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Assessment of Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices on Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Baghdad: A single-hospital study
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Background: There are so many evidences that there was antimicrobial resistance, and there were many strains that emerged which were difficult to treat. We are living in a situation that the dissemination of multiple drug resistant bacteria can lead us to the situation, in which no treatment could be offered for bacterial infection in future.

Aim of study: Assessment of nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practices on antibiotic use and resistance in Fatima Al Zahra hospital in Baghdad.

Subjects and Methods:  A cross-sectional study. The study was carried on from 1st of February to 31st of March 2021.  A questionnaire was constructed by the research team based on literature review and was adapted to assess the nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practices on antibiotic use and resistance in Fatima Al Zahra hospital. The adopted questions were mainly based on previous studies carried out in Lebanon, and Ethiopia. It was piloted among 10 nurses. The questionnaire was further revised by the research team. The final questionnaire contained 26 questions on the following: Demographics characteristics (5 questions), Knowledge of antibiotics (7 questions), Attitude towards antibiotic use (7 questions); and practice with regards to antibiotic use (7 questions). Analysis plan: IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Statistics version 21 Multilingual and Microsoft Excel 2010 were used to analyze the data. The frequencies were stated first then Chi-Square test and Fisher’s exact test were used to investigate the association. The p-value less than 0.05 were considered significant.

Results: One hundred and eight nurses participated in this study, of whom 101 (93.5%) were female, 31(28.7%) of participants at the age group of (18-27) years, 33(30.6%) were at the age group of (28-37) years, with mean age 26± 0.54 SD. Regarding the highest qualification, 41(38%) graduated from the high school of nursing, 35(32.4%) graduated from the midwife school. About 46(42.6%) of the participants were working in pediatric words, and 23(21.3%) were working in gynecology and obstetrics (Gyn & Obs) words. There was gap in the knowledge especially in nurses who had lowest qualification: 44(40%), of them believe that using antibiotic in cold can speed recovery and 41 (38%) believe that antibiotic can cure viral infections, and 42(38.9%), of them consider that newer and more costly antibiotics affect better.

Conclusion: There was a gap in nurse’s knowledge, and practice, towards the antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance, the Current work place was the most effective factor in this gap.

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Publication Date
Wed Dec 27 2017
Journal Name
Al-khwarizmi Engineering Journal
Stress Analysis of the Hip Bone
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The bony pelvis has a major role in weight transmission to the lower limbs. The complexities of its geometric form, material properties, and loading conditions render it an open subject to biomechanical analysis.

 The present study deals with area measurement, and three-dimensional finite element analysis of the hip bone to investigate magnitudes, load direction, and stress distribution under physiological loading conditions.

 The surface areas of the auricular surface, lunate surface, and symphysis pubis were measured in (35) adult hip bones. A solid model was translated into ANSYS parametric design language to be analyzed by finite element analysis method under different loading conditions.

The surface

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Publication Date
Sat Oct 01 2022
Journal Name
Al–bahith Al–a'alami
COMMUNICATIVE CONNOTATION OF PEPSI COLA ADS
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A trademark is one of the most valuable elements in advertising. At the same time, it is a guarantee for both the producer and the consumer. It prevents the mixing of products with a certain mark with similar products bearing another mark; and creates confidence in the goods of the product.

With the increase in the types of goods and products and the emergence of similar goods, producers have turned to the use of the brand to identify their products and seek perfection in manufacture to maintain quality and continuous improvement which ensures good reputation and fame.

Hence, commercials for goods and services focused on the brand because they give in-depth connotations with the recipients of these ads. T

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Fri Aug 22 2025
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Full Text Book Of Xv. International Scientific Congress Of Pure, Applied And Technological Sciences
Full Text Book of Minar Congress15
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One of the crucial public health problems worldwide is the urinary tract infections (UTIs) that are derived from uropathogenic bacteria (UPBs). Slime layer is known to have the ability to permit bacteria to achieve smooth surfaces attachment like catheters and prosthetic implants which in turn, facilitate biofilm formation and may cause lethal infections. On the other hand, Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production is considered a growing concern among UPBs due to the limiting of the treatment options and contributes to resistance toward antibiotics. The principal study's point is the finding out the slime layer and ESBL production in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae of uropathogenic origin. Ten ready isolates (five isola

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Wed Aug 01 2007
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University Of Baghdad, College Of Education For Pure Science (ibn Al-haitham), Department Of Mathematical
Thesis.On Solvability of an Operator Equation-
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Publication Date
Wed May 17 2023
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
Compilers of Hanbali jurisprudence (Abbasid era)
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This large book represents the research and is marked (Compilers of Hanbali jurisprudence of the Abbasid era). It includes, between its covers, a large group of scholars of the Islamic nation, with its great jurists and mujtahids, from the followers of the school of (Ahmed bin Hanbal) in the fundamentals and branches, and specific to the sciences of the Qur’an, its jurisprudence, and the narrators of the hadiths of the Noble Prophet The best of creation (Muhammad) peace and blessings be upon him, and it also includes a large number of reciters and ascetics, who are known for their abundance of authorship, especially with regard to the collection and numbers of classifications, and they are too large to be counted by number! But can we

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Publication Date
Tue Dec 30 2014
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
Door of operation    (Trying to steer)
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The method of work is not a method made by grammarians. We have found more than guidance from the ancients and contemporaries; That to the corruption of meaning; or to apparent cost Not accepted by good linguistic taste.

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Sun Mar 30 2003
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Chemical And Petroleum Engineering
Performance of Countercurrent Flow Cooling Towers
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Sun Jan 01 2023
Journal Name
Aip Conference Proceedings
Bipolar fuzzy ideals of TM-algebras
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The concept of bipolar fuzzy ideals in a TM-algebra was introduced and some properties of these ideals are investigated. Also, a few relations between a bipolar fuzzy ideal and T-ideal are discussed. A new bipolar fuzzy set with a homomorphism of TM-algebra is defined. The Cartesian product of bipolar fuzzy T-ideals in Cartesian product TM-algebras is given.

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Sun Nov 17 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
Fixed point of set-valued mappings
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Tue Nov 01 2016
Journal Name
Journal Of Engineering
Ultrasound-Assisted Oxidative Desulfurization of Diesel
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Due to the dramatic environmental impact of sulfur emissions associated with the exhaust of diesel engines, last environmental regulations for ultra-low-sulfur diesel require a very deep desulfurization (up to 15 ppm), which cannot be met by the conventional hydrodesulfurization units alone. The proposed method involves a batch ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization (UAODS) of a previously hydrotreated diesel (containing 480 ppm sulfur) so as to convert the residual sulfur-bearing compounds into their corresponding highly polar oxides, which can be eliminated easily by extraction with a certain highly polar solvent. The oxidizing system utilized was H2O2 as an oxidant, CH3COOH as a

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