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Terrorist attacks are the biggest challenges to humanity around the world, which needs intensive efforts from researchers. Detecting the regularity of patterns and behaviors of terrorism is crucial to global counter-terrorism strategies. Machine learning techniques have shown significant effectiveness in the endeavor against terrorism. Nowadays, by using huge detailed terrorism data, researchers can develop tools that may contribute to dealing with terrorism. In this paper, we aim to create a framework for terrorism attacks predicting the use of global terrorism database (GTD). The research approach assumes that textual features may affect the enhancement of the classifier’s ability to predict the types of terrorist attacks. To prove this hypothesis; text features are extracted and represented using different text representation techniques such as Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), Bag of Words (Bow), and Word Embedding (W2vec). Extracted features are then combined with data set features, which are called (key features). Nine different classifiers are employed. The results show that the combination of textual features with key features improved the prediction accuracy significantly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to evaluate job satisfaction among veterinarians working in the private sector in Khartoum State, Sudan. A structured questionnaire tool with a 5 Likert scale was used. It is distributed to a population sample of 157 veterinarians. Responses to the demographic section showed almost equal numbers of males and females among the respondent vets. Most of those respondents were from north (59%). The average monthly salary of all the respondent vets in the sample population was less than 344$ with the majority (80.9%) under 40 years of age. The analysis revealed a significant association between some of the dependent factors in the study while there is a statistical difference in gender responses to some of the factors of Job facilities and Career development. The general direction of samples in Career development was found to be towards “Agree” while the general direction of the samples in both sections of Job facilities and Job satisfaction was found to be towards “Neutral”. Veterinarians working in the private sector in Khartoum State are partially satisfied with their jobs. Awareness of job satisfaction and interaction between the veterinary community and veterinary institutions are needed to meet the sector needs in the final product (veterinarians) and to raise the confidence of the veterinarian in the job market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is a severe, highly contagious immunosuppressive disease. This study aimed to investigate a suspected Infectious bursal disease field infection with apparent morbidity and elevated mortality in a floor-reared Hy-line layer flock in Khartoum State, Sudan. The investigated flock showed depression, dullness, ruffled feathers, diarrhea, pasted vent, and decreased feed and water intake. The affected birds were underweight (800gm to 870gm). The mortality rate was found to be 14.7%. A post-mortem examination revealed enlarged, edematous bursae with various degrees of petechial hemorrhage in the serosal and mucosal surfaces. Hyperemia, inflammation, yellowish exudate, and atrophy were also seen in some of the affected bursae. Extremely distended ureters filled with a whitish material were detected. Enlarged kidneys with degenerative changes and obvious necrotic foci were detected grossly. Agar Gel Immuno-diffusion (AGID) tests and inoculation of the virus in chick embryos were found to be negative. Indirect IBD conventional ELISA test for VP3 for serum of 20 birds revealed 100% positive cases. Creatinine, uric acid, and urea in the serum of 22 infected birds from the diseased flock and 19 noninfected birds from the original flock showed a recognizable elevation in the three parameters that reached about 5 times, 6 times, and 2 times respectively. The presence of bursae with obvious lesions in a layer flock of 21 weeks of age was considered the main criterion for the diagnosis. The flock was diagnosed with IBD. ELISA results support the diagnosis. Infection with IBD at this age (21 weeks) could be attributed to bad management in general and bad nutrition in specific which led to being underweight and delayed the regression and disappearance of the bursa of Fabrecious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]