose the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques through the …

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Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa Apr 2026

Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Globalization has emerged and developed over several decides. This ideology which was set to constitutes the globe was not just to serve the world but to serve the entrusts of it’s believers for control and dominance. They’re for this ideology had to create anew world system, capable of constant reformation and changing. This new ideology made tools of technology, science, and economy as means have achieve it’s fundamental gals, no matter how these means have deferred and contradicted towards achieving the gals, they will seventhly serve the it’s main propose, which this comprehensive ideology seeks for. This contempory ideology …

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Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar Apr 2026

Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon Apr 2026

The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Islamic architecture has spread in a wide geographical regions, covering many areas and cities with distinct civilizations, Most of these areas and cities imposed their local architectural features on the forms of Islamic buildings in these areas due to the flexibility that characterized the process of composition output of Islamic architecture represented in different functional patterns as mosques, palaces, schools, baths and markets. This paper tries to study in-depth the existence of these local features and its assets in a range of distinct civilized areas covered by Islamic architecture. Reviewing previous studies concerning the research topic revealed the problem of …

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The Prognostical Value Of Special Aptitudes' Tests For Accepted Students To Study Architecture "Accepted Students In Architectural Department In The University Of Mosul As A Case Study", Shatha Yakub Alshaik, Farhan Awad Jassim Altai Apr 2026

The Prognostical Value Of Special Aptitudes' Tests For Accepted Students To Study Architecture "Accepted Students In Architectural Department In The University Of Mosul As A Case Study", Shatha Yakub Alshaik, Farhan Awad Jassim Altai

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Most institutions, around the world attend to do tests for persons competing to work, in order to achieve the correct professional choice.From these, are architectural departments in Iraq, which sometimes attempt to do unobligatory tests for students like studying architecture. Ivestigation about the importance of the prognostical value of these tests and their achievement in choosing and directing students for studying architecture emerges clearly especially, that students' acceptance now depends only on the final results of the secondary schools exams. The problem of the paper had been represented as the absence of the objective vision of the prognostical value of …

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The Trace Of Floor Area Ratio(F.A.R.)Change On The Dwelling Unit Environment(Casa Study: Neighborhood #427/ Al-Kadhimya), Fadhaa Maroof Al Chalabi, Jamal Baqer Mtlak Alsadi Apr 2026

The Trace Of Floor Area Ratio(F.A.R.)Change On The Dwelling Unit Environment(Casa Study: Neighborhood #427/ Al-Kadhimya), Fadhaa Maroof Al Chalabi, Jamal Baqer Mtlak Alsadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In spite of the awareness of the researchers the importance of the preparation of living environment (private or public) which is appropriate for a person to ensure a better life in the social, physical and psychological that have been emerged in communities. A lot of studies have been taken in many countries in the world including Iraq, which used various planning tools to control the size of building in terms of number of existing housing units, quality and services to be provided within the housing unit and beyond it, in excess of inclusion delimiters and controls within the laws of …

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Housing Development, Its Dimensions And Its Constituents, Sanaa Sati Abbas Apr 2026

Housing Development, Its Dimensions And Its Constituents, Sanaa Sati Abbas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This paper studies housing development phenomenon, it's social, environmental and economical dimensions, as well as its urban design and planning constituents. The research assumes that, the housing development not verified, only by the existence of these two constituents with the previous mentioned dimensions. Literature review showed that there was a gap in the concept of housing development locally, so the aim of this paper is to bridge this gap. The research hypothesis was "the housing development is an integration of social, environmental and economic dimensions, within urban design and planning constituents". The research defines the housing development as keeping the …

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The Aesthetics Of Ugliness In Architecture, Asma Niazy Taher Apr 2026

The Aesthetics Of Ugliness In Architecture, Asma Niazy Taher

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The concept "aesthetics of ugliness" is considered to be one of the post-modernism treatises. The meaning of "aesthetics" is more comprehensive it encompasses numerous other concepts, e.g. those of beauty, ugliness, sublime… Many studies were generally concerned with the concept of ugliness (especially in the field of architecture) from different perspectives, and in a brief and inclusive way. The research problem focused on the absence of a clear definition of the concept of aesthetic ugliness and its role in the aesthetic experience of architecture, and this is what the present research aims to discover. Depending on the research hypothesis which …

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Effect Of The Geometry Of The Roof On The Efficiency Of Thermal Performance (The City Of Baghdad Case Study), Jamal Abed Al Wahid Jassim Al- Sudany Apr 2026

Effect Of The Geometry Of The Roof On The Efficiency Of Thermal Performance (The City Of Baghdad Case Study), Jamal Abed Al Wahid Jassim Al- Sudany

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies have focused on efficiency placed climate of buildings by controlling a forms, but it did not address the geometry of the roof in particular led to the emergence of the research problem in the lack of clarity in the role of the geometry of the roof influence the efficiency of the thermal performance of buildings with the roof exposed to solar radiation. This research aims to evaluate the thermal performance of a geometric form of the roof in the hot, dry, Iraq, as well as to resolve some aspects of the debate about the efficiency of the thermal …

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Graphic Techniques For Developing Creativity In Architectural Design, Rasha Subbhy, Emad Abd Al Hameed, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa Apr 2026

Graphic Techniques For Developing Creativity In Architectural Design, Rasha Subbhy, Emad Abd Al Hameed, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The contemporary world is marked by the phenomenon of the rapid changes in all fields of human knowledge. The architecture of future will still be the most confusing and puzzling issue and misgivings that a rouse worry and leading to the spirit of adventures to make progress and arrive at the ways of revival, creativity and modernism. The idea of prevailing of certain culture or certain product in architecture depends on the given and available techniques, due to the fact that the computer and their graphic techniques become very important and vital to reinforce the image in architectural design. Thus, …

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Intelligent Tropical Buildingsa Study Of The Eco-Technological Integration Effects On Reducing The Economicaland Environmental Costs, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood Apr 2026

Intelligent Tropical Buildingsa Study Of The Eco-Technological Integration Effects On Reducing The Economicaland Environmental Costs, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In the last few years, a number of studies highlighted the two concepts of "Technology" and "Ecology", which may seem at a glance as being in contradiction. The "Technological" approach represented by the "intelligent buildings" is investing the new scientific and technological advances to achieve adaptation with the ever changing man needs, provide comfortable internal environment, and responding to external environment effects but without taking into consideration the context and the environmental content surrounding these buildings. This has led to ignorance of the project site nature and the surrounding environment. This has formed the general boundaries of my study. Because …

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The Change Of Genotype In Old Traditional Areas In Baghdad Cityanalytical Study Using Geographic Information System, Sanaa Sati Abbas Apr 2026

The Change Of Genotype In Old Traditional Areas In Baghdad Cityanalytical Study Using Geographic Information System, Sanaa Sati Abbas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Change is the fact of being difference, or something to be in a state that not being before. Old traditional areas in Baghdad City have been encountered to many changes by the act of streets cut through, as a result of development process or comprehensive plans, which represents the research problem. The research hypothesis is, the genotype of old traditional areas is changed by the act of streets cut through. The aim of this paper is to explore the changes in this genotype with specific reference to old traditional Al- Kadhemiyah and old Karkh, according to four morphological stages passed …

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Thermal Simulation Of Custom Designed House To Test Application Of New Cooling Methods, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem, Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi Apr 2026

Thermal Simulation Of Custom Designed House To Test Application Of New Cooling Methods, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem, Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

A traditional Iraqi house used to be compatible with climate and allows the users to live in a genealogically comfortable way in winter and summer. And because of the evolution of technology and contemporary housing demands, this kind of housing became inappropriate that led to the appearance of a new Iraqi house design which offers overall comfortable living but it cause a terrible loss of power for heating and cooling. Several new methods have been tested in the University of Technology in Baghdad to cool the building interior through cooling the structural envelope. The tests have been done on a …

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The Impact Of The Designer In The Architectural Outcomearchitectural Education Projects, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif Apr 2026

The Impact Of The Designer In The Architectural Outcomearchitectural Education Projects, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

A theory was subjected ;as an attempt to study the architectural circulation as an education media; That, the impact of the projects in the circulate , where , these projects were designed as to improve the intellectual abilities of the students , different from traditional approach ; produced results in a kind of architecture which alien to the goals. The intention of such intel-lectual circulation meant to develop the aesthetic values of the student within the teaching medium. Teachers attempt to look for teaching medias that can be related to Society, Education, Histo-ry, as main ingredients in their teaching, in …

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Principle Of Correspondency In Context Of Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rafid Abd Alatif Apr 2026

Principle Of Correspondency In Context Of Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rafid Abd Alatif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research concentrates on Communication which forms one of the main criteria in the design process, Particular attention is given to the user rather than the designer "Architect”;The architectural output process can be represented in two poles; the first, the individual element as designer ,while the other pole, represents the social output as thinker user. But the design process occurs in a much wider range than the two poles. And involved the context that achieved the output. It appears more than one context determined the relationship between parties in the process of design as a designer context, user context, and …

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Protractors For Predicting Natural Lighting Levels In Architectural Spaces For Clear Sky In Iraq, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi Apr 2026

Protractors For Predicting Natural Lighting Levels In Architectural Spaces For Clear Sky In Iraq, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This paper deals with providing architects with protractors for clear sky natural lighting in order to help them in predicting light levels in architectural spaces which occur from any size of right angle windows. The protractors, which had been designed by professor Hopkinson before 1964, available to architects at present are two protractors one for over-cast sky and another for virtual uniform sky- not quite true in reality-, as the calculation for clear skies had not been yet approved.In 1965, Dr. Richard Kittler architect from The Slovak Academy of Science presented his explanation and his formula at CIE conference in …

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Crime Prevention Through Territoriality In Urban Design, Bahaa Issa Yadco, Azad Atoof M. Raoof, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili Apr 2026

Crime Prevention Through Territoriality In Urban Design, Bahaa Issa Yadco, Azad Atoof M. Raoof, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Crime has been a symptomatic issue that civilized world had suffered from.To tackle crime does not come through enhancing security and police procedures, but through studying relevant factors and aspects from different and various fields of knowledge.One of such fields is architectural and urban design strategies and in specificthe role of the designer and / or the planner in providing secure living spaces.Territoriality represents one of the most important element in creatingdefensible space in urban design to reduce crime rate. Literature review showed a biggap in thescientific awareness about the concept of this phenomenon, and its relations to architectural design, …

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Strategies Of Addition In Architecture, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Baydaa Hana Saffo Apr 2026

Strategies Of Addition In Architecture, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Baydaa Hana Saffo

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Additions in architecture are regarded an important phenomenon which was handled in new perspective in the literature of post-modem architecture and it's practices as they represent responses to modemism like problems of the destruction of the urban environmentand the negligence of the traditional context in the city. After discussing the state of art of the subject concerning additions in the trends ofpostmodemism period , addition to buildings phenomenon emerged as it is regarded an important aspect of architecture which rvere invested to determine the problem of the research. This is due to their close relationship with products of the architectural …

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Complexity In Urban Environment, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili Apr 2026

Complexity In Urban Environment, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Complexity is considered a design characteristic in the urban environment, representing a special case of environmental preference. Many studies link the concept of complexity to two fundamental concepts: ambiguity and contradiction. Therefore, this research aims first to distinguish between complexity and these two concepts at the urban level. Urban environments possess desirable levels of complexity, and their deficiency or excess can cause numerous environmental and psychological problems. Furthermore, complexity in the urban environment is linked to two key factors: observable and measurable differences and the speed of movement. Although complexity is necessary, it can cause a kind of disorientation and …

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Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architectural literatures and practices presented the concept of Enrichment as one of the solutions for the problems of Modemism. The importance of this concept emerges due to its relation with other phenomena like visual complexity and ambiguity. Enrichment is a product character and a strategy to its creation. This product possess abundance and detail in the visual tools causing the meaning  nrichment and its readiness for multi interpretations. This concept is present in to two levels; the first, formal and includes complexity and riddles, while the second is moral which includes the multiinterpretations. These sub-concepts cover many tools to achieve …

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Sources Of The Architectural Form And Its Specialization In Iraqi Architectural Education, Suha Haddan Aldahwia Apr 2026

Sources Of The Architectural Form And Its Specialization In Iraqi Architectural Education, Suha Haddan Aldahwia

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies have concentrated on form sources in architecture according to manylundamentals in classification, which have been graduated from generality to specialty ofsubject. They have consisted of: Iheories of fbrm ,design kinds . design constraints ,designconceptual ipproaches , sources belongation and degrec of common source which hasproduled many different sources according to these studiesTl.rese many approaches about architecture form sources and misunderstanding them in1.aqi architecturai-teachinghave led to appearance of the research problem (There is_ n^o clearidea about the nature ofdlpendent souries { from students} to drive the architectural form inlraqi architectural schools). The research objective is to define an comprehensive …

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Ferrocement Structural Elements In Building/Housing Applications, Wail N. Al-Rifaie Apr 2026

Ferrocement Structural Elements In Building/Housing Applications, Wail N. Al-Rifaie

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The use of ferrocement in pre-fabrication of building/housing offers numerous advantages in temrs oflightness ofrveight and ease ofhandling. low labour cost and a durable material requiring little maintenance.A considerable amount of laboratory testing research and prototype constructions have been completed at the Building and Construction Eng. Dept. of University of Technology for the production of ferrocement members that would be used in the roof/floor/wall of building/housing. The present .paper describes the applications of ferrocement to housing/building constructions.

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Incentivizing Bidirectional Ev Charging Stations, Luke Warkall Apr 2026

Incentivizing Bidirectional Ev Charging Stations, Luke Warkall

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

California recently enacted a law that gives the California Energy Commission authority to require that Electric Vehicles (“EVs”) sold in California be capable of bidirectional charging. A bidirectional EV is capable of sending energy stored in the EV battery to a person’s home and to the grid. Bidirectional EVs are a novel step in the right direction in the global fight against climate change. They offer a substantial and mobile power source to communities recovering from natural disasters and can offset the demand for nonrenewable energy consumption by storing solar, wind and other renewable energy, then sending that energy back …

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Right To Life, Right To Arms: Conservative States' Antithetical Approaches To Abortion And Gun Laws, Kristen Mehalko Apr 2026

Right To Life, Right To Arms: Conservative States' Antithetical Approaches To Abortion And Gun Laws, Kristen Mehalko

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

Following Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, twelve states enacted total abortion bans while simultaneously maintaining among the weakest gun safety laws in the nation. This Note explores the policy contradiction inherent in this approach: states invoking fetal life protection experience gun death rates substantially exceeding national averages, with firearms becoming the leading cause of death for children in these jurisdictions. The Note reveals how these states employ divergent strategies across two policy domains. Abortion restrictions receive vigorous enforcement through criminal statutes and private liability mechanisms, whereas gun regulations face …

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