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Some Pro and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Children with Tonsillitis and their Correlations with Vitamin D Deficiency
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Inflammation of the tonsils could be described as acute tonsillitis, mainly due to infection. Recurrent tonsillitis could be defined as 3-7 episodes during the first 3 years of age. Vitamin D, which is a neuro-hormone with pleiotropic biological activities may modulate the immune response by alleviation, and stimulation of Th1 and Th2 cell proliferation, respectively, that influence the stimulation, synthesis, and secretion of both pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines. In this study we aimed to shed light on the levels of vitamin D in children with different episodes of tonsillitis in association with levels of interleukins (TNFα, IL-2, IL-4, IL-10). Blood samples were collected from 48 participants in 3 groups: control, acute tonsillitis (1-2 episodes/year), chronic tonsillitis (more than 7 episodes/year), serum was separated and the levels of Vitamin D, TNFα, IL-2, IL-4 and IL-10 were estimated using ELISA technique. Vitamin D decreased significantly as the episodes of tonsillitis increased, with level of 16.38± 2.41ng/ml in acute and, 14.13± 2.15 ng/ml in chronic tonsillitis as compared to control (30.91± 2.31 ng/ml), while pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNFα and IL-2) significantly increased (46.88± 14.05 and 44.55± 9.24, 1267.25± 111.85 and 1191.72± 121.52 ng/ml, respectively) as compared to control (9.45 and 138.48 ng/ml respectively). Anti-inflammatory (IL-4, IL-10) cytokines in control group were (243.08± 28.72 and 24.27± 1.83 ng/ml, respectively), which increased non-significantly in acute and chronic tonsillitis (302.76± 38.93, 290.12± 44.69 and 28.16± 2.01, 26.29± 1.99 ng/ml, respectively). Significant direct correlation was observed between the levels of vitamin D and anti-inflammatory cytokines in chronic tonsillitis (P<0.05). In conclusion, deficiency of vitamin D may affect the number of episodes of tonsillitis in children by modulation of the secretion of some cytokines.

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Publication Date
Wed Dec 30 2009
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
Preparation and properties of Nanostructure Zinc Oxide Thin Films
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Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is probably the most typical II-VI
semiconductor, which exhibits a wide range of nanostructures. In
this paper, polycrystalline ZnO thin films were prepared by chemical
spray pyrolysis technique, the films were deposited onto glass
substrate at 400 °C by using aqueous zinc chloride as a spray
solution of molar concentration of 0.1 M/L.
The crystallographic structure of the prepared film was analyzed
using X-ray diffraction; the result shows that the film was
polycrystalline, the grain size which was calculated at (002) was
27.9 nm. The Hall measurement of the film studied from the
electrical measurements show that the film was n-type. The optical
properties of the film were studied using

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Publication Date
Mon Jan 20 2025
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
Assessing Landsat Processing Levels and Support Vector Machine Classification
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The availability of different processing levels for satellite images makes it important to measure their suitability for classification tasks. This study investigates the impact of the Landsat data processing level on the accuracy of land cover classification using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The classification accuracy values of Landsat 8 (LS8) and Landsat 9 (LS9) data at different processing levels vary notably. For LS9, Collection 2 Level 2 (C2L2) achieved the highest accuracy of (86.55%) with the polynomial kernel of the SVM classifier, surpassing the Fast Line-of-Sight Atmospheric Analysis of Spectral Hypercubes (FLAASH) at (85.31%) and Collection 2 Level 1 (C2L1) at (84.93%). The LS8 data exhibits similar behavior. Conv

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Thu Jan 01 2015
Journal Name
Applied And Computational Mathematics
Texture Classification Using Spline, Wavelet Decomposition and Fractal Dimension
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Mon Dec 01 2025
Journal Name
Tanmiyat Al-rafidain
Managerial Accounting under Digitalization and Sustainability Challenges: Literature Review
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The study aims to review the literature on the fundamental changes in Managerial Accounting (MA) in light of accelerating Digital Transformations (DT) and increasing Sustainability Requirements (SR) from 2020 to August 2025, with the purpose of informing researchers and professionals about recent developments. The study relied on a qualitative analysis of the content of a group of studies indexed in the Scopus database. The study included a literature review of topics such as artificial intelligence tools and techniques, cloud computing, linear programming, sustainability reporting, and strategic managerial accounting practices. The study results revealed that accelerated DT improves the efficiency of managerial accounting practices

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Sun Jan 01 2023
Journal Name
Aip Conference Proceedings
Ni2O3 nanomaterial: Synthesis and characterization by simple chemical process
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Sun Jun 01 2025
Journal Name
Chalcogenide Letters
Fabrication and characterization of Se66S44-xAsx thin films chalcogenide
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In this paper, the effect of sulfur substitution by arsenic on the structural, optical properties of thin films of the trivalent chalcogenide Se66S44-xAsx at different concentrations (where x = 0, 8, 16, and 24 at %) was studied. Thin films with a thickness of (300±10 nm) were prepared using thermal evaporation of bulk samples. Structural examinations were performed using XRD and AFM techniques. All the studied film samples were amorphous in structure and the intensity of the crystalline parts was high in the range of 10-40. Also, in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). It was found that increasing the concentration of arsenic affects the structural parameters such as surface roughness, particle density, and average grain size. As the ar

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Wed Mar 01 2017
Journal Name
Ieee Transactions On Cognitive Communications And Networking
Multi-Channel Distributed DSA Networks: Connectivity and Rendezvous Tradeoffs
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In this paper, we investigate and characterize the effects of multi-channel and rendezvous protocols on the connectivity of dynamic spectrum access networks using percolation theory. In particular, we focus on the scenario where the secondary nodes have plenty of vacant channels to choose from a phenomenon which we define as channel abundance. To cope with the existence of multi-channel, we use two types of rendezvous protocols: naive ones which do not guarantee a common channel and advanced ones which do. We show that, with more channel abundance, even with the use of either type of rendezvous protocols, it becomes difficult for two nodes to agree on a common channel, thereby, potentially remaining invisible to each other. We model this in

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Publication Date
Sun Dec 31 2023
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
Fuzuli al-Baghdadi, his purposes and his poetic arts
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This research is mainly about the Arabic poetical work of the poet “Fadhuli AL-Baghdadi ». It aims to show the poetic purposes used like (advice, flirting and praise). This research sheds some lights on how the poetical work was hardly found because it has only one copy, which is originally a transcript

This study analyses AL-Baghdadi's poems, as well as Sheding some lights on earlier life and his other compositions, AL-Baghdadi is considered a tri-lingual poet who wrote in Turkish, Arabic and persian. His Surname as "AL- Baghdadin was as mentioned by some historians, due to his being born in Baghdad or to All a resident in Baghdad at that some poets, who wrote in Arabic have been mentioned here also, like The judge Burhan Al-

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Publication Date
Tue Jan 28 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
Human Resources Accounting And its Reflection on Quality Cost
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The development of human resources training programs can assist in agreat deal in creating products of high quality with quantitive advantage for the economicunit;through the sale of products by prices higher of the peer products price in the arket,or decreasing production costs which lead into increusing the unet  profits. for these reasons, the human resources have got great importance for their great role in  any economy,and they havestarled to consentrate on accounting these resource.From this point of view, this research has handied human resources accounting and their effect on quality costs.  In(MID-Refinery Company),quality costs are determined ,then we have larified the reality of training and development in the o

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Fri Mar 28 2003
Journal Name
Journal Of Engineering
STABILITY OF UNREINFORCED AND REINFORCED EMBANKMENTS ON SOFT SOILS
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