sinan Talib Mohammed Hasan Shukur

Background: Appendicitis is a public and crucial surgical condition that necessitates prompt intervention to avert severe difficulties. Objectives: This scholarship aims to evaluate the efficacy of surgical treatment as the gold standard for dealing with appendicitis. Methods: A total of 66 patients with appendicitis in many hospitals in Baghdad were involved in the study. The patients endured appendectomy, either through open surgery or laparoscopic practices. Data were gathered on patient demographics, symptoms, analysis, surgical consequences, and postoperative recovery. Results: The results confirmed a high achievement rate of appendectomy in handling appendicitis, with minimal problems and favourable outcomes. The complications particularly wound infections was documented, where in current study also reported a wound infection of 20% among the patients who underwent surgical therapy, 75% among those that had late surgery, and 17.5% among early surgical intervention. Conclusion: Laparoscopic surgery was linked with shorter hospital delays, reduced postoperative pain, and quicker homecoming to normal activities associated with open surgery. This study highlights the importance of prompt diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention in achieving optimal results for patients with appendicitis in Baghdad. The results support the constant use of surgical treatment as the gold standard for appendicitis management.

ABSTRACT Breast cancer is the primary type of cancer affecting women. Patients with hormone receptor-positive cells have lower mortality rates. Both chemotherapy and hormone therapy can improve the survival rate. This study aimed to evaluate the hormonal receptor status in female breast cancer and assess the relationship with the patient's age and family history in Najaf, Iraq. A prospective study of two-hundred and fifty-one women with mastectomies (for cancers) was performed at AL Sader Medical City from January 2019 to January 2021. We collected and analyzed data regarding the age of patients, site and size of the tumor, number of pregnancies, family history, weight, smoking, and hormone receptor status. The average age of patients was 48 years, and the peak incidence was in the 40–49 age group (30.27% of patients). Of all age groups, 48.6% (122 patients) were negative for all hormone receptors (triple negative), and only 22.70% had a positive family history. The peak incidence of cancer in our study was in the 40–49 years group. A high proportion of the hormone receptors for patients were negative (triple-negative), and most patients had a negative family history. KEYWORDS: breast cancer, family history, hormone receptor status.

ABSTRACT Breast cancer is the primary type of cancer affecting women. Patients with hormone receptor-positive cells have lower mortality rates. Both chemotherapy and hormone therapy can improve the survival rate. This study aimed to evaluate the hormonal receptor status in female breast cancer and assess the relationship with the patient's age and family history in Najaf, Iraq. A prospective study of two-hundred and fifty-one women with mastectomies (for cancers) was performed at AL Sader Medical City from January 2019 to January 2021. We collected and analyzed data regarding the age of patients, site and size of the tumor, number of pregnancies, family history, weight, smoking, and hormone receptor status. The average age of patients was 48 years, and the peak incidence was in the 40–49 age group (30.27% of patients). Of all age groups, 48.6% (122 patients) were negative for all hormone receptors (triple negative), and only 22.70% had a positive family history. The peak incidence of cancer in our study was in the 40–49 years group. A high proportion of the hormone receptors for patients were negative (triple-negative), and most patients had a negative family history. KEYWORDS: breast cancer, family history, hormone receptor status.

ABSTRACT Breast cancer is the primary type of cancer affecting women. Patients with hormone receptor-positive cells have lower mortality rates. Both chemotherapy and hormone therapy can improve the survival rate. This study aimed to evaluate the hormonal receptor status in female breast cancer and assess the relationship with the patient's age and family history in Najaf, Iraq. A prospective study of two-hundred and fifty-one women with mastectomies (for cancers) was performed at AL Sader Medical City from January 2019 to January 2021. We collected and analyzed data regarding the age of patients, site and size of the tumor, number of pregnancies, family history, weight, smoking, and hormone receptor status. The average age of patients was 48 years, and the peak incidence was in the 40–49 age group (30.27% of patients). Of all age groups, 48.6% (122 patients) were negative for all hormone receptors (triple negative), and only 22.70% had a positive family history. The peak incidence of cancer in our study was in the 40–49 years group. A high proportion of the hormone receptors for patients were negative (triple-negative), and most patients had a negative family history. KEYWORDS: breast cancer, family history, hormone receptor status.

There is an unresolved question about whether realigned visual feedback is beneficial or costly to laparoscopic task performance. We provide evidence that camera realignment imposes a reliable cost on performance across both naive controls and experienced surgeons. This finding clarifies an important ongoing discussion in the literature about the effects of camera realignment, which could inform the strategies that laparoscopic surgeons use in the operating room. A fundamental challenge routinely faced by laparoscopic surgeons is that, since an assistant can only direct the camera through a non-aligned port, the viewpoints of the surgeon and the laparoscopic camera are often considerably misaligned. This causes instrument movements in the workspace to produce counter-intuitive movements on the video display. One obvious coping strategy in such scenarios is to reposition the camera to precisely counteract the misalignment (henceforth called realignment). However, while this successfully realigns camera and surgeon viewpoints, it also introduces discrepancies between how instrument movements are visually depicted on the screen and the surgeon’s actual movements in the workspace. There is a tension in the literature with respect to the impact of camera realignment, with some research reporting that it is helpful1– 5, and other research indicating that it is harmful6– 10. A similar tension exists when viewing this issue from the perspective of motor learning neuroscience. Here, the dominant empirical observation is that visuomotor misalignments (or perturbations) are generally harmful to performance11– 14. Yet it is currently unclear to what extent these findings— which relate to simple unimanual reaching and pointing—should be expected to apply to a laparoscopic context. In the current study, we investigated the effects of realigned visual feedback on motor performance in a laparoscopic task for both naive controls and experienced surgeons. We observed that realignment imposed a reliable cost on task performance across both groups.

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more and more pervasive in everyday life and connecting an array of diverse physical objects. It is fast growing and receiving a tremendous amount of research focus. Billions of objects communicate each other with or without human intervention to achieve smart applications. Most of the connected devices are constrained nodes to its ecosystem which have limited memories, CPU capabilities and power sources. Therefore, for implementing autonomous smart systems, efficient energy consumption is imperative. This paper introduces a novel scheduling algorithm called Long Hop (LH) first to optimize energy usage on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that enables IoT system. LH algorithm schedules high priority for packets coming with more hops and longer distances to be served first at the cluster head (CH) nodes of the WSN. Since these packets require more links and nodes (thus increased energy and bandwidth usage) to reach the ultimate destination if not prioritized, the proposed algorithm reduces the overall energy usage and minimizes the total number of packets re-transmission and the effective data transmission distances. This improves the overall system performance and elongates the network lifetime.

The Unit for Investing Scholarship Energies at the University of Kufa held a symposium entitled (Teaching Methods and the Concept of Classroom Tests) The symposium included a lecture delivered by Dr. Jihad Jawad Kazem, a lecturer at the College of Nursing, in which he discussed the concept of classroom tests, their types, the way they work, the stress and nervous tension that accompanies the test, and also addressed the principles of designing classroom tests and strategies for improving the use of tests in teaching and learning. The symposium recommended using tests as an opportunity for review, directing the test towards educational objectives, and designing tests in a way that is consistent with the identified educational objectives.

The Unit for Investing Scholarship Energies at the University of Kufa held a workshop to discuss the mechanism for applying for grants and donations provided by organizations, including (Al-Nahrain Organization) The workshop included a lecture delivered by the lecturer at the College of Engineering, Dr. Ali Naji, in which he touched on the types of grants and donations provided by international organizations and the actual feasibility achieved by the University of Kufa from this. The workshop concluded with the necessity of benefiting from the grants offered by organizations in various specializations by publishing them on the university’s official websites. It is noteworthy that the Scholarship Entities Unit at the University of Kufa seeks to benefit from the experiences of scholarship students to Arab and foreign countries to enhance the learning process and open horizons of cooperation with those universities.

The Unit for Investing Scholarship Energies at the University of Kufa held a meeting headed by the Assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs, Dr. Abbas Al-Haddabi, to discuss a number of topics on the agenda, including concerted efforts in employing the experiences gained from various foreign universities and applying them at the University of Kufa. Assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs, Dr. Abbas Al-Haddabi, stressed during the meeting the importance of making the most of the competencies, ideas and experiences of teaching staff and employing them in all scientific, administrative and infrastructure fields. For his part, the head of the scholarship energies investment unit, Dr. Sinan Talib, stressed the necessity of openness and cooperation with reputable international universities to enhance joint cooperation in various disciplines to transfer scientific, research and academic expertise to the University of Kufa.