Crimes resulting from the illegal use of pesticides in Palestine

This study dealt with the crimes resulting from the illegal use of pesticides in Palestine. The Palestinian legislator regulated the use of pesticides in the agricultural sector through several legislations, most notably the Agriculture Law and the Consumer Protection Law, in addition to the Public Health Law and the regulations issued by the Council of Ministers. The legal procedures related to the manufacture and registration of pesticides, as well as the controls of their use, and the penalties for violating these legal provisions, especially in the case of the circulation of food contaminated with pesticides resulting from the illegal use of this pesticide , Such legislation has been keen to take many preventive measures to reduce the risk of these pesticides on human health and the environment so that the provider is committed to the consumer shows how to use pesticides clearly. The Palestinian legislator banned the importation of any pesticides unless they were licensed for use in agriculture in developed countries such as the United States and the World Health Organization. The crime of violating the conditions related to the use of pesticides is one of the forms of crimes resulting from the illegal use of pesticides, in addition to the crimes that result from harm to consumers as a result of the use of pesticides. In addition, the legislator has enacted a number of regulations for the manufacture and circulation of pesticides for the public health and safety of the environment. This legislation has criminalized many acts related to the misuse of pesticides, which may harm the health and safety of consumers. And not commensurate with the magnitude of the damage that these pesticides may cause as a result of illegal use

Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and severity of coronary artery atherosclerosis in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Background: There is a strong correlation between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and coronary artery disease (CAD). There is also a strong correlation between HP infection and the severity of coronary artery atherosclerosis in patients with CAD. Our study determined the association of HP infection and severity of coronary artery atherosclerosis in patients with suspected CAD. Methods: A prospective study of 100 individuals who had coronary angiography for coronary atherosclerosis was conducted. Body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, blood cholesterol, blood glucose, leukocyte count, hemoglobin, and urea breath test were all done on the patients. Coronary angiograms were graded based on vascular and angiographic severity scores. Results: Triglyceride, (TG), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), C- Reactive Protein (CRP), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), vessel score, and angiographic severity score all showed high correlations with Gensini score. There was a substantial association between vessel score and TG, LDL and angiographic severity score. It was found that angiographic severity score has a substantial positive link to a person's BMI; LDL; CRP; ESR, and vessel score. Conclusion: Although HP infection has been linked to an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), established risk variables outweigh their potential impact

A Model for Evaluating Fake News

"Fake news” (FN) is slowly being recognized as a security problem that involves multiple academic disciplines; therefore, solving the problem of FN will rely on a cross-discipline approach where behavioral science, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, and cybersecurity work in concert to rapidly measure and evaluate the level of truth in any article. The proposed model relies on computational linguistics (CL) to identify characteristics between “true news” and FN so that true news content can be quantitatively characterized. Additionally, the pattern spread (PS) of true news differs from FN since FN relies, in part, on bots and trolls to saturate the news space. Finally, provenance will be addressed, not in the traditional way that examines the various sources, but in terms of the historical evaluations of author and publication CL and PS

Effects of a Home-Based Physical Activity Programme on Blood Biomarkers and Health-Related Quality of Life Indices in Saudi Arabian Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial

© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is renowned for its high incidence of type-2 diabetes mellitus, with a prevalence rate of around 33%, which is expected to increase to 45.8% by 2030. Engagement in regular physical activity has been shown to significantly attenuate non-communicable diseases including type-2 diabetes. However, the overall rate of physical inactivity among Saudi Arabian adults is currently 80.5%, owing to time pressures, high-density traffic, poor air quality, lack of suitable exercise places/sports facilities, lack of social/friends support, gender, cultural barriers, low self-confidence, lack of time and environmental factors. Previous analyses have shown that home-based activity interventions can be effective. Therefore, given the aforementioned barriers to physical activity in Saudi Arabia; a home-based physical activity may be an ideal solution in type-2 diabetic patients. This manuscript describes the study protocol for a randomized control trial, examining the effects of a home-based physical activity intervention in Saudi Arabian adults with type-2 diabetes. The study will recruit 62 individuals with type-2 diabetes from the Jazan region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who will be individually randomized to either a physical activity or control group. This 24-week investigation will involve 12-weeks of physical activity in the physical activity group and feature three examination points i.e., baseline, 12-weeks and 24-weeks (follow-up). The primary study outcome is the between-group difference in blood HbA1c levels relative to controls. Secondary outcomes measures will be between-group differences in anthropometric, blood lipid, physical fitness, and patient-reported quality of life outcomes pertinent to type-2 diabetes. Statistical analysis will be conducted on an intention-to-treat basis. The trial has been granted ethical approval by Jazan University, Health Research Ethics Committee (REF: 2177) and formally registered as a trial (NCT04937296). We expect dissemination of the study findings from this investigation to be through publication in a leading peer-reviewed journal.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

Why do Saudi Nurses Leave Bedside Nursing: Findings from a Pilot Study

Aim: To explore the salient factors that account for Saudi nurses leaving bedside nursing to work in other fields of nursing.   Method: A non-experimental descriptive quantitative design was used to answer the research question of this pilot study. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. A snowball / purposive sample was used to collect the data from 46 Saudi nurses who had left bedside nursing in three hospitals in the Aseer region in southwest of Saudi Arabia. Data were analyzed by a professional statistician using descriptive statistics.   Findings: The salient factors for Saudi nurses’ decision to leave bedside nursing that were identified included: income (including allowances and financial incentives), administrative regulations, job satisfaction, and other miscellaneous factors   Conclusion: Although this pilot study has several limitations, the findings indicate that health care planners and policy staff, and nursing leaders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia need to develop strategies to address the issues expressed by Saudi nurses in regard to bedside nursing, particularly the need to improve (a) financial allowances and incentive systems, (b) the bedside work environment (e.g., by decreasing weekly working hours), and (c) the image of bedside Saudi nurses in the eyes of Saudi society.   Keywords: Saudi Nurses, Pilot Study, Bedside Nursing &nbsp

Urinary Bladder Schistosomiasis Mimicking Neoplasm: A Case Report

Schistosomiasis is a neglected disease that is prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas. A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with a history of right flank pain and lower abdominal discomfort for one day, which coincided with the onset of menses. The patient did not provide any history of premenstrual hematuria. The physical examination revealed right costovertebral angle tenderness and was otherwise unremarkable. The urinalysis demonstrated a mild increase in red and white blood cells and no ova or parasite. The blood test was normal, except for eosinophilia. A right pedunculated intraluminal urinary bladder mass was detected by the computerized axial tomographic scan and ultrasonography, and after the transurethral resection of the mass, the patient was diagnosed with urinary schistosomiasis. The patient received two doses of oral praziquantel of 1200 mg every 12 h for one day. The cure was confirmed with a one-month post-treatment follow-up that revealed a normal urine microscope and eosinophil count. The S. haematobium infection should be evaluated as a possible cause of urinary bladder lesion in those who have travelled or lived in endemic areas

Investigating the Problematic of Migrant Identity in South-Asian and Arab Postcolonial Fiction in English: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

The aim of this thesis is to examine the problematic of identity formation in the case of the migrant subject by relating it to the direct effects of the socio-cultural transformation which inevitably takes place in the country of migration. In the fictional works to be discussed, the identity of the characters alters or is forced to change in relation to the situations and settings into which they are thrown in their host countries. My investigation will be carried out not only in terms of scrutinising the literary representation of the dilemma of identity, but also by means of analysing both the manner in which the question of identity becomes problematic and the ways through which the migrant figure responds to such problematisation. To this end, I aim to crystallise how in each work the predicament of identity overlaps with issues principally relating to displacement, exile, postcoloniality, and cultural hybridity. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s work, I approach the problematic nature of the construction of migrant identity in terms of being ‘fluid’, ‘dynamic’, and constantly unstable. The primary sources comprise a body of South-Asian and Arab postcolonial literature that has been produced since the 1960s, after significant waves of migration to the UK and the US—all of which is originally published in English, except for Season of Migration to the North (1969). The other works include V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987) and The Mimic Men (1967), Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine (1989) and Wife (1975), Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz (1993) and Crescent (2003), and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003) and Interpreter of Maladies (1999). In each chapter, I engage with theoretical discourses on the politics of identity performance, representation, and re-construction; I put those discourses in dialogue with the literary texts to demonstrate how in these texts a valid and active sense of the self is inexorably rendered damaged or destroyed as an initial corollary of being in an alien land. Moreover, I argue that the very exilic or diasporic modus vivendi contributes to a further problematisation of identity formation for the migrant figure. My approach to such complexity is primarily done in the light of postcolonial theory, specifically, Homi Bhabha’s conception of ‘mimicry, hybridity, and ambivalence’ and Stuart Hall’s understanding of the conflicting development of cultural identity. This is intended in an effort to explicate the many aspects of the destabilisation resulting from the interrelation between culture and identity, on the one hand, and migration and displacement, on the other. The cross-cultural approach of the thesis highlights the similarities with the problematic experiences of identity transformation on the migrant part, despite the different cultural backgrounds

الانعكاس والانعكاس الأدبي / Reflection and Literary Reflection

[Reflection or the homologies between different levels of reality is a basic and complex issue in Marxist aesthetics. The article explores the intricacy and richness of the concept and its implications, interpretations and manifestations in the context of Arab cultural and literary production. The author offers a nuanced view of the historical and philosophical mechanisms involved in literary reflection. His exposition is preceded by an elaborate deconstruction of the reductive application -- in his view -- of the Marxist position on the issue which identifies reflection with mirroring and sees literature and reality as separate and parallel. In a close reading of major Arab Marxist criticism of the last three decades, Darraj reveals their latent idealist and a historical dimension. The author proposes the study of the modes of articulation and reproduction of the ideological in the literary work as well as the social and historical conditions of marginalizing / centralizing given texts, rather than the evaluation of the fidelity of the literary work to reality. Darraj sets the groundwork for a neo-Marxist approach by simultaneously calling for an alternative reading into the concept of reflection as well as demonstrating his new interpretation by drawing extensively on Arabic narrative, dramatic and poetic works. He shows that in these literary examples, it is not so much the static lived experience that is reflected but the structure of dynamic reality. Furthermore, such literary texts reflect reality at a second remove since they reflect an already refracted view of it through ideological prisms. Finally, other literary texts and ideological discourses --as part of social reality -- are incorporated and reflected in the literary work. The project of Darraj offers the outline of a theory of literature where the question of the evolution of forms and the struggle of idiolects is integrated, not simply juxtaposed or superimposed, into a Marxist methodology.