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Ismail, Galal; Bannora, Khalid

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“…58 The NUSS structure mirrors hierarchically almost all other organizations under the Baath rule when it comes to control and monopoly from the highest level to the smallest unit in the organization. 59 Like other popular organizations, the NUSS has an executive office who oversees the activities of the universities and the institutes students through its branch offices inside these education facilities. Hence, the executive office has eleven offices excluding the executive director who heads the union.…”

Section: Aleppo University's Kata'ib Al-baath Relationships and Structurementioning

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In the Shadow of the State: The Rise of Kata’ib Al-Baath at Aleppo University after 2011.

Aljasem

2021

Journal of Perpetrator Research

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This paper examines the emergence and transformation of pro-state paramilitarism at Aleppo University in Syria in the context of the uprising and civil war. Paramilitarism refers to clandestine, irregular armed organizations that carry out illegal acts of violence against clearly defined civilian individuals or groups. From the outbreak of the uprising in March 2011, the Assad regime' s violent response to the mass protests across the country became more extensive and intensive. The key aspect of the Assad regime' s repression against the population was its use of paramilitary forces, especially through the arming and mobilizing of ordinary Syrians in civil militias. Consequently, state-sponsored militias appeared in cities and towns across Syria to fill the gap and create a hub for recruitment, such as the Baath Party Battalions, in Aleppo in early 2012. One of the first tasks of these paramilitary groups was to identify activists and pass information on them to intelligence services. While they seem to have appeared out of the blue, they had a clear prehistory: these groups were rooted in existing civil society networks. How were these networks embedded in the Syrian state prior to the conflict? How and why were they recruited in 2011?

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Section: Aleppo University's Kata'ib Al-baath Relationships and Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

In the Shadow of the State: The Rise of Kata’ib Al-Baath at Aleppo University after 2011.

Aljasem

2021

Journal of Perpetrator Research

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Dynamics of Ising spin chains with nearest‐neighbour and next‐nearest‐neighbour interactions in random fields

Ismail¹,

Bannora

Hassan

2004

Physica Status Solidi (b)

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A one-dimensional system of six coupled random field Ising spins is studied by Glauber dynamics. The nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour interactions are taken into consideration. Two distributions of random fields (RF) -binary and Gaussian distribution -are investigated. We consider four cases of exchange couplings: ferro-ferromagnetic (F-F), ferro-antiferromagnetic (F-AF), antiferro-ferromagnetic (AF-F) and antiferro-antiferromagnetic (AF-AF). The system is fully frustrated, undergoes a zerotemperature phase transition and has multiple local energy minima in both distributions. The dynamics of the four systems are solved exactly in both distributions of RF. The effects of random fields are discussed. The number of diverging relaxation times is equal to the number of energy minima minus one. The longest relaxation times verify the Arrhenius law with energy barrier determined by the energy needed to invert the ground-state spin configuration. At low temperatures, according to the Arrhenius law, the spectrum of relaxation times shows a double-peak distribution on a logarithmic scale. In the Gaussian distribution of RF the energy-barrier distribution is continuous while it is quasi-discrete in the binary distribution.

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Bit-Packed Damaged Lattice Potts Model Simulations with CUDA and GPUs

Hawick¹,

Johnson²

2011

Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics / 755: Modelling, Identification, and Simulation

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Models such as the Ising and Potts systems lend themselves well to simulating the phase transitions that commonly arise in materials science. A particularly interesting variation is when the material being modelled has lattice defects, dislocations or broken bonds and the material experiences a Gri ths phase. The damaged Potts system consists of a set of multi-valued spins on a lattice, where each site is nominally connected to its nearest neighbouring sites, but with some probability of damage that determines whether individual links are present. We simulate the damaged Potts system on large two dimensional (square) and three dimensional (cubic) lattices, using General Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) which are well suited to the intrinisic data parallelism of such models. We employ an unusual bit-packing approach to minimise memory usage and optimise cache performance. We report on computational performance, scalability and some physical measurements used in locating the damage-shifted critical properties.

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In the Shadow of the State: The Rise of Kata’ib Al-Baath at Aleppo University after 2011.

In the Shadow of the State: The Rise of Kata’ib Al-Baath at Aleppo University after 2011.

Dynamics of Ising spin chains with nearest‐neighbour and next‐nearest‐neighbour interactions in random fields

Bit-Packed Damaged Lattice Potts Model Simulations with CUDA and GPUs

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