{"title":"Certain Strong and Weak Types of Paracompact Maps","authors":"Saad Mahdi Jaber, H. H. Kadhem","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.17","url":null,"abstract":" In this work, the concept of the paracompact map has been generalized to other new types of maps, in addition to the fact that the paracompact map has been linked to these new maps. Accordingly, we will separate these new types of maps into two classes, the first class is called a strong form which implies a paracompact map under certain conditions. While the other class is called a weaker form of a paracompact map, whereas the paracompact map implies them. Finally, the composition operations of paracompact maps are studied.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"20 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140411647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study the Structure Properties of CdTe and CdTe/CdSe Quantum Dots at pH=12 using an Aqueous Method","authors":"H. Noori, A. F. Abdulameer","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.13","url":null,"abstract":" This research aims to study the structural properties of cadmium telluride (CdTe) core QDs and cadmium telluride/ cadmium selenium (CdTe/CdSe) core-shell QDs at pH 12. The QDs were prepared using aqueous synthesis by reflux process. The structural properties of the QDs were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The results of the XRD analysis for CdTe QDs and CdTe/CdSe QDs showed that they have three diffraction peaks in the directions (111), (220), and (331) with a slight shift in the diffraction peaks of CdTe/CdSe QDs, which indicates the successful packing of selenium atoms around CdTe. FESEM results confirmed that CdTe and CdTe/CdSe QDs possess quantum spherical NPs with diameters ranging from 27 nm to 41 nm. The EDX results confirm corrections of added concentrations The histogram images of the TEM analysis show that the diameters of CdTe and CdTe/CdSe are 7nm and 9 nm, respectively.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140413646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raad Ahmed Hadi, Loay Edwar George, Zainab Jawad Ahmed
{"title":"Computer Vision-based Approaches, Datasets, and Applications of Smart Parking Systems: A Review","authors":"Raad Ahmed Hadi, Loay Edwar George, Zainab Jawad Ahmed","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.32","url":null,"abstract":" Nowadays, smart parking systems (SPS) represent one of the active research areas of intelligent transport systems (ITS). It is an interesting topic and attractive to researchers due to the difficult challenges that are needed to solve it. It enhances city life and plays an important role in reducing gas emissions, air pollution, and traffic congestion while improving the time override for drivers to easily allocate vacant parking lots. In this paper, we discuss and dedicate a review of how computer vision-based approaches can assist in providing wellness solutions for the occupancy of smart parking lots. In addition, we provide an overview of the most common standard datasets and some well-known applications of vacant smart parking lots.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"2013 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140416411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Adaptive Parallel Pattern Based Design for Molecular Dynamic Simulation","authors":"Nilesh N. Maltare, Viral N. Kamat","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.34","url":null,"abstract":" In Parallel programming, a programmer needs to understand hardware environment, programming paradigm and primitives available in the programming language. Most of the time, parallel programmes are written for a specific architecture and cannot typically adapt to other architectures Particularly, programs written for shared memory architectures are unsuitable for distributed or hybrid architectures. This paper proposes Adaptive Design Pattern for Parallel Programming to improve adaptability, flexibility with achieving performance on different architectures.\u0000Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is required to scale to various architectures from simple machine to cluster of workstations. In this study, MD Simulation experimented using both pure benchmark code and code based on adaptive design patterns. Redesigned MD Simulation with Adaptive Design Pattern claims parallel efficiency from 56% to 90% for different number of processing elements used. The solution demonstrates adaptability to different architectures and scalability to use with large number of atoms and long duration simulation. ","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"2000 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140416795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hazim A. Al-Zubaidi, Ahmed Z. M. Al-Bassam, Sahar S. M. Alabdullah
{"title":"Facile Synthesis of Copper Nanocubes in Aqueous Phase for Catalytic Esterification Using Green-Conditions","authors":"Hazim A. Al-Zubaidi, Ahmed Z. M. Al-Bassam, Sahar S. M. Alabdullah","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.5","url":null,"abstract":" This work demonstrated a simple and environmentally friendly method for synthesizing silica-supported copper nanocubes (CuNCs/SiO2). The copper nanocubes, with a size of 15 ± 5 nm, were synthesized using green reagents and conditions. Ascorbic acid, water, and di-n-butyl sulfide were employed as reducing agent, solvent, and stabilizing ligand, respectively. The designed nanoscale catalyst was utilized for the esterification of acetic acid to methyl acetate at room temperature. The catalyst exhibited high efficiency, converting 80% of the reactant to the desired product (methyl acetate) after 24 hours of reaction at room temperature. The size and shape of copper nanocubes were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction to characterize the formation of copper nanocubes, while the esterification product was characterized using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140410740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"P-Rational Submodules","authors":"Maria Mohammed Baher, Muna Abbas Ahmed","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.25","url":null,"abstract":" A submodule N is called rational in M if ( , E(M))=0, where E(M) is the an injective hull of M. Rational submodules have been studied and discussed by many authors such as H.H. Storrer, H. Khabazian, E. Ghashghaei, A. Hajikarimi, M.S. Abbas and M.S. Nayef. The main objective of this paper is to give a new class of submodules named P-rational submodules. This class is contained properly in the class of rational submodules. Several properties of this concept are introduced. The relationships between this class of submodules and some other related concepts are discussed such as essential and quasi-invertible submodules. Other characterizations of the P-rational submodule analogous to those which is known in the concept of the rational submodule are given.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140416110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad F. Hashim, Fatima S. Sabah, Hamid J. Abbas
{"title":"Study the Association of Fat Mass and Obesity-associated (FTO) Gene Polymorphisms (SNP rs9939609) with Biochemical Markers in Obese Iraqi Patients","authors":"Mohammad F. Hashim, Fatima S. Sabah, Hamid J. Abbas","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.9","url":null,"abstract":" This study aimed to evaluate the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP rs-9939609) of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene with body mass index (BMI) and some biochemical markers in obese patients. The fat and mass obesity (FTO) gene variant specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP rs-9939609) with the T to A missense mutation may have a powerful association with obesity. This case-control study included 106 obese patients (57 males and 49 females) and 80 healthy control (40 males and 40 females). DNA was extracted from whole blood, and then the tetra-primer amplification refractory mutation system - polymerase chain reactions (ARMS.PCR) technique was used to limit the single nucleotide gene polymorphisms (rs9939609) of the FTO gene. Lipid profile, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C), fasting blood sugar, insulin and FTO concentrations were measured by standard methods. In this study, the A allele in the rs9939609 was at a higher frequency of 35 (33.1%) in the obese patients and at a significant p-value = 0.039 compared with control 15 (18.7%). It significantly increased in the additive model and allele frequency (p= 0.003, 0.002 respectively). The rs9939608 SNP showed a significant association with increased BMI, insulin and homeostatic model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMO-IR) with p-values of 0.001, 0.001 and 0.028 respectively. After making adjustments for age and sex, lower levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) were observed in the AA and TA genotypes compared to the TT genotype (p = 0.004). While, no significant differences were recorded between the rs9939608 SNP and HbA1C, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in obese patients","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140412781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Serum Human Kidney Injury Molecule-1 and N-Acetyl-β-D-Glucosaminidase as Early Markers of Kidney Injury in Patients with β-Thalassemia Major in Diyala Governorate","authors":"Hiba Abid Al-Hussein Hassan, Hind Salman Jassim","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Thalassemia is a genetic disease identified by a defect in the production of one or more globin chains. This study was aimed at determining the possibility of using \"serum kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1)\" and \"N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG)\" in the diagnosis of early renal damage in thalassemia patients. Serum biomarkers (CBC, urea, creatinine, KIM-1, and NAG) were determined in 45 patients with major thalassemia with an age range of 4-45 years who attended Baquba General Hospital. A significant increase in S.KIM-1 and S.NAG levels in patients compared with controls. The level of KIM was positively correlated with that of urea and creatinine in comparison with control. Also, the level of NAG was strongly positively correlated with the level of KIM-1 (p = 0.000) and had a moderately positive correlation with urea and creatinine (p = 0.000). According to ROC, KIM-1 had a sensitivity of 95.56% and a specificity of 88.89%, while NAG had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 75.6%. This study concluded that S.KIM-1 and S.NAG are highly promising biomarkers for the detection of \"acute kidney injury\" in an early stage before elevated urea and creatinine in thalassemia patients.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140414321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of Nuclear Structure and Elastic Electron Scattering Form Factors for Neutron Halo Nuclei (22N ,23O and 24F) Using Full Correlation Functions with Two Size Parameters","authors":"A. A. Hussein, G. N. Flaiyh","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.11","url":null,"abstract":" The study of neutron-rich nuclei's form factors, root-mean-square radius (rms), and nuclear density distributions is the focus of this work for the nuclei (22N,23 O and 24F). With the use of a strong short-range effect and a strong tensor force, the nucleons distribution function of the two oscillating harmonic particles in a two-frequency shell model operates with two different parameters: the first (bcore), for the inner (core) orbits, and the second (bvalence) for the outer (halo) orbits. This work demonstrated the existence of neutron halo nuclei for the nuclei (22N, 23O and 24F) in the (2s1/2) shell. The computed density distribution of neutron, proton and matter for these nuclei displayed the long tail performance. Using the Borne approximation of the plane wave, the elastic form factor of the electron scattering from the alien nucleus was calculated, this form factor is independent of the neutrons that make up the halo, but rather it results from a difference in the proton density distribution of the last proton in the nuclei. Fortran 95 power station program was used to the neutron, proton and matter density, elastic electron scattering form factor, and rms radii. The calculated outcomes for these exotic nuclei were in good agreement with the experimental data.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140415545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alyaa Mohsin Dhayea, Nidhal K. El Abbadi, Zainab Ghayyib Abdul Hasan
{"title":"Human Skin Detection and Segmentation Based on Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"Alyaa Mohsin Dhayea, Nidhal K. El Abbadi, Zainab Ghayyib Abdul Hasan","doi":"10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2024.65.2.40","url":null,"abstract":" Human skin detection is the process of classifying the image pixels or regions as skin or non-skin. Skin detection has many applications, such as face tracking, skin diseases, nudity recognition, hand gestures, video surveillance, web content filtering, and pornographic content filtering. Skin detection is a challenging problem due to skin color variation, the human race, aging, gender, makeup, complex backgrounds, etc. This paper suggests detecting the skin region in the image and finding the location of the skin based on a convolutional neural network. In this proposal, the proposed CNN will be modified by adding two layers before the first layer of CNN and after the last layer of CNN. The main purpose of these layers is to prepare the input image by using a sliding window, which inputs an indexed small part of the image into the CNN. The network classifies each part as skin or non-skin and then sends the result into the second suggested layer. After processing all the image pixels, the non-skin blocks are mapped to the original image as black regions. The final image contains the skin regions with black in the background. The contribution of the proposed method is the ability to detect the skin from any part of the human body, unlike previous works, which focused on one part of the body. The input image is processed as blocks instead of the entire image as in the previous works, and then in the output, the original image is reconstructed. This method works well with most of the challenges that face the detection of skin, and finally, the designed network facilitates the localization and segmentation of the skin region almost accurately, while the previous networks focused on the classification of the image as skin or non-skin. The accuracy of the detection of skin when testing with images different from the training images was 95.4%.","PeriodicalId":14698,"journal":{"name":"Iraqi Journal of Science","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140416081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}