bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Level of Health Behavior among Jordan University of Science and Technology Students in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Badarneh Hazem , Maberah Shooroq , AL- Quraan Salem , AL-Rashdan Hanadi , AL-Shboul Israa 
Published: August 2023

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the level of health behavior among Jordan University of Science and Technology students in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A descriptive approach was used, involoving a questionnaire consisting of 30 items administered to a stratified random sample of 436 male and female students from Jordan University of Science and Technology.
Results: The findings of the study revealed a high level of healthy behavior among students at Jordan University of Science and Technology. Additionally, there were no statistically significant differences in the responses of the participants to all items concerning the level of healthy behavior based on gender. However, the results did indicate differences based on the variables of place of residence, favoring students from cities, and income level, favoring those with higher incomes.
Conclusions: Based on the aforementioned results, the research suggests several recommendations. Firstly, there is a need to raise awareness among students of the University of Science and Technology about the importance of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine approved by the Ministry of Health. This vaccine plays a crucial role in safeguarding their health against the risks of coronavirus infection.
Desertification and Regeneration of Steppe Natural Resources: A Case Study in the Wilaya of Naama, Algeria
Authors: Rafik Zanoune , Hadeid Mohamed 
Published: August 2023

Objectives: The aim of this study is to establish a genuine participatory management approach involving all stakeholders, including citizens, in the fight against desertification within the degraded steppe region with its unique natural and economic characteristics. This approach becomes essential as it presents the only viable alternative to the obsolete tribal rule.
Methods: We adopted a descriptive approach to assess the condition of pastures using satellite images and administrative data to track their development. Additionally, we documented the anti-desertification activities undertaken by various agencies and evaluated their effectiveness.
Results: The findings indicate that the core issue lies not in the technologies or the steppe environment, but rather in the overexploitation of natural resources by actors and farmers. Despite the alarming statistics, such as "desertification expanding from 1.5% to 49.5% between 1957 and 2002" and "a 70% loss of vegetation cover between 1976 and 2018," coupled with overgrazing and a doubling of livestock numbers, authorities drilled "4,100 deep wells between 1993 and 2016" for agricultural rehabilitation, which ultimately exacerbated pasture deterioration. Interestingly, the Algerian-Moroccan border pastures (the military zone) experienced a remarkable renewal of vegetation cover, attributed to the deterrence of citizen infiltration by soldiers, resulting in violations decreasing from 50 to 03 incidents only between 2017 and 2019.
Conclusions: The study underscores the critical need for participatory management involving "actors and farmers," considering the unique natural, social, and environmental aspects of the pastures. Preserving these resources requires raising awareness and implementing deterrence measures to ensure their sustainable protection.
Mechanisms of Arguments in the Prophet’s First Sermon after the Confession: A Man Does Not Lie to His Family
Authors: Al Tawalbeh Ali M. 
Published: August 2023

Objectives: The study aims to reveal the argumentative mechanisms, values, and concepts embedded in the Prophet's sermon, and its rhetorical impact on enhancing the meaning and capturing the recipient's attention to the message's text.
Methods: This study analyzes the argumentative verbal milestones in the Prophet's (PBUH) sermon from philosophical, rhetorical, and deliberate perspectives. It examines the introduction, semi-logical and reality-based arguments, as well as the role of argumentative links connecting ideas within the text. Additionally, it investigates the rhetorical, divine, and constructive methods, and their impact on enriching and persuading skeptical recipients of the new religion and messenger.
Results:The study finds that this text, despite its brevity, is an argumentative text par excellence due to the presence of numerous argumentative mechanisms. It takes into account the eloquence level and acceptance of the argumentative message by the addressees. The researcher thoroughly studies and analyzes this text in its entirety, including letters, links, actions, and argumentative messages to achieve the desired result of this study.
Conclusions: It is crucial to pay attention to rhetorical texts in general and the sermons of the Prophet (PBUH) in particular, to trace the rhetorical methods and argumentative mechanisms that persuade the addressees of the sermon's message.
القيادة التكيفية ونمط اتخاذ القرار لدى رؤساء الأقسام من وجهة نظر أعضاء هيئة التدريس بالجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة: (دراسة تنبؤية)
Authors: Albeladi Abdulrahman 
Published: August 2023

الأهداف: هدفت الدراسة إلى اكتشاف مستوى ممارسة رؤساء الأقسام بالجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة لأبعاد القيادة التكيفية، وأنماط اتخاذ القرار من وجهة نظر أعضاء هيئة التدريس، إضافة إلى تعرُّف طبيعة العلاقة بين أبعاد القيادة التكيفية وأنماط اتخاذ القرار، كما سعت إلى الكشف عن القدرة التنبؤية لأبعاد القيادة التكيفية بأنماط اتخاذ القرار.
المنهجية: استُخدم المنهج الوصفي (المسحي: التنبؤي) عبر تطبيق استبانة شارك بها 266 عضوًا.
النتائج: أظهرت النتائج أنَّ رؤساء الأقسام يمارسون القيادة التكيفية بدرجة مرتفعة (م= 3.98). كما أنَّ النمط العقلاني كان الأكثر شيوعًا، ثم التابع، يليه الحدسي، فالمتجنب، وأخيرًا التلقائي. وأنَّ العلاقة موجبة بين أبعاد القيادة التكيفية الستة والنمط العقلاني، في حين أسهمَت المتغيرات المستقلة لأبعاد القيادة التكيفية الستة بالتنبؤ بالنمط العقلاني.
الخلاصة: هناك حاجة إلى تمكين قادة الجامعات عبر منحهم مزيدًا من الصلاحيات، وتطوير مهاراتهم القيادية
Website-Based Development of Learning Management System using V-Development Method Model (Case Study: UNRI, Informatics Engineering Study Program)
Authors: Putri Salsabilla Azahra , Candra Feri 
Published: August 2023

Developers often use a software development model, namely the waterfall or classical models. Waterfall uses a systematic approach, so it tends to be archaic and will cause significant problems. The problems appeared when the process at the previous stage experiences happened, so the process could not go to the next stage. In addition, the tests were carried out for the solution to the problem. There was a need for a v-model development model. This model is the waterfall model development, then described in the form of v, and there was testing in each phase. This V-Model is an excellent model because it has good illustrations and clarity. The Website Learning Management System is built using the PHP programming language. Based on the results of the testing unit, the software used whitebox, and all units could run 100% well. Meanwhile, integration testing and testing systems using black boxes were 100% running well. Acceptance testing using ISO 25010 consisted of eight characteristics: functionality, efficiency, compatibility, usability, reliability, maintainability, security, and portability. These aspects could run well.
Targeting the Mutant Region in K-RAS by RNA Interference Controlling Cell Proliferation and Programmed Cell Death in Liver Cancer Cells.
Authors: Ali Dina , Guirgis Adel A. , Khalil Hany 
Published: August 2023

Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a high-incidence and significant cause of cancer globally. HCC is the world's third most common death-related cancer and the sixth most common tumor. In HCC, various cellular signaling is activated to ensure malignancy transformation, angiogenesis, and metastasis. The most efficient signaling pathway in cancer is mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which controls malignancy and regulates apoptosis. The mutant k-ras gene led to the activation of the RAS protein with GTPase activity, which stimulated hepatocellular proliferation and transformation. Here we aim to investigate the correlation between the knock-down of k-ras and HCC evaluation in-vitro.
Material and Methods We used the HepG2 cell line to investigate the direct connection between the k-ras expression profile and RAF/MEK pathway using a respective siRNA antagonist k-ras.
Results Interestingly, the siRNA antagonist k-ras altered cell morphology and a number of the living HepG2 cells. In addition, the transfection of HepG2 cells with the firstly designed siRNA successfully reduced the expression profile k-ras and the relative gene expression of Raf-1 and Mek1, the downstream targets of RAS signaling. Furthermore, interleukin 8 (IL-8) and interleukin 6 (IL-6) were monitored in the fluids media at different time points following transfection. Both IL-6 and Il-8 production significantly increased in cells transfected with siRNA targeting k-ras.
Conclusion Our findings provide evidence for the influential role of the k-ras mutated gene in HCC development and suggest the possible regulation of this gene as a potential treatment for HCC.
Conceptual Scaling of RDFS Ontologies
Authors: Kötters Jens , Eklund Peter , Schmidt Stefan E. 
Published: August 2023

<p>Conceptual scaling is a method, developed in the framework of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), that transforms a many-valued context (a collection of objects, described by attributes with values, such as name, size or color) into a formal context (a binary schema from which formal concepts are derived). Relational scaling extends conceptual scaling, by taking relations between objects into account. Previous work applies relational scaling to a relational database, transforming the relational database into a relational structure. Relational structures play the role of formal contexts in a relational variant of FCA. In this paper, we present a similar approach, which applies relational scaling to RDFS ontologies. </p>
Cross-modality Hierarchical Clustering and Refinement for Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Authors: Pang Zhiqi , Wang Chunyu , Zhao Lingling , Liu Yang , Sharma Gaurav 
Published: August 2023

<p>Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task. Compared to visible modality person re-identification that handles only the intra-modality discrepancy, VI-ReID suffers from an additional modality gap. Most existing VI-ReID methods achieve promising accuracy in a supervised setting, but the high annotation cost limits their scalability to real-world scenarios. Although a few unsupervised VI-ReID methods already exist, they typically rely on intra-modality initialization and cross-modality instance selection, despite the additional computational time required for intra-modality initialization. In this paper, we study the fully unsupervised VI-ReID problem and propose a novel cross-modality hierarchical clustering and refinement (CHCR) method by promoting modality-invariant feature learning and improving the reliability of pseudo-labels. Unlike conventional VI-ReID methods, CHCR does not rely on any manual identity annotation and intra-modality initialization. First, we design a simple and effective cross-modality clustering baseline that clusters between modalities. Then, to provide sufficient inter-modality positive sample pairs for modality-invariant feature learning, we propose a cross-modality hierarchical clustering algorithm to promote the clustering of inter-modality positive samples into the same cluster. In addition, we develop an inter-channel pseudo-label refinement algorithm to eliminate unreliable pseudo-labels by checking the clustering results of three channels in the visible modality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CHCR outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised methods and achieves performance competitive with many supervised methods. </p>
Electronic Attacks as a Cyber False Flag against Maritime Radars Systems
Authors: Longo Giacomo , merlo alessio , armando alessandro , Russo Enrico 
Published: August 2023

<p>Radar systems have long been essential for safe navigation in various transportation sectors, including aviation, maritime, and automotive. While these systems provide invaluable situational awareness and decision-making capabilities, they increasingly become targets for malicious actors aiming to disrupt their normal operations. Electronic countermeasures (ECM) have traditionally been the predominant form of attack. However, recent findings have uncovered their vulnerability to cyber-based actions, capitalizing on their digitization and network connectivity. In this paper, we propose a novel threat model that exploits cyber attack capabilities against radar systems to simulate the effects of ECM. This model goes beyond known attacks by introducing a deceptive element, challenging attribution. To evaluate the feasibility of these attacks, extensive experimentation is conducted using a realistic case study involving the maritime domain. Through this research, we aim to highlight the evolving threats facing radar systems and the need for comprehensive security measures.</p>
The Annual Infection by Larvae of Fly’s That Causing Traumatic Myiasis in Babylon Province
Authors: Okaily R. A. , Mohammed A. J. , Hamad B. Sh. , Abass A. S. 
Published: August 2023

The result showed that, no relationship was found between the temperature , the relative humidity and infections’ number . However , eight cases were recorded by Veterinary Clinic in 2006 : 7 cases recorded in November and 1 case in December .while only one Case was recorded during 2009Moreover , most of the infections were identified in sheep comparing with other animals .
Effect of Using Different Levels Of Corn Distillers Dried Grains without soluble ( DDG ) , Iraqi Probiotic and Fermentation Treatment in the Some Productive Performance in Broiler
Authors: Abdulrahman Abdulrahman F. , Albaddy Maad A.K. , Naije Saad A. 
Published: August 2023

The experiment was conducted at the poultry farm , Department of Animal production , College of Agriculture / University of Tikrit the period between 8 / 4 / 2014 and 12 / 5 / 2014 . The study was aimed at investigating the effect of using various levels of Dried Distillers Grains and supplementing with the Iraqi probiotic together with performing a fermentation treatment of a ratio one water/one diet for 24 hours at 35° c . 1125 broiler chicks ( Ross 308) at one day age were randomly assigned to 15 treatments . Each treatments includes three replicates and each replicates consists of 25 chicks ( 75 chicks for each treatment ) .The treatments used were as follows:Treatment 1 : The control , no supplement ( the negative control ) .Treatment 2 : The control + Iraqi probiotic ( the first positive control ) .Treatment 3 : The control + Iraqi probiotic + Fermentation ( the second positive control ) . Treatment 4 : DDG 5 % . Treatment 5 : DDG 5 % + Iraqi probiotic . Treatment 6 : DDG 5 % + Iraqi probiotic + Fermentation . Treatment 7 : DDG 10 % . Treatment 8 : DDG 10 % + Iraqi probiotic .Treatment 9 : DDG 10 % + Iraqi prbiotic + Fermentation . Treatment 10 : DDG 15 % . Treatment 11 : DDG 15 % + Iraqi probiotic . Treatment 12 : DDG 15 % + Iraqi probiotic + Fermentation . Treatment 13 : DDG 20 % . Treatment 14 : DDG 20 % + Iraqi probiotic . Treatment 15 : DDG 20 % + Iraqi probiotic + Fermentation . The chicks were feed on diets having similar amounts of energy and crude protein percentages according to ( Ross 308 rearing Guide ) . The diet were supplemented in a ground form where as the water was available freely at all times . the lighting and management schedules were arranged according the standard procedures presented in the guide .The broiler rearing period was 35 days .The results obtained a significant superiority of T2 over all other treatments excluding T1 , T5 and T7 with respect to PI and EI Higher Dressing percentage was recorded in T10 broiler carcasses as compared with all other treatments . The differences between treatments for the relative weights of abdominal fat , heart , liver , and spleen were found to be non consistent . Fermentation process have showed a significant increase ( p < 0.05 ).
Evaluation The Antimicrobial Activity of Camels Urine Against some Pathogenic Bacteria and Yeasts
Authors: AL-Zaiadi Rahem. E. , Thapti Iman , Rasaak Jenan 
Published: August 2023

This study was carried out to examine the antimicrobial activity of the unfiltered fresh urine and filtered using Millipore upon pathogenic bacteria and yeasts, The camel’s urine was collected from female camel Camelus dromedaries of age 5 years, at a barn in the Faculty of Agriculture - Almothana university and from the Western Desert of Samawah .The physical content of the samples was been studying, colures was yellow in the tow samples , and been dark with stored . pH 6.11 for a barn in the Faculty of Agriculture and 6,67 for Western Desert of Samawah samples.
Pathogenic Microorganisms was used in the study Escherichia coliO157:H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecalis , Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella sp., Salmonella typhimiurum , Clostridium sp. and Candida albicans.
The results had shown that The camel’s urine was inhibition most pathogenic bacteria and yeasts which test, the diameter of inhibition zone reached of the unfiltered fresh urine from a barn in the Faculty of Agriculture 18,19,15,12,19,18,21, and 19 mm , and the filtered fresh urine 16,12,10,9,12,12,16,and 13 mm , and for the unfiltered sample of the Western Desert of Samawah samples. 21,20,19,16,19,21,23,and 22 mm and the filtered 17,18,17,11,15,16,20and 17 mm against Escherichia coliO157:H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecalis , Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella sp., Salmonella typhimiurum , Clostridium sp. and Candida albicans.
The results had shown also that the antimicrobial of unfiltered urine samples was better than the filtered urine samples and the Western Desert of Samawah .urine sample was better than the urine sample from a barn in the Faculty of Agriculture.
unfiltered urine of the Western Desert of Samawah antimicrobial was compared with some antibiotics groups of beta-lactam and amino glycosides, he results showed superiority unfiltered urine of the Western Desert of Samawahin antimicrobial activity.
The effect of different levels of sage plant powder Salvia officinalis on the production performance of ISA Brown commercial laying hens
Authors: Alduri Abdulrazzaq .N. , Al-Jumaili Tarik. K. , Al-Khailani Firas. M. 
Published: August 2023

This study was conducted to invegestate the effect of adding different levels of sage powder in the diets of laying hens of the ISA Brown strain, and studied productive treatment. It was performed in the Poultry Research Station at the office of agricultural Research of the Ministry of Agriculture for the period from (03/03/2015) to (27/04/ 2015) for a period of eight weeks. We used 540 ISA Brown commercial laying hen at the age of 39 weeks were used, they were randomly assigned in cages to six treatments that included three Replicate, with 30 chickens for every replicate. The treatment experiments were as follows: The first treatment was a control group. The sage powder was added to the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth treatment by the amount of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 grams, respectively, to the diet. Adding sage leaf powder had a positive effect (P <0.05) in the qualities characteristics of the egg (shell thickness to membrane ratio, Yolk index, Albumin index and haugh unit) compared to the control group.
Calculating residue of heavy metals in chest and thigh in the local hens and two types of frozen hens in markets
Authors: Ibraheem Maysaloon Wail 
Published: August 2023

تناولت هذه الدراسة معرفة متبقيات بعض المعادن الثقيلة ( الرصاص،الكادميوم،النحاس،الزنك) في قطعتي الصدر والفخذ المأخوذة من ثلاث انواع من الدجاج النوع الاول : الدجاج العراقي المحلي ، النوع الثاني : الدجاج البرازيلي نوع (Sadia) ، النوع الثالث : الدجاج التركي نوع (Garip) تم تسجيل مستويات عالية للرصاص والكادميوم والنحاس بالنسبة لقطعتي الصدر والفخذ في الدجاج المحلي مقارنة مع نوعين الدجاج المستوردة البرازيلي والتركي وعزي السبب الى احتمال تعرض الدجاج المحلي الى بيئة ملوثة كالهواء الملوث بدخان السيارات ودخان المعامل والمصانع وكذلك المياه والاغذية الملوثة بالمعادن الثقيلة ، بينما اظهر الدجاج المحلي انخفاض واضح في مستوى الزنك في قطعتي الصدر والفخذ حيث بلغت (25.87±0.27 و 23.63±1.11) %على التوالي .كذلك تم اجراء اختبارات التحليل الكيميائي لقطعتي الصدر والفخذ ، لوحظ ارتفاع نسبة الرطوبة في قطعة الصدر في الدجاج المحلي ( 72.98±0.99 )% ، اما بالنسبة للبروتين فقد انخفضت هذه النسبة في قطعة الصدر للدجاج المحلي حيث بلغت (20.13±0.45)% مقارنة بالمستورد . اما نسبة الدهن فقد انخفضت في قطعة الصدر في الجاج المستورد الثاني (الدجاج التركي) حيث بغلت (5.15±0.48) % .بالنسبة لقطعة الفخذ فلم تظهر نسبة الرطوبة اختلافات معنوية بين الانواع الثلاثة بينما انخفضت نسبة البروتين في الدجاج المحلي حيث بلغت (20.12±0.54) اما نسبة الدهن فقد انخفضت في الدجاج المستورد النوع الاول (البرازيلي) حيث بلغت (5.15±0.29) مقارنه بالنوعين الاخرين ، اما نسية الرماد فلم تظهر اي فروقات معنوية بين الانواع الثلاثة من الدجاج لقطعة الفخذ.
In vitro study of antibacterial and antifungal activity of some common antiseptics and disinfectants agents
Authors: Abed Abbas Razzaq , Hussein Ibtisam Mohammed 
Published: August 2023

This current study included the antifungal and antibacterial effects of antiseptics or disinfectants agents (4% formalin, 10% Dettol®, 0.5% NaClO, 70% Ethanol alcohol, 1% Iodine and 10% Potassium permanganate) against Aspergillus flvus (Model of Mold) ,Candida albicans (Model of yeast) , E.coli (Model of G- Bacteria) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Model of G+ Bacteria) , where several laboratory tests were used to evaluated the antimicrobial activity of antiseptics and disinfectants agents that used in the this study include Minimum inhibitory concentration test, Sensitive test, Zone growth diameter test and Inhibition zone test . The results showed that formalin was his effectiveness on all microbes used, while the Dettol® has been more effective than formalin in their effect on fungus and less effective on . The remainder of disinfectants and Antiseptics (Iodine, Sodium Hypochlorite, Ethanol alcohol, Potassium Permanganate) were least effective in comparison with Formalin and Dettol® on microbes used .
Impact of Cypermethrin on Some Biochemical Parameters in Rat
Authors: Hadi Abdul-Hadi Abbas , Yassin Faten Hassan 
Published: August 2023

Forty adult albino rats were used in this research. They were randomly divided into four groups. The first group served as control group. The other groups were subdivided into three groups according to the concentration of cypermethrin. Three concentrations of cypermethrin were applied (7.5, 15 and 30 mg/kg body weight). All treated doses were given orally every two days and the doses were continued for 30 days. This work included study the changes in the levels of some serum biochemical indices for liver and kidney functions.The findings of this study showed that cypermethrin induced a significant decrease (P<0.05) in blood total protein, albumin and globulin, and a significant increase (P<0.05) in the concentrations of aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, in addition to urea and creatinine. The current study suggests that cypermethrin has a potential toxicity in rats as a model for mammals. Also, the negative changesthat observed in biochemical values were gradually increased with increasing concentrations of cypermethrin used in this study.