This study is concerned with the identification of the validity of the Recent sediments deposited in the Playa for the purpose of making the laboratory bricks by extrusion and pressing. The steps followed in this study included the formation and then burning of the pyramids at (950-1100) C° for one hour of maturity to determine their applicability to the brick industry. The study area is located in Al Muthanna province, south of Iraq. It is located south of the district of Samawah at a distance of 80 km and to the north-west of Salman district, 64 kilometers south of Baghdad, represented by three hosts: (DHS 1, DH2 and S). The results of the chemical analysis of the study samples showed that they consist of the following major oxides: SiO2 = (39.34-42.82) TiO2 = (0.52-0.76) Na2O3 = (0.97-1.22) Fe2O3 = (4.19-5.89) CaO = (14.78-19.4) K2O = (0.91-1.14) Al2O3 = (8.02-9.85) MgO = (3.85-5.95) L.O.I = (16.31-19.32) silica SiO2 represented the highest ratio followed by Al2O3. Was manufactured 36 samples of the laboratory were manufactured and prepared by extrusion method were measured in dimensions (7 * 3.5 * 2.5) cm by extruding method and were burned at (950-1100) C° for the purpose of conducting physical and mechanical checks on them including Linear and volume shrinkage, color, Water absorption, Efforescence, and compressive strength. The results of these tests showed a decrease in water absorption and Efforescence, a decrease in the values of compressive strength with increased burning temperature, decreased Linearand volume shrinkage in most samples and increased in other samples with increasing burning temperature. In addition, 12 samples were made of the cylindrical laboratory size (diameter 50 mm, height 60 mm) in semi-dry pressing method, and were burned at (950-1100) C° for the purpose of physical and mechanical tests, color, Water absorption, Efforescence, and compressive strength. The results of these tests showed a decrease in water absorption and Efforescence and an increase in the values of compressive resistance while increasing the temperature of burning, while the colors of the samples ranged from light brown and yellow or pale yellow to white. The results of physical assays were met Linear and volume shrinkage, color, Water absorption and Efforescence. As well as mechanical tests: compressive strength results were in accordance with the Iraqi standard for this industry where the data of the results of this study showed the validity of these samples for the industry mentioned above.
The neutrophil/ lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have the potential to be inflammatory markers that reflect the activity of many inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the NLR and PLR as potential markers of disease activity in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
The study involved 132 patients with ankylosing spondylitis and 81 healthy controls matched in terms of age and gender. Their sociodemographic data, disease activity scores using the Bath Ankylosing
This investigation reports application of a mesoporous nanomaterial based on dicationic ionic liquid bonded to amorphous silica, namely nano-N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-N-(silican-propyl)-N′-sulfo-ethane-1,2-diaminium chloride (nano-[TSPSED][Cl]2), as an extremely effectual and recoverable catalyst for the generation of bis(pyrazolyl)methanes and pyrazolopyranopyrimidines in solvent-free conditions. In both synthetic protocols, the performance of this catalyst was very useful and general and presented attractive features including short reaction times with high yields, reasonable turnover frequency and turnover number values, easy workup, high performance under mild conditions, recoverability and reusability in 5 consecutive runs without lo
... Show MoreRice is a major staple food for more than two thirds of the world population. Pathogenesis-related proteins-10 (PR10) have a range of 154 to 163 amino acid with molecular weight ~ 17 kDa. They are acidic and generally intracellular and cytosolic proteins accumulate in plants in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. In the present study, a PR10 gene and its corresponding protein were characterized in O. sativa, O. barthii, O. glaberrima, O. glumipatula, O. meridionalis, O. nivara, O. rufipogon and O. punctata. The results revealed a narrow range of variation at both DNA and protein levels in all examined species except O. glumipatula. The latter showed a relatively
... Show MoreA specific, sensitive and new simple method was used for the determination of methyldopa in pure and pharmaceutical formulations by using continuous flow injection analysis. This method is based on formation of ion pair compound between methyldopa and potassium hexacyanoferrate in acidic medium to obtain a yellow precipitate complex using long distance chasing photometer (NAG-ADF-300-2). The linear range for calibration graph was 0.05-35 mmol/L for cell A and 0.05-25 mmol/L for cell B, and LOD 1.4292 µg /200 µL for both cells with correlation coefficient (r) 0.9981 for cell A and 0.9994 for cell B, RSD% was lower than 0.5 % for n=8 for. The results were compared with classical method UV-Spectrophotometric at λ max=280 nm and turbi
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