Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Gene Polymorphism of Urothelial Carcinoma Patients in Iraq

Bladder cancer is the 2nd most frequent malignancy of the genitourinary tract and the fourth most common cancer in men . This study was designed to shed light on the association between polymorphism of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) gene at -173 locus as risk factor of bladder cancer in Iraqi population by PCR-RFLP. In a hospital-based case-control study of 70 patients with bladder cancer and 30 cancer-free controls frequency-matched by age, sex, smoking status, and alcohol use, we genotyped the MIF polymorphism and analyzed immunohistochemical stained operational bladder cancer tissue sections for MIF. We found that individuals with GC/GG genotype had a significantly decreased risk of bladder cancer ( OR = 1.55, 95% CI, 0.498 to 8.85) than those with CC genotype. The frequencies of the C allele on the MIF gene were significantly increased in Urinary bladder carcinoma patients. MIF -173G>C polymorphism may play a role in the etiology of bladder cancer in Iraqi.

Molecular Detection of Pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica based on Amoebapore C Gene in Fecal Samples of Camels from Babylon Province, Iraq

Evaluation of Infection Control Measures of Iraqi Dentists in Dental Practices

Burn Injury Characteristics and Outcomes among Hospitalized Patients in Tertiary Burn Unit

Background: Burn Injuries constituted an important high priority health problem especially in little andmedium salary republics including Iraq.Objective: Identify the characteristics of burn injuries and its outcomes among patients admitted to Al-HillaTeaching Hospital burn unit–Babylon Province Iraq.Method: This was observational cross sectional hospital based study, burn injury data were collected fromthe interview of burn patients admitted to burn unit of Al Hilla Teaching Hospital,Babylon Province, Iraqduring the last four months during the year 2019, using special data collection questionnaire included; burnpatients demographic characteristics, period of hospital stay (days), size of total body surface areas, degreesof burn injuries, types of treatment and the outcomes.Results: The highest proportion of cases were males, the majority of patients were young adults andchildren, about four fifth of cases were rural dwellers (78%). The means and standard deviations of durationof hospitalization and total surface areas were 5.72+53 days and 21,9+21.1 respectively, about two thirdsof the study group were second and or third degrees burn, only 12% of patients were treated surgically bywound excision and skin graft, 67% of patients were cured while the case fatality rate was 9%.Conclusion: Children, males and poorly educated patients were the majority of cases, about nine in tenthwere treated conservatively and about two thirds of cases were cured.

Correlation between Serum Interleukin-33 Level and Uterine Fibroids

Coronavirus-2019 (Covid 19): A Review of History, Epidemology, Structure and Life Cycle

Photomorphogenesis of Plants

Maternal Mortality in Basra City from 2014 to 2018

Corresponding author: Halah Muzahem Mohammed Email: [email protected] Al-Shifaa Teaching Hospital Basra Health Directorate Basra Iraq ABSTRACT Background: Worldwide maternal mortality still high, especially in developing countries. The maternal mortality act as an indicator of the quality of maternity care in society, the health status of women, and above all the development of a nation. Objectives: The aims of this study were to estimate maternal mortality ratio in Basra from 2014-2018, define the main causes of maternal deaths; describe sociodemographic factors of dead mothers, features related to pregnancy and death. Methods: A descriptive, retrospective registries based study Data were collected from the vital registration of Basra governorate and hospitals’ medical records through a structured questionnaire applied by the researcher. Results: During the five years period included in the study (2014-2018) there were 206 cases of maternal deaths. Obstetrical haemorrhage was the top cause of maternal death 31.6% followed by pulmonary embolism 10.2%. Conclusion: Maternal mortality in Basra still unacceptably high. Obstetric haemorrhage is still the main cause of maternal deaths in Basra.

The Effect of the Morphoclimatic Process on the Earthen Declivities in Shaqlawa.

A Review on Voice-based Interface for Human-Robot Interaction

With the recent developments of technology and the advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, it has become possible for the robot to understand and respond to voice as part of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The voice-based interface robot can recognize the speech information from humans so that it will be able to interact more naturally with its human counterpart in different environments. In this work, a review of the voice-based interface for HRI systems has been presented. The review focuses on voice-based perception in HRI systems from three facets, which are: feature extraction, dimensionality reduction, and semantic understanding. For feature extraction, numerous types of features have been reviewed in various domains, such as time, frequency, cepstral (i.e. implementing the inverse Fourier transform for the signal spectrum logarithm), and deep domains. For dimensionality reduction, subspace learning can be used to eliminate the redundancies of high-dimensional features by further processing extracted features to reflect their semantic information better. For semantic understanding, the aim is to infer from the extracted features the objects or human behaviors. Numerous types of semantic understanding have been reviewed, such as speech recognition, speaker recognition, speaker gender detection, speaker gender and age estimation, and speaker localization. Finally, some of the existing voice-based interface issues and recommendations for future works have been outlined.