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Predictive Significance of Interleukins 17A and 33 in Risk of Relapsing–Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
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Cytokines are signaling molecules between inflammatory cells that play a significant role in the pathogenesis of a disease. Among these cytokines are interleukins (ILs) 17A and 33, and accordingly, the current case-control study sought to investigate the role of each of the two cytokines in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Sixty-eight relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) Iraqi patients and twenty healthy individuals (control group) were enrolled. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were used to determine serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33. Results revealed that IL-17A and IL-33 levels were significantly higher in MS patients than in controls (14.1 ± 4.5 vs. 7.5 ± 3.8 pg/mL; p < 0.001 and 65.3 ± 16.3 vs. 49.3 ± 20.0 pg/mL; p < 0.001, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis demonstrated that IL-17A was a very good predictor of MS (area under curve [AUC] = 0.869; 95% CI = 0.779 - 0.960; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 10.2 pg/mL; sensitivity = 80.8%; specificity = 75.0%). A similar prediction was presented by IL-33, but the AUC value was lower (AUC = 0.762; 95% CI = 0.63 - 0.89; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 56.4 pg/mL; sensitivity = 70.6%; specificity = 70.0%). Multinomial logistic regression analysis confirmed the significance of IL-17A and IL-33 in MS risk, and under three models of analysis, the estimated odds ratios for IL-17A (1.50, 1.49 and 1.50, respectively) and IL-33 (1.05, 1.05 and 1.06) were above 1.0. Patients stratified by gender (male and female), expanded disability status scale (EDSS: < 3 and ≥ 3) or medication (pre- and post-medication) showed no significant differences in serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33 for each stratum. However, with regard to response to medication, it was found that responding patients showed significantly higher levels of IL-33 than non-responders (70.9 ± 12.2 vs. 57.2 ± 18.2 pg/mL; p = 0.018). This difference was not observed when considering IL-17A. Pearson correlation analysis between IL-17A and IL-33 revealed that both cytokines were not significantly correlated. In conclusion, the study indicated that IL-17A and IL-33 were up-regulated in serum of MS patients, and this up-regulation was not influenced by age, gender, EDSS or medication status, but the elevated level of IL-33 was more pronounced in patients who responded to medication.

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Mon Jan 27 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
دور إدارة الجودة الشاملة في تحقيق الميزة التنافسية المستدامة: بحث استطلاعي في شركة التأمين العراقية العامة
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          Seeks this research is to clarify the role played by TQM represented Bmngaradtha (commitment and support of senior management of the philosophy of TQM, strategic planning for the overall quality, focus on the customer, continuous improvement, post workers, training and rehabilitation of workers) to achieve sustainable competitive advantage represented by dimensions (estimated intrinsic , creative culture, information technology, strategic flexibility), research has relied on the views of a sample of managers working in the Iraqi public insurance company. So identified research problem in answering the following questions: "What is the size of visualization owned by managers in the co

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Tue Apr 01 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Design Consolidate Cost Accounting System For Economic Entities
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      The Costing Accounting is one the analytic tools which plays important role by support the management in planning&  control and decisions-making ,as it became attendant necessity to establish any project whether industrial ,commercial ,service or agriculture ..etc.

     The consolidated accounting system has committed the companies to have their active costing system in which the management can obtain their own data, but we found most of the economic units face problems of applying the costing system because of reasons related to the system design itself or might be related to the requirements of the application success.   

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Mon Jan 02 2017
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
أثر استراتيجية الاستقصاء العقلاني في اكتساب عمليات العلم الاساسية لدى طلاب الثاني المتوسط في مادة الفيزياء
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Recent research have aimed to know the effect of rational inquiry strategy on acquisition basic science processes for second intermediate students in physics. To verify the aim of this research , the researchers added the following zero hypotheses : No statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the students mean scores of the two groups on basic science Processes test. The research was carried out on the second intermediate grade male students in Alam Al Yakeen school in Baghdad; belong to Education Directorate Al- Karkh/2, for the Academic Year (2014-2015) A.D. Prepared research requirements included ] selected the scientific subject chapters (6,7,8,9) from physics textbook, the formulation of beha

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Publication Date
Sun Feb 03 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
Sociological Directions Among Iraqi Scholars: Sociological Directions Among Iraqi Scholars
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Abstract
This study concerned of scientific analysis of sociological directions
among Iraqi scholars graduated before 1960. These directions was divided
between heritage, conflict, critical and symbolic interaction. It is important to
mention that Al-Wardi scholar tried to build a theory in Sociology focused on
the image of Iraqi personality through historical approach used by Arabian
scholar Ibn-Khaldon.

 

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Publication Date
Sat Oct 27 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
"تأثير استعمالات الارض الحضرية في البنية الاجتماعية للمدن " منطقة الدراسة: قضاء الصدر/2 في مدينة الصدر"
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Mon May 01 2006
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أثر استعمال طريقة التعلم التعاوني في تحصيل طلاب الصف الخامس الأدبي في مادة قــواعــد اللغــة العربيـــة
أثر استعمال طريقة التعلم التعاوني في تحصيل طلاب الصف الخامس الأدبي في مادة قــواعــد اللغــة العربيـــة
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Publication Date
Sun Jan 01 2012
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
اثر أنموذج ثيلين في اكتساب المفاهيم التاريخية لطالبات الصف الثاني معهد المعلمات / المركزي في مادة التاريخ
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Chapter One – introduction

Nations managed today to achieve progress in the field of modern technology. Science has changed many beliefs and trendiness that people have held for long time, skills and scientific thinking developed, and made scientific observation  and experiment replace narration and taking from others. That is attributed to examining  the educational systems searching for the locations of defect, and shortage.

In the light of educational modernizations, many models of teaching incliuding a model for social tracing attributed to Herbart Thelen, which is a model to develop skills of social participation in the democratic process (Al-Khawalda,1993,335).

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Publication Date
Mon Nov 12 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
جهود جهود المرأة في الحديث النبوي الشريف في كتاب الإصابة لابن حجر العسقلاني ( ت: 852هـ / 1445م)
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إمتاز ابن حجر بعلميته ، وغزارة عطائه في وضع كتب قيمة وتصانيف موسوعية  فكانت كتبه  هذه يشار لها  بالبنان .

اعتنى الكثير من  العلماء فاحتلت المرأة  مكانة متميزة  في كتبهم وخصصوا  لمعطياتها أجزاء واضحة ضمن مؤلفاتهم  ويعد أبن حجر أحد  هؤلاء العلماء الافذاذ الذين اعتنوا  بالمرأة  ، وهذا يعني انه أفرد لها جزءاً خاصاً بها سماه ( كتاب النساء) وهو يقع ضمن الجزء الرابع  من كتابه ، على الر

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Wed Dec 01 2010
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
إستخدام التحليل الهرمي (AHP) في المفاضلة لإختيار المجهزين: دراسة حالة في الشركة العامة للمسح الجيولوجي والتعدين
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Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) belongs to the family of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)  and has, recently, received a wide popularity in decision making regarding supplier selection.  The objective of this study is to apply the methodology of AHP on selecting suppliers to supply materials for the  Geological Survey and Mining  Company (GSMC).  Criteria for rating the suppliers and pairwise comparisons were identified by the members of the Tenders Analysis Committee (TAC). In order to judge the internal validity of the AHP, it was applied manually on a sample of fourteen tenders that were analyzed  and executed between 2004-2007, then an interactive computerized  package was developed 

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Publication Date
Tue Jan 29 2019
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
دراسة منهجية للوفيات في كتاب (التاريخ الباهر في الدولة الأتابكية بالموصل) لأبن الأثير (ت 630هـ -1232م)
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للدراسات التاريخية أهميتها ولاسيما دراسة المؤلفات الذي يعطينا صورة كاملة عن تطور الواقع التاريخي للمرحلة التي عاصرها المؤلف وتكتب دراسة الشخصيات العلمية طابعاً خاصاً ومهم يدفعنا إلى التعريف بالمؤرخ ومنهجه في الكتاب والموارد التي استقى معلوماتهِ منها . 

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