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Effectiveness of An Instructional Program on Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Quality of Life Concerning General Health-Related among sample in Baghdad City
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Objective(s): This research aims at evaluating the quality of pulmonary tuberculosis patients life before and after applying the suggested instructional program, and to find out relationships among distribution of an overall assessment quality of life improvement and socio-demographic characteristics variables. Methodology: Self controlled design studying effectiveness of applying instructional program on quality of life for pulmonary tuberculosis patients among sample size (65) patients from primary health care centers/AL-Sadur City sector-the consultation clinic of chest and respiratory diseases at AL-Rusafa health directorate, and Ibn-Zuhr Hospital at Baghdad city. An instructional program has been applied with an approach of pre-test and post-test for checking improvements on the study sample concerning quality of life. This study applied format of General World Health Organization Quality of Life-BERF Questionnaire.The methods used descriptive statistics (Observed frequencies, percentages, mean of score, standard deviation, relative sufficiency, and Stem–Leaf plot method) to evaluate the General QoL-Improvements, as well as inferential statistical methods are used such that (Wilcoxon Signed Rank, McNemar, and Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)). Results: Results shows that studied disease is classified to indigence diseases, as well as results shows effective of smoking cigarette/or any other types especially for those who had smoking long duration more than 10 years. Results indicated that there has been a highly significant differences at P<0.01 among different responding complain items, and increases patients who had suffered from: "chest pain, difficult breathing / dyspnea, anorexia, weight loss, general weakness, and especially when answering: Is there any infected member in your family?", which have cleared the effectiveness of diseases communication . Suggested of instructional program shows a highly stating of improvements with pulmonary tuberculosis patients and results illustrated that most of questionnaire's items are assigned meaningful improvements significantly at P-values <0.05, as well as weak relationships are accounted between General QoL improvements and Socio-demographical Characteristics variables, with no significant relationships at P-values >0.05. Recommendations: Application the suggested instructional program in all consultation clinic for chest and respiratory disease and its coordinator tuberculosis units after training specialized staff, for patients who attending the centers monthly, Invite previous patient who was suffered from the disease to attendance the lectures and to participate with his own experiment about the impact of the disease on quality of life and shared differing viewpoints, in open discussion circles. Governmental commitment by offering all support to the National Tuberculosis Program generally and to TB patients especially, by enhancing their socio-economic state by providing financial donation.

 
 

 

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Tue Dec 14 2021
Journal Name
Sustainability
Influence of Iron Filing Waste on the Performance of Warm Mix Asphalt
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Recently, interest in the use of projectiles in research on recycling waste materials for construction applications has grown. Using recycled materials for the construction of asphalt concrete pavement, in the meantime, has become a topic of research due to its significant benefits, such as cost savings and reduced environmental impacts. This study reports on comprehensive experimental research conducted using a typical mechanical milling waste, iron filing waste (IFW), as an alternative fine aggregate for warm mix asphalt (WMA) for pavement wearing surface applications. A type of IFW from a local machine workshop was used to replace the conventional fine aggregate, fine natural sand (FNS), at percentages of 25%, 50% 75%, and 100% b

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Wed Jun 01 2022
Journal Name
Civil And Environmental Engineering
Effect of Alkali - Activated Natural Pozzolan on Mechanical Properties of Geopolymer Concrete
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As an alternative to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), the alkali-activated binders have been developed with better technical characteristics and more extended durability. The Alkali-Activated Iraqi Natural Pozzolans (AANP) could produce geopolymer cementation building materials and make them ecologically acceptable. The primary advantage of geopolymer cement is that it has a lower environmental effect that contributes to it. The engineering characteristics of geopolymer concrete produced using activated Iraqi natural Pozzolan are summarized in this research. The mechanical properties, modulus of elasticity, and ultrasonic pulse velocity of various concrete mixes were determined via experimental study. The impact of essential variables like w

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Publication Date
Tue Oct 12 2021
Journal Name
Engineering, Technology &amp; Applied Science Research
The Effect of Nanomaterials on the Properties of Limestone Dust Green Concrete
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Portland cement is considered the most involved product in environmental pollution. It is responsible for about 10% of global CO2 emissions [1]. Limestone dust is a by-product of limestone plants and it is produced in thousands of tons annually as waste material. To fulfill sustainability requirements, concrete production is recommended to reduce Portland cement usage with the use of alternative or waste materials. The production of sustainable high strength concrete by using nanomaterials is one of the aims of this study. Limestone dust in 12, 16, and 20% by weight of cement replaced cement in this study. The study was divided into two parts: the first was devoted to the investigation of the best percentage of replacement of waste

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Tue Dec 14 2021
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Sustainability
Influence of Iron Filing Waste on the Performance of Warm Mix Asphalt
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Recently, interest in the use of projectiles in research on recycling waste materials for construction applications has grown. Using recycled materials for the construction of asphalt concrete pavement, in the meantime, has become a topic of research due to its significant benefits, such as cost savings and reduced environmental impacts. This study reports on comprehensive experimental research conducted using a typical mechanical milling waste, iron filing waste (IFW), as an alternative fine aggregate for warm mix asphalt (WMA) for pavement wearing surface applications. A type of IFW from a local machine workshop was used to replace the conventional fine aggregate, fine natural sand (FNS), at percentages of 25%, 50% 75%, and 100% b

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Publication Date
Sun Mar 04 2012
Journal Name
Baghdad Science Journal
Effect of Temperature on Reliability and Degradation of 0.63?m Laser Diode
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The reliability of optical sources is strongly dependent on the degradation and device characteristics are critically dependent on temperature. The degradation behaviours and reliability test results for the laser diode device (Sony-DL3148-025) will be presented .These devices are usually highly reliable. The degradation behaviour was exhibited in several aging tests, and device lifetimes were then estimated. The temperature dependence of 0.63?m lasers was studied. An aging test with constant light power operation of 5mW was carried out at 10, 25, 50 and 70°C for 100hours. Lifetimes of the optical sources have greatly improved, and these optical sources can be applied to various types of transmission systems. Within this degradation range,

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Publication Date
Mon Jun 15 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Baghdad College Of Dentistry
Effect of plasma treatment on some surface properties of acrylic resin polymer
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Background: Polymer surfaces usually present problems in bonding and finishing due to their low hydrophilicity. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of plasma treatment with the use of two types of gases (oxygen and argon) on surface roughness, and chemical surface properties of acrylic resin denture base polymer material. Materials and Methods: Three heat cured acrylic resin specimens of (2*8*30 mm) dimensions were prepared for each test carried out in this study. Two tests were conducted, surface roughness test and chemical surface analysis test. Results: Application of plasma treatment increased surface roughness for both oxygen and argon plasma treated acrylic resin specimen groups compared with control untreated group,

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Publication Date
Sun Oct 22 2023
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Allelopathic Effect of Root Exudates of Two Sunflower Cultivars on Companion Weeds
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The effects of root exudates of two sunflower cultivars (Shumoose and Sin
Altheeb) were studied on companion weeds during the growing season of 2012.
Results showed the ability of both cultivars to affect weed population and growth
with the superiority of cultivar Shumoose in suppression of weed density at 60 and
120 days after sowing compared to Sin Altheeb. Weed biomass was significantly
reduced up to 90 and 71% by Shumoose and Sin Altheeb cultivars, respectively.
Stair case experiment indicated that root exudates of Shumoose cultivar showed
more suppression to weeds than Sin Altheeb giving additional evidence for the
superiority of Shumoose cultivar in its allelopathic weed suppression. Chemical
analysis by

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Sat Aug 01 2015
Journal Name
2015 37th Annual International Conference Of The Ieee Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (embc)
Influence of multiple dynamic factors on the performance of myoelectric pattern recognition
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Publication Date
Tue Jan 08 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
Effect of UV radiation on dielectric properties of PU/nano-TiO2 composites
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The dielectric constant of most polymers is very low; the addition of TiO2 particles into the polymers provides an attractive and promising way to reach a high dielectric constant. Polymer-based materials with a high dielectric constant show great potential for energy storage applications. Four samples were prepared, one of them was polyurethane (PU) and the other were PU with different weight percent (wt %) of TiO2 (0.1, 0.2, 0.3) powder AFM test was used to distinguish the nanoparticles. The result shows that the most shape of these nanoparticles are spherical and the roughness average is 0.798 nm. The dielectric properties were measured for all samples before and after the exposure to the UV radiation. The result illustrates that the

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Thu Dec 01 2011
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
Influence of doping concentration on the main parameters of CdSe:Cu photoconductor detector
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The photonconductor detectors CdSe:Cu was fabricated as a thin film of (1 μm) in thickness using vacuum evaporation technique. doping with copper was made using vacuum annealing at 350oC under argon atmosphere . The spectral responsivity and spectral detectivity of the detector were determined as a function of incident wavelength on the sample. A remarkable improvement in performance was absorbed for the specimen, which doping with (1-5 wt%) Cu.
The spectral response increases with increasing of wavelength for incident radiation to maximum value, after that , it reduced sharply . There is a shifting for peak responsivity indirect of higher wavelength. The detectivity was increased with doping but its decreased as the concentration in

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