Background: Asthma is an allergic disease characterized by airway obstruction as a result of cellular accumulation due to the liberation of certain mediators. Among those mediators are the cytokines such as IL-5. 
Patients & Methods: Interleukin-5 concentration has been estimated in 94 sera samples of Asthmatic patients in comparison with 41 non-asthmatic bronchitis as patient controls in addition to 30 apparent healthy control group using ELISA method.
Results & Conclusions: There is highly significant elevation of IL-5 in the asthmatic cases in comparison with healthy controls (P< 0.001). We conclude that this cytokine may play the major
role in asthmatic attack & it may be a good m

In this research a modern scientific procedure was used utilizing geographic information system
GIS in selecting the optimum road path between two cities . All the programming facilities offered
by ArcView GIS software with its extensions of spatial analysis and 3D analysis to solve the problem .The solution take a form of geographic map graduated in colors from best to bad portion of land that the suggested road could pass through. The proposed procedure was checked by conventional mathematical solution used in such problems and the results were both agreed.

This study was conducted to evaluate the Effect of time of using feed
blocks (FB) as supplementary feed on the weight changes and reproductive
performance of Awassi yearling ewes depend on crop residues as basal diet. .
Sixty Awassi yearling ewes (mean live weight 39.51 kg) aged 12-13 months
were allocated into four groups according to their live weight. First group (T1)
fed conventional diet (barley grains + straw). The second group (T2) fed
conventional diet plus FB during pre and post mating. The third group (T3) fed
conventional diet plus FB during pre and mating. The fourth group (T4) fed
conventional diet plus FB during post mating. The results of this experiment
showed that using FB as supplementary feed

The need for strengthening structural members is well known and research is progressing in this field. In recent years the use of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) for strengthening has shown to be a efficient method both regarding structural performance and economical aspects. However, most of the research in this field has been undertaken on concrete of old and damaged structures and for flexural and shear strengthening. So, this paper presents axially loaded steel columns strengthened for increased load capacity and improved stability. The topic is studied theoretically. The theory covers analytical method, and a numerical finite elements (FE) analysis. Different types of most common commercial FRP systems have been examined and used in

The geochemical, petrography, petrophysical, and some mechanical tests were done on the limestone samples of five quarries of Fath'a formation, west of Al-Sukkaria village, to evaluate the Suitability of the limestone as carbonate component in the mixture of cement industry.
The results reflect the rising the concentrations of CaO and loss on ignition, and the decrease of the concentrations of SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, SO3, Na2O, K2O, and insoluble residue, According to these geochemical properties, the tested samples are reliable as carbonate component for cement industry. The study of petrography reflect that the main component of the samples is Allochems which represented by Ooids and Pesolites. Digenesis processes, dissolution, micrit

This study was conducted to investigate the inhibition role of alcoholic extracts of plants Trigonella foenumgraecum , Piper cubeba , Piper nigrum, Camphora , Commiphora molmol, Apium graveolens , Arachis hypogaea , Linum usitatissumun , Cuminum cyminum , Pimpinella anisum , Lepidium sativum , alcoholic extracts of plants used was prepared and used of concentration 200 mg/ml and add 0.2 ml of each extracts to 10 ml of media and 0.2 ml of Ethambutol to 10 ml of media the drug for mycobacteria and media with out any adding for controls. Cultural media were inoculated with 3 drops of bacterial suspension ( 1mg /ml ) in concentration 108 cfu/ml from patient suffering from tuberculosis and after incubation on 37 °C the result read weekly up

This study was conducted to investigate the inhibition role of alcoholic
extracts of plants Trigonella foenumgraecum , Piper cubeba , Piper nigrum,
Camphora , Commiphora molmol, Apium graveolens , Arachis hypogaea ,
Linum usitatissumun , Cuminum cyminum , Pimpinella anisum , Lepidium
sativum , alcoholic extracts of plants used was prepared and used of
concentration 200 mg/ml and add 0.2 ml of each extracts to 10 ml of media and
0.2 ml of Ethambutol to 10 ml of media the drug for mycobacteria and media
with out any adding for controls. Cultural media were inoculated with 3 drops
of bacterial suspension ( 1mg /ml ) in concentration 108 cfu/ml from patient
suffering from tuberculosis and after incubation on 37 °C

Mutation of the p53 tumor suppressor gene is common event in breast cancer. This alteration can result in cellular accumulation of p53 and may also found in serum p53-antibodies. The current study was established to investigate the correlation between the appearance of the serum p53-antibodies and tissue expression of p53 protein, as well as to explore the relationship between serum p53-antibodies and clinicopathological features in patients. Serum p53-antibodies levels were investigated in 40 breast cancer patients, 20 adenofibrosis patients control and in 20 healthy controls by ELISA. Immunohistochemical assay for tissue expression of the p53 mutant protein was also undertaken in the sam`e patients with breast cancer. The median serum

An algorithm was designed for searching a specify files within the astronomical catalogues, a program (in visual basic language) has been written to make a survey for an astronomical radio sources. This program gives the user a facility to access to any word on any text file in the catalogue.
The program includes six searching cases, searching for any word, searching for frequency unit like (MHz), searching for specific values of frequency between minimum and maximum values, searching for declination words, searching for right ascension words, searching for journals, and Searching for authors.
The data files for this program were loaded from website of CDS catalogue internet web site, 85 files for radio sources are loaded in ou

In this work, the effect of aluminum (Al) dust particles on the DC discharge plasma properties in argon was investigated. A magnetron is placed behind the cathode at different pressures and with varying amounts of Al. The plasma temperature (T_e) and density (n_e) were calculated using the Boltzmann equation and Stark broadening phenomena, which are considered the most important plasma variables through which the other plasma parameters were calculated. The measurements showed that the emission intensity decreases with increasing pressure from 0.06 to 0.4 Torr, and it slightly decreases with the addition of the NPs. The calculations showed that the n_e increased and T_e d

This work presents a comparison between the Convolutional Encoding CE, Parallel Turbo code and Low density Parity Check (LDPC) coding schemes with a MultiUser Single Output MUSO Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system over multipath fading channels. The decoding technique used in the simulation was iterative decoding since it gives maximum efficiency at higher iterations. Modulation schemes used is Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QAM. An 8 pilot carrier were
used to compensate channel effect with Least Square Estimation method. The channel model used is Long Term Evolution (LTE) channel with Technical Specification TS 25.101v2.10 and 5 MHz bandwidth bandwidth including the channels of indoor to outdoor/ pedestrian

خلفية: السمنةآخذت في الازدياد في جميع أنحاء العالم بحيث ما يقدر بنحو ١.٧ مليار شخص يعانون حاليا من السمنة، حصاة المرارة تمثل المرض الثالث الأكثر شيوعا لدى المرضى الذين يعانون من السمنة المفرطة. وعلاوة على ذلك حوالي ٣٠٪ من المرضى المرشحين لجراحة البدانة إما خضعوا لجراحة استئصال المرارة بالسابق أو شخصوا بوجود حصاة المرارة اثناء التقييم قبل عملية جراحة البدانة.

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Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulfate (SLES) with five different concentrations (from 50 to 100 ppm) were used as drag reducer. This surfactant was studied using gasoil with seven different fluid flow rates (from 1.9 to 4.5 m3 /h) and a testing section length of 4 m. Percentage drag reduction (%Dr) was found to increase by increasing the surfactant concentration and Reynolds number. Maximum drag
reduction (45.5%) was acheved by using 300 ppm of SLES dissolved in gas oil for flow rate equals to 4.5 m3 /h. Friction factor was calculated from the experimental data. For pure solvent; friction factor values lies near or at Blasuis asymptote. While, by producing the surfactants into the flow, the friction factor values were positioned below Blasius

     The direct electron transfer behavior of hemoglobin that is immobilized onto screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) modified with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and chitosan (CS) was studied in this work. Cyclic voltametry and spectrophotometry were used to characterize the hemoglobin (Hb) bioconjunction with AgNPs and CS. Results of the modified electrode showed quasi-reversible redox peaks with a formal potential of (-0.245V) versus Ag/AgCl in 0.1M phosphate buffer solution (PBS), pH7, at a scan rate of 0.1Vs^-1. The charge transfer coefficient (α) was 0.48 and the apparent electron transfer rate constant (Ks) was 0.47s^-1. The electrode was used as a hydrogen peroxide biosensor with a line

     The external signals are used as elicitors that can modify the levels of secondary metabolites production and trigger the biotechnological enforcements to improve plant production. In this study, sodium chloride NaCl was used as a stimulating factor for the production of beta-carboline alkaloids, harmine and harmaline, in Peganum harmala. The in vitro induced callus of P. harmalain was used as a source for alkaloid production in the stimulating experiments with sodium chloride. The results illustrated that 2 mg.l^-1 of NaCl increased the fresh and dry weight of callus with an average of 944.30 and 72.0 mg, respectively. In a comparative analysis through Gas Chromatography (GC)

 

إن الأداء في رياضة الجمناستك يتسم بالسرعة والقوة وبالأخص على جهاز طاولة القفز، فلا يمكن للمدرب تمييز هذه الحركات إلا بتحليلها وهنا يأتي دور التحليل البايوميكانيكي والذي يعد أحد أهم الأركان الأساسية لعلم البايوميكانيك وواحدا من الوسائل التي اعتمدها الانجاز الرياضي ويهدف البحث إلى التعرف على بعض القيم بعض للطاقة الميكانيكية لعينة البحث في أثناء أدائهم حركة التسوكاهارا المتكورة على طاولة القفز ،

يهدف هذا البحث الى استشراف ظاهرة التناص ودلالاتها في شعر عبدالستار  نور علي وتأثير ذلك في إنتاج الدلالة  الشعرية، لما تشكله هذه الظاهرة من أبعاد فنية وإجراءات أسلوبية والمتفحص لصور التناص في شعره يجد أن مرجعياته متنوعة، منها: الدينية والأدبية وغيرها، وإن هذا التناص لم يكن خاليا من الوظيفة، وإنما تتجلى فاعليته في إعادة قراءة التراث والإفادة منه، ونقله الى سياق جديد يخدم غرض الشاعر ورؤيته وحتى آيديولوج

The response of the combustor’s liner to the air-flow that passes through it is the key reason for the combustion chambers noise, hence the instabilities of those chambers that decreases the mechanical efficiency of such sections, by increased its mechanical vibrations, which increases the failure rate created during originating of the cracks spreading by the shakes producing by the series of high-level frequencies. Accordingly, any work debating the impact of the context of liners in the combustion chamber can provide grasping for the combustion noise generated by the undesirable vibrations, and benefits the industrial firms to design an ideal production procedure which increases the lifespan of the combustor. The goal of this work is

This research includes the investigation of a part of the manuscript called Summarizing Examination Book (The Science of meaning ) Hassan Kafi Al-Aqhsari , which contains the part of the science of rhetoric. The investigation was carried out through a series of steps, the most important of which is to show the difference between copies of the manuscript and then access to the texts contained in verses, hadiths, poetic verses or vague words to produce this manuscript

The art of pantomime mime is one of the arts that has taken a wide space in theater performances, and because it is one of the spectacle shows that relies on an acting performance that is unique from the traditional acting performance, because of the peculiarity of pantomime art in that it is a silent performance that assumes the clarity of meaning, and for the purpose of clarifying the actor’s work in such kind of performances, the art of pantomime must be We have to know the skills that the actor can possess in order to produce a silent show that has the elements of a successful presentation, so there was a need to study the skills of the actor in this type of acting performance. The researchers divided this study into an introductio

The goal of current research to:1 - Know when aesthetic implications (Korchh)2 - To form the structure of systemic indicators and results that reflect the visions of intellectual, philosophical and aesthetic art for this study.The theoretical framework for the study of the search for the meaning of beauty, definition ( Krochh) being a philosopher, his views, his own aesthetic philosophy, knowledge, art and beauty, as well as a subject of artistic and aesthetic taste and Study in Art Education.The goals have been achieved during the search of Investigation theoretical framework for the search, which tried (INT) to form a clear vision check the second goal by the indicators reached.In light of this, the researcher recommended the need for

Low dose -irradiation effects on Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) polymer are studied by means of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. An empirical formula is suggested to relate the ortho-positronium (o-Ps) lifetime,3 with the molecular weight of the polymer, Mn, and the concentration of the free radicals, [X], generated in PMMA polymer due to irradiation in air. It is shown that free radicals concentration increase with the absorbed dose, and it is measurable from the results of 3. The results showed that the positron lifetime parameters illustrate a significant behavior as the dose increase. In addition, a unique behaviors of the free positron annihilation parameters, 2 and I2, are reported. 2 is found to increase

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The efficacy chlorofert 48% Ec under field and laboratory condition at 0.5, 1.0
and 1.5 on eggs, nymphs and adults of Aleuroclava Jasmine was investigated in
Baghdad region. the result of laboratory show the insecticide give killing percentage
100% on adults after one day from treatment at 0.5 with efficacy 100% and the high
killing percentage on nymphs and eggs after one weak from treatment the killing
percentage on nymphs 95.3 with efficacy 87.00 at 0.5 and on eggs the killing
percentage 61.25 with efficacy 78.00 at 0.5 the result in filed show the high killing percentage after one weak treatment, 1.5 gave 97 killing percentage with efficacy
95% on eggs and 96% killing percentage with efficacy 95 on n

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