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Acetone gas sensor properties based on ZnO nanorod arrays synthesis by MA-CBD
No full textIn present research, ZnO nanorod arrays have been synthesizedsuccessfully by microwave assisted chemical bath deposition (MA-CBD) method on SiO2 substrate.Structural and morphological properties were performing by XRD and FESEM, which prove the quality of prepared ZnO nanorod arrays. Gas sensing measurements for the resulting ZnO nanorod arrayshave been made by means of data acquisition system. The measurements show high sensitivity toward acetone vapor at different working temperatures
Computation of Radiation from Wire Antennas on, or near, Conducting Bodies of Translation
No full textA method of moments (MM) formulation is presented for active and passive wire radiators attached to, or near, bodies of translation( BOT), including open or closed cylinders of arbitrary cross section as well as curved panels. This formulation builds on previous MM analysis for BOT's and wires. The analysis incorporates a special junctions basis set for the antenna attachment points. Total domain and piecewise continuous expansion functions are used on the surfaces. The formulation is primarily intended for prediction of radiation patterns of wire antenna (such as monopoles and loops) on asymmetric bodies of translation, open or closed(capped). Fortran Power Station 90 was used to programming. Radiation patterns are plotted by origin program
Theoretical study of Energy Levels for (_70^176)Yb Isotope by using Rapid Method
No full textThe research is include theoretical study of the properties of the low-lying energy states of isotope. calculation of the energies of the end point of the levels of isotope feeders transitions negative beta as well as account the branching ratios (B.R%) of these levels and through this information been identified comparative half-life ( ) of each of these levels by using the rapid method of nuclear levels, which depends on the energy levels and the half-life of the parent nucleus and its atomic number (Z) and compare it with previous studies which found that there is a good agreement with these results
Nurses' Knowledge Concerning Early Interventions for Patients with Ventricular Tachycardia at Baghdad Teaching Hospitals
Get PDFAbstract:Objectives: The study aims to assess nurses’ knowledge regarding early intervention for patient with ventricular tachycardia and finds out association with their demographic characteristics.Methodology:Descriptive design has been conducted on 50 samples of nurses. The study was carried out to identify nurses’ knowledge concerning early intervention for patients with ventricular tachycardia at Baghdad teaching hospitals.In order to obtain comprehensive data a specifically a questionnaire is constructed by the researchers according to reviewing literatures related to the topic of the study. It is consist of two parts the first part consists of socio-demographic characteristic consist of (9) items, and second Part two consists of (23) items to measures nurses knowledge concerning early intervention for patient with ventricular tachycardia.In order to determine the face validity, copies of the questionnaire was presented to panel of experts and reliability of the questionnaire was obtained through measuring internal consistency of questionnaire items which are (23 items) where result was (0.803) by Cronbach s' Coefficient alpha. A non- probability (purposive) sample of 50 nurse taken from above –mentioned hospitals. Statistical Analysis has been applied through using statistical package for social sciences (spss version 20) by utilizing descriptive and inferential analysis.Results:The overall assessment of the studied sample’s knowledge was low. There were statistically significant association between studied sample’s knowledge and marital status, age groups, and Experience years at nursing profession.Conclusion: the overall assessment of samples knowledge was lowRecommendations: the study recommends to encourage nurses to participate in sessions inside or outside the country to improve their knowledge and In addition to Place an Educational posters in the critical care units include an outline concerning early interventions or treatment for this disorder may be more beneficial for nursesKeyword: Nurses, Knowledge, Early Intervention, Patients, Ventricular Tachycardi
Assessment of Depression among Cancer Patients in Babylon City
Get PDFAbstractBackground: depression is the most psychological distress experienced by patients with cancer and are associated with poorer treatment outcome, increased periods of hospitalization and higher mortality rates.Objective: To assess the level of depression in patients with different types of cancer and identify the relationship between depression level with some Sociodemographic and Clinical characteristics.Methodology: purposive (non- probability) sample of 100 cases selected from cancer patients in Merjan medical city /Babylon oncology center. The data collected from January 2nd 2015 to February 28th 2015. A structured interviewing questionnaire constructed with cancer patients through using the depression scales. The data analyzed by using descriptive statistical measures and inferential statistical measures.Results: Most of cancer patients have severe levels of depression (70%).Most of them were (46-60) age group, females, married, illiterate, lived in the urban and they were housewives. Most of the sample complaining from breast cancer, all of them under surgical and chemotherapy and other types of treatment .Conclusion: The study concluded that most of cancer patients have depression.Recommendations: Improving the psychological and emotional status for cancer patients of all types by nursing staff, especially after taking chemotherapy treatment. Also coordination between oncology center and the Department of Psychiatry in the hospital to reduce depression level. And educate all government institutions to conduct periodic tests for early detection of cancer, especially breast cancer to reduce spread.Keywords: Depression; Cancer patients
Safe Handling Knowledge and Practices of Chemotherapy among Oncology Nurses in Erbil City
Get PDFAbstractBackground: Widespread use of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer has lead to higher health hazards among nurses who handle and administer such drugs, so theyshould know how to protect themselves from effects of chemotherapy. Objective of study was to assess knowledge and practicesof nurses for safe handling chemotherapy in Erbil City.Methodology:A cross sectional study design was undertaken on 27 nurses in oncology units in Erbil City in 2015, to collect the data, patients who met the inclusion criteria were selected and questionnaires were filled through interviewing in 20 minutes. The questionnaire including demographic information and safe handling chemotherapy knowledge and practices and barriers of personal protective equipment. data were analysis by descriptive and inferential statisticsResults: The total mean score of knowledge and practices of safe handling chemotherapy was 15.59±1.96, 8.74+1.78 respectively and more than two to third of nurses had no knowledge that chemotherapy enter the body through contaminated foods, about practices more than three quarter no change of personnel protective barriers after contact with chemotherapy . Result of this study showed that was significant negative association between knowledge and practices (r=-0.469, p=0.014). Moreover, It is showed that significant negative association between practices and barriers (r = 0. 475; P = 0. 012).Conclusion: Most of the study sample had fair knowledge and practices of safe handling chemotherapy.Recommendation: Chemotherapy Safety protocol should be instituted for all oncology nurses who are working in oncology unit.Keywords: Safe handling chemotherapy, Nurse, Erbil Cit
Assessment of Health and Community Services Provided for Families in Internal Displaced Camps in Baghdad City
Get PDFAbstract:Background: The spread of terrorism in Iraq during the last ten years has led to the displacement of young families to neighboring countries and to other provinces inside Iraq. The displacement and the associated control terrorism to the displaced areas has had a serious economic impact on the displaced themselves and the residents of the territories, which displaced them. Terrorists stripped displaced from their property, and destroyed a large number of homes, and robbed and looted, so they completely miss opportunities to work freeObjectives of the study: The present study aims to assess the health and community services provided to internal displaced families in camps.Methodology: Descriptive study of displaced families in camps for displaced people on the outskirts of the city of Baghdad and inside. For the period from the first of December 2015 and up to 15 of February 2016 included the current study, 5 camps for the displaced Sunni, Shiite and Christian parties to the Rusafa and Karkh communities and the number of households in the study were 374 displaced families in the camps (the Al-Jamea and the Al-Dorra in the Karkh district and camp Prophet Yunus , Al Nidai and camp Zayouna in Rusafa). The researchers used A questionnaire to achieve the purpose of the study which consisted of three domains (first domain consist of 7 items as a general information of camp and the second domains consist of 8 items relating to general information about the displaced and third domains consist of 6 items relating to health and community services as well as 4 open question to the views and suggestions of families and their desire to return after the restoration of security in their home areas) and the researchers used statistical system version 23 to entry data, and the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential.Results: The results of the study revealed that a health center and a detachment of security inside is provided in four of the study camps and the lack of serious consumer association humanitarian organization within the study camps and indicated results related to the displaced that the 5-10 % of family heads is work after displacement in camp of Al-Jamea and Prophet Younis and that the proportion of 51.6% of family in Prophet Yunus have eldely persons, 90% of family in study camps is not have continuous income , the findings of present study revealed that a high percentage of students in the five camps and that the proportion of ongoing study were 3.6% and 19.2 only in Zayouna and Al-Nedia camp, concerning health and community services was the proportion of 26.3 % of the displaced families not have vocabulary ration card and 69.2 %of them not received the assistant from neighboring families and 81% did not include recently visited by governmental persons and the proportion of 76.3% %not covered by humanitarian aid, and 20% did not received displaced grant. While the vast majority of the four other displaced camps grant received a million Iraqi dinars.Conclusions: The present study concluded that the level of health and community services provided to the study camps between the medium and the Al-Nedia Camp was the weakest in a communication services in the provision of aid.Recommendation: Based on the results of the study, the researchers suggest the followings:1. Create jobs by opening a marketing complexes and subsidized employment and solve the problems of employment and the provision of marketing complex for families.2. Provide a private car at the entrance of the camp to secure their needs, particularly the elderly.3. Follow-up families by neighboring schools for the purpose of motivating them to complete their studies4. Allocation of private media committee for the displaced, and a website, take interest in the affairs of displaced service and is interested in the cultural and security awareness and be a reference for them to receive notifications and instructions and receiving the complaint, and everything related to their affairs
Factors Associated with Open-Angle Glaucoma among Iraqi Patients
Get PDFAbstractBack ground: Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness world wide and 22.5 million people are estimated to suffer from it. Open angle glaucoma is more prevalent form of glaucoma than closed angle glaucoma blindness can be avoided if glaucoma treated early.Objectives: There are many factors associated with open angle glaucoma this study is performed to assess The most important factors that associated with open angle glaucoma among Iraqi patients who had glaucoma attending AL-Yarmook teaching hospitalMethods: Across sectional study was conducted at AL-Yarmook hospital in Baghdad from October 2013 till June 2014 one hundred fifty 150 glaucomatus patients age >35 years both sexes were included in this study .open Angle glaucoma was diagnosed by ophthalmologist depending on the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2012 the data were obtained by using an interview questionnaire that was applied to patient with open angle glaucoma. The data include the age, sex. family history and clinical data which include intra ocular pressure ,Myopia, smoking, history of hypertension, diabetes and using systemic drugs as corticosteroid the data was analyzed by SPSS.Results: The study included 150 patients with open angle glaucoma. almost half of the patients were above 65 years, the rate of open angle glaucoma is more in those who have I.O.P.>20 mm Hg(92%) ,myopia 65%family history72%,history of hypertension 63%, history of diabetes 53%,history of taking steroid 59% and smoking 52%. Open angle glaucoma was significantly associated with intra ocular pressure 0.0001, myopia P0.001, family history 0.0005, history of hypertension 0.001, and history of taking steroid 0.01. it show that there is no significant association with history of diabetes and smoking (P 0.1,0.2 )respectively.Conclusion: This study show that old age, intra ocular pressure, Myopia, family history, history of hypertension and history of taking steroid are risk factors for open angle glaucoma.Recommendation: education of the people about risk factor associated with glaucoma and routine checking of I.O.P for old age and patients with hypertension and diabeticKeywords: open angle glaucoma, intra ocular pressure, Myopia
A Contrastive Study of clipping in English and Arabic
No full text This study deals with clipping in English and Arabic. Clipping is shortening a word into one of its elements. This study is an attempt in contrastive analysis. It aims to identifying, analyzing, and contrasting the process of clipping in English and in Arabic. It also aims to know whether Arabic has a clipping process for creating new words or not? The procedures followed in this study are giving a full description of clipping structure in English and Arabic and then making a comparison between them. It is found that Modern Standard Arabic has not an independent process called clipping for creating new words as in English. But it has a partition process. Arabic partition process can be used for grammatical and poetic purposes as in vocative st
Evalution of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in jaundice neonates
Get PDFGlucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is present in all cells of the body where it is involved in pentose phosphate shunt, and it catalyses the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconolactone. This step is necessary for the reduction of hydrogen peroxide. In G6PD deficient red cells, oxidative stress can cause hemolysis. In G6PD deficient individuals, the enzyme shows a lower concentration than the normal. The enzyme is also present in leukocytes, platelets; liver, kidneys and adrenals where the deficiency is not severe to cause the pathological effects since there are alternate pathways for the generation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) in nucleated cells. Bactericidal activity of neutrophils is decreased and the affected subject is prone to repeated infections. In enteric fever, pneumonia and hepatitis, G6PD deficient subjects react more severely and hemolysis can complicate the course of disease. Although G6PD deficiency associated, hemolysis is the most important manifestation, it is association with cardiac disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, preeclampsia, aging process and infertility has highlighted its importance.