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Paramyxoviruses And Multiple Sclerosis, Ghassaq Tariq Sadiq, Eman Abdulrahman Mahmood

Baghdad Science Journal

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a progressive neurological disease characterized by periods of quiescence and exacerbation, epidemiological data suggest the notion that MS is an acquired autoimmune disease caused by environmental factors, probably infectious, in genetically susceptible individuals.The submitted research was attempted to study the possible viral (Paramyxoviruses) role in MS, the sera of 57 MS patients were assayed for anti-measles and anti-mumps IgG antibodies using ELISA technique, the results were compared in order to establish the presence or absence of a significant difference regarding both number of positive cases and antibodies titer between the two groups, the results revealed that …

Thermoluminescence Dosimetry Of Mixed Neutron – Gamma Fields, Rajiha.R. Mahmod

Baghdad Science Journal

The method of measurement dosimetry in neutron – gamma field by using CaSo4 : Dy (PTFE) disc which has a diameter of 1.3mm and thickness of 0.2mm and using hydrogenated material as a converters of neutron to recoil protons (n-p) reaction, the discs were irradiated by neutron source (241Am-Be) with flux of 4.5?105 n/cm2s for different time to obtain different dose. The TL signals, which we have been obtained by using the converters, are increases to 71%. So we can resolve the neutron and gamma in mixed field.

Fcc Affirms Decision, Rules In Favor Of Tennis Channel Against Comcast, Melissa Rachel Heller

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

Tennis Channel and Comcast have been engaged in a bitter dispute over the provider’s refusal to carry Tennis Channel since July 2010. Tennis Channel claimed that Comcast discriminated against the channel and gave preferential treatment to other sports networks, such as The Golf Channel and Versus. Tennis Channel argued that this impeded its ability to compete fairly in the video programming marketplace. In December 2011, an administrative judge ruled in favor of Tennis Channel and fined Comcast $375,000. Additionally, the judge ordered Comcast to give equal treatment to the channel. Comcast appealed the decision, which was subsequently affirmed by the …

Occurrence Of Pneumococcal Meningitis In Iraq, Huda Z. Al-Banae, Khalid A. Habib, Kifah A. Al-Khurki

Baghdad Science Journal

This study focuses on the relative frequency of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children with culture-proven bacterial meningitis. The epidemiology has been investigated with clinical and laboratory findings in The Central Public Health Laboratory, Iraq from April to September, 2010. From (138) samples , (55) cases (39.85 %) were diagnosed by physician as bacterial meningitis, (23) cases (16.66 %) as viral menginitis , (18) cases (13.04 %) as different medical cases (e.g febrile convulsion , meningoencephalitis , epilepsy …etc) and (42) cases (30.43 %) as unidentified medical cases. For bacterial meningitis S.pneumoniae was isolated from (10) cases (18.18 %) only. The median …

Study The Expression Level Of Beta 2 Microglobulin Gene On Hepatitis C Patients Before And After Treatment With Interferon, Mohammed A. Saleh

Baghdad Science Journal

This study has been carried out to evaluate the expression level of beta 2 microglobulin gene on patients infected by hepatitis C virus before and after treatment with interferon. The study included 117 hepatitis C patients comprising as 63 pre-treated patients, the range of age was between 20-65 year with a mean age of 48.12 ± 16.1 and 54 post-treated patients with age range was between 23-63 year with the mean of 46.1 ± 18.1. Also it was found that more than half of patients were located within third and fourth decade i.e. 30-49 year, with a percentage of 52.4% …

Evaluation Of The Compton (Incoherent) And Rayleigh (Coherent) Differential Cross Sections Of Scattering For Rhodium 103rh45 And Tantalum181ta73 By Employing Csc Model, Rafea Abdullah Abbad Algoboory

Baghdad Science Journal

The differential cross section for the Rhodium and Tantalum has been calculated by using the Cross Section Calculations (CSC) in range of energy(1keV-1MeV) . This calculations based on the programming of the Klein-Nashina and Rayleigh Equations. Atomic form factors as well as the coherent functions in Fortran90 language Machine proved very fast an accurate results and the possibility of application of such model to obtain the total coefficient for any elements or compounds.

The Public Face Of The 'Litigation State:' Federal Empowerment Of Litigation By State Governments, Paul Nolette

Political Science Faculty Research and Publications

Scholars have recently begun exploring the construction of what Sean Farhang has termed the “litigation state” – namely, the distinctly American way in which contemporary federal programs are enforced by means of litigation. The attention in this literature to date has focused on why Congress has encouraged private litigation to enforce various statutory programs. This paper examines the emergence of a related and no less important development – the federal government’s encouragement of state government litigators to help enforce federal regulatory programs, especially state attorneys general ("AGs"). Examining several decades’ worth of congressional actions, court decisions, and federal administrative initiatives …

Employment Supports For Newcomers In Small And Middle-Sized Communities Andrural Areas: Perspectives Of Newcomers And Service Providers, Bharati Sethi, Robert Gebotys

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

In recent years there has been an increased migration of highly skilled and educated cohort of men and women from their initial port of entry—large urban centers such as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal—to smaller urban/rural communities as a result of regionalization of the Canadian immigration policies. This article examines the employment supports for newcomers in Grand Erie—an urban/rural area in Ontario—which is now a home to an unprecedented number of newcomers. Using a community-based participatory research methodology, data were gathered from 212 newcomers and 237 service providers through quantitative and qualitative responses in the survey questionnaires. Results show that newcomers …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of September 2012 meeting.

Cryptanalysis Of An Id-Based Proxy Signature Scheme With Message Recovery, M. Tian, L. Huang, W. Yang

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

ID-based message recovery signature is a kind of lightweight signature. In such a signature scheme, a complicated certification system is discarded and the total length of the message and the appended signature is also shortened. Proxy signature allows an original signer to delegate a proxy signer to sign messages on its behalf, which has found numerous practical applications such as grid computing and mobile agent systems. Recently, Singh and Verma proposed the first ID-based proxy signature scheme with message recovery. They proved that their scheme is secure in the random oracle model and believed that it can be used widely. …

Hyers-Ulam Stability Of Linear Operators In Frechet Spaces, P. Sam Johnson, S. Balaji

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Hyers-Ulam stability of a linear operator between Frechet spaces is defined. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Hyers-Ulam stability of a continuous linear operator from a Frechet space to another Frechet space are given.

Self-Tuning Information Fusion Kalman Filter For Multisensor Multi-Channel Arma Signals With Colored Measurement Noises And Its Convergence, Guili Tao, Zili Deng

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

For the multisensor multi-channel autoregressive moving average (ARMA) signals with white measurement noises and an ARMA colored measurement noise as a common disturbance noise, a multi-stage information fusion identification method is presented when model parameters and noise variances are partially unknown. The local estimators of model parameters and noise variances are obtained by the multi-dimensional recursive instrumental variable (MRIV) algorithm, correlation method, and the Gevers-Wouters algorithm, and the fused estimators are obtained by taking the average of the local estimators. They have the consistency. Substituting them into the optimal fusion Kalman filter weighted by scalars, a self-tuning fusion Kalman filter …

An Investigation Of The Current Course Content On The Ba (Hons.) In Culinary Arts Hot Kitchen Modules In The Dublin Institute Of Technology To Ascertain Whether The Content Is Adequate In Meeting The Needs Of The Stakeholders, Pauline Danaher

Theses, M.Phil

This research focuses on Culinary Arts Education, particularly the adequacy and attitudes of all the stakeholders to the content of the hot kitchen modules on the BA (Hons.) in Culinary Arts in the Dublin Institute of Technology. The lack of research in culinary education has been highlighted by Berta (2005) and Zopiatis (2010).

This thesis has traced the evolution of culinary culture in Europe from Ancient Greece and Rome, up to the present day. Carême (1784 – 1833) and Escoffier (1846 – 1935), the founders of classical French cuisine, codified French cuisine which lead to the need of properly trained …

Looking Ahead With President Jeffrey D. Armstrong: Strong Momentum As We Launch A New Academic Year, Jeffrey D. Armstrong

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Multiple Motives For Participating In Adventure Sports, John H. Kerr, Susan Houge Mackenzie

Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration

Objectives

The purpose of the present study was to explore possible multiple motives for participation in different adventure sports.

Design

Qualitative design, specifically an inductive-deductive approach informed by reversal theory, was used to analyze participation motivation data.

Method

Data was collected using the Scanlan Collaborative Interview Method (SCIM; Scanlan, Russell, Wilson, & Scanlan, 2003). Participants were very experienced adventure sport participants involved in riversurfing, mountain biking, kayaking, mountain climbing and hang gliding.

Results

The results indicated that the participants' motivation was multifaceted. While some participants shared common motives, these were often described in different orders of importance by different participants. …

Comparative Analysis Of Dispersion Parameter Estimates In Loglinear Modeling: Applied To E-Commerce Sales And Customer Data, Scott Davis

Statistics

When loglinear models are applied to count data the issue of over-dispersion often arises. Moment and maximum likelihood estimation methods in accounting for over-dispersion are widely used because they allow for model checking tools such as Chi-square, F, and likelihood ratio tests. Here is a comparison between R functions that each uses one method; glm.nb uses MLE, and glm.poisson.disp uses MME. The Index of Dissimilarity and visual model selection (ECDF plots) are also incorporated. These are applied to sales data using product and customer information compiled over the last five years that was generously provided by an e-commerce company.

8 Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2012-2013 Season

A New Play by Dustin Lance Black

Directed by Wil Kilroy

Leadership Department Newsletter - September 2012, Andrews University

Leadership Department Newsletter 2012

No abstract provided.

Usm Theatre Department Open House Poster [2012], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2012-2013 Season

"See the magic behind he curtain!"

Thursday, September 20, 2012.

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Introducing The Class Of 2015, University At Buffalo School Of Law

Student Directories

No abstract provided.

Jack The Ripper Lives On… The Need To Recognize Prostitutes As Domestic Violence Victims, Luisa Johnson

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

The Federal Fortress Surrounding Police Liability For Failure To Enforce Protection Orders, Stephanie Smiertka

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Socio-Economic Status And Legal Factors Affecting African American Fathers, Herbert Fain, Kimberly Fain

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Buffalo Journal Of Gender, Law And Social Policy

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Womenomics For Nursing Growth: Making The Case For Work Time Flexibility And Mother-Friendlier Workplaces, Gabriela Steier

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

In Search Of Federal Remedies For Lgbtq Students Who Are Victims Of Assault And Harassment In School, Jerry Foxhoven

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Editorial Board, Buffalo Journal Of Gender, Law And Social Policy

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Title Page, Buffalo Journal Of Gender, Law And Social Policy

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

Stoney Road Out Of Eden: The Struggle To Recover Insurance For Armenian Genocide Deaths And Its Implications For The Future Of State Authority, Contract Rights, And Human Rights, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Sarig Armenian, David Mcclure

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.

Keeping The Promise: Improving Access To Socioeconomic Rights In Africa, Nsongurua J. Udombana

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.