This study is an attempt to investigate the conceptual metaphor of UP and DOWN commonly used in Iraqi community. Some of the metaphorical expressions in Iraqi colloquial Arabicarewidely used by Iraqi speakers in everyday language. Ithas been analyzed by following the cognitive theory of metaphor (Lakoff& Johnson,1980).The study indicates that the Iraqi speakerexperiences more of the metaphorical expressions of UP and DOWN to referto many of the abstract concepts that shape his/her impression of everyday life situations.
The present study aimed to look for the differences in the oxidative stress status in sera and saliva samples of type 2 diabetic Iraqi patients with and without proliferative diabetic retinopathy. As well as to look for the possibility whether this status can be measured in saliva as an alternative sample to that of serum, hence to achieve that total oxidant status, total antioxidant status and oxidative stress index were measured in both sera and saliva samples of two groups of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and the healthy individuals. Upon the comparison between patients without proliferative diabetic retinopathy and the control sample the results showed presence of a significant increase (p < 0.05) of total oxidant st
... Show MoreThe relationship between blood group antigens and peptic ulcer disease has been widely evaluated in the past, but only one study relating H pylori seroprevalence to ABO blood groups among Iraqi patients with peptic ulcer disease is available. We aimed to evaluate the frequency of peptic ulcer disease among different ABO blood groups in Iraqi patients, and we thought it was worthwhile to try to determine whether these components take some part in disease etiology. One hundred and six patients with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) (43 male and 63 female; mean age: 48 ± 18 years) who attended Baghdad teaching hospital and Al- Yarmouk teaching hospital endoscopy centers were enrolled , and 238 control Subjects. Fing
... Show MoreThe purpose of this study is to investigate learners' listening comprehension problems with Englishlectures. The study was guided by research question (What are the listening comprehension problems learners have with lectures in English).Furthermore; the main significant goal were declared through conducting this study, as well as providing some procedures of distribution the questionnaire of the study.Moreover, it presents several definitions of listening. This study definitely depends on questionnaire instrument to gathering the required data. The participants of the study were 30 learners completed their secondary school and joined at the college. Based on the findings among the five factors (text, speaker, task, environment, and list
... Show Moreشيعة العراق وقضية القومية العربية قبيل الاستقلال
This research deals with the dialects of the Arabian Peninsula, which is a group of dialects that belong to one language family. this term that was launched by Dr. Walaa Sadiq Al-Asadi in relation to the site from which the tribes speaking those dialects started, which is the Arabian Peninsula, and the word (dialects) was used Instead of (languages) considering dialects emanate from collective language, which is what is called the mother tongue of those dialects
The economic- Arabic relations reflect , without any doubt, the debate of the relation held between development and what is not developed ; on the basis that these two phenomena form the two polar of the Arabic economic as a system resulted out of the correlation nature presented between the Arabic world and the outer world. Accordingly, the present study focuses on the in- between Arabic trade exchanges. There are many factors which relate the Arabic countries with each other . They all contribute in paying these exchanges through different historical decades. The trade relations between the Arabic countries have taken their manner from the base of the nonequivalent development which is related in the distributio
... Show Moreيهدف البحث إلى دراسة التحفظات على اتفاقية سيداو (الدول العربية أنموذجًا)، حيث يُعد نظام التحفظ على الاتفاقيات الدولية أحد المظاهر القانونية الحديثة في مجال العلاقات الدولية، والذي يقرّ بحق الدول في إبداء التحفظ على بعض أحكام الاتفاقيات الدولية، وفقًا للأحكام العامة التي حددتها المواد (19-23) من اتفاقية فيينا لقانون المعاهدات لعام 1969. وإذا كان حق الدول في التحفظ مكفولًا دوليًا، فإن الإشكالية القانونية تكمن في
... Show Moreالمجتمع المدني وديمقراطية التنمية (انموذج المنطقة العربية)