ABSTRACT Background: Blood donation is process obtaining, analyzing, preparing, and preserving blood and its many components essential for life-saving that enhances health and lowers mortality rates. Despite the fact that giving blood is frequently demonstrated to be a voluntary service, certain studies highlight a number of factors that affect blood donations such as Gender, past donor experiences including syncopal reactions, venipuncture pain, anxiety, and donor satisfaction, all have an impact on the decision to donate blood.in addition, one of the main reasons donors reject to donate blood is pain associated with venipuncture. Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of shotblocker on pain during venipuncture in adult blood donors compared to
... Show MoreAbstract This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war poetry on the chosen body of Iraqi poetry. Through the comparison of sample poems the study presents, firstly, the direct influence of the British poetry of the Great War and its translation which formed the seeds of a more radical movement in Iraqi poetry during the 1980’s Iran/Iraq War and the period that followed it. The study also presents a comparison of the works of British and Iraqi civilian poets during and after the war time and their con
... Show MoreBackground: Intense pulsed light (IPL) devices produce polychromatic incoherent high-intensity pulsed light with a specified wavelength spectrum, fluence, and pulse duration through the use of flashlamps and bandpass filters. Similar to lasers, IPL devices operate on the selective photothermolysis principle, with melanin acting as the chromophore. Despite this similarity, they are constructed differently and produce different amounts of light Aim of the study: To investigate the efficacy of IPL home-use device in hair reduction technique for women with unwanted facial hair. Subjects and methods: The study was conducted in Baghdad on forty-five female subjects with Fitzpatrick skin phototype (II to IV) and black, brown hair in a period of ei
... Show MoreThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the anesthetic effectiveness of a buccal infiltration technique combined with local massage (using 2% lidocaine) in the extraction of mandibular premolars to be utilized as an alternative to the conventional inferior alveolar nerve block.
Patients eligible included any subject with a clinical indication for tooth extraction of the mandibular 1st or 2nd premolars. All patients were anesthetized buccally by local infiltration technique followed by an external pressure applied for 1 min directly over the injection area. In each case, another local
The paper aims at making the Russian reader acquainted with the Iraqi Poet Badr Shakir as-Sayyab, and showing the effect of the village and the city in his soul, the theme which is reflected in his poetry. Therefore, the researcher has translated the verses pertaining to this topic from Arabic into Russian so as to make the Russian reader know the important phases that talk about the village and city. The researcher has concluded that the theme of place, village and city has occupied a good portion of As-Sayyab's poetry, and that he (the poet) hated the city and expressed his wrath against it, because he viewed the city as embodiment of money and the degeneration of man. As opposed to this, As-Sayyab he loved being a farmer, and was
... Show Moreيعد الشاعر خوان رامون خيمينيث واحدا من الشعراء البارزين في الادب الاسباني الحديث, تميزت اعماله بالابداع الشعري و الرصانة في تناول الموضوعات الشعرية. مارس خيمينيث كتابة الشعر منذ اواخر القرن التاسع عشر و اصبح معروفا في عالم الشعر الاوربي منذ بدايات القرن العشرين. كتب الشاعر في مواضيع عدة و تبنى العديد من المدارس الشعرية التجديدية التي تركت اثرا في شعره, و كانت المدرسة الرمزية, التي ظهرت حينها في فرنسا, هي احدى
... Show Moreهو ابو الحسن السري بن احمد السري الكندي الرفاء الموصلي ويعرف بالسري الرفاء وهو الاسم الذي غلب عليه، ولقب بالرفاء لانه كان يعمل في رفو الثياب وتطريزها وقد ذكره الثعالبي في اليتيمة فقال (فمنهم السري بن احمد الكندي المعروف بالرفاء)(1)ولد الرفاء في مدينة الموصل ولا تعرف سنة ولادته ولكنه من شعراء القرن الرابع الهجري الذين ذكرهم الثعالبي في يتيمته، وقد عاش صباه رفاء في سوق الرفائين في الموصل حيث سلمه والداه الى احد
... Show MoreOur humble study for the historian (Ibn Abi Tai) shows us ideological value in
history and his capability of sciences, religious and jurisprudential knowledge, readings,
syntax and poetries. He is encyclopedic historian due to his cognizance on kinds of
sciences and humanitarian knowledge; although some of his age historians accused his
methods and ability of writing and recording. However, when we look closely at his
corpuses and classifiers; we can recognize the capability of this historian to interaction in
what he witnessed in his age in fields of science and intellect; he left his classifiers and
heritage that overflow the Arabian library in numerous specializations that lately became
an important recourses f