Diagnostic and Assessment Benefits and Barriers of BIM in Construction Project Management

This paper aims to diagnostic and assessment the benefits and barriers of Building Information Modelling in the construction project management. Both open and closed questionnaire was used to explore the views of a number of Iraqi engineers; in order to investigate the level of BIM implementation in Iraq construction sector. Questionnaire indicated an acceptable awareness of (BIM) in Iraq, especially among the young generation of engineers which indicates the arrival of the evolutionary stream of BIM in the next few years. Moreover, questionnaire showed that the most important advantage of implementing BIM in the Iraqi construction sector was the ability to generate accurate 2D plans at any stage, while the least important advantage was the ability to provide a careful planning of the site facilities, with a relative importance of (82 %) and (33 %) respectively. Furthermore, the most important barrier to its implementation was the unspecified responsibilities for data content, as presented by questionnaire, while the least important barrier was the lack of programs efficiency in data exchange and internal collaboration, with a relative importance of (81 %) and (34 %) respectively

A Study of Female Students Perceptions of the Barriers to Participate in Physical and Sports Activities at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University

The study aimed to examine the perceived barriers to participate in physical and sports activities among female university students as well as the potential differences of their perceptions of the barriers based on their academic discipline, academic year, and Grade Point Average (GPA) level. The participants in this study were 221 female students at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. All the participants were undergraduate students. The study took place in the second semester of 2015/2016 academic year. Survey research approach was selected to guide the investigation. A questionnaire instrument, with five-point likert scale, was developed by the researchers as a data collection tool. The questionnaire instrument consisted from four parts that included:  social and religious barriers; university related barriers; academic barriers; and psychological barriers. The results indicated that the level of perceived barriers to participate in physical and sports activities was moderate. In addition, the results indicated that there were significant differences (α =.05) between the students’ means of perceptions of some types of barriers to participate in physical and sports activities based on their academic discipline and academic year. Keywords: physical and sports activities, female students, perceived barriers, Jorda

Effect of Antibiotics on the Pathogenic Bacteria (K. pneumonia and P. aeruginosa) Isolated Around the Dental Implant Area

In this study, the bacterial isolates (36) were obtained from total 52 samples were taken Twenty K. pneumonia and sixteen P. aeruginosa isolates were found in the dental implant region of individuals of varying ages and sexes who visited a single dental clinic. It was determined what kind of bacteria had been identified by culture, microscopic characteristics and biochemical tests. The resistance and sensitivity of isolates to eight antibiotics (Ceftazidime CAZ, Amikacin Ak, Ciprofloxacin CIP, Chloramphenicol C, Meropenem MEM, Gentamycin GN, Imipenem IMI, Amoxicillin Clavulanate AMC) were studied, with depending on the diameter of the inhibition on Muller-Hinton Agar medium and its comparison with the standard ratios in the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, 2018). The results showed that the highest percentage of resistance K. pneumonia bacteria was to Ceftazidime and Amoxicillin Clavulanate, which reached (100% ,90%), respectively. It was followed by Gentamycin (77%), Ciprofloxacin (67%) and Amikacin was (40%). While the lowest percentage of resistance to the antibiotics (Imipenem, and Meropenem) were (25%) and Chloramphenicol was (20%). As for bacteria. aeruginosa the highest percentage of resistance was to the antibiotic Ceftazidime (93%), followed by the antibiotic Amikacin by (71%), Chloramphenicol (58%), Gentamycin (47%), Meropenem (42%), then the antibiotic Imipenem (40%) While the lower percentage of resistance to the antibiotic Amoxicillin Clavulanic (39%) and Ciprofloxacin (20%). This review provides a complex effect of antibiotics to understand of mechanism and effects of the antibiotic is the base for the new approaches in clinical treatments by which can effectively fight the groups of the resistant pathogens, in patients who are at high risk specially when undergo dental procedures

Anti-Disturbance Compensation-Based Nonlinear Control for a Class of MIMO Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Multi-Inputs-Multi-Outputs (MIMO) systems are recognized mainly in industrial applications with both input and state couplings, and uncertainties. The essential principle to deal with such difficulties is to eliminate the input couplings, then estimate the remaining issues in real-time, followed by an elimination process from the input channels. These difficulties are resolved in this research paper, where a decentralized control scheme is suggested using an Improved Active Disturbance Rejection Control (IADRC) configuration. A theoretical analysis using a state-space eigenvalue test followed by numerical simulations on a general uncertain nonlinear highly coupled MIMO system validated the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme in controlling such MIMO systems. Time-domain comparisons with the Conventional Active Disturbance Rejection Control (CADRC)-based decentralizing control scheme are also included

DNA Polymorphism of Gaucher Disease in Iraqi Patients

Gaucher disease is the autosomally recessively inherited deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Increasing storage of glucocerebrosides leads to a multisystem disease, the prevalence of which is about 1 : 40,000 in central Europe and up to 1 : 2,000 in some other countries (e. g. Israel). The acute and chronic neuronopathic forms of the disease (formerly defined as Gaucher types 2 and 3) account for only 5 to 10% of all Gaucher patients in Central Europe and Germany and are thus less frequent than the nonneuronopathic disease (formerly defined as Gaucher type 1). Gaucher's disease is usually associated with splenoand hepatomegaly, fatigue, skeletal complications, and several corresponding hematological and laboratory abnormalities. In 5 to 10% of the patients there are also central nervous symptoms such as myoclonic seizures, oculomotoric apraxia and a slight mental retardation. Recent epidemiological data indicate that only 10 to 20% of all Gaucher patients are correctly diagnosed (and treated) in Germany. The diagnosis today can be done in all patients by noninvasive methods, i. e. determination of the glucocerebrosidase activity in peripheral leukocytes and of the genetic defect, in this research the PCR technique was used to analyze the mutation in glucocerebrosidases gene (G ---C). Key words: Gaucher disease (GD), lysosomal storage disorder (LSD),lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase, PCR, Mutation

Material Selection for Competition–A Case Study for Air Coolers

 تعتبر المنافسة من اهم التحديات التي تواجه تسويق المنتجات الصناعية في الوقت الحاضر. في هذا البحث تمت دراسة تأثير عامل اختيار المواد لمنتج صناعي (شباك مبردات الهواء) باعتماد معايير مقاومة التأكل، التوصيل الحراري، مقاومة المواد، الوزن، الشكل، الكلفة واسلوب التصنيع. تم التطبيق على شباك مبردة الهواء بموجب المواصفات الفنية المعتمدة في شركة الهلال واعتمدت الاختبارات ثلاث نماذج من كل من سبيكة الالمنيوم 3003 والحديد المغلون والبولي بروبلين باسماك واوضاع مختلفة. باعتماد المواصفات الهندسية لكل مادة تم حساب ال Merit Index وكذلك تم اجراء اختبارات مقاومة التآكل اضافة الى اعتماد برنامج  ANSYSلحساب معدلات التشوه والاجهادات القصوى لكل عينة. تمت مقارنة النتائج للوصول الى الخيار الانسب من بين الخيارات التي اعتمدت وبينت النتائج ان سبيكة الالمنيوم 3003 هي الاختيار الامثل باعتماد معيارين في حين ان البولي بروبلين كان الخيار الانسب بمقارنة ثلاث معايير، اما الحديد المغلون فكان افضل الخيارات في معيار واحد فقط، المعايير الاخرى كانت متماثلة في اختيار المادة البديلة المعتمدة في تصنيع شباك مبردة الهواء.Competition is one of the most important challenges that is facing the marketing of industrial products in today's markets. In this research study of the impact of material selection factor for air coolers of different materials is applied. Investigation on the air cooler windows which are part of the body of air coolers is conducted. Corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity, strength of material, weight, shape, cost and manufacturing process are the factors that are applied and calculated on three types of materials Aluminum, Galvanized steel and polypropylene. The physical properties of the three mentioned materials are used to calculate Merit Index .The corrosion average, according to Tafel Method depending the corrosion current and adopting contactors for the anodic and cathodic metals behaviors is performed. ANSYS is adopted using the three samples for the selected materials Aluminum, Galvanized steel and polypropylene to measure maximum stress and deflection are measured. Accordingly, the results are compared to choose the best alternative. It is observed that the polypropylene is the best choice depending three factors while the aluminum material is better depending two factors and the galvanized steel is regarded as the best in only one factor, the rest factors are identical when choosing  an alternative material for manufacturing the air cooler windows

Synthesis of Calcium-Zincon Complex and Exploitation it in the Assembly of Calcium Ion-Selective Electrode.

A new calcium ion-selective electrode was assembled from complex synthesized by calcium ion and zincon which doped in pvc with suitable mediator and solvent . The prepared complex was identified by UV- Visible and IR spectrophotometry. The new electrode was characterized by its high slope (29.55 ±0.02 mV/decade) compared with calcium phosphate electrode (26.67±0.022 mV/decade) and long lifetime (10 months) . The linear range of the electrode was 10-5-10-1M and the detaction limit was 10-5M . Response time was in the range of 20-60 seconds depending on the concentration of the solution and the lifetime of the electrode. The electrode was linearly working at a pH of (5-10). Most of anions were severely interfered and these were exploited to determine calcium and the anions in precipitation titrations . Cations were slightly interfered especially at high interferent concentrations . The new electrode was applied for the determination of calcium in tap water which offered excellent results compared with flame emission photometric method

The adoption of green management in Iraqi construction industry: The challenges and benefits

Working locally acting Globally is the essential principle in the modern world, to achieve this principle all the countries should work together to protect the Natural environment and the ecosystem. The protection methods and procedures were developed and adapted to suit all fields of the life specially the industry fields, green management (GM) considered one of the important methods for this purpose because it provides the bases for environmental conservation. Industry of construction shares a high percentage of the world economy as well as adverse influence on the environment as natural. The current work paper tries to set the challenges and benefits of adopting the GM in Iraqi industry of construction throughout exploring the important aspects (main and sub aspects) that affect the applications of the GM as well as the motivation aspects. To achieve this goal a review of literatures was performed to collect the influencing aspects, then these aspects were evaluated by the experts using questionnaire survey and the questionnaire results were analyzed utilizing Process of Analytical Hierarchy (AHP). The results revealed that the main aspects are the financial aspects and the Project-related and technical aspects with 23% and 19% of important respectively. Accordingly, the conclusions were extracted with a set of recommendations which mainly state the important role of the Iraqi government in the application of GM in the industry of construction