Background: This study was conducted among diabetic persons to assess the sweet and salty taste sensitivity with its effect on gingival health in relation to salivary serotonin levels. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional comparative study design was used. All patients with diabetes aged 12-14 years that attend the Paediatric hospital at Baghdad medical city with specific inclusion criteria were involved in the sample of the present study (patients group 50 patients) compared with non-diabetic persons matched in age and gender of the study sample (control group 70 patients) who were attending dental unit in the college of dentistry/university of Baghdad. A two-alternative forced choice question including each component presented at f

This work studies the role of serum apelin-36 and Glutathione S-transferases (GST) activity in association with the hormonal, metabolic profiles and their link to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in healthy and patients' ladies with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). A total of fifty-four (PCOS) patients and thirty-one healthy woman as a control have been studied. The PCOS patients were subdivided on the basis of body-mass-index (BMI), into 2-subgroups (the first group was obese-PCOS with BMI ≥ 30 and the second group was non-obese PCOS MBI<30). Fasting-insulin-levels and Lipid-profile, Homeostatic-model assessment-of-insulin-resistance (HOMA-IR), follicle-stimulating-hormone (FSH), luteinizing-hormone (LH), testosterone and

This study aims at identifying the reality of alternative assessment for teachers of the first cycle of the basic education in the Sultanate of Oman with respect to the degree of teachers' use of alternative assessment strategies, level of self-efficacy for alternative assessment strategies, and attitude towards alternative assessment, and their relationship with other variables. To achieve the aims of the study, a descriptive research approach was utilized. A 5-point self-rated questionnaire was developed. It consists of three sections: Actual use of alternative assessment strategies (21 items), self-efficacy for alternative assessment strategies (21 items), and attitude towards alternative assessment (27 items). The psychometric proper

يهدف البحث الحالي التعرف على مهارات النجاح الاكاديمي لدى طلبة الجامعة، وكذلك التعرف على دلالة الفروق على وفق الجنس ) ذكور ، أناث ( والتخصص ) علمي ، انساني( ولذلك قامت الباحثة بتبني وترجمة مقياس مهارات النجاح لدينيس Dennis,2262 ، يتكون المقياس من) 12 ( فقرة ومن ) 5( مهارات )مهارة التركيز التواصل التنظيم وإدارة الوقت تحديد الأهداف والتحفيز الاستعداد للاختبارات(، وقد تم التأكد من - - - - خصائصة السايكومترية، تم تطبيق المقياس

The present study aimed to:

1 - To identify the leisure time activities among young people university .

2 - To identify statistically significant differences in leisure time activities among the students of the university depending on the variable.

Gender (male , female ) and the study sample consisted of (152) students from the University of Baghdad College of Education, Ibn al-Haytham was randomly selected by (67) of the males and(85) females and dish them a measure of leisure-time activities that the researcher has ever built and achieved sincerity and firmness , sell statistical treatment showed results that the nature of the activities, leisure time importance in the exercise on according to type males or fem

The deprivation Some of the children to exercise some fine motor activities a big problem , as a consequence, this problem plays of the delay in motor development during early childhood , Usually it happens to be the reasons for the lack of the right place to play , and the lack of the presence of the tools needed to play motor, or fear excessive protection by parents for their children as a result of lack of awareness of the importance of physical activity for the child to use his fingertips and fine his muscles . In addition to that small percentage of children spend most of their time in the daily activities and skills of non-motor , Such aswatching television, or play video games or they tend to play computer and mobile but they are

Concentrated research problem by low satisfaction of the human element, which is the mainstay key to the success of organizations and achieve their goals, so it has to be interest in it, and work to his satisfaction and the achievement of its objectives, has prevailed belief in special cases that the human element is forced to work, have resulted from that neglect, especially in the non-governmental organizations , and thus a marked decline in the performance of employees in government agencies, and thus became necessary to search for a solution of the problem and by improving satisfaction.                         

Targeted the current study to identify the emotional violence against the study sample of children and to identify the significance difference in the degree of emotional violence, according to the variables of age, sex (female / male) and limited the current study, the primary school children in the departments of Rusafa second and first Karkh in Baghdad for the academic year 2012 - 2013, as has been selected sample randomly simple sample of schools and a sample of children, and who meets the study variables (sex / age) as the sample reached 200 children by 50 children from four elementary that have been selected for the study sample, either regard tool The study researchers have adopted a measure (Mr. 2013) emotional violence, a

the mental image is so important in human life as one of the major standers for his trends and behavior, and as the human nature requires to interest in things based on how much it’s close to and how much it effects on his interest, So the neighborhood countries was one  of the topics that occupied the attention of the Iraqi individual and pushed him to form perceptions of them based on the cultural heritage and the historical relations of Iraq with these countries as well as the actions of neighboring countries on Iraq and the resulting effects on the course of events. the mental image is so important in human life as one of the major standers for his trends and behavior, and as the human nature requires to interest in things bas

The difficulties of language acquisition of the first signs and indicators that are observed in a student who lacks the development of mental knowledge, so are the problems of the language of most problems and deepest because any deficiency in the development of these capabilities affect negatively on the level of intelligence of the students, a student who is characterized by the use of language is reflected positively on the intelligence of language, where (owned by rhetorical) any use of language to persuade others of certain conduct, and capacity to address the construction of linguistic and scientific use to rhetoric or statement, as he earns the student the ability of language to help him fluency of speech with all the clar