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Association of Repair Genes with Prostate Cancer in Erbil Governorate: Genetic and Epigenetic Investigation

SUMMARY Prostate cancer (PCa) is recognized as one of the most common malignancies that affects the male population globally. The identification of PCa susceptibility genes is of great importance. Breast Cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) is an important tumor suppressor gene that plays a central role in the maintenance of genomic integrity by promoting the repair […]

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Sedimentology and Reservoir Characterisation of Lower Miocene Sediments in Selected Locations in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

ABSTRACT The Lower Miocene Euphrates and Jeribe formations are significant potential reservoirs in Iraq, with substantial reserves in many fields. A detailed study was conducted to investigate the reservoir characteristics of the Euphrates, Dhiban, and Jeribe formations. This study involves extensive petrographic analysis, formation evaluation, and geochemical analysis in the recently discovered Tawke oilfield and

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Phycolimnolological Study in Greater Zab River via Algae as Antimicrobial Activity

SUMMARY In this study fifteen physico-chemical parameters with heavy metals were evaluated monthly from the Greater Zab River within Erbil province in twelve sites over a period of 10 months, also A study of non-diatom algal species composition was carried out from April 2021 to January 2022. Among them site 4,5,6,7 and 9 are the

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Epidemiological, Molecular and Phytonanoparticle Studies of Head Lice, Pediculus humanus capitis Isolated Among Primary School Children with Its Overlapping Bacteria

SUMMARY          This study includes two aspects; the first aspect includes epidemiological study for the head lice, Pediculus humanus capitis among pupils was conducted on the 22 randomly selected primary schools in the center of Erbil City. For this purpose, a total of 1082 pupils (430 boys and 652 girls) were examined from first to sixth stage

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Different Techniques for Determination of Mesalazine and Iron (III) using Microextraction

SUMMARY This dissertation includes four main chapters: Chapter one: The first chapter provides a concise review of the extraction process, micro-extraction techniques, including Cloud Point Extraction, and the drug under study, mesalazine. It also highlights the various analytical methods employed for the determination of mesalazine. The principle of the indophenol reaction, as well as CPE and

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Lindemann’s Role of Melting, Debye Temperature, Dimensionless Mass, and Bond Energies for bulk and nanoparticles Tetrahedral Semiconductors.

ABSTRACT An approach is made to calculate and analyze the combination of Lindemann’s role for melting and Debye temperature ( ) with that of lattice structure to examine ionicity and the structure factor for elements and compounds forming IV, III-V, II-VI, II-IV-V2 and I-III-VI2 tetrahedral group semiconductors. The results were found to have a direct relation of

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Synthesis and Application of New Nanomaterials in Food Analysis and Photocatalytic Degradation Using Fluorescence and Spectrophotometry

SUMMARY This dissertation includes five main chapters: Chapter one provides an introduction to nanoscience including the definition, classification, properties, synthesis, and characterization of nanomaterials. Also, this chapter includes the importance of zinc in food samples. In addition, an introduction to food colorants especially Ponceau 4R (E124) and Allura red (AR). The last part of this

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Evaluation of COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in Kurdistan Region-Iraq: Exploring the Interplay of Certain Immunological Laboratory Biomarkers and Genetic Variations

SUMMARY Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a devastating pandemic-causing disease. This dissertation aims to predict susceptibility, severity, and mortality of COVID-19 based on demographic, clinical, cytokines, chemokines, routine laboratory biomarkers, cyclic threshold (Ct) value (viral load) of real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and variants of the genes

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Sargelu Formation (Middle Jurassic) from Two Selected Sections – Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Abstract Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Sargelu Formation (Middle Jurassic) period in two sections (Warte and Barzewa) which are located 35 and 12 kilometers east of Soran, respectively, in the Erbil Governorate. The Sargelu Formation comprises three different types of rock. The lower part is made up of thin to medium-bedded destructive dolomite intercalated with

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