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Obesity and Overweight among Students in Arabic Secondary Schools in Erbil City
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Objective(s): The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescence and
to estimate the effect of socio- demographic and health behaviors that predicting obesity in adolescents.
Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was being carried out at three public Arabic secondary
schools in Erbil city from October 1
st 2010 to January 30th 2011. A systematic randomly sample size of 461 students
was selected.
Results: In this study, the age of (46.2%, 122) of males students were ranged between (17- 18.9) years old compared
to females students (74.1%, 146) their age ranged between (15 -16.9) years old. About (3.4%, 9) of males
adolescents having overweight while all female adolescents were recorded as normal weight with significant association
between weight status and gender (p-value= 0.006). There were (0.5%, 1) overweight that watching TV
during eating but (3.1%, 8) was did not watching TV during eating with significant association between weight status
and watching TV during eating (p- value= 0.041).
Recommendation: This study recommended placing posters throughout the school showing foods rich in various
nutrients, healthy food tips in the school news letter for parents and educational activities with more orientation
about their diet and physical exercise at early ages involving the whole family to control the excess of weight.
Keywords: anthropometric measure weight status, adolescent, physical inactivity, fast food.

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Publication Date
Sat Oct 25 2025
Journal Name
Journal Of Baghdad College Of Dentistry
The Dental Caries and Some Salivary Constituents among a Group of Ten Years Iraqi Passive Smokers
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Background: Passive smoking and dental caries affect the integrity of the health of individuals and both of them affected by sociodemographic characteristics of those individuals. This research aimed to investigate the severity of dental caries in relation to salivary magnesium and zinc of stimulated whole saliva of a group of 10 years passive smokers in comparison with normal subjects. Materials and methods: the study group included 40 subjects (20boys and 20 girls), with an age of 10 years of passive smokers determined by a questionnaire. The control group included 40 normal subjects of the same gender and age of the study group. The diagnosis and recording of dental caries was measured by (D1-4MFS & d1-4mfs) index according to the criter

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Publication Date
Tue Jan 02 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
The effect of recent technology on university students’ skills
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The study aims to identify the students’ attitudes toward recent techniques’ use in teaching; using power point software and data show to facilitate teaching approaches as well as following the approach of lecture in giving subjects, do these techniques facilitate, increase, and tackle the difficulties of subjects, do these attitudes positive or negative?, and to what extent these techniques raise up students’ motivation.   

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Publication Date
Sun Jan 04 2015
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
Undesirable behaviors for university students by their instructors view
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Undesirable behaviors among students  are consider one of the danger problems threating societies and educational and scientific institutions of countries  because its one of the way to express aggression , so the instructors consider one of the most important people could be trust their evaluation and logical view , therefore the present research aimed to :

  1. Recognize undesirable behavior in students of University by the view of their instructors
  2. Measure the level of undesirable behavior in students of university by the view of their instructors
  3. Recognize more common  undesirable behavior in students of University by the view o

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Publication Date
Tue Jun 03 2025
Journal Name
Periodicals Of Engineering And Natural Sciences (pen)
Comparison of some artificial neural networks for graduate students
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Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is one of the important statistical methods that are widely used in a range of applications in various fields, which simulates the work of the human brain in terms of receiving a signal, processing data in a human cell and sending to the next cell. It is a system consisting of a number of modules (layers) linked together (input, hidden, output). A comparison was made between three types of neural networks (Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN), Back propagation network (BPL), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). he study found that the lowest false prediction rate was for the recurrentt network architecture and using the Data on graduate students at the College of Administration and Economics, Univer

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Publication Date
Tue Dec 19 2023
Journal Name
Academia Open
Impact of COVID-19 on Dental Students' Psychological Health
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Academia Open Vol 8 No 2 (2023): December DOI: 10.21070/acopen.8.2023.8087 . Article type: (Medicine)Impact of COVID-19 on Dental Students' Psychological Health Maryam Hameed Alwan, [email protected], (1) Department of Oral Diagnosis, College of Dentistry, Baghdad University, Iraq, Iraq (1) Corresponding author Abstract This study investigates the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental students at Baghdad University College of Dentistry. Conducted between December 2021 and January 2022, this cross-sectional survey aligns with ethical guidelines and the Helsinki Declaration. The study utilized Cochran's equation to determine a sample size of at least 400, ensuring a 95% confidence level with a 5% margin of e

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Publication Date
Mon Feb 04 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
Intemperance Use of the Internet with the University's Students
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The research aims:
1- To know the intemperance use of the internet by the University's students.
2- To know the differences with a statistical indication in the intemperance use of the internet after the gender's inconstant ( Males-females).
3- To know the differences with a statistical indication in the intemperance use of the internet after the Major's inconstant ( scientific- humanistic)
This current research restricts a sample of the university students for both sexes.
Theoretical frame:
The research viewed several theories that explains intemperance use of the internet & the results.
Research measures :
1- Research has been adapted the scale ( Internet use) which was prepared by the Moroccan researcher (

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Publication Date
Fri Jun 01 2007
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages (jcl)
Investigating EFL Iraqi College Students' Awareness of Euphemistic Expressions
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All over the world and in different societies and cultures , people are always looking for different ways of favourable , gentle smooth and soft communication .The 'powerful linguistic devices ' that are embedded in the daily English language is called "euphemism". It plays an important and vital role in daily communication. It represents a significant part of English . It is used to express any aspect of everyday realities such as the business world , mass media , etc. The comprehension of such realities can not be verified unless a reasonable command of euphemism is achieved.
Euphemism is defined according to various perspectives and views. It is " that figure of speech which consists in the substitution of a word or expression of c

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Publication Date
Thu Dec 08 2011
Journal Name
مجلة الاداب
Morphophonemic Awareness of English Derivatives by Iraqi College Students
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MR Younus, Al-A'DAB, 2011

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Publication Date
Mon Dec 16 2024
Journal Name
International Journal Of Computing And Digital Systems
Digital Intelligence for University Students Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
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The research problem arose from the researchers’ sense of the importance of Digital Intelligence (DI), as it is a basic requirement to help students engage in the digital world and be disciplined in using technology and digital techniques, as students’ ideas are sufficiently susceptible to influence at this stage in light of modern technology. The research aims to determine the level of DI among university students using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. To verify this, the researchers built a measure of DI. The measure in its final form consisted of (24) items distributed among (8) main skills, and the validity and reliability of the tool were confirmed. It was applied to a sample of 139 male and female students who were chosen

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Publication Date
Wed Jan 01 2025
Journal Name
International Journal Of Computing And Digital Systems
Digital Intelligence for University Students Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
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