Restoration of degraded lands by adoption of recommended conservation management practices can rehabilitate watersheds and lead to improving soil and water quality. The objective was to evaluate the effects of grass buffers (GBs), biomass crops (BCs), grass waterways (GWWs), agroforestry buffers (ABs), landscape positions, and distance from tree base for AB treatment on soil quality compared with row crop (RC) (corn [Zea mays L.]–soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotation) on claypan soils. Soil samples were taken from 10‐cm‐depth increments from the soil surface to 30 cm for GB, BC, GWW, and RC with three replicates. Soil samples were collected from summit, backslope, and footslope landscape positions. Samples were taken at 50‐ and 150‐cm distances from the tree base. β‐Glucosidase, β‐glucosaminidase, dehydrogenase, fluorescein diacetate hydrolase (FDA), soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), active carbon (AC), and water‐stable aggregates (WSA) were measured. Results showed that β‐glucosidase, β‐glucosaminidase, dehydrogenase, FDA, AC, WSA, and TN values were significantly greater (P < 0.01) for the GB, BC, GWW, and AB treatments than for the RC treatment. The first depth (0–10 cm) revealed the highest values for all soil quality parameters relative to second and third depths. The footslope landscape had the highest parameter values compared with summit and backslope positions. The 50‐cm distance of AB treatment had higher values than the 150‐cm distance for all measured parameters. Results showed that perennial vegetation practices enhanced soil quality by improving soil microbial activity and SOC.
Core Ideas
Permanent vegetative management (trees and grasses) enhanced soil quality.
Perennial practices improved microbial activity and increased soil organic carbon.
Perennial vegetative practices have agricultural and environmental significance.
Establishing perennial practices is an effective approach to enhance soil quality.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory autoimmune disease of unidentified etiology, associated with articular, extra-articular and systemic manifestation that require long-standing treatment. Taking patient’s beliefs about the prescribed medication in consideration had been shown to be an essential factor that affects adherence of the patient in whom having positive beliefs is an essential for better adherence. The purpose of the current study was to measure beliefs about medicines among a sample of Iraqi patients with Rheumatoid arthritis and to determine possible association between this belief and some patient-certain factors. This study is a cross-sectional study carried out on 250 already diagnosed rheumatoid
Skin cancer is the most serious health problems in the globe because of its high occurrence compared to other types of cancer. Melanoma and non-melanoma are the two most common kinds of skin cancer. One of the most difficult problems in medical image processing is the automatic detection of skin cancer. Skin melanoma is classified as either benign or malignant based on the results of this test. Impediment due to artifacts in dermoscopic images impacts the analytic activity and decreases the precision level. In this research work, an automatic technique including segmentation and classification is proposed. Initially, pre-processing technique called DullRazor tool is used for hair removal process and semi-supervised mean-shift
Objective(s): to determine the effectiveness of instruction intervention upon multipara women's practices to control stress incontinence. Methodology: A quasi-experimental study was carried out from (2nd) April, 2010 to 15th June, 2010. Nonprobability (purposive sample) of (60) multiparous women was selected from Baghdad Teaching Hospital and AlElwia Maternity Teaching Hospital in Baghdad city, the sample was divided into two groups (30) women were considered as a study group, and another (30) were considered as the control group. An instructional intervention was applied on the study group, while the intervention was not applied on control group. A questionnaire was resolve as a tool of data collection to suit the p
Objective(s): To assess nurses' practices for neurological unconscious patients in intensive care units. Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted that included (50) nurse who are working in intensive care units in hospitals and departments of the nervous system in (4) hospitals (neuroscience hospital, teaching neurosurgical hospital, surgical specialist hospital, and sheck zaied hospital) in Baghdad city from March, 30th , 2009 to July, 30th 2009 for the purpose of assessing their skills towards unconscious patients. A purposive "nonprobability sample" was selected that consisted of (50) nurse who are working in intensive care units. A questionnaire format and observational checklist were used which consist of
Objective(s): This study aims to assess health related quality of life among Iraqi patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C also to find out the relationship between health related quality of life and patients demographic characteristic and to design a new measurement scale for assessing QoL among viral hepatitis B and C patients which can be suitable to be adopted for Iraqi patients Methodology: A descriptive quantitative study is carried out at Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital from February, 1st, 2011 to August 30th 2011, Anon probability (purposive sample) of (100) chronic viral hepatitis B and C persons , who were clients of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital / outpatient clin
To study the qualitative changes in testis tissue after
carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) administration and to determine whether
citric acid (CA) has a protective effect against testis damage induced
by CCl4. This study compared two types of CA by measuring the
histoarchitecture of the testis and serum levels of progesterone,
estrogen and testosterone on mice. One of the most produced organic
acid is citric acid. In this study, CA produced by microbial
fermentation using Aspergillus Niger 5mg/kg and derived from citrus
limon 400mg/kg (lemon). Mice were treated with daily
intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection for seven successive days after
randomly separated into six groups: (1) control, (2) CCl4 (0.02%),
(3) limon citric acid (400 mg/kg), (4) CCl4 (
The leading purpose of this work is the development of efficient culture conditions to induce calli from cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) under in vitro conditions. The mature seeds were surface sterilized with combinations of different concentrations of ethanol and NaOCl in different time durations and were germinated on MS basal medium. The results revealed that the best sterilization method of cabbage seeds was by using 70% ethanol for one minute, followed by 15 min in 2% (NaOCl). Seedlings were used as donor sources for hypocotyls, cotyledon leaves, true leaves, and shoot tip explants. These explants were cultured on different combinations of cytokinins (TDZ, BAP, Ad) an
