One of the most interested problems that recently attracts many research investigations in Protein-protein interactions (PPI) networks is complex detection problem. Detecting natural divisions in such complex networks is proved to be extremely NP-hard problem wherein, recently, the field of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) reveals positive results. The contribution of this work is to introduce a heuristic operator, called protein-complex attraction and repulsion, which is especially tailored for the complex detection problem and to enable the EA to improve its detection ability. The proposed heuristic operator is designed to fine-grain the structure of a complex by dividing it into two more complexes, each being distinguished with a core pr
... Show MoreWith the development of information technology and means for information transfer it has become necessary to protect sensitive information. The current research presents a method to protect secret colored images which includes three phases: The first phase calculates hash value using one of hash functions to ensure that no tampering with or updating the contents of the secret image. The second phase is encrypting image and embedding it randomly into appropriate cover image using Random Least Significant Bit (RLSB) technique. Random hiding provides protection of information embedded inside cover image for inability to predict the hiding positions, as well as the difficult of determining the concealment positions through the analysis of im
... Show MoreThe effect of (Di-Ammonium Phosphate DAP) (P21%), as plant fertilizer on content of the Saliva officinalis. Total flavonoid as an important active constituent was investigated in the present study. Three samples (F1, F2, and F3) of Saliva officinalis were grown in soil treated with DAP (100, 200, and 300) kg/hector respectively. Another two samples were studied: F0 as a plant sample grown in soil untreated with fertilizer and F4 as wild type obtained from market. Total flavonoids were estimated Quantitatively by Rutin standard curve and qualitatively by TLC method in corresponding to standard flavonoids. Results showed that different concentrations of DAP treated soil affected flavonoid contained of the Iraqi cultivated Saliva officinali
... Show MoreFerrites with the formula Cu0.5Ti0.5HoxFe2-xO4 (x= 0 and 0.09) were prepared by standard ceramic method. The powder mixtures were presintered at 900 oC for 5h. The final sintering of the pellets was performed at 1100 oC for 2 hrs. The dielectric properties and AC conductivity were measured at different temperatures over the frequency range 100Hz - 10MHz. The variation in dielectric constant with frequency revealed that dispersion is due to the Maxwell–Wagner type of interfacial polarization in accordance with Koop’s phenomenological theory. This ferrite showed high value of dielectric constant. At low frequencies the dielectric constant and dielectric loss factor was found to decrease with the increase in frequency and Ho addition. T
... Show MoreIn this paper we present a new method for solving fully fuzzy multi-objective linear programming problems and find the fuzzy optimal solution of it. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the method.
The Pila Spi Formation (middle – late Eocene) was studied in terms of field character, Petrography and geochemistry from two outcrops (Bakhar and Bani bawy) sections, Northern Iraq. The field studies showing massive, lithified limestone to marly limestone high effected by dolomitization. The petrography studies shows that most of the skeletal grains was destroyed due to digenetic processes specifically the dolomitization, and the vast majority of carbonate rocks are mudstone and few beds of wackestone. The geochemical study reveals low CaO% and high MgO% content due to the intense effect of dolomitization, and the carbonate rocks was classified as impure limestone generally of slightly calcareous dolomite. Ca/Mg and Sr/Ca ratios have b
... Show MoreIn this paper, we proposed a hybrid control methodology using improved artificial potential field with modify cat swarm algorithm to path planning of decoupled multi-mobile robot in dynamic environment. The proposed method consists of two phase: in the first phase, Artificial Potential Field method (APF) is used to generate path for each one of robots and avoided static obstacles in environment, and improved this method to solve the local minimum problem by using A* algorithm with B-Spline curve while in the second phase, modify Cat Swarm Algorithm (CSA) is used to control collision that occurs among robots or between robot with movable obstacles by using two behaviour modes: seek mode and track mode. Experimental results show that the p
... Show MoreThe main aim of this research is to present and to study several basic characteristics of the idea of FI-extending semimodules. The semimodule is said to be an FI-extending semimodule if each fully invariant subsemimodule of is essential in direct summand of . The behavior of the FI-extending semimodule with respect to direct summands as well as the direct sum is considered. In addition, the relationship between the singularity and FI-extending semimodule has been studied and investigated. Finally extending propertywhich is stronger than FI extending, that has some results related to FI-extending and singularity is also investigated.
The Harmonic Oscillator (HO) and Gaussian (GS) wave functions within the Binary Cluster Model (BCM) were employed to investigate neutron, proton and matter densities of the ground state as well as the elastic proton form factors of one neutron 8Li and 22N halo nuclei. The long tail is a property that is clearly shown in the neutron density. The existence of a long tail in the neutron densities of 8Li and 22N indicates that these nuclei have a neutron halo structure. Moreover, the matter rms radii and the reaction cross section of these nuclei were calculated using the Glauber model.
Infrared technology advancements have led to an expansive set of infrared applications in both the private and public sectors. The b[lfdssx improvement procedures proposed for visible spectrum images specialty infrared pictures, and to propose a strategy that may be most appropriate for consolidation into commercial infrared imaging applications.The improvement of the general quality of aerial infrared images by proposes algorithms discussed briefly.
These algorithms were based on Single Scale Retinex SSR and Multi Scale Retinex MSR with histogram equalization HE. The database were used itconsists of night vision infrared images taken using a by Zenmuse camera (FLIR Systems, Inc) fixed on
... Show MoreThe proposed sensor is designed to measure the concentration of liquids using the photonic crystal fibre (PCF) principles. The sensor has been implemented by splicing the two ends of the PCF piece to a single mode fibre (SMF). The air holes found in the splicing points are fully collapsed by the arc discharge. The wavelength shift occurs at the collapsed regions due to the excitation of combined core besides the cladding modes. The PCF was infiltrated by diluted olive oil to be tested in terms of the variation of sensing response with the wavelength shift in the transmission spectra. The sensitivity is 875 nanometre per refractive index unit (nm/RIU) that estimated in refractive index range between 1.43 and 1.47. Result also sho
... Show MoreThis study was aimed to detect the presence of aflatoxin B1 in thirty nine samples of some canned foods (6 samples of beef meat, 4 samples of chicken meat, 6 samples of fish meat, 5 samples of mushroom and 18 samples of different types of legumes) which collected randomly from some Iraqi local markets using ELISA technique. Aflatoxin B1 was detected in thirty four samples and the concentration of toxin ranged from 2.5 ppb to 975 ppb.
UV radiation (365nm wave length) was used for detoxification of aflatoxin B1 from each type of tested samples with highest concentration (beef meat 975ppb, chicken meat 217 ppb, fish meat 75 ppb, mushroom 237.5 and legumes 207) at distance of 60 cm between UV source and tested sample for 30 minute ex
... Show MoreThe present study demonstrate the infection (injury and damage) of wireworm on potato crop in spring and autumn season. This study was conducted in Abu- Greeb fields in Baghdad– Iraq during 2009 – 2010 In order to assessment the damage caused by wireworm Agriotes spp. on four type of growing Solanum tuberosum crop (Rodeo, Lotona, Bleni, Deseri) in spring and autumn season. The results of this study showed that Agriotes spp. was more damage in spring season more than autumn season. Percentage of the numbers of damage potato tuber to the four types was 1.81, 4.87, 6.66, 8.33 % respectively. While it was 6.55, 3.63, 10.52, 9.09 % total weight of Rodeo, Lotona, Bleni, Deseri , respect
... Show MoreThis study includes determining the climatic conditions and the nature of the reservoirs in the region with the determination of the flow direction and the hydraulic characteristics of the aquifer. The meteorological data for the Kirkuk station for the period 1971-2015 showed that the values of the monthly rates of temperature, precipitation, evaporation, relative humidity, wind speed and Sunshine duration are (9.1 to 36.2 C), (0.03 to 65.8 mm), (51.4 to 412.7mm), (21.7 to 71.1%), (1.3 to 2.1 m / s), and (5.4 to 11.2 hour) respectively. And according to the annual rainfall rate is (348.13mm), found 18 years of the climatic period are wet years and 27 years are dry years. Thornthwait method was used to calculate the values of
... Show MoreThis study was conducted to investigate the adverse effect of whey protein supplement taken by athletes in some physiological parameters. (75) blood sample were collected from athletes whose take supplements of whey protein (experimental group), (25) blood sample of athletes who don’t take supplement (control group). Results showed a significant decrease (P ≤ 0.05) in the mean of hemoglobin level (Hb) and percentage of Packed Cell Volume (PCV) in the athletes group who take food supplement compared to control. The results also showed a significant increase (P ≤ 0.05) in the mean of White Blood Cells count (WBCs) in experimental group, Also the results show significant changes in differential white blood cells in the experimental gr
... Show MoreLeishmania parasite preferentially infect host phagocytic cells, primarily dendritic cells and macrophages. One of the main problems with Leishmania infections is the capability of these parasites to evade and subvert immune responses of the host. Leishmaniasis is treated with a small arsenal of drugs; all of them have disadvantages in terms of efficacy, high price, toxicity or treatment regimen. In this study, the effect of Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) was evaluated against intracellular amastigotes Leishmania donovani in vitro conditions. The effect of different concentrations from ZnO NPs (0.18, 0.37, 0.75 and 1.5 μg / ml) was used to study on the viability of amastigotes and macrophages “following infection" using the colori
... Show MoreThis study aims to determine the toxic effect for different concentrations of supercyren pesticide on some physiological and histological features of the sixty male mice by oral administration. The experimental mice took oral administration of 5mg and 10mg/Kg every day to every mice for two weeks in group 2 and 3 respectively and for four weeks for group 5 and 6 respectively. After 2 or 4 weeks AST, ALT and ALP enzymes, urea , creatinine and testosterone hormone were estimated. The following organs were taken for histological studies (Liver, Kidney, testes). The results of this physiological study showed that the oral administration of supercyren pesticide affect these organs (Kidney, liver, testes). Then histological changes in ki
... Show MoreLet G(V,E) be a simple molecular graph, for a graph G(V,E) with vertex(atom) set V and the edge(bond) set E, the third version of atom bond connectivity index is defined as where mv is the number of edges of G lying near to u than to v. In this research paper, we compute the third version of atomic-bond connectivity index of the Titania Nanotubes TiO2(m,n).
With the increments number of population nowadays, one of the most essential problems in rural areas is the number of students in each school which exceed the school capacity. Thus, it is important to increase the number of schools and to determine the suitable location of them. The aim of this study is to determine the most suitable sites for school using Geographic Information System (GIS 10.2) (ModelBildur)in Husseiniya district, Karbala province. Land classification, slope, distance from the single schools, proximity to the inflated schools, work buffer 100 meters around the main roads and railways and removing them from the map, represent the main criteria used to evaluate the location suitability and the most crowded school.
... Show MoreDetergents or surfactant are chemical substances that used for cleaning purposes. The chemical compositions of the detergents are varying greatly according to application demands and commercial competitive. The aim of the present study was to, investigate the effect of common substances, used by people in our area for cleaning vegetables and fruits. On killing some parasitic stages and also studying their histopathological effects on mice intestine. Four types of ordinary commercial detergents were used (Altunsa, Bonux, Ariel , ABC) at concentrations of 1.5, 3, 4.5 g\l against E. hitolytica, E. coli, G. lamblia cysts and H. nana eggs. The parasitic stages were incubated with the detergents used for 2,
... Show MoreCAPTCHA “Completely Automated public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is a program used to check whether a user is human or computer program by creating tests that is easy to human but difficult to computer programs. In this paper a new schema of Arabic CAPTCHA is proposed to generate Arabic characters and numbers by using generators that combines more than one LFSR via a non-linear function to produce the binary sequence, this random binary sequence is converted to be Arabic characters and numbers to be used for Arabic CAPTCHA, to ensure the randomness, each generator output is analyzed via randomness analysis using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) statistical test suite.
Data deduplication is a data reduction technology that is worked by detecting and eliminating data redundancy and keep only one copy of these data, and is often used to reduce the storage space and network bandwidth. While our main motivation has been low band-width synchronization applications such as Low Bandwidth Network File System (LBNFS), deduplication is also useful in archival file systems. A number of researchers have advocated a scheme for archival. Data deduplication now is one of the hottest research topics in the backup storage area. In this paper, A survey on different chunking algorithms of data deduplication are discussed, and studying the most popular used chunking algorithm Two Threshold Two Divisor (TTTD), and evaluate
... Show MoreQuery expansion (QE) is a successful idea to overcome the weaknesses in the information retrieval performance. The QE requires finding out appropriate word synonyms of the query words in a process that can be made automatically without any user intervention. The candidate synonyms should be associated with an accurate meaning (sense) of the original word. Arabic language is rich in multiple meanings and this requires using the so-called word sense disambiguation (WSD). WSD in general is a task to discover the correct sense of a word within context. To disambiguate the word sense, three different traditional semantic measures are tested in this work; they are called lch, wup, and path respectively. The proposed
... Show MoreThis research discusses the quality of hydrochemical facies of groundwater for selected wells in Thi Qar governorate south Iraq. Physical properties (pH, TDS, EC, TH) were conducted for all samples . The results indicated that this groundwater is neutral and light alkaline, slightly-brackish, excessively mineralized and hard to very hard water. Analyses of cations and anions are carried out to determine two hydrochemical facies, they are " earth alkaline water with increased portions of alkalis with prevailing sulfate and chloride" and " Alkaline water with prevailing sulfate and chloride" belong to (Ca2+ - Mg2+ - Cl- - SO4 2- ) and (Na+- K+ - Cl-
... Show MoreThis paper is directed toward the task of embedding a robust invisible watermark in the found sprite object (survive object) in each Group of Video (GOV). The proposed system is designed to provide authentication and protection to video by embedding invisible watermark. Three different watermark data embedding methods have been developed and used; they are: (i) Blocks average modulation applied on RGB domain, (ii) Blocks average modulation applied on Y-band only, and (iii) Haar wavelet approximation modulation. Uniform quantization is used as part of hiding step for modulating the block mean value of one or more of the color bands. The conducted tests indicated that the proposed block mean modulation method in the Y-subband of sprite blo
... Show MoreLead-free ferroelectric nano ceramics of BaZrxTi1-xO3 (x=0.1, 0.2 and 0.3) were prepared by means of microwave assisted chemical route. The structural, dielectric and electrical properties were examined. The crystalline structure of the specimens was studied by X-ray diffraction patterns. All the samples showed pure single phase of perovskite structure with space group of I4/mcm. X-ray diffraction data illustrated that there is no secondary phases exist. Structural and electrical properties of barium titanate ceramics are influenced significantly by small additions of Zr. The electrical conductivity showed higher values at x=0.2 and decreased at higher Zr content. The Hall charge mobility is found
... Show MoreThe influence of solar activity on the predicted ionospheric temperature parameters (electron Te, Ion Ti and neutral particle Tn) have been investigated over ionospheric Iraqi region by data generated using International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) and Madrigal models, the models result have been compared during the minimum and the maximum of solar cycle 24 for the years 2009 and 2016 respectively and for an altitudes ranged from 200-1000 km. The region under consideration spans over (latitude 29.1-37.2oN; longitude 38.9-47.7oE) within Iraq territory, the purpose of this paper is to determine the affection of the solar activity represented by the (sunspot number and solar flux) on the annual behavio
... Show MoreThis paper aims to investigate the exponential and Gaussian density profiles of the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy for scale heights of |z| ≤ 1000 pc. The density profile of the neutral hydrogen HI and that of the ionized iron Fe II is considered. The data of different values of scale heights and central number density from the literature have been used in order to determine the density profiles. More specifically, six density profiles of HI and two density profiles of Fe II have been determined. In addition, the average of both cases has been calculated and the results showed that the density of neutral hydrogen is significantly higher than that of the ionized iron.
This paper adopted a new video watermarking scheme based on hybrid transforms to achieve the watermarking requirements, that is, robustness, imperceptibility, and security. Where In our system first of all, the original video will be divided into frames to transform it using the Slantlet Transform into four sub-bands (i.e., LL, LH, HL, and HH). Secondly, The HL sub-band will be chosen for further decomposition using Contourlet Transform (CT), and then the low sub-band of CT will be selected to decompose it to fixed size non overlapping blocks to employ the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) on each block. lastly, to improve the security and robustness, the watermark logo is scrambled using AT(Arnold
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