OBJECTIVES To investigate the associations between cytokines and insulin sensitivity in Swedish residents born in Iraq and Swedish residents born in Sweden. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTINGS Iraqi and Swedish origin residents of Rosengård area of Malmö, aged 45-65 years, were randomly selected from the census register. PARTICIPANTS/METHODS 194 (Iraqi, n=107; Swedish, n=87) participan...

this essay is about the iraqi nation involved in iran-iraq war and two iraq-america wars. the writer of this paper has done a wide field research among iraqi war prisoners in iran and among iraqi military refugees in other countries. he has used the statistical findings of this research to support his explanations. he has written about iraqi people motivations to take part in these wars. furthe...

scientific researches do not know their limits and literary analysis and criticism, as precautionary text, do not take into account any prohibition or warning. the present study is an attempt to study prison poetry in the contemporary iraqi literature, with an emphasis on poet, hassan al sanyd, hence, attempts to analyze the issue of prison in his poems. since, he was one of the political oppon...

This systematic literature review describes the differences between myoelectric and body-powered prostheses in terms of control, function, feedback, cosmesis, and rejection. U.S. servicemembers with amputations from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom or vascular-related diseases may benefit from this review by learning about upperlimb prosthesis prescription and training opt...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide with an estimated 1.4 million new cases in 2008. (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2011). In Iraq, breast cancer is the commonest type of female malignancy, accounting for approximately one-third of the registered female cancers according to the 2008 Iraqi Cancer Registry (Iraqi Cancer Board, 2007). This shows ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and severity of dental caries among 12-year-old Iraqi schoolchildren ingesting water and beverages with low fluoride content. METHOD A total of 1,526 twelve-year-olds were clinically examined in autumn 2013 for dental caries in accordance with the WHO criteria. Two questionnaires were distributed to gather data concerning daily inta...

“We are without allies amongst the Iraqi populace, including those who have benefited from the ouster of Saddam. . . . Across Baghdad, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, Salman Pak, Baqubah, Balad, Taji, Baiji, Ramadi, and just about everywhere else you can name, the people absolutely hate us. . . . The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans are selling, and no amount of military activity is ...

This study aims at identifying the kinds of errors that Iraqi FEL Non-departmental undergraduates made in the use of definite and indefinite articles . These errors are: (1) deletion of the indefinite article (2) substitution of the indefinite for the definite article (3) substitution of the definite for the indefinite article (4) substitution of a for an. Native language transfer was found to ...

Intelligence production is a vital state function that supports military and policy decision Lefebvre, 2004) and, with today's " information tsunami " only gaining strength, it is increasingly 2002). While the intelligence function goes largely unnoticed by the public eye, intelligence failures that significantly impact human lives or international relations bring it acutely into the spotlight....

In this paper, we describe techniques for improving machine translation quality in the context of speech-to-speech translation for significantly different language pairs. Specifically, we explore three broad approaches for improving translation from English to Iraqi and vice versa. First, we investigate normalization techniques which address the differences in spoken and written forms of both l...