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Validation of Kala-azar diagnostic tests in a pediatric teaching hospital in Baghdad.

Background: Kala-azar is an important parasitic disease that affects children of all age groups with fatal outcome if left without treatment.

Objectives: Children admitted with Kala-azar were studied for evaluation of Indirect Immunoflorescent Antibody Test and Bone Marrow examination validity.

Results: The majority (94%) of studied children were less than 5 years age group. Males were more than females with a ratio of 1.63:1. Sixty percent of patients were from Diyala governorate and 23% from Baghdad. The main clinical features were prolonged fever and hepatosplenomegaly (100%). Bone marrow examination was positive in 45% of suspected Kala-azar cases. IFAT was positive in 47(78%). IFAT sensitivity was 70% and specificity 15%. All cases were treated with Pentostam (sodium stibogluconate). No resistance to Pentostam treatment was detected. The case mortality rate was 2%.Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 60 children with Kala-azar admitted to Children Welfare Teaching Hospital - Medical City - Baghdad, for the period from the 1st of January 2011 to the 1st of February 2012. Information was obtained for each child including age, sex, residence, signs and symptoms, laboratory investigations and diagnosis was established by serology and/or bone marrow examination. Treatment and outcome were also noted.

Conclusion: The highest sensitivity in laboratory diagnosis among studied children was that obtained with a combination of bone marrow aspirate direct examination and IFAT. Conventional methods for diagnosis of visceral

Leishmaniasis are still indispensable.

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Publication Date
Wed Jun 06 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
Conceptual coup of the sovereign immunity: the law of Jasta as a model

The research focused on important legal issues that have been formulated in questions such as: What is the concept of immunity and what is its purpose? , In other words immunity from whom? In what circumstances?

We also ask ,Does sovereign immunity principle , apply as absolute doctrine  or have limitations been dealt with in national jurisdiction? On the question of what are the grounds for the distinction and partnership between the concept of sovereign immunity and the concept of diplomatic immunity?

Has sovereign immunity been affected by the pursuit of grave and terrorist violations, in particular, contrary to what international practices have been in the past as a sanctuary in which states and officials are pro

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Publication Date
Mon May 08 2017
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
A study of predation behavior of Macrocyclops albidus (Jurine) on Culex quinquefasciatus larvae

The experiment was conducted to investigate the predation behavior of crustacean
zooplankton M. albidus for first instar mosquito larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus, which may
be represented as an indicator of the species activity for biological control of mosquito larvae.
Results revealed that females spend 6.30 min. as average to find the mosquito larval and
to catch it, whereas it consumed 7.20 min. in digestion of the prey. On the other hand the
corresponding means for male were 10.29 and 4.00 min. respectively. Differences between
females and males were not significant for the time consumed to catch the prey whereas the
differences were significant (P < 0.05) in regard to the time consumed to digest the p

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Publication Date
Sun Feb 17 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
A Study of the electronic structure of CdS Nanocrystals using density functional theory

Density Functional Theory at the generalized-gradient approximation level coupled with large unit cell method is used to simulate the electronic structure of (II-VI) zinc-blende cadmium sulfide nanocrystals that have dimensions 2-2.5 nm. The calculated properties include lattice constant, conduction and valence bands width, energy of the highest occupied orbital, energy of the lowest unoccupied orbital, energy gap, density of states etc. Results show that lattice constant and energy gap converge to definite values. However, highest occupied orbital, lowest unoccupied orbital fluctuates indefinitely depending on the shape of the nanocrystal.

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Publication Date
Thu Jul 20 2023
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
A Review of the Some Fixed Point Theorems for Different Kinds of Maps

The focus of this article, reviewed a generalized  of contraction mapping and nonexpansive maps and recall some theorems about the existence and uniqueness of common fixed point and coincidence fixed-point for such maps under some conditions. Moreover, some schemes of different types as one-step schemes ,two-step schemes and three step schemes (Mann scheme algorithm, Ishukawa scheme algorithm, noor scheme algorithm, .scheme algorithm,  scheme algorithm Modified  scheme algorithm arahan scheme algorithm and others. The convergence of these schemes has been studied .On the other hands, We also reviewed the convergence, valence and stability theories of different types of near-plots in convex metric space.

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Publication Date
Thu Mar 16 2017
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
A Study of Synthesis and Characterization of New Aromatic Poly(amide-imide)s

New thermally stable aromatic poly(amide-imide)s ( PAI1- PAI4 ) were synthesized from direct polycondensation reaction of Terephthalic acid and Phthalic acid with two new different diamine monomers derivatives of 1,2,4,5-tetracarboxilic benzene dianhydride as a second diacides in a medium consisting of triphenyl phosphite (TPP) in N-methyl-2pyrrolidone (NMP) / pyridine solution containing dissolved calcium chloride CaCl2. The polymerization reaction produced a series of novel poly(amide-imide) in high yield. The new monomers were characterized by FTIR, 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The resulting polymers were typically characterized by means of FT-IR, 1H-NMR spectroscopy, and solubility tests. Thermal properties of the poly(amide-imide)s were als

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Publication Date
Wed May 17 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of Engineering
A Simulation of Core Displacement Experiments for the Determination of the Relative Permeability

Computations of the relative permeability curves were made through their representation by two functions for wetting and nonwetting phases. Each function contains one parameter that controls the shape of the relative permeability curves. The values of these parameters are chosen to minimize an objective function, that is represented as a weighted sum of the squared differences between experimentally measured data and the corresponding data calculated by a mathematical model simulating the experiment. These data comprise the pressure drop across core samples and the recovery response of the displacing phase. Two mathematical models are constructed in this study to simulate incompressible, one-dimensional, two-phase flow. The first model d

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Publication Date
Fri Jun 24 2022
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Theoretical Study of New Derivative of Cefotaxime-Amic Acid as a Corrosion Inhibitor

PM3 and DFT quantum mechanical calculations were employed to give further
insight into the inhibition efficiency of the newly prepared cefotaxime amic acid
derivative. The calculated physical properties and quantum chemical parameters
correlated to the inhibition efficiency such as EHOMO (highest occupied molecular
orbital energy), ELUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy), the energy gap
(ΔE(HOMO-LUMO)), hardness (η), softness (S), dipole moment (μ), electron affinity
(EA), ionization potential (IE) and active site absorption..…etc., all studied and
discussed at equilibrium geometry in the gas phase and at its right symmetry (C1).
Experimentally the newly prepared cefotaxime derivative could be abso

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Publication Date
Thu Sep 03 2020
Journal Name
Al-kindy College Medical Journal
Unusual Location of Giant Cell Tumor of the Tendon Sheath .. A Case Report

Locking of the knee is a one of the commonest orthopedic outpatient presentation. This patient usually need magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when there is suspected lesion in the soft tissue clinically. Meniscal tears is the first differential diagnosis when accompany with painful knee. (1, 2)
Giant cell tumor (GCT) is benign a localized nodular tenosynovitis often occur in the tendon sheath , Mostly involve the hand tendons in middle age group between 30 and 50 years old , female affect more than male.(3,4) The WHO defines two well-known kinds of giant cell tumor: (1) pigmented villonodular synovitis ( generalized type), which mainly involve the joints of the lower limb and (2) giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath ( localized type)

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Publication Date
Wed Feb 20 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
Preparation of polyaniline polymer and using it as a Vapor sensor of acids

 Polyaniline organic Semiconductor polymer was prepared by oxidation polymerization by adding hydrochloric acid concentration of 0.1M and potassium per sulfate concentration of 0.2M to 0.1M of aniline at room temperature, the polymer was deposited at glass substrate, the structural and optical properties were studies through UV-VIS, IR, XRD measurements, films have been operated as a sensor of vapor  H2SO4 and HCl  acids.

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Publication Date
Mon Sep 11 2006
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Science
Synthesis a nd Characterization of Some New Transition Metal Complexes of Amino Thiadiazole

New complexes of Cu (ll), Ni (ll), Co (ll), and Zn (ll) wi th 2-amino-5-p-Fiouro Phenyl 1, 3, 4-Thiadiazole have been synthesized. The products were isolated, studied and characterized by physical measurements, ie,(Ff-IR), UV-Vis and the melting points were determined. The new Schiff base (L) has been used to prepare some complexes. The prepared complexes were identified and their structural geometry were suggested