
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a widespread, yet often overlooked, parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania protozoan, which is prevalent in numerous countries, including Iraq. This condition is marked by the appearance of skin lesions on various exposed areas of the body. In most old-world regions, sodium stibogluconate (SSG) is the classical widely used drug to treat CL. The progression of skin ulceration is controlled by different inflammatory modulators including cytokines and enzymes. In this study, the possible role of the enzyme Matrix metalloproteinase9 (MMP-9) and its inhibitor Metallopeptidase inhibitor-1 (TIMP-1) as immunological markers was evaluated in CL patients suffering from cutaneous leishmaniasis before and aft
... Show Moreالحمد لله رب العالمين، حمداً يوافي نِعَمَهُ ويُكافئُ مزيدَه، والصلاةُ والسلامُ على سيدِ الأنامِ وإمام المرسَلين، سيدِنا محمدٍ الصادق الأمين. نسأل الله تعالى أن يعلّمَنا ما ينفعُنا وينفعَنا بما علّمَنا، وأن يُعيننا متعلمين ومعلمين على التأدب بأدب القرآن الكريم.
أما بعد، فالعلم هبة الله، وهبة الله لا تُعطى إلا لمن يُعطي من نفسه وقتاً وجهداً وصبراً، لذا قيل: (إنَّ العِلْمَ لا يُعطيكَ بَعضَه
... Show Moreكان النبي (r) العابد المتحنّث، ورجل السياسة الذي شيّد أمة من الفتات المتناثر، ورجلَ حربٍ يضع الخطط ويقود الجيوش، وأباً حنوناً عطوفاً، وزوجاً تحققت فيه المودة والرحمة والسكن، وصديقاً رحيماً، وقريباً كريماً، وجاراً تشغله هموم جيرانه، وحاكماً تملأ نفسه مشاعر محكوميهِ، يعودُهم ويزورُهم ويُعينُهم، ويمنحهم من مودته وعطفه ما يجعلهم يفتدونه بأنفسهم، ومع هذا كله فهو قائم على أعظم دعوةٍ شهدت
... Show MoreSmart cities are using innovative technological solutions to improve the quality of life and service that citizens and visitors receive. Defined as a digital or ecological city, its services depend on information and communication technology infrastructure, such as intelligent automated traffic systems, advanced security management Services, building systems, and the use of automation in offices and homes. The global trend now towards smart cities, sustainable and green cities and other cities, with different nomenclature, the common denominator is the comfort of the individual and the preservation of natural resources. Adopting smart, sustainable, green, or healthy cities is either t
New developments imposed different patterns of interactions between major international powers and Iran during 2018, ranging to varying degrees between cooperation and tension, the most important of which is the new measures taken by the United States to withdraw from the nuclear agreement and impose new US sanctions on Iran, which in turn insisted on not responding to pressure to which they are exposed to make changes in their policies and to negotiate again about the main contentious files, especially the nuclear program and ballistic missiles, and the roles they play for crisis countries, especially supporting some armed organizations in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. These differences have put the international forces before difficult
... Show MoreThe relative strength index (RSI) is one of the best known technical analysis indicators; it provides the speculators by prior signals about the future stock’s prices, and because the speculations in shares of companies which listed in the Iraq Stock Exchange have a high degree of risk, like risk of shares prices felling, so the speculators became committed to use some methods to reduce these risks, and one of these methods is the technical analysis by using the relative strength index (RSI) which enable the speculators of choosing the right time for buy and sell the stocks and the right time to enter or leave the market by using the historical rice data. And from here the problem of the research formulated as “Is the using of
... Show MoreThere is a natural problem raised by the issue of media performance. As a separate activity and express its own capabilities. This problem can be framed in the form of a question: Is media performance merely a reflection of the activity of other sectors of society, especially political and economic, and what links them to other societal sectors of interrelated relations? Is the media limited to mere transfer, or is it an industry with its own mechanisms and rules? The answer may seem somewhat complicated if we handle media with research and study in general, but the issue may be less complicated when it comes to Arab media, because its data may add another setback to the overall Arab setbacks.