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Neuroblastoma is an aggressive malignancy commonly found in children, with adult patients being quite rare. Pancreatic neuroblastoma, even among adult cases, is especially rare. We present a case of a 26-year-old woman presented with mild abdominal pain and a palpable mass diagnosed as neuroblastoma affecting the pancreas. After initial diagnostic challenges, a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. The patient thereafter underwent a course of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by a complex surgical resection. This case highlights the importance of a comprehensive diagnostic approach, including repeated biopsies and the involvement of a multidisciplinary team in the management of rare presentations of adult neuroblastoma.

هدف البحث للتعرف على أبرز التحديات اللغوية التي تواجه الطفل، وبيان الدور التربوي للأسرة في مواجهتها، وتسليط الضوء على أهم السبل التربوية الكفيلة يطبقها الأسرة لمواجهة تلك التحديات اللغوية التي تواجه الطفل. واعتمد الباحث على المنهج الوصفي والاستقرائي من خلال استقراء مضمون الأدبيات ومصادر التربية الإسلامية لاستخلاص صورة الأدوار التربوية للأسرة المراد تحقيقها وبيان سبل العلاج. وخلص البحث إلى وجود جملة من التحديات التي تواجه الطفل منها التحديات الخارجية والداخلية وتتمثل أبرزها في العولمة الثقافية التي تفرض اللغات الأجنبية على الشعوب العربية واللغة العربية، وكذلك التعليم، والإعلام المتمثل في الأنترنت والقنوات الفضائية، والمواقع الإلكترونية ومواقع التواصل الاجتماعية، والحياة الاجتماعية، وكذلك سوء استخدام اللغة العربية من قبل المتحدثين بها خاصة الأجانب والعمال الوافدين في الدول العربية وفي البيوت بطريقة خاطئة، والشعر العامي، وتحدي تأثير الطفل بالمحيط الاجتماعي، وتداول بعض المفردات والمصطلحات داخل الأسرة وفي المجتمعات العربية، وتحديات الازدواجية اللغوية.

Plant diseases affect the availability and safety of plants for human and animal consumption and threaten food safety, thus reducing food availability and access, as well as reducing crop yield and quality. There is a need for novel disease detection methods that can be used to reduce plant losses due to disease. Thus, this study aims to diagnose tomato leaf diseases by classifying healthy and unhealthy tomato leaf images using two pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs): Inception V3 and Inception ResNet V2. The two models were trained using an open-source database (PlantVillage) and field-recorded images with a total of 5225 images. The models were investigated with dropout rates of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40%, and 50%. The most important results showed that the Inception V3 model with a 50% dropout rate and the Inception ResNet V2 model with a 15% dropout rate, as they gave the best performance with an accuracy of 99.22% and a loss of 0.03. The high-performance rate shows the possibility of utilizing CNNs models for diagnosing tomato diseases under field and laboratory conditions. It is also an approach that can be expanded to support an integrated system for diagnosing various plant diseases.

Staphylococcal food poisoning is an intoxication that results from the consumption of improperly prepared or stored foods containing sufficient amounts of one or more preformed S. aureus enterotoxins. Nowadays, many researchers worldwide noted an emergence of resistant strains such as Staphylococci particularly for the antibiotic methicillin. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the existence of Staphylococcus aureus and its enterotoxins, mecA genes, in selected food samples. A total of 400 selected food samples were collected from different areas in Khartoum State. The selected foods included cheese, meat products, fish, and raw milk. One hundred samples from each type of food were cultivated, and the resultant growth yielded 137 (34.25%) S. aureus, 126 (31.5%) bacteria other than S. aureus, and 137 (34.25%) yielded no growth. Eighty-four of the 137 S. aureus isolates were randomly selected and tested for the presence of mecA and enterotoxin genes. The oxacillin sensitivity test showed that 15 (11%) of 137 S. aureus isolates were oxacillin resistant. The PCR assay showed that the mecA gene was detected in 15 of 84 (17%) S. aureus isolates. Simultaneously, only 2 (2.385%) out of 84 S. aureus isolates showed an enterotoxin B gene product. There was a relatively moderate prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with very low frequency of enterotoxin B gene in different kinds of selected food samples collected from Khartoum State. These findings elucidate the increased risk on public in Khartoum being affected by Staphylococcal food poisoning upon consumption of dairy or meat products prepared in unhygienic conditions that could lead to intoxication by Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins.

Summary: The Gulf Cooperation Council Center for Infection Control (GCC-IC) has placed the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on the top of its agenda for the past four years. The board members have developed the initial draft for the GCC strategic plan for combating AMR in 2014. The strategic plan stems from the WHO mandate to combat AMR at all levels. The need for engaging a large number of stakeholders has prompted the GCC-IC to engage a wider core of professionals in finalizing the plan. A multi-disciplinary group of more than 40 experts were then identified. And a workshop was conducted in Riyadh January 2015 and included, for the first time, representation of relevant ministries and agencies as well as international experts in the field. Participants worked over a period of two and a half days in different groups. International experts shared the global experiences and challenges in addressing human, food, animal, and environmental aspects of controlling AMR. Participants were then divided into 4 groups each to address the human, animal, microbiological and diagnostic, or the environmental aspect of AMR. At the end of the workshop, the strategic plan was revised and endorsed by all participants. The GCC-IC board members then approved it as the strategic plan for AMR. The document produced here is the first GCC strategic plan addressing AMR, which shall be adopted by GCC countries to develop country-based plans and related key performance indicators (KPIs). It is now the role of each country to identify the body that will be accountable for implementing the plan at the country level. Keywords: Strategic plan, Antimicrobial resistance, AMR, GCC, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait

In this study, query processing efficiency of the distributed database in the relational database Oracle9i was examined and compared. Our test data is based on a (Customer Type Definition), which is designed to represent customer information of bank. We generated 8 different sizes of test customers: 300, 600, 900, 2100,4500, 45000, 1360 Records. DML language (SQL) as tools for any comparison can be achieved by the statistical performance parameter (Elapsed time, CPU time, Logical read , Physical read, Logical write, Physical write, Elapsed time, UGA ) .statistical analysis using ANOVA TABLE is used to judge between comparisons. All the queries were run on two computers for different sizes of vertical and horizontal fragments. Changes in performance metrics for each query were written in table after experiments. Finally, we presented the results, and discussed where enhancements are required. Statistical analysis using ANOVA TABLE were used to distinguish between this comparison, it had been found that SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE have the most influence on the performance parameter respectively.

This research implements concept of Object Relational DataBases Management System ORDBMS on depreciation system because it’s considered as a complex model. ORDBMS abstracts the level of writing system by adding data types defined by user (user define type UDT) which represents business objects, these objects are stored in database as a column on table or object table which can be accessed by using methods defined by user (user define function UDF). Object reference REFs is used instead of multiple relational between tables. Multiple data are implemented using collection data type (Varray, Nested table) without the need for extra tables. The application is programmed using oracle8 software because it has the propriety of an object relational database.

Data object modeling is considered the most effective style in data manipulation. This style provides the ability to decompose complex systems into parts, these parts can be manipulated simply, understanding, accuracy with easy updating reducing run time errors supporting ability of design languages such as Unified Modeling Language UML. The research implements modeling of Depreciation system using UML and its tools such as (objects, classes, link & association & aggregation, generalization, drive data, class diagram, packages, logical horizon) and obtaining the general schema for classes to be converted to an used application using data base programming language.

We investigated the genetic variation of 4 Sinorhizobium meliloti isolates recovered from nodules of Medicago sativa and Trigonella foenum graecum cultivars in Mosul soils . The bacterial strains showed similar levels of tolerance toward some external factors. DNA polymorphism and similarity and distance indices were analyzed with the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA after performing classical diagnoses methods . All isolated revealed one mega plasmid except one was carried two. The isolates distributed though genetic variance into two main groups,one of them represented with one isolates and the other was divided to two subgroups contain three other strains. Genetic factor was affected on bacterial diversity more than individual plants and abiotic conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuroblastoma is an aggressive malignancy commonly found in children, with adult patients being quite rare. Pancreatic neuroblastoma, even among adult cases, is especially rare. We present a case of a 26-year-old woman presented with mild abdominal pain and a palpable mass diagnosed as neuroblastoma affecting the pancreas. After initial diagnostic challenges, a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. The patient thereafter underwent a course of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by a complex surgical resection. This case highlights the importance of a comprehensive diagnostic approach, including repeated biopsies and the involvement of a multidisciplinary team in the management of rare presentations of adult neuroblastoma., (© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington.)