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Hearing Before The United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary Subcommittee On Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Actions, And Federal Rights, O. Carter Snead

Congressional Testimony

O. Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, offered expert testimony on Wednesday (June 12) before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on “Crossing the Line: Abortion Bans and Interstate Travel for Care After Dobbs.”

Originally posted by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Und Leads Implementation Team Meeting Agenda — June 12, 2024, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Implementation Documents

Agenda for the June 12, 2024 meeting of the UND LEADS Implementation Team. The agenda includes subgroup reports and discussion of the Robert O. and Marcia B. Kelley Award for Excellence in Collaborative Governance.

Analysis Of The Qualitative Characteristics Of Sewage Water And Its Suitability For Agricultural Irrigation In The Center Of Al-Mahaweel District And Al-Imam Sub-District, Hassan Mohsen Sarhed, Zeina Khaled Hussein

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study aims (Analysis of the qualitative characteristics of sewage water and its suitability for agricultural irrigation in the center of Al-Mahaweel district and Al-Imam sub-district) in which the area of ​​study occurs between two display circles (32° 34' 29" - 32° 43' 26") North, and between two longitudes (44° 19' 4" - 44° 39' 27") east, for a purpose of varying the qualitative characteristics of sewage water in the area of ​​study, in which the size of the area of ​​study is (310.682) km2 that is from the total area of ​​Babylon province that representing (6%) km2 (5119) is

Changes In The Frequency And Duration Of Atmospheric Highs Above Pressure Level 1000 In Iraq For The Period (1972-2020), Mustafa Falah Obaid Al-Hassani, Rafid Abdul Nabi Ibrahim Al-Sayegh

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research aims to analyze and explain the changes that occurred in the frequency and duration of residence of each air high (Siberian, European, subtropical, and subtropical), during three climate cycles expanding between (1972-2020), the duration of each cycle being (17 years). The analysis was based on Weather maps on the website of the National Oceanic and Sea Administration (NOOA) have adopted the most frequent months of air highs, which extend between (October-May) for the pressure level. Through analysis of weather maps, (2630/day) were recorded repeatedly and (6763/day) Residence time for atmospheric highs at the 1000 millibars level for the …

The Concept Of Context Among Fundamentalists, Its Importance And Function, Rusul Naeem Maghool, Salam Razzaq Al-Zubaidi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

By employing theories, the fundamentalists were able to establish a method for understanding the text, so the context was considered a special tool for them in understanding the contents of the text, in light of their study of the evidence designated by the fundamentalists and others. They also believe that the word cannot be interpreted alone; Because the meaning can only be revealed through context, so they dealt with the meaning understood from the compositions, as their significance differs from one style to another according to the depth of the text in their definition of its purposes, and the context …

The Impact Of The Mongol Invasion On The City Of Erbil, Kameran A. Mahmood, Said A. Mutlak

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Mongols were the force from which the earth split, threatening the entire world, and the Muslims were unable to repel it with all the means available to them. He set out and was destroying everything, burning everything green and dry in his path. We find it very easy to see in the war history of the Mongols that they did not enter a city without destroying the entire city. They killed all of its inhabitants, and the Mongols succeeded in destroying the cities of Islam, but they did not succeed in eliminating Islam, and they did not differentiate between …

Lexical Consistency In Verses Of Censure In The Holy Qur’An, Rawaa Ahmed Aziz, Ahmed Abdel Kazem Ali

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Textual study is one of the sciences that study language, as it works on studying texts, analyzing them, and looking for coherence and cohesion in those texts. To be a comprehensive and integrated unit, and this is achieved by the availability of textual standards, of which consistency represents one of these criteria, and our research studies this textual consistency at its lexical level, which is achieved by

Spatial Analysis Of Fuel Filling Stations In The City Of Qurna, Maha Shaker Jabr Al-Emara

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Fuel filling stations are one of the important vital services at the present time, due to what they play a fundamental role in various fields of life, and the requests for the establishment of fuel stations have increased rapidly and significantly as a result of their multiple uses in other service sectors, and the increase in demand for oil derivatives as an energy that drives cars, and its reasons are due to The increase in the number of cars entering the country in large numbers as a result of the openness to the global markets after the year (2003), which …

Change In Agricultural Land Uses In Dohuk District Between 2011 And 2021, Manal Raafat Khaled

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The current research aims to reveal the temporal and spatial change in agricultural land uses in Dohuk District between the years 2011 and 2021 and to demonstrate this change through comparison between satellite visualizations for the two years mentioned above and to find the areas of agricultural land uses that were subject to change using geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques and then detect the change. Achievement in agricultural land uses according to the NDVI index, which determines the density of land cover uses, in addition to identifying and calculating the types of agricultural land uses according to the …

Textual Thresholds In Malik Al-Abdi’S Poetry Optional Group (I Am A Clock And You Are Its Hands, Walid Shaker Naas

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study of textual thresholds was and still occupies a place in the critical scene in poetry and the novel, with its characteristics and characteristics. It complements the aesthetics of parallel text, especially in our current era, where the amazing development in the world of printing and publishing the printed material, when it is distributed on the surface of the cover or the surface of the body pages. ...of words, colors, and images with intentional calculation, and the aesthetic data contained in this distribution that enrich the poetic blog. And since contemporary Iranian poetry has contributed

Geomorphoic Processes And The Resulting Landforms In The Desert Of Muthanna Governorate (Kharaz Valley As An Example), Walaa Kameal Hussein Alasady, Mohammed Jaber Frhaan Alaajebi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The ancient and current climate had an impact on the processes that produced different shapes on the Earth’s surface in the Kharaz valley Basin, including chemical and physical weathering processes that played a major role in the formation of those shapes. As for water erosion in the Kharaz valley Basin, it was weak through the application of the (Fornian) equation, as it amounted to In the Samawah and Rafha stations (16.67 and 20.13) degrees, respectively, and according to the Forney index, the study area is located in the first degree of rain

The Geographical Challenge And Its Relationship To Political Stability In Iraq After 2003, Ammar Hamid Hadi Al-Zubaidi, Bashar Muhammad Awaid

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research attempts to shed light on the most important geographic variables related to this stability, which are (land, resources, and population in terms of their quantitative and spatial geographical dimension). Iraq faced great challenges at the internal level produced by a group of variables, most notably the land variable as one of the most prominent factors that it has been trying to eliminate. The ambitions for it, whether those ambitions are external to neighboring countries, or internal at the level of the dispute over the administrative borders of the governorates, in addition to the ethnographic and ethnographic overlap and …

Hint In The Arabic Language, Ayed Jadua Hanoon

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

In my research, I discussed this feature in the Arabic language, and it is one of the linguistic phenomena that characterizes our Arabic language. To remain alive and prominent, referred to as the Lebanon, citing Qur’anic verses, texts from the words of Imam Al-Hussein (peace be upon him), and some poetic verses, alluding to the various hidden semantic linguistic signals scattered in the texts, which can be detected from several linguistic and non-linguistic contexts. Sometimes it is derived from intertextuality, sometimes from pronunciation, sometimes from the text, and at other times it is perceived through the linguistic sense.

Reflective Practices And Their Relationship To Evaluative Thinking Among History Teachers In The Middle School, Alaa Hameed Mohsen Al -Naieli

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The current research aims to identify the "reflective practices of historical teachers and its relationship to evaluative thinking." The researcher relied on the descriptive relational approach. Teacher and school, and the researcher adopted the reflective scale, which consisted of (40) items, and put five alternatives to answer in front of each paragraph, which are (apply to me completely, apply to me often, apply to me sometimes, apply to me rarely, do not apply to me at all), and the second tool is the measure of thinking The evaluation and the number of its paragraphs reached (40) five-graded paragraphs (often, always, …

Natural Gas In Arab Gulf Countries (A Study In The Industry Of Geography), Huda Habini Ashour Al-Baidani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Natural gas is one of the important and main energy sources in the Arab Gulf countries in particular and in the world in general. It is considered as one of the most important clean sources when compared with other traditional energy sources such as oil and coal. Interest in it has increased in the Arab Gulf countries for its use in electricity power generation, naturally available, as well as being released with the accompanying oil, and to preserve the environment by reducing the emission of carbon dioxide.

Evaluation Of The Locations Of Cities Within The Mountainous Territory Of Erbil Governorate According To The Mass Wasting Susceptibility Model, Kamaran Wali Mahmood

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study aims to determine the scope of mass wasting hazards in Erbil Governorate's mountainous territory, as well as the locations of urban centers in relation to these risk levels. The study assumes that significant areas of the study area are vulnerable to these hazards and that the majority, if not all, urban centers are located near such hazards. The study employed an inductive approach through the application of the scientific analysis method. It was separated into three sections: definition of the study area, methods and results and discussion. The study came to a number of results, the most important …

Puns Of Morphology And Grammar In The Collection Of Shihab Al-Din Al-Huwaizi, Sayed Mohamad Reza Khezri, Abdalsaeed Moghadam

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The craft of puns in literature is an art used in prose and poetry. There are two readings in puns: a superficial reading from which we understand what the writer does not intend, and a deep reading, the puns are found in the poems of the poet Shihab al-Din on more than one topic, and we have chosen grammar and morphology from them. The urgent necessity of this study is to add to the library of literary studies on a new topic. The purpose of our article is to reveal an aspect of

The Role Of The Social Factor In Promoting The Phenomenon Of Captivity, Ali Jassim Delil, Abbas Fadal Hussein

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The captivity is one of the most prominent phenomena resulting from wars and disputes, which occurred between peoples in ancient times and before the emergence of Islam, and this concept is governed by social, political and economic factors, and it represents for the conflicting parties a supreme goal, and a maximum goal they seek to obtain in that different period of time, and this phenomenon continued after the advent of Islam, as a natural product of the conflict between the new religion

The Fate Of Baghdad’S Books And Libraries During The Mongol Invasion 656 Ah/1258 Ad. Historical Study, Samah Habib Hussein

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

In the last Abbasid era, Baghdad witnessed great development in the scientific and cultural aspect. Those in charge of it began establishing many public and private libraries until their covers became filled with thousands of works from various sciences and knowledge in language, literature, medicine, philosophy, sciences, religious studies...etc.

The View Point Of Islamic Legislation Against Negative Mohammed Hashim Abidphenomena In Society, Hamad Hashim Slave Jaafar

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Society is a group of phenomena from which it is formed. As a result of the influencing factors, such as cultural heritage, the intellectual and doctrinal factor, and the influence of time and place, society is formed. The phenomenon can be divided into two parts: a positive phenomenon, and a negative one, positivity is what is consistent with public taste and morals, and negativity is what differs from it and is incompatible, and it can be specified and determined while it is compatible or incompatible with typical behavior and the moral rules that the members of society are acquainted with, …

Analysing Iraqi Arabic Speakers' Voice Qualities: Gender As A Variable In Auditory-Perceptual Vpa, Narjis Abdul-Manaf Al-Salman, Wasan Alsiraih

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research delves into the examination of voice qualities among Iraqi Arabic speakers, encompassing both genders and age range from 20 to 45. The study employs a comprehensive auditory-perceptual analysis utilizing the Vocal Profile Analysis (VPA) scheme developed by Laver, Wirz, Beck, and Hiller (1981), later refined by Beck (2018). Data collection involves two methods: narrative pictures and open-ended responses. The findings unveil shared characteristics among Iraqi Arabic speakers: pharyngeal constriction and pronounced high nasality, particularly noticeable in females; Despite the consistent use of the advanced lingual tip/blade, the typically alveolar /l/ segment maintains a neutral position; The phonation voice …

Brotherhood As A Disillusioning Ideology In Ralph Waldo Ellison's Invisible Man, Aida Thamer Salloom

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The search for identity and social recognition is an urgent pursuit that pervades the African American literary scene. The main concern of the black writers is to portray a persona, who struggles to survive and succeed in a racially separated society. Amongst those writers is the literary figure Ralph Waldo Ellison who utilizes art to embody the blacks' ever-evolving protest against prominent sociopolitical restrictions and falsified ideologies.

Dialect Levelling In The Iraqi Gelet Varieties With Reference To First Vowel In The Faʕʕa:L / Faʕʕa:La Pattern Nominal Forms, Sura Mustafa Fadhil, Wasan Alsiraih

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research investigates the occurrence of dialect leveling in the gelet-speaking area, focusing on a specific variable: the first vowel in the faʕʕa:l / faʕʕa:la pattern nominal forms. The primary objectives include examining the direction of leveling, exploring factors influencing or contributing to the process, identifying the gender associated with this phenomenon, and the age group where leveling is most prominent. Data collection involved interviews and a picture description task. The findings reveal that leveling is indeed happening within the gelet variety, targeting the urban variety. Additionally, mobility, marriage, and prestige emerge as key factors in influencing dialect leveling, with …

Prometheus As A Mythological Hero: A Comparison Between Byron’S Poem "Prometheus" (1816) And Miller’S Novel Circe (2018), Hibbe Moussadak Muslim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Throughout centuries, Prometheus has been regarded as an important mythological character in literature in general, and in Greek and English literature in specific. Often times he is portrayed to be an advocate for the good, or perhaps a hero to humanity, who, according to the Ancient Greeks, was significant for the discovery of fire to mankind. Other times, however, he is referred to as a mighty god who used his power and intelligence to fool the gods surrounding him, and who eventually got punished for that. The ideas of justice, humanity, and freedom are central to the story. To understand …

Social Stigma Of Obesity In Neil Labute’S Fat Pig, : Rafal Thair Abdul Qadir, . Marwa Ghazi Mohammed

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Beauty standards are often influenced by social values ​​and cultural norms. What is considered to be beautiful has evolved over time and varies across cultures. These standards play a significant role in individuals' perceptions and behaviors about beauty. In addition, society places strong pressure on women to follow unrealistic beauty ideals. In today’s society, being slim is the ideal that women should follow. On the other hand, obese women are subjected to frequent judgments based on their weight and appearance. The constant exposure to social judgments and negative comments about their bodies can lead them to have body dissatisfaction, low …

A Phono-Pragmatic Analysis Of Selected Questions In The Glorious Quran, Sadiq Mahdi Khadhim Alshamiri, Hassan Khalaf Amer Hummadi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study is concerned with the relationship between phonology and pragmatics, throughout the interrogation in the Glorious Qur'an, specifically rhetorical question. The phonological aspect of this study is based on the analysis of Roach’s patterns of intonation. Whereas the pragmatic side is based on Leech’s classification of speech acts. The data is chosen depending on the recitation of Surat Al-Baqara by Abdulbasit Abdulsamad who recited with Saba Maqam and Hussein Al Aryan who recited with Lami Maqam. The problem of the study is reflected by showing whether there are any variations in pitch between the two recitations and how they …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff And Appellee, V. Donald Dee Anderson, Defendant And Appellant.: Brief Of Appellant

Utah Appeals Court Briefs

Appeal from Sentence, Judgment, Commitment entered March 14, 2022, and denial Defendant’s motion to suppress pursuant to Sery plea of the Second Judicial District Court in and for Davis County, the Honorable Michael S. Edwards, presiding

Harmony Or Discord? The Intersection Of Religious Beliefs And International Mindedness, Ranjan Kumar Lima

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

A fundamental concept of the International Baccalaureate (IB) educational philosophy is international mindedness. International mindedness refers to being, thinking, and acting with openness to the world and an understanding of the interconnectedness of oneself with others. Despite extensive research on religious beliefs and international mindedness separately, there remains a dearth of studies exploring their intersection, especially among the International Baccalaureate (IB) teachers in their early professional years. This study examines how the religious beliefs of early adult and early-career International Baccalaureate (IB) teachers influence their perceptions and manifestations of international mindedness. This study utilizes phenomenological research strategies. It involves eight …

Net-Zero Transition In Ukraine: Implications For Sustainable Development Goal 7, Maksym Chepeliev, Oleksandr Diachuk, Roman Podolets, Andrii Semeniuk, Galyna Trypolska

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

In this study, we use a TIMES-Ukraine energy system-wide model to explore net-zero transition in Ukraine. The assessment considers the potential implications of the ongoing war in the country and analyzes how the achievement of ambitious mitigation goals could impact the indicators related to the Sustainable Development Goal on energy, SDG7 (Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy). Results suggest that the net-zero transition would help improve several SDG7 indicators, including increased share of renewables in total final energy consumption, and increased energy affordability in the long run. However, in the medium run, increasing energy prices and rising …

Classifying Traumatic Brain Injury: Associations With Executive Functioning And Externalizing Behavior, Lauren F. Fournier

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) involves a head injury that is, for some individuals, associated with long-term behavioral difficulties, including externalizing behaviors. The literature on TBI and its links to externalizing is limited in several important ways. First, there is evidence that current classification system of mild, moderate, or severe is imprecise and contains important variation within TBI categories. Second, TBI and externalizing are understudied among high functioning individuals, such as undergraduate students, despite rates of TBI among this population that are similar to those of the general population. Third, while it is theorized that executive functioning deficits explain the association …