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Predictive Significance of Interleukins 17A and 33 in Risk of Relapsing–Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
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Cytokines are signaling molecules between inflammatory cells that play a significant role in the pathogenesis of a disease. Among these cytokines are interleukins (ILs) 17A and 33, and accordingly, the current case-control study sought to investigate the role of each of the two cytokines in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Sixty-eight relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) Iraqi patients and twenty healthy individuals (control group) were enrolled. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were used to determine serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33. Results revealed that IL-17A and IL-33 levels were significantly higher in MS patients than in controls (14.1 ± 4.5 vs. 7.5 ± 3.8 pg/mL; p < 0.001 and 65.3 ± 16.3 vs. 49.3 ± 20.0 pg/mL; p < 0.001, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis demonstrated that IL-17A was a very good predictor of MS (area under curve [AUC] = 0.869; 95% CI = 0.779 - 0.960; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 10.2 pg/mL; sensitivity = 80.8%; specificity = 75.0%). A similar prediction was presented by IL-33, but the AUC value was lower (AUC = 0.762; 95% CI = 0.63 - 0.89; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 56.4 pg/mL; sensitivity = 70.6%; specificity = 70.0%). Multinomial logistic regression analysis confirmed the significance of IL-17A and IL-33 in MS risk, and under three models of analysis, the estimated odds ratios for IL-17A (1.50, 1.49 and 1.50, respectively) and IL-33 (1.05, 1.05 and 1.06) were above 1.0. Patients stratified by gender (male and female), expanded disability status scale (EDSS: < 3 and ≥ 3) or medication (pre- and post-medication) showed no significant differences in serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33 for each stratum. However, with regard to response to medication, it was found that responding patients showed significantly higher levels of IL-33 than non-responders (70.9 ± 12.2 vs. 57.2 ± 18.2 pg/mL; p = 0.018). This difference was not observed when considering IL-17A. Pearson correlation analysis between IL-17A and IL-33 revealed that both cytokines were not significantly correlated. In conclusion, the study indicated that IL-17A and IL-33 were up-regulated in serum of MS patients, and this up-regulation was not influenced by age, gender, EDSS or medication status, but the elevated level of IL-33 was more pronounced in patients who responded to medication.

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Publication Date
Mon Sep 01 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
Using Lean Accounting in Simplifying and Modifying Financial Reports (Focus on Value Stream): A practical Study in AL- Hayat Soft Drinks and Mineral Water Company
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With the advent of the globalization, the rapid development in technology and the intensity of competition companies attemptto maintain competition advantages and retain customers. The traditional methods in managerial accounting become irrelevance to achieve the objectives of these companies especially with the rapid changes in modern manufacturing environment .Thus there is a need to new tools in accounting such as lean accounting, which is considered as a costing method that support creating value for the customer by costing the entire value stream, eliminating waste in the accounting process, reduced lead time, improved quality, lowered time delivery and increased available capacity. Using value stream focuses not only on the waste&n

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Publication Date
Wed Dec 13 2017
Journal Name
Al-khwarizmi Engineering Journal
Cultivation of Microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in Airlift photobioreactor for Biomass Production using commercial NPK Nutrients
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Airlift reactors are widely used in the chemical and biochemical applications as effective contactors for mass and heat transfer. The main advantages of airlift contactor compared with simple bubble column are ease of construction, low shear rate, high capacity, good mixing and liquid circulation without mechanical agitators and circulating pumps.

In this work, growth characteristics of Chlorella vulgaris microalgae were studied in an internal loop airlift photobioreactor for biomass production. The bioreactor operated under batch and semi-continuous culture mode using commercially available 20:20:20+TE NPK fertilizer as nutrients. The experiments were conducted to evaluate the growth rate and biomass productivity of

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Publication Date
Fri Feb 08 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
Software Protection by Combining Hash Function with Hardware Identifications
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This paper presents a hybrid software copy protection scheme, the scheme is applied to
prevent illegal copying of software by produce a license key which is unique and easy to
generate. This work employs the uniqueness of identification of hard disk in personal
computer which can get by software to create a license key after treated with SHA-1 one way
hash function. Two mean measures are used to evaluate the proposed method, complexity
and processing time, SHA-1 can insure the high complexity to deny the hackers for produce
unauthorized copies, many experiments have been executed using different sizes of software
to calculate the consuming time. The measures show high complexity and short execution
time for propos

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Publication Date
Thu Nov 08 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
علاج أمراض الجهاز التناسلي الذكري من كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية الضرورية(المعروف بالملكي)
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Since God created human and had him live on Earth, he was certain and focused on marriage and having lineage for the purpose of development of this Earth which he – God - provided for humans.

We notice that he – human - was interested in curing  disease of the genital system, (whether male and female) and he used different methods for that and what is available in every era and periods, we saw him exceeded in using different medical Herbs in different area of Earth and used it efficiently for healing and getting the best results they even inherited from one generation  to another, and they didn't even stop here,

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Publication Date
Sun Apr 07 2013
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
مدى التزام مديري معاهد إعداد المعلمين بأخلاقيات المهنة من وجهة نظر المدرسين والمدرسات
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What a nation seeking to occupy a prominent place among the nations not and attached the educational process of the great interest from which you can build a conscions generation represented in the culture first, then unable to adapt to modern technology data on the labor market second .

So it was for the administration a major role in the educational process and that all the evaluation of texture development of education in his administration , it is through the development of administrative paper work can be judged or under developed society , evaluation of any system depends on the efficiency of his administration in dealing with the inputs of the education system.

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Publication Date
Sun Jul 04 2010
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
الأنماط القيادية السائدة لدى مديري المدارس المتوسطة من وجهة نظر أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية
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تعتبر المدرسة المتوسطة هي القاعدة التعليمية الثانية بعد المدرسة الابتدائية والتي تقوم عليها أنظمة التعليم المتنوعة فهي تمثل اللبنة الثانية في الصرح التعليمي لأنها مرحلة مهمة تستقبلها الطلبة في العمر الحرج المليء بالتطورات الجديدة على المستويات الثلاثة البايلوجي والنفسي والاجتماعي وعليه يأتي هنا دور القيادة التربوية للقيام بواجباتهم الإدارية والقيادية في قمة الهرم الإداري للمدرسة المتوسطة والتي تستوج

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Publication Date
Sun Oct 07 2012
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
مطابقة كتاب الكيمياء للصف الرابع العلمي لمعايير الجودة من وجهة نظر المدرسين والمدرسات
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This study aimed to determine the extent matching his chemistry for fourth grade scientific quality standards, from the point of view of male and female teachers. The study sample consisted of (96) as a teacher and school representing schools six Baghdad educations (Rusafa - Karkh), and search tool consisted of identifying closed, accounting standards and specifications should be available in a chemistry book, after it has been ascertained from the sincerity and persistence. The percentage used Pearson correlation coefficient and the Fisher equation and weight percentile, as a means to describe the statistical analysis and interpretation of the results that have been reached. The results revealed that the percentage of matching s

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Publication Date
Sun Nov 04 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
آل الاشعث آل الأشعث وموقفهم من مقتل الخليفة علي وولده الحسن (عليهما السلام)
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The research position ofAl-A'shath from ahlulbayt lies theimportance of research to clarify the exten of resentment and hatred which carries these owners of family household and the reason for hatred and animosity dates bach to his place and the hom of the people of the house of god and the prophet and the people the research is divided in to introduction and tow section and the ring included afirstsectionA'shath bin Qais position in the murderof caliph ali the second section has included the role of the girl crumple A'shath in the venom of imam Hassan and the bottom line is that the house  of A'shath proceeded to such acts of the door of hatred and resentment and hostility lal house.

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Publication Date
Fri Dec 01 2023
Journal Name
Baghdad Science Journal
Solving the Hotdog Problem by Using the Joint Zero-order Finite Hankel - Elzaki Transform
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This paper is concerned with combining two different transforms to present a new joint transform FHET and its inverse transform IFHET. Also, the most important property of FHET was concluded and proved, which is called the finite Hankel – Elzaki transforms of the Bessel differential operator property, this property was discussed for two different boundary conditions, Dirichlet and Robin. Where the importance of this property is shown by solving axisymmetric partial differential equations and transitioning to an algebraic equation directly. Also, the joint Finite Hankel-Elzaki transform method was applied in solving a mathematical-physical problem, which is the Hotdog Problem. A steady state which does not depend on time was discussed f

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Publication Date
Sun Apr 03 2011
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
اتجاهات مديرات الرياض نحو الاساليب التربوية المتبعة من قبل المعلمات مع اطفال الروضة
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The aim of the research to show the direction of kindergarten‘s
headmasters with students and know the educational technique used by
the teachers with students inside kindergarten , also to know the
differences of headmasters directions towards these technique
according to changing of social state (married , unmarried ) and age
state (30-38) (39-47) (48-56) .
Also shows the sign among the direction of head masters and
educational technique used by teachers with student, where as the
importance of this research shows the importance of the kindergarten
stage and the importance of management .
The role of headmaster and teacher consider the relationship between
them and the mother so that this origin direc

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