bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Incidence of post open appendectomy incisional hernia in Erbil City
Authors: Taher Barzinjy, Saman , Othman Habeeb Hailah 
Published: December 2023

Background: since acute appendicitis is the most common presenting diseases in the surgical emergency departments, Appendectomy regarded as a common emergency surgical procedure that is done by the surgeons in the general surgery specialty. The complication of an incisional hernia development after open appendectomy is rare, found in about 0.12% of the appendectomy operations; interstitial type of incisional hernia complication following open appendectomy surgery is extremely rare condition, small number of reports found to deal with the incisional hernia development at the site of appendectomy in a range of (0.4-0.7%).
Objective: To assess the incidence of incisional hernia following open appendectomy in Erbil province – Kurdistan region- Iraq.
Patients and Methods: This retrospective study involved 598 cases between the period of first of July 2015 to 30th of April 2020, the cases presented with features of acute appendicitis, after admission and complete history taking, surgical intervention (open appendectomy) has been done for all of them, follow up for the diagnosis of the post appendectomy incisional hernia development done throughout revising the files and ID s of the patients and contacting them or their close relatives via personal mobile numbers, others re-consulted us for any operation site discomforts, any patient with suspicion of operation site problems asked to return to the outpatient surgical room for follow up and excluding or confirmation of operation site incisional hernia. The patients followed up for about 2-3 years after the operation days and contacting period with the patients or their close relatives to exclude incisional hernia development at open appendectomy site took about 6 months.
Results: Out of 598 cases included in this retrospective study, 286 cases were male and 312 cases were female, the ages ranged between 5 and 91 years old with a mean and Standard Deviation (SD) 24.13, the age group of up to 10 years old included 13 cases, 2nd decade age group included 258 cases, while the third age group (21 – 30 years old) was included 167 cases. Risk factors for development of incisional hernia assessed among all cases, 56.85% of all cases had at least one of the risk factors and the remaining 43.15% devoid of any risk factors, the risk factors distributed among constipation (19.4%), pregnancy among female patients (18.9%), followed by diabetes mellitus, chronic cough and heavy working occupations (4.85% ,4.52% and 3.34% respectively), and BPH and anemia with other immunocompromised risk factors made only about 5.8%, only three patients (0.5%) developed incisional hernia after open appendectomy.
Conclusion: Post open appendectomy incisional hernia is rare in patients without risk factors of wound dehiscence, with minimizing the risk factors of incisional hernia and wound dehiscence, the incidence of open appendectomy wound incisional hernia can be minimized to lowest rate.
Detection of Bk Polyomavirus Antigen in Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Authors: H  Ali , Safa , Satti , Sawsan , H Ali , Alaa , B Al-Obaidi Asmaa 
Published: December 2023

Background: BK polyomavirus that is acquired in early childhood as BKPyV is near ubiquitous in adults with a seroprevalence of >80%, it has been found as the main cause of hemorrhagic cystitis in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients, due to immunosuppression regimen that lead to the activation of the virus from the latency status and lead to increased viral shedding in urine (viuria).
Objective: To investigate the frequency of BK Polyomavirus antigen excretion in urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia with and without chemotherapy and compare it with normal controls.
Patients and Methods: A case-control study conducted from December 2021 to May 2022 in Baghdad, Iraq on leukemia patients of Central Pediatrics Hospital (Al-Eskan ). Urine samples and urine sediment smears were collected from 60 acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. And compared with 60 apparently healthy age and sex-matched children, BK polyomavirus antigen in urine was detected using Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay and urine cytology were Pap stained for the detection of decoy cells (DCs).
Results: Positive BKPyV antigen in urine was seen in 55 (91.7%) of Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients and 39 (65.0%) in controls (p=<0.001) and all the patients were decoy negative. There was no significant effect of the positivity of antigenuria on neither leukocytes level nor on the occurance of relapse in leukemia patients.
Conclusion: The very high frequency of BKPyV in the urine signifies the importance of reactivation of this virus in ALL patients with and without chemotherapy.
Influence of Ectopic Beats on the Average, Maximum, and Minimum Heart Rates
Authors: A. Ajwad, Asmaa , Kadhim  Rashid , Muayad , Tariq Ibrahim , Ibrahim , AbdulKareem Salman , Mustafa , Mousa Jaafar Ali 
Published: December 2023

Background: Heart rate metrics including the average heart rate, maximum heart rate, and minimum heart rate reflect the physiological condition of the heart. Clinically, determining the impact of ventricular and atrial ectopic beats on those three metrics is important because they indicate how hard the heart is working.
Objective: To investigate the changes in heart rates of ventricular and atrial ectopic patients.
Patients and Methods: In this study, data from 90 persons (30 with ventricular ectopic beats, 30 with atrial ectopic beats, and 30 healthy people) were gathered and analyzed to see what changes in heart rate metrics may occur in patients with ectopic beats.
Results: According to our results, the three heart rate metrics in almost all three groups are statistically insignificant (p-value > 0.05). The average heart rate was significantly higher (p<0.05) in ventricular ectopic patients than in atrial ectopic patients. The effect of age and gender on heart rate metrics were statistically assessed.
Conclusion: Despite the fact that no significant differences were found in all groups, there were certain differences that require further examination. One of the long-term objectives is to expand this study to incorporate electrocardiography (ECG) analysis in order to complete the comparison between the three groups.
Prevalence and Property of Colonic polyp and Adenoma among Iraqi Patients
Authors: Ali Hussein , Sajid , J  Akayashy Raghad 
Published: December 2023

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third common diagnosed. ‎cancer in the world, so that colonic polyp detection is important because colonic polyp is a precursor to CRC.
Objective: To detect the prevalence of polyp and adenoma.
Patients and Methods: A retrospective study was done using reports of endoscopic examination done previously for patients seen at gasteroenterology and hepatology hospital in Baghdad.
Results: The study included 924 examination of colon, mean age of patients was 48.1 years. Polyps was detected in 128 colonoscopies. (PDR) was 16.7 %. The PDR was higher in patients ≥ 60 years old (25 %), while polyp detection rate was ( 17.7 % ) in those 50 – 59 years age group. Adenoma was found in 7.9 % of those with completed colonoscopies. It was higher in male patients (9.2 % ) than female patients (6.2%). It was highest in age group ≥ 60 years old (15.9%), while adenoma was found in (8.2 %) of those with age group of 50 – 59 years old.
Conclusion: This study highlight on the prevalence of polyp (16.7%) and adenomas (7.9%) in patients underwent endoscopy for different indications, and give us an idea about screening for CRC in Iraq and at which age it should be started.
Diversity in Medical Education: A Review Article
Authors: Mahmood Enad Al-Majmaie , Imad , I Alezzi , Jalil , Mohammed Batarfi Ali 
Published: December 2023

Background: Medical education and training differ substantially throughout the world. Several teaching approaches have been used in medical education, which is a dynamic area of educational research.
Objective: To assess the process of medical education, its development, and related obstacles to having proper and enhanced medical education, as well as improvement in various aspects related to medical education.
Conclusion: Medical educational programs play a critical role in preparing individuals for careers in medicine. These programs offer an organized curriculum that comprises preclinical & clinical education, electives and specialized training, professional development, and research.
Effect of saliva of patients with leukemia on surface hardness and roughness of enamel and dental composite resin during chemotherapy regimen: An – Invitro study
Authors: Muhyaddin Aziz , Nsar , Hassan Hamza Hiwa 
Published: December 2023

Background: Evaluate the surface roughness and hardness of tooth enamel and dental resin composite restoration immersed into saliva collected from leukemia patient.
Objective: To evaluate the surface roughness and hardness of tooth enamel and dental resin composite restoration immersed on to saliva collected from 4 types of leukemia patient.
Patients and Methods: 30 patients with 4 types of leukemia (Acute lymphoblastic leukemia ALL, Acute myeloid leukemia AML, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia CLL, and Chronic myeloid leukemia CML) were included for taking saliva separately. A total number of 50 enamel specimen and 50 of composite resin disk were prepared and randomly divided into 5 groups of enamel (1,2,3,4, and 5) and 5 groups of composite resin disk (A,B,C,D, and E), surface roughness and hardness were measured and data collected, group A and 1 were immersed in artificial saliva for 7 days as control, group B and 2 immersed into saliva collected from patient with ALL, group C and 3 immersed into saliva collected from patient with AML, group D and 4 immersed into saliva collected from patient with CLL and group E and 5 immersed into saliva collected from patient with CML all group for 7 days then surface roughness and hardness were measured data collected and analyzed and statistically significant regarded at p<0.05.
Results: In group A and 1 artificial saliva there were no significant effect on surface roughness and hardness of both enamel and composite resin disk, while surface roughness and hardness of enamel and composite resin significantly changed after immersing in saliva of ALL, AML, CLL, patients and surface roughness of composite resin highly significantly increased after immersing in saliva of CML patients.
Conclusion: Saliva of ALL, AML, CLL, and CML seems to significantly changes in mechanical properties of enamel and composite, however saliva of CML highly significantly increase surface roughness of composite resin.
Congenital Heart Disease In Preterm Infants
Authors: A Jassam , Maymouna , S. Mahmood , Najdat , Q. Mahmood Sura 
Published: December 2023

Background: Congenital heart defects and preterm birth are two important causes of neonatal and infant mortality. However, the relationship between them has not yet been fully clarified.
Objective: To find the association of congenital heart disease with premature delivery.
Patients and Methods: The study is an observational cross sectional study, done in Al-Batool teaching hospital for maternity and children from July 2022 to January 2023. A self-prepared questionnaire was used to gather data. Gestational age was calculated mainly on postnatal gestational assessment by Dubowitz/Ballard method by a pediatrician. Echocardiography was done by Echocardiography specialist doctor to identify the presence and types of congenital heart defects. SPSS version 25 was used for statistical analysis.
Results: Total number of births (term and preterm) was 1616, congenital heart diseases were detected in 60(3.71%) of them, most of them were isolated heart defect. In preterm babies, the congenital heart diseases were detected in 8% (p value was <0.001), they were of different types as followings: patent ductus arteriosus (n=10,26%), atrial septal defect (n=8,21%), ventricular septal defect (n=7,18%), transposition of the great arteries (n=4,10%), tetralogy of Fallot (n=2,5%), and complex of congenital heart disease (n=7,18%), while in full term babies, the rate of congenital heart diseases was only 1.9%.
Conclusion: The incidence of congenital heart disease was higher in preterm than full term delivered babies, mostly in the group of transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, complex heart defects, followed by atrial septal defect.
العلاقة التكامليَّة بين الأرصاد وحماية البيئة والأجهزة الأمنيَّة
Authors:   Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt., Kamel Hegazy Ahmad ,   College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Leily R. AlRowaily Saud ,   Security Research Center, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Kazem Abudouh Khaled 
Published: December 2023

يهدف التقرير إلى مناقشة نظم الأرصاد على المستوي العالمي والإقليمي، والوقوف على أهم التحديات والفجوات المتصلة بفاعلية دور هذه النظم، وصولًا لرؤية مقترحة لتفعيل العلاقة التكامليَّة بين نظم الأرصاد والأجهزة الأمنيَّة مما يعزز حماية البيئة لمواجهة المخاطر الأمنيَّة التي يشكلها ارتباك الأرصاد الناتج عن تغير المناخ، ما يساعد على توفير بدائل عملية للتعامل مع المناخ والأرصاد بوصفه أحد الأخطار الأمنيَّة وضبط الأداء وتحسين المخرجات، مع التركيز على سرد مهددات الأمن الإنساني الناجمة عن ظواهر الأرصاد المتطرفة وكيفية تحسين وتطوير الأمن الإنساني بتحسين أداء أجهزة الأرصاد والبيئة من جهة والأجهزة الأمنية من جهة أخرى.

وأكد التقرير على أن المنطقة العربية المقومات الأساسية لنظم الأرصاد المختلفة، وهناك بعض الدول العربية حققت الكثير من التقدم في هذا المسار، إلا أن هناك المزيد الذي يمكن القيام به، فهناك فهم شائع فيما يتعلق بأنظمة الرصد والإنذار، هو أنها موجودة ليتم تنشيطها بمجرد وقوع الخطر، رغم أن الهدف من نظم الأرصاد والإنذار المبكر ليس فقط تسهيل استجابة مؤسسية أو مجتمعية أو فردية لخطر وشيك، ولكن تطوير سلوك وممارسات طويلة الأجل للحد من المخاطر، واتخاذ الإجراءات الاستباقية لضمان الحفاظ على الأمن بأبعاده الشاملة.

وقد أوصى التقرير بعدد من التوصيات التي من شأنها تعزيز العلاقة التكامليَّة بين الأرصاد وحماية البيئة والأجهزة الأمنيَّة، منها:

تبني مجلس وزراء الداخلية العرب لمشروع يعزز التكامل بين المؤسسات الأمنية - خاصة قطاعاتها ذات الصلة - والنظم الوطنية والإقليمية والعالمية للأرصاد، بما يسمح لهذه المؤسسات بالوصول للبيانات التي توفرها هذه النظم، وتأسيس إدارات أو وحدات مختصة تحلل هذه البيانات وتستخلص التوصيات التي يمكن دمجها في الإستراتيجيات والخطط الأمنية للأجهزة الأمنية العربية، مما يعزز درجة التأهب والجاهزية.
إنشاء نظام شامل لمراقبة الأرصاد الجوية يتراوح من مستوى سطح الأرض، والهواء العلوي، والرادار، والأقمار الصناعية لتنبؤات الطقس، حتى مستوى المناطق المختلفة، إلى أن يصل إلى مستوى القرى والمناطق النائية.
تطوير نظام معلومات الأرصاد الجوية الموجَّه للمستخدم، مع مراعاة المتطلبات الخاصة بالمنطقة لمختلف المستخدمين.
Advancing Healthcare Security: A Cutting-Edge Zero-Trust Blockchain Solution for Protecting Electronic Health Records
Authors: Benaich Rihab , El Mendili Saida , Gahi Youssef 
Published: December 2023

The effective management of electronic health records (EHRs) is vital in healthcare. However, traditional systems often need help handling data inconsistently, providing limited access, and coordinating poorly across facilities. This study aims to tackle these issues using blockchain technology to improve EHR systems' data security, privacy, and interoperability. By thoroughly analyzing blockchain's applications in healthcare, we propose an innovative solution that leverages blockchain's decentralized and immutable nature, combined with advanced encryption techniques such as the Advanced Encryption Standard and Zero Knowledge Proof Protocol, to fortify EHR systems. Our research demonstrates that blockchain can effectively overcome significant EHR challenges, including fragmented data and interoperability problems, by facilitating secure and transparent data exchange, leading to enhanced coordination, care quality, and cost-efficiency across healthcare facilities. This study offers practical guidelines for implementing blockchain technology in healthcare, emphasizing a balanced approach to interoperability, privacy, and security. It represents a significant advancement over traditional EHR systems, boosting security and affording patients greater control over their health records. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-03-012 Full Text: PDF
Comprehensive Review of the Impact of Advanced Technology Adoption on Work and Continuous Improvement
Authors: Momin Mujtaba M. , Ali Omar 
Published: December 2023

Technology advances are changing how companies and their employees do their respective jobs. The intervention of technology has revolutionized the way jobs are conceptualized, discussed, performed, and delivered. This analysis aims to deliver a summary of the impact of the adoption of advanced technology on job characteristics and the impact on job demand and continuous improvement, which can act as a reference for theorists and practitioners to map, research, and analyze the effect of technology on work systems and productivity. By presenting a systematic review of the literature along with several avenues for future research, we hope that this research will contribute to job demand and ongoing research. A total of 30 articles were reviewed from a total generated article database of 335, which were systematically selected from different academic databases between 2001 and 2021. The review signifies the role of technology in influencing work complexities, privacy, workload, workflow interruptions, manual work, role expectations, and developmental opportunities. This study is pivotal in substantiating the influence of technology in work systems, besides furnishing variables and themes for further studies in the area. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-03-014 Full Text: PDF
OPTIMALISASI PENGELOLAAN EKOWISATA HUTAN MANGROVE â€œLATI TUOâ€œ UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PEREKONOMIAN WARGA DESA KLEMPANG SARI
Authors: Bulan Dewi Embong , Bestziel Jheardy , Toufik Julianti Fitria , Septiana Yessi , Ashari Devisa Febrilia , Oktavianingsih Okky , Savitri Ratna , Fazar Reza Nur , Apriyana Faidah , Khumairoh Ai Syarifah , S Riski Alfira Wulandari , Margareta Fira Santi , Ibrahim Ibrahim 
Published: December 2023

Tourism, including environmental tourism, has become one of Indonesia's second-greatest foreign exchange contributors after petroleum and natural gas. The potential for Mangrove tourism is growing due to the ecotourism philosophy, which stresses nature conservation and local communities, particularly coastal areas. The solution to the issue of developing tourism activities in conservation areas is ecotourism. There is a Mangrove Forest ecotourism area called "Lati Tuo" in Klempang Sari Village, Kuaro District, Paser Regency, however, its management is not yet optimal. This activity intends to improve the management of "Lati Tuo" Mangrove ecotourism by developing supporting infrastructure at ecotourism sites. All activities involved teams from the village, Mulawarman University students, ecotourism managers, and the community around the location. The actions carried out include preparation, problem identification, planning, implementation, and assessment. Activities carried out at the "Lati Tuo" mangrove ecotourism site, Klempang Sari Village. This time, ecotourism management optimization operations are more focused on building several supporting facilities for visitor comfort, because tourist comfort is one of the variables that might influence tourists' decisions to visit a tourist site. Making chairs at each corner of the bridge and creating warning signs are among the activities that have taken place. Aside from that, there was the creation of gazebo name boards, the creation of Latin name plates for plants in the mangrove forest "Lati Tuo," and the creation of "Lati Tuo" Love Padlocks. The development of supporting facilities at the "Lati Tuo" mangrove ecotourism site was completed smoothly. The support of all stakeholders, including the village officials, ecotourism management, and the Klempang Sari Village Community, is critical to the success of this activity.
The Effect of Inquiry-Based Learning Strategy on EFL Tenth-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension
Authors: Al-Khamaiseh Hadeel Saleh 
Published: December 2023

This study examined the potential effect of Inquiry-Based Learning Strategy (IBL) on the tenth-grade students' reading comprehension. Two groups and a quasi-experimental design were used. Two complete sections of grade 10 students from a public Secondary School for Girls in Irbid was randomly assigned by the researcher. The experimental group of 30 students was chosen first, and then the control group of 30 students. A pre-post reading comprehension test was designed before and after the study in order to fulfill its goals. Additionally, the experimental group was taught using the IBL strategy, whereas the control group was taught using the traditional teaching methods recommended in the tenth-grade Teacher's Book. According to the findings, there were significant statistical differences favoring the experimental group over the control group. In light of the findings, the researcher recommended employing the IBL strategy to students with various levels and EFL skills.
No-Show Passenger Prediction for Flights
Authors: Chin Wei-Song , Ting Choo-Yee , Cham Chin-Leei 
Published: December 2023

In aviation, â€œno-showâ€ refers to a customer who booked a reservation but failed to show up. No-shows can result in various resource wastes, such as vacant seats, leading to income loss and flight delays. As a result, no-show passengers can cause considerable problems for airlines, ultimately affecting their bottom line. Recent research has shown the use of machine learning algorithmsÂ to reduce the rate of no-shows. For example, a researcher in healthcare is using a predictive model to identify no-showsâ€™ patients to increase efficiency.Â Therefore, this study aimed to develop prediction models to predict passenger no-shows. In this work, we used a dataset supplied by a local airline company consisting of 1,046,486 rows and 8 columns. Additional datasets like weather data, public holiday data of different countries, aircraft details, and foot traffic data are used to carry out the dataset's feature enrichment task to complement the original dataset. As a result, feature selection has become an important stage in this research to identify and pick the most relevant and useful features from the enormous number of columns. The findings showed that the model built using Random Forest has the highest accuracy of 90.4%, while Decision Tree performed at 90.2%, Gradient Boosting at 86.5%, and Neural Networks at 67.6%.Â To enhance the accuracy of the models, further research efforts are essential to integrate supplementary passenger information.