Foreign terrorist fighters as a potential security problem of the Republic of Serbia by Đorić Marija, Obrenović Strahinja

“…The return of foreign terrorist fighters from Syria and Iraq to the territory of the Republic of Serbia can represent a kind of security problem. …”
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Guest Editorial: The Gig Economy and Women Workers in the Middle East by Stella Morgana

“…Featuring articles analysing case studies in Egypt, Iraq, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, this special issue addresses the abovementioned questions, directly speaking to the academic debate on the global gig economies. …”
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Comparison of Serum Zinc and Copper Concentrations in Females with Ovarian and Uterine Tumors by Hiba Ghmeedh Adhab, Liwaa Hussein Mahdi, Eman M. Al-Hilo

“…Blood samples were obtained and analyzed using flame-atomic absorption spectroscopy spectrometry in Najaf City, Iraq. Results: Serum zinc levels exhibited lower concentration (4.73 ± 1.92) in patients with malignant uterine tumors than those with benign uterine tumors (10.80 ± 1.87, P = 0.000). …”
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Clinical Manifestation and Phylogenetic Analysis of Peste des Petits Ruminants in Local Iraqi Breed Sheep in Al-Diwaniyah Province by Khalefa A. Mansour, Muthanna H. Hussain, Saad H. Al-Husseiny, Asaad J. Abid, Qassim H. Kshash

“…This study found the Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) virus in sheep flocks in Al-Diwaniyah Governorate, Iraq, which is genetically similar to neighboring countries. …”
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The Impact and Risk Factors of Screen Time Exposure in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Shahad Ali Ahmed AL-Baldawi, Nabeeha Najatee Akram, Zahraa Aqeel Abdulmajeed

“…Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are increasingly exposed to screens that correlate to negative health effects.Objectives: To identify possible risk factors associated with long screen viewing in ASD children and identify the effects of prolonged screen time.Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study recruited children with ASD who were followed in the Psychiatry Department in the Central Child Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq over 7 months. For all children, personal data (age, age at diagnosis, sex, sleeping duration at day and night, and aggressive behavior) and both parents' data (age, educational level, and occupation) and screen data (duration of screen exposure, type of device used for, and the content of screening) were collected for each participant. …”
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Biochemical Assessment of Insulin and Dopamine 2 Receptors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Khitam Abed Sahil, Nazar Shiyaa Mohammed, Yousr Majd Jmeel, Anil K Sharma

“…The samples were obtained from the AL Kinday Hospital and Endocrine Center in Baghdad, Iraq. The results of this study explained that the patients and controls were comparable in age, gender, and smoking status with no significant differences (P> 0.05). while results reported that there was a greater significant difference (p<0.01) in levels of the mean for fasting blood sugar (FBS), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and a significant difference (p<0.05) in urea and creatinine levels between the type 2 diabetic patients and the controls there was a significant difference detected in values of insulin and dopamine 2(p<0/05) between the patient and control groups. …”
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Outcome of Excision with Primary Midline Closure for Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease by Bahzad Waso Hamad

“…This is a retrospective study with telephone contact and review of 36 patients operated for Sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease from January 2011 through January 2016 under care of one consultant surgeon (the Author) in Public and Private Hospitals in Rania, Sulaimani, Iraq. Inclusion criteria was all patients with chronic midline located sinuses without evidence of acute inflammation. …”
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Detection of OmpA and blaPER-1 Genes and Biofilm Formation in Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates by Ban Abdulsattar, Rasha Jabbar, Susan Ibrahim

“…One of the most difficult infections to treat is A. baumannii because it forms a biofilm.Objectives: To identify MDR A. baumannii biofilm producers from clinical isolates and detect some biofilm-related genes.Materials and methods: During the period from October 2023 to February 2024, a total of 26 A. baumannii clinical isolates were collected from the laboratory of Ghazi Al-Hariri Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq. The automated VITEK&reg;2 system was used to identify A. baumannii isolates phenotypically. …”
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Potassium Adsorption Phenomenon in Calcareous Soils of Shahrazur Plain by Kamil Sabir Saeed

“…      A laboratory study for adsorption of potassium (K) determination was conducted on six soils located in Sharazur plain from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2021 using the batch technique method. Potassium (K) adsorption isotherms were achieved by equilibrating 5.0 g of soil samples with eight grades of K (0 to 300 mg L-1) as KCl in 50 ml of 0.01M CaCl2 solution. …”
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Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Children with Acute Leukemia on Chemotherapy in Karbala City by Dheyaa Aldeen Nawfal Al-khateeb, Ali Hussein Al-hafidh, Usama Ahmed Hadi Al-jumaily

“…The study Methods were a case-control study conducted in Karbala city/Iraq, for 3 months, the study sample included 140 children (70 cases and 70 controls) aged (2 to 14) years, by using convenient sampling and use special questionnaire design and measuring anthropometric measures. …”
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Dissolved Gas Analysis for Fault Prediction in Power Transformers Using Machine Learning Techniques by Sahar R. Al-Sakini, Ghassan A. Bilal, Ahmed T. Sadiq, Wisam Abed Kattea Al-Maliki

“…The MLMs were implemented by using 628 dataset samples, which were obtained from laboratories, other studies, and electricity stations in Iraq. Accordingly, 502 dataset samples constituted the training set while the remaining 126 dataset samples served as the testing set. …”
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Performance evaluation of the factors influencing Tourists General Satisfaction in the Border Cities. Baneh Border City by Mohammad najarzadeh, Aliakbar bidokhti, jamal moradnejad

“…One of the best and most popular border cities in Iran country is Baneh that placed in the west boundaries between Iran and Iraq country. Region’s Economy  extremely depends on tourism shopping and majority of the host community directly or indirectly involved in that bussiness. …”
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Estimating the Effectiveness of Pfizer and Sinopharm Vaccines and their Relationship to Occupation, Residence, Smoking, and Body Mass Index During Pregnancy Smoking by Shahad Th. Jameel, Asmaa Haseeb Hwaid, Abdulrazak SH. Hasan

“…This study was conducted in Diyala Province, Iraq, for the period from April 2022 to May 2023. …”
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Serum amylase level measurement in acute abdominal pain by Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Botan H. Tahir

“…Our study is based on data collected retrospectively from patients’ medical records admitted to Shar Emergency Surgical Unit, Sulaimani, Iraq from 10th January 2019 to 20th May 2019. All non-traumatic adult patients with acute abdominal pain within twenty-four hours before admission were included and serum amylase levels were measured on admission using Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) available at (ED). …”
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Biological properties of foot-and-mouth disease virus А 2205/G-IV strain by M. V. Sidorovskaya, S. N. Fomina, V. V. Nikiforov, T. A. Komarova, M. A. Shevchenko, N. A. Kolchanov, S. R. Kremenchugskaya

“…The virus strain tested for vaccine matching with microneutralization test (MNT) demonstrated significant difference from production A/Turkey/06, А22 No. 550/Azerbaijan/64, A22/Iraq/64, A/Iran/97, A No. 2155/Zabaikalsky/2013, A No. 2166/Krasnodarsky/2013, A No. 2269/ARRIAH/2015 strains of FMD virus.…”
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Role of Age and Sex on the Incidence of Leukemia in a Sample of Iraqi Patients by Dahlia N. AL-Saidi

“…Materials and Methods: The current study was conducted on 100 patients with leukemia of all kinds, who visited Baghdad Teaching Hospital in the Medical City complex in Bagdad, Iraq, from January to September 2022. The diagnosis was confirmed based on bone marrow aspiration, blood film, flow cytometry analysis of cells, and genetic analysis using PCR. …”
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BUNURILE CULTURALE – VICTIMELE FENOMENULUI TERORIST by Alexandra NICOLESCU

“…Actions to destroy the cultural heritage of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Iraq, have generated an international resurgence. …”
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An Assessment on Balkan Historiography by Abdulkadir Macit

“…In addition to their own originality in historiography, Muslims inherited the accumulation of ancient civilizational basins such as Hijaz, Bilad al-Sham, Egypt, Maghreb, Andalusia, Iraq, Iran, Sindh and Mawara' al-Nahr. They created a wide variety of genres by making it more systematic and methodological. …”
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Risk Factors of Obesity among Children Under 5 Years in Hilla City by Awatif Abd AL-khalik, Ali Hussein Al-Hafidh, Suha Attia Kadhum

“…This issue is mostly attributable to families' shifting lifestyles in the modernized Iraq, where they now have greater spending power, easier access to goods and services, and the means to live more comfortably and opulently because to advancements in technology. …”
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Macroecological predictors to determine future refuges of Luciobarbus species in the Tigris–Euphrates basin: Rethinking conservation strategies and management by Hadi Khoshnamvand, Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Asef Darvishi, Kourosh Ahmadi, Amir Naghibi, Karel Janko, Asghar Abdoli, Faraham Ahmadzadeh

“…We employed a generalized linear model (GLM) with a quasi-Poisson distribution to create a map depicting the richness of Luciobarbus fish species.Our projections indicate that suitable habitats will decline in both time series under climate change SSP126 and SSP585 scenarios, resulting in the loss of certain habitat patches in the Southwest of Iran, Syria and Iraq. The result of the species richness map shows the southern region of the Tigris–Euphrates basin has the highest number of species. …”
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