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Asphalt is predominantly used to construct pavements for roads, highways, and airports. Both asphalt binder and asphalt – aggregate mixture show temperature and time dependent behavior. Rutting or permanent deformation is the leading cause of pavement deterioration in temperature and warm climatic regions of the world and low – temperature cracking is a common problem in cold regions. As the highway pavement infrastructure has aged and deteriorated, more pavements are in need of maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. This is traditionally done by placing hot mix asphalt overlay.
Four contents of crumb rubber, waste plastic, polyvinyl alcohol, and resol are used. These are (2.5, 5.5, 8.0, 10.5)% by weight of aggregate,

This study aimed to build data base of the morphometric properties in the
Udhaim basin , through analyzing the digital elevation model ( DEM ) by using a
model in a geographical information systems programs , which integrated together
in order to obtain the morphometric variances & measurements. This is done to
understand its hydrologic significances & consequently understanding the water
movement on the surface of the base. The study depended on the data of the digital
elevation model accurately 30 m while the results gave a good matching with the
Satellite images. Moreover, the study shows that the form of the catchment's areas is
closed to the triangle while the main basin does not close

In this research we study the effect of the light distribution on the quality of
captured images under different amount of lightness conditions then enhancing the
captured images by the imaging system using an adaptive histogram equalization
method and Lee method depending on the space YIQ depending on lightness
component where use the reverse of this space to the basic RGB color space, then
corrected using the mathematical model based on human vision system. The results
were analyzed and compute the quality of the enhancement images by using various
statistical criteria based on the mean and standard deviation. Adaptive histogram
equalization technique gives a high quality for the enhanced images

Detection of pathogenic bacteria, such as Listeria  monocytogenes, in food is crucial for safeguarding public health in Iraq.  Forty five samples of frozen meat (15 samples of each of minced red meat, chicken, and fish) were collected from different markets in Baghdad city. Molecular (RT-PCR) and culturing (conventional microbiological examination) methods were used to determine the level of contamination of L. monocytogenes in these types of meat.

For the culturing method, TSYEB broth was used as an enrichment medium, whereas BALCAM medium (HiMedia) with the listeria selective supplement FD061 was used as a selective medium, for the isolation and identification of this bacterium. The isolates were con

Remote sensing techniques have been used to measure the changes of Iraqi
Marshland's area as well as the changes in the spectral reflectivity of types covered
in the Marshland (water, soil and plants). This study comprises the main three
Marshes in southern Iraq (Huwyizamarsh, Central Marshes and Hammar marsh).
Satellite images of the satellite Terra-Modis on 15/1/2009, 20/4/2009, 21/8/2009 and
7/11/2009 have been selected in order to study the seasonal changes on the marshes
took place during 2009. Result of supervised classification indicated presence on six
land cover classes in marshes.The study shows that the dry soil reflectivity wasn’t
obviously influenced by the climatic factors and that

With the rapid vehicle volume growth on roads, the performance of urban road
traffic systems is a major concern to transportation planners, road users, and all
members of the urban community. The evaluation of the performance measures
relies on the accuracy and reliability of the collected traffic data.
This study investigates traffic speed measurement using GPS technique for parts of
Al-Karada Khareeg road by identify the congested segments. The collected GPS
points were mapped to the highway using "Arc Map 10" program in a GIS
environment. Travel time, speed and congestion index values were measured along
selected highway segments for evaluating the traffic condition of the highways. The
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     Various document types play an influential role in a lot of our lives activities today; hence preserving their integrity is an important matter. Such documents have various forms, including texts, videos, sounds, and images.  The latter types' authentication will be our concern here in this paper. Images can be handled spatially by doing the proper modification directly on their pixel values or spectrally through conducting some adjustments to some of the addressed coefficients. Due to spectral (frequency) domain flexibility in handling data, the domain coefficients are utilized for the watermark embedding purpose. The integer wavelet transform (IWT), which is a wavelet transform based on the lifting scheme,

     Obstacle avoidance is one of the major tasks needed to be carefully focused by the autonomous system designers. In this digital era, most industries are moving towards autonomous systems. Obstacle avoidance is considered as a primary concern for any autonomous system. In this paper, a prototype of an autonomous vehicle is presented, which is capable of obstacle avoidance using an ultrasonic sensor for its movement and avoidance. An Arduino microcontroller is used to achieve the desired operation. In order to achieve the desired task of the proposed system, a proper methodology is followed which combines appropriate selection of hardware components as well as logic design of actions for obstacle avoidance. The proposed system can

This paper is devoted to the study of the peristaltic transport of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids with fractional Maxwell model in an inclined channel. Approximate analytical solutions have been constructed using Adomain decomposition method under the assumption of long wave boundary layer type approximation and low Reynolds number. The effect of each of relaxation time, fractional parameters, Reynolds number, Froude number, inclination of channel and amplitude on the pressure difference, friction force and stream function along one wavelength are received and analyzed.

This paper proposes a method for automatic adaptation of segmentation control parameters based on Genetic Algorithms. The goals of automatic adaptation of segmentation parameters in this research are to provide continuous adaptation to normal environmental variation conditions such as (time of day, weather) to exhibit learning capability and to provide robust performance when interacting with a dynamic environment. The research intended to adapt the performance of a well known existing segmentation method (Recursive region growing Algorithms) across a wide variety of environmental conditions which cause changes in the image characteristics and maximizes the segmentation quality measures. Experimental results are given that indicate the a

Rmodule. We call the Rmodule M kerquasi-injective if for every monomorphism from into , where is a submodule of and is a quasi-injective hull of fN)(MQN)(MQ)M(QM and for every homomorphism from into gNM, there exists a homomorphism from Q into h)M(M such that . ghfkerker
It is clear that every quasi-injective module is kerquasi-injective, however the converse is false. Also every ker-injective module is kerquasi-injective, however the converse is false. In this paper we give some characterizations of kerquasi-injective modules, we also study some conditions under which a kerqausi-injective module becomes quasi-injective. For example, if a kerquasi-injective module is a finitely generated, then it is a quasi-injective. We ou

A rapid and sensitive spectrophotometric method is proposed for the determination of metoclopramide hydrochloride. This method is based on the diazotization reaction of metoclopramide hydrochloride with sodium nitrite in hydrochloric acid medium; the formed diazonium salt is then coupled with phenol in sodium hydroxide medium, to form a yellow water-soluble mono azo dye. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration range of 1 – 20 μg mL-1 at 463 nm with detection limit 0.406 μg mL-1. The molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity were found to be 2.42 × 104 L mol-1 cm-1 and 0.0015 μg cm-2, respectively. Common excipients used as additives in tablets do not interfere in the proposed method. The method is successfully employed for

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One hundred thirty four urine samples were collected from diabetic patients during the period from March –November -2014. From these samples there were 62.7% positive samples, women represented 45.3% and men represented 54.7% , some of them were a symptomatic as women represented 60.5% and men represented 58.7%  and some were with clinical symptoms with or without a history of UTI. Hypertension diabetic women represented 45% and men represented 26% .Men suffering from prostate enlargement were represented 35% from the total diabetics .The E.coli isolates were  represented 28.6% from the total cases ,Klebsiella spp  isolates represented 20%, S. aureus   isolates represented 16.7%,P

In this paper, we study the scheduling of jobs on a single machine. Each of the n jobs will be processed without interruption and becomes available for processing at time zero. The goal is to find a processing order for the jobs, minimizing the total completion time, total late work, total earliness time, and maximum earliness maximum tardiness. The posed problems in this paper are as follows: The first problem is to minimize the multi-criteria, which includes minimizing the total completion time, total late work, total earliness time, maximum earliness, and maximum tardiness that are denoted by , respectively. The second problem is to minimize the multi-objective functions ( ). The theoretical section will present the mathematical formu

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