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The current research compares a geothermal-driven combined cooling, heating, and power generation cycle (B–CCHP) and a modified version using turbine bleeding and regeneration process named the TBR-CCHP cycle. These cycles incorporate organic Rankine systems, an ejector cooling system, and a heat pump system. The procedure of this study entails (i) introduction of an innovative CCHP setup, (ii) structural modification of the devised cycle, (iii) evaluation based on thermodynamic laws, (iv) optimization through GA, (v) sensitivity (vi) evaluation of the design parameters, Profitability assessment. The results indicate that the TBR-CCHP system achieves the most significant energy and exergy efficiencies with values of 87.83 % and 70.29 %, respectively. The system demonstrates heating load, cooling load, net electricity production, and total exergy destruction values of 80.38 kW, 24.26 kW, 34.44 kW, and 22.32 kW, respectively. Through optimization using genetic algorithm, improvements in energetic efficiency, exergetic efficiency, and overall energy destruction of 7.93 %, 25.53 %, and 34.83 % are seen in the B–CCHP system, and 7.37 %, 19.87 %, and 33.43 % in the TBR-CCHP system. The study reveals that in the TBR-CCHP system, the compressor is identified as the primary source of irreversibility, with reduced irreversibility during optimization. A comprehensive examination of critical parameters of the cycles indicates the significance of optimizing the generator pressure. Also, the payback period in the modified system is reduced to 6.72 years compared to the base cycle, which has a value of 8.43 years.

The Iraqi economy is rentier and heavily reliant on oil revenues because oil prices are volatile and subject to supply and demand on the global market, causing money supply instability. A prudent monetary policy must be developed in the face of macroeconomic policies, even partial ones, in order to reduce inflationary pressures and achieve both internal and external monetary stability. Iraq also lacks a clear economic strategy and the country's economy is still susceptible to decision-makers’ whims and the demands of international organizations. It is, therefore, essential to discuss monetary policy's fundamental and successful role in managing the sustainability of the economy through its solid and practical tools. Iraq's monetary authorities scrambled to ensure the nation's economic stability through the use of monetary tools as the country's economic system started to shift towards a market economy in 2003, depending on supply and demand forces to manage the economy. The Central Bank uses tools of monetary policy, which are based on keeping an eye on the money supply and pursuing long-term objectives, to achieve the policy objective of economic stability. The goals of economic stability, according to economist Nicolas Kaldor, are to boost economic growth, achieve full employment, establish external balance, and fight inflation. This study examined the hypothesis that, between 1990 and 2020, monetary policy contributed to Iraq's economic stability using co-integration tests, fully-corrected least-squares techniques, and dynamic standard least-squares. The positive effects of monetary policy on economic variables, particularly economic stability, were demonstrated by the influence of foreign currency reserves on an improved current account balance, price stability, and a relative decline in unemployment rates. The GDP and the current account balance positively affected economic stability indicators, while the money supply adversely impacted most of them. To improve the balance of payments and encourage economic growth, investments should be made in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors.

This study aim to give clear image about the problems which Face agriculture of seeds and vegetables in study area and to find number of treatments in the future for these constrains . Also this study depends on analyzing and descriptive method and fielded lookups to limit these constrains . This study gets number of geographic problem some deals with nature side like climate circumstances and soil salting with weeds spreading and agricultural diseases . Another problems deals with manned – side like Urban creep and Backward irrigations with decreasing in production supplies and weakness of agricultural politics .This study shows difference between affection of seed and vegetables with manned and natural factors ,that manned factors effect more than natural factors on agricultural production because of the humans are the main reason with incidences, like soil salting as a result of wrong irrigation and decreasing of production with agricultural areas , because of urban creep on agricultural areas and weakness of agricultural planning .This study gets a number of suggestive solutions which leads to enlarge the agricultural areas with increasing of agricultural production and to achieve optimal independence for agricultural areas through following scientific methods and correct agricultural politics

The study included (75 blood samples) patients of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) (30 blood sample for T1DM), (45 blood sample for T2DM). The (25 blood samples) healthy as control group and a clinical study was conducted on the samples taken. Determine the level of insulin hormone (IH) using the ELISA device and calculate the insulin resistance (IR). The level of blood glucose (F.B.S) and lipid profile were measured by spectral method. The study showed a higher significant difference between serum glucose of patients compared to the control group (P

This study included (70) patient women with breast cancer whose age groups have ranged form (20) to (65) years and body mass index (32 – 20) kg/m2 for a period ranging from 1 month to 4 years. Also, it included (40) healthy women with traits compatible with those of the experimental group. The study has been carried out during the period extending from October, 2011 to November, 2012 in Ramadi Hospital. The present study has aimed at identifying the effect of some antioxidants such as Glutathion , Albumin and Antioxidants Trace elements (Cu , Zn ) and Fe in breast cancer infection in Anbar Governorate and comparing the level of these variables in patient women with the control group. Results have indicated a significant increase (P≤0.05) in Cu (84.9±27µg/dl) ( 106.5±38.1µg/dl) and Fe (96.6±38.1 µg/dl) (126.3±34.5 µg/dl), significant decrease (P≤0.05) in Albumin (4.21± 0.53g/dl( (3.7±0.67g/dl) , GSH (16.7+ 2.6 µmol/L) ) 4.47+ 0.89 µmol/L) and Zn )78 ± 24 µg/dl) (60 ± 24 µg/dl( in the blood serum of patient women in comparison with the control group.

The use of contraception in all its forms (hormonal, mechanical) is spreading widely in all societies, This study was conducted to determine the effect of these barriers especially hormonal in reducing the effectiveness of some types of antioxidants. the current study was conducted in the Fallujah General Hospital , as study included 68 women using contraceptives (26 have used Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCP), 29 who used Intrauterine Device (IUD), 13 who used Injection progesterone depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), average age (35 years) and 16 women in the control group the average age (33)years. been collecting blood samples from all groups for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of some antioxidants found in serum and include the overall capacity of antioxidant (TAC), vitamin C and iron Fe element. showed the results of the current study: • The Conc.of vitamin C significantly decreased (P

Onion maggot Delia alliaria Fonseca is considered as anew record a key pest on onion in Iraq. Its also exists in many parts of the world such as Egypt and some part of Europe, which can cause an economic losses ranged between (20 – 60) %. Field studies were conducted at the College of Agriculture, Baghdad to evaluate the effectiveness of two types of traps baited with onion extract lure. Results indicated the superiority of Tephri traps which caught significantly higher of onion maggot adults Nursery and onion field. In Nursery Tephri traps catches were 3.11, 5.11 for females and males, respectively, compared with 1.05, 1.40 for the local trap respectively. Sex ratio was 38: 62 and 43: 57 for Tephri and local traps and in favor of males. In the field traps catches were increased for the two types of traps reaching a numbers of 8.56, 10.84 females and males respectively in Tephri traps Compared with 4.86, 6.13 for the local trap . Sex ratio were for the two types of traps were 44:56 and in favor of males .We concluded from that onion extract lure may be used in Tephri raps because of its low cost and easy prepared by the farmers for monitoring and control of the onion maggot Delia alliaria especially in OrganicAgriculture

The current study included the synthesis of a series of azo compounds. These compounds were prepared by coupling nitrogen bases with phenyl diazonium salts. While the azo Schiff compounds were prepared by direct condensation of the prepared azoaldehydes with the nitrogen bases (2-amino pyrimidine & guanine ). The Schiff base derivatives were prepared by direct condensation of nitrogen bases (2-amino pyrimidine & adenine) with substituted benzaldehyde and chloral.The structures of the prepared compounds were confirmed by spectral analysis including ultra-violet visible and infra red spectra. Also photo irradiation of these compounds at (=356nm) has been done to study the stability of these compounds. The results revealed complete disappearance of the (OH) and (NH) bands in a number of compounds and partial disappearance in others which reflects the photo-oxidation or hydrogen bonding for the groups of (OH) or (NH).The disappearance of the (NH2) and (C=O) bands conforms the successful of prepared compounds.

The present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Theileria annulata in large ruminants from two districts, Peshawar and Kohat, in Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa (Pakistan). Blood samples were collected from 95 cattle. Data on the characteristics of animals and herds were collected through questionnaires. No significant risk factors were found associated with the spread of tropical theileriosis in the study area. Two different parasite detection techniques, PCR amplification and screening of Giemsa stained slides, were compared and it was found that PCR amplification is a more sensitive tool (33.7% parasite detection), as compared to smear scanning (5.2% parasite detection) for the detection of Theileria annulata. 32 out of 95 animals, from both districts, produced the 721-bp fragment specific for Theileria annulata.

H Hameed, J CassidyBeatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UKAbstract: Capecitabine (Xeloda®, Roche, Basel, Switzerland) is a pro-drug of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and it is converted to 5-FU in the cancer cell by enzymatic degradation. The role of capecitabine in colorectal cancer has evolved in the last 15 years. In early trials in the metastatic setting, capecitabine has shown superior response rates compared with those achieved with 5-FU (Mayo Clinic regimen) (26% vs 17%), with equivalent progression-free survival and overall survival. In the adjuvant setting, the Xeloda in Adjuvant Colon Cancer Therapy (X-ACT) trial demonstrated that capecitabine as a single agent led to improvement in relapse-free survival (hazard ratio: 0.86, 95% confidence interval: 0.74–0.99, P = 0.04) and was associated with significantly fewer adverse events than 5-FU plus leucovorin (LV, folinic acid). On the basis of the X-ACT trial, capecitabine was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and the Scottish Medicines Consortium as monotherapy for the adjuvant treatment of stage III colon cancer. The next step was to incorporate capecitabine into combination therapy. The XELOXA trial studied the combination of capecitabine and oxaliplatin (XELOX) vs 5-FU/LV and demonstrated 5-year disease-free survival of 66% for XELOX, compared with 60% for 5-FU/LV. The toxicity profile was also quite comparable in the two arms. So both the single agent use of capecitabine as well as in combination with oxaliplatin can be considered as part of the standard of care in management of early colon cancer in appropriately selected patient groups.Keywords: 5-fluorouracil, 5-FU, leucovorin, folinic acid, LV, XELOX, oxaliplatin, FOLFOX

Bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) nanoparticles are synthesized and evaluated for their function as materials for solar cells. Bi2O3 solution is inexpensively produced from the Nigella sativa seeds using a green synthetic method. The synthesized Bi2O3 solution is deposited by droplet casting method, and the synthesized nanofilm is dried at 80°C. Subsequently, diagnostic tests such as UV–VIS, XRD, and FTIR are performed on the Bi2O3/glass thin films. By means of the SEM, EDS, AFM, and I–V characteristics in dark and under illumination, the optical and structural characteristics of Bi2O3- nanoparticle films are investigated to determine the optical energy gap and crystalline material. X-ray diffraction reveals the presence of a tetragonal crystal system in the phase. The estimated band-gap energy Eg is approximately Eg1 = 3.6 eV, and FTIR analysis shows the degree of infrared absorption as a function of wavelength to demonstrate the presence of functional groups in bismuth-oxide molecules from Bi–O bonds. SEM–EDS morphology studies examine the occurrence of nanocrystals of various shapes and sizes. Finally, as a bulk heterojunction device, the I–V performance of the solar cell (Ag/Bi2O3/PSi/Si/Ag) deserves attention, and a fill factor FF= 48 is found for a solar-cell efficiency of 2.8%, ideality factor β= 1.35, characterization resistance RCH = 175 Ω, and the parallel resistance = 25.14 Ω·s. This cheap nanoparticle material could be an ideal candidate for future energy applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On May 27, 2022, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society and the Heart Rhythm Society convened a meeting of leaders from different professional societies of healthcare providers committed to arrhythmia care from the Asia Pacific region. The overriding goals of the meeting were to discuss clinical and health policy issues that face each country for providing care for patients with electrophysiologic issues, share experiences and best practices, and discuss potential future solutions. Participants were asked to address a series of questions in preparation for the meeting. The format of the meeting was a series of individual country reports presented by the leaders from each of the professional societies followed by open discussion. The recorded presentations from the Asia Summit can be accessed at https://www.heartrhythm365.org/URL/asiasummit‐22. Three major themes arose from the discussion. First, the major clinical problems faced by different countries vary. Although atrial fibrillation is common throughout the region, the most important issues also include more general issues such as hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, tobacco abuse, and management of potentially life‐threatening problems such as sudden cardiac arrest or profound bradycardia. Second, there is significant variability in the access to advanced arrhythmia care throughout the region because of differences in workforce availability, resources, drug availability, and national health policies. Third, collaboration in the area already occurs between individual countries, but no systematic regional method for working together is present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is aimed at investigating the effect of tungsten-based catalysts for aerobic oxidative desulfurization (AODS) for gas oil. Two catalysts tungsten loaded on activated carbon (W/AC) and cerium-tungsten load on activated carbon (Ce–W/AC) were prepared, and they are characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy FTIR, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive spectroscopy EDX, and thermal behavior was examined by thermal graphometry analysis (TGA), the surface area was measure by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method. The experiments were conducted in a lab-scale reactor. The primary investigation shows that Ce–W/AC was more active than W/AC. The second part examines the effect of reaction temperature, air flow rate, and catalyst dosage on sulfur removal efficiency by using Ce–W/AC, the ranges for the studied parameter are 150–200 °C, 20–60 mL/min, and 0.5–1 g for reaction temperature, air flow rate, and catalyst dosage respectively. The experiments were designed according to the Taguchi method. The experiments results show the sulfur removal efficiency ranged between 72.3 and 99.9. The findings demonstrate that increasing the reaction temperature leads to an increase in sulfur removal efficiency, while the increase in sulfur removal efficiency with air flow rate and catalyst dosage did not continue because it started decreasing after it reached a maximum value According to analysis variance ANOVA demonstrated that the effect of the studied variables ordered the following: reaction temperature air flow rate and finally catalyst dosage via their F-value where these values are 12.27, 4.09, and 0.16 for reaction temperature, air flow rate, and catalyst dosage respectively.

Symptoms similar to those produced by the phytoplasma disease "Big bud" were observed on tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) grown in the field in Mosul city, Iraq. Diseased plants were characterized by twisting, corrugated, yellowing or reddening of leaves. The sepals of the flowers acquired hypertrophied form, were fused together and created a bell-shaped sterile bud (phyllody) of green or anthocyanin color. The stems of the plants were lignified, and phloem necrosis was observed on the stem. In mid-September 2020, samples of 30 diseased and 2 healthy (control) tomato plants were collected from the fields. Phytoplasmas were detected by PCR and Nested-PCR in 10 diseased samples, use universal and specific primers. The results of a phylogenetic tree consisting of 27 genetic sequences of the 16 S ribosomal RNA gene of Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii, locally isolated from Iraq/Mosul, showed a sequence identity with a high percentage of genetic similarity of 99% with Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii 16Sr member VI-A. Clover proliferation group (16Sr VI), with various isolates from around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most widely used equation to calculate water saturation or suitable shaly water saturation in clean or shaly formation, respectively, is the modified Archie formula. The quality of Archie parameters including saturation exponent affects the preciseness of water saturation, and thus estimated oil and gas in place. Therefore, estimating the saturation exponent by the soft computation methods deems to be necessary. In this study, intelligent models such as multilayer perceptron neural network, least squares support vector machine, radial basis function neural network, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system are developed to predict saturation exponent in terms of petrophysical data including porosity, absolute permeability, water saturation, true resistivity, and resistivity index by utilizing a databank for middle east oil and gas reservoirs. The introduced models are optimized using particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and levenberg marquardt techniques. Graphical and statistical methods are used to demonstrate the capability of the constructed models. Based on the statistical indexes obtained for each model, it is found that radial basis function neural network, multilayer perceptron neural network, and least squares support vector machine are the most robust models as they possess the smallest mean squared error, root mean squared error and average absolute relative error as well as highest coefficient of determination. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis indicates that water saturation has the most effect and porosity has the least effect on the saturation exponent. The developed models are simple-to-use and time-consuming tools to predict saturation exponent without needing laboratory methods which are tedious and arduous.

تناول هذا البحث مفاهيم كل من الائتمان الممنوح للقطاع الخاص وعرض النقد MS2 بمفهومه الواسع وبيان أثرهما كمتغيرات مستقلة على ربحية مصرف بابل الأهلي في العراق كمتغير تابع، وذلك خلال المدة (2004-2022)، وبناءً على نتائج السكون فقد تم تقدير الأنموذج وفق منهجية الانحدار الذاتي لفترات الإبطاء الموزعة ARDL، وأوضحت نتائج اختبار التكامل المشترك عدم وجود علاقة طويلة الأجل ما بين متغيرات البحث، لذا تم التحليل في الأجل القصير فقط، وأن الأنموذج المقدر كان خالياً من مشكلة الارتباط الذاتي ومشكلة عدم تجانس التباين، وإن بواقيه تتوزع توزيعاً طبيعياً، وكان الأنموذج مستقراً وفقاً لاختبارات الاستقرارية (Cusum, Cusum of Square)، ومن أهم نتائج الدراسة، إن درجة تكامل متغيرات أنموذج الدراسة كانت عبارة عن خليط ما بين المستوى الأصلي (0)I والفرق الأول (1)I، ولا يوجد أي متغير بدرجة تكامل من الفرق الثاني (2)I، إن علاقة الائتمان الممنوح للقطاع الخاص كانت ايجابية مع ربحية مصرف بابل الأهلي، أما عرض النقد بمفهومه الواسع فقد كانت علاقته سلبية في الأجل القصير، وإن حجم الأثر كان كبير وبمعنوية عالية، وأوصت الدراسة بالعمل على زيادة ثقة الجمهور بالمؤسسة المصرفية لضمان زيادة الودائع المصرفية وتقليل الاكتناز، وتشجيع الادخار المصرفي والسعي لتطوير القطاع المصرفي وتقديم الدعم وتسهيل الإجراءات المصرفية، والعمل على تحديد دقيق وكفوء لحجم النقد في الاقتصاد تلجأ السلطات النقدية إليه عند قيامها بتغير عرض النقد يأخذ بنظر الاعتبار المؤشرات النقدية والاقتصادية.

تناول هذا البحث مفاهيم كل من سعر الفائدة وسعر إعادة الخصم وبيان أثرهما كمتغيرات مستقلة على سعر الصرف في العراق كمتغير تابع، وذلك خلال المدة (2004-2022)، حيث كان الهدف من هذه الدراسة بيان أثر هاتين الاداتين على سعر الصرف، بافتراض وجود علاقة ذات دلالة إحصائية بين متغيرات الدراسة، وقد تم تقدير الأنموذج وفق منهجية الانحدار الذاتي لفترات الإبطاء الموزعة ARDL، وتبين وفق اختبار الحدود للتكامل المشترك وجود علاقة التكامل المشترك ما بين متغيرات البحث، لذا تم التحليل في الأجلين القصير والطويل، وكان الأنموذج المقدر خالي من مشكلة الارتباط الذاتي ومشكلة عدم تجانس التباين، وإن بواقيه تتوزع توزيعاً طبيعياً، وكان الأنموذج مستقراً وفقاً لاختبارات الاستقرارية (Cusum, Cusum of Square)، ومن أهم نتائج الدراسة هي، إن درجة تكامل متغيرات أنموذج الدراسة كانت عبارة عن خليط ما بين المستوى الأصلي (0)I والفرق الأول (1)I، ولا يوجد أي متغير بدرجة تكامل من الفرق الثاني (2)I، وإن علاقة أسعار الفائدة وسعر إعادة الخصم بسعر الصرف كانت إيجابية في الأجلين القصير والطويل، إلا أن حجم الأثر كان ضعيفاً جداً، وأوصت الدراسة باستخدام أدوات جديدة للبنك المركزي مثل النافذة والتي تؤثر بشكل فعال في سعر الصرف، وعدم الاعتماد على مؤشر الفائدة كون مجمل النشاط الاقتصادي محصور بيد القطاع العام وبالتالي فإن سعر الفائدة سيفقد الكثير من فاعليته.

With an increase in the number of processing cores or systems, the high-performance edge-computing system’s power consumption along with its computational speed will increase, essentially. However, this comes at the expense of high-energy utilization. One notable solution to reduce the energy consumption of these systems is to execute these systems at the slowest feasible speed so that the job’s deadline times are met. Unfortunately, this method is at the expense of more response time and performance loss. To resolve this issue, in this paper, we propose a scheduling approach that associates the genetic algorithm (GA) with the first feasible speed (FiFeS) technique i.e. GA-FiFeS algorithm. This does not jeopardize real-time tasks’ deadlines. The GA-FiFeS algorithm proposes an energy-efficient schedule while still ensuring high response times. The results of the proposed approach, using plausible assumptions and experimental parameters, are compared with currently in-practice approaches, i.e. FiFeS and LeFeS (least feasible speed) approaches. Using numerical simulations and plausible assumptions, our investigation suggests that the proposed GA-FiFeS technique outperforms the FiFeS technique in terms of energy consumption (~18.56%) and response times (~2.78%). Furthermore, the GA-FiFeS has comparable outcomes with the LeFeS method while taking the expected time of execution as an assessment feature for analysis.