Ibn Al-Haitham Journal For Pure and Applied Sciences

The role of Alhagi graecorum Boiss aqueous extract (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mg/kg) in modulating the genotoxic effects of mitomycin C (MMC) in albino male mice was evaluated through three types, of treatments. In the first, the extract was given alone to study its effect, while in the second and third treatments, interactions with MMC were carried out (Pre- and Post-treatments). The investigated parameters were total leucocyte count (TLC), mitotic index (MI), chromosomal aberrations (CA) and micronucleus (MN) formation.
In the first treatment, the MI was significantly increased in the doses 1.0 and 1.5 mg/kg (16.66 and 17.84%, respectively) as compared to either negative (13.32%) or positive (7.32%) controls, and such observation was positively correlated with the TLC.
Moreover, CA and MN assays revealed that the extract has no mutagenic effects, in contrast, a reduction in the spontaneous frequency of CA and MN was observed, especially the MN formation, in which the reduction was around 50% in the three doses. The results of second and third treatments (Pre- and Post-treatments) confirmed the forthcoming findings, and the extract was able to modulate the mutagenic effect of MMC, especially the dose 1.5 mg/kg, in which a significant enhancement of TLC and Ml, and a significant reduction in the induced CAs and MN formation were observed.

The present study included the determination of monthly changes in the main physical and chemical features of the waters of an experimental pond, in which common and silver carps (Cyprinus carpio and Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) fingerlings were stocked after its liming with the quicklime in comparison with the control pond with no liming in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat fish farm, Al-Iskandaria town, Al-Mussayab district, Babylon province, during the period from November 2003 to April 2004
Water temperature of both ponds ranged from 10.2 - 19.5 °C, dissolved oxygen ranged from 7.9 - 9.2 mg /1. pH ranged from 7.0 - 8.4. salinity ranged from 0.33 - 1.00 ppt and the transparency ranged from 35
- 59.2 cm. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in the values of the physical and chemical features of the waters of the experimental pond in comparison with the control pond. So, liming had no any disadvantage on the features of the water of the experimental pond. Also, the whole changes in the physical and chemical features of the waters of experimental and control ponds were within the normal range tolerable by the common carp and the silver carp.

Focusing on the prevalence and control range of the cockroaches pest for one residential area in Benghazi city in Libya which was a compound called 7000 units in the Albadryia area, the total number of the flats were 305 distributed on 17 buildings. The residents of these tlats were families of different nationalities with ditterent education levels.
This study had been conducted from 20/3/2003 to 7/4/2003, 76 flats(random sample) were taken in this study, and about 84.2% of them were infested with the cockroaches. It was fond that the German type of cockroaches were present in 87.5% of the infested flats, while the proportion of 12.5% were the American type.
The heaviest infestation of the cockroaches reached78.1%in the kitchens, while the proportion was only 14.1% in the bathrooms of the infested flats, on the other hand the berooms and living rooms were not heavily infested. This study also showed that the waste disposal sites, which located near to 53% of the buildings and the unoccupied flats, which form 38.2 % of the toal flats, were the main sources of cockroaches and from which they launched to infest the flats. About 95.3% of the residents used several types of insecticides to control the cockroaches, and about 43% of them preferred using boric acid to control this pest, which was highly effective insecticide

he present study introduces description of new species of leafhopper genus Cicadella, Latreille1817.External morphological characters particularly male and female genitalia were discussed and
illustrsted
Locality and date of collection were given

Seventy-two women were included in this study with a history of single or repeated abortion, wich was referred to by the physician for the detection of anti Toxoplasma antibodies,and 26 healthy-looking controls. Venous blood was collected from these women,and serum was obtained for the performance of the ELISAtest for the detection of anti-Toxoplasma IgG and IgM.
Fifty -eight (80.6%) women displayed the presence of anti Toxoplasma antibodies. Thirteen (31.7%) had IgG antibodies ,28 (68.3%)had IgG and 17 (29.3%) had both IgM and IgM. This result indicates the high prevalence of this disase among women with abortion (80.6%) this may be due to the wide sources infection.
The estimation of the levels of cytokines IN- y was also done by using the ELISA technique,there was a significant inerase in their levels in comparison with the control.this indicates that there is a high cellular immune reaction during the discace.

The present study, include spacement Collection for Vaccaria pyrmidata Genus Vaccaria from different places in the north of Iraq, during August 2005. Also dry spacement of Ibn AL-Haitham College and College of Science, Baghdad University Herbirum were included in this study. Morphological study to the leaf, stem and inflorescence were carried out in addition to anatomical study to stem leaf, stomat and pollen grains.
The results of morphological and anatomical stadies shows that they are similar to that of family caryophilacee. There is no publications in Irag about this result concerning this Genus specifically Vaccaria Pyrimdata.

The ultrasonic techniques that are used routinely in several field such as a medical imaging have resulted from basic scientific discoveries, new methods of signal analysis and image processing, the development of transducer materials and fabrication techniques, and the application of digital electronics. The system designer is constrained by the ultrasonic properties of tissues, especially speed and attenuation; these properties determine the optimum choices of ultrasonic frequency, and spatial contrast and temporal resolutions. A new method of detection of defects located in a noisy medium is presented. It is based on considering the ultrasonic grey-level image from the beginning of the analysis. The data processing used here is searching for a certain determinism in the spatial and temporal evolution of the image in the presence of a defect.

Toxicity of insecticide permethin is tested on feeding & growth of mosquito fish by using four different concentrations of permethrin. The concentrations were 1,2,4 & 8 ug/L. and study their effects on the body weight, liver weight& hepatosomatic index. It also dealt with the amount of consumed food and classified amount of food in present in the intestines into five categories. It appeared that this pesticide caused a significant decrease in these parameters in comparison with the fish of the control group after exposure for 14 days.

Various laser wavelengths have been employed to tailor the nanostructured porous silicon properties produced by electrochemical etching process. Two porous layers were produced due to the dissolution process within the firstly formed porous layer. The photoluminescence study of the nanostructured silicon relies that the laser radiation redistributes silicon nanocrystallites in the porous layer.
A surface morphology study reveals that a large surface area of column-like structure could be formed when a photon energy larger than the porous band gap energy was used. The resultant luminescence porous layers can be used in many applications.

The present work included morphology study of all plant organs of specimens wild which collected through the study or seen in the Iraqi herbaria of the genus Legousia Durand. Identificaton has been done for most of the specimens of this genus which has not identified before and gives the correct names. Specialized number of the species with in the area study are two L.falcata (Ten.) Fristch, L. pentagonia (L.) Thell., Geographical distribution and ecological treatment included and key was presented. Maps, diagrams and illustration were put when it was needed.

The most important application in plasma physics deal with hydrogen in general the two branches of the reactions D(d.p)T and D(d,n) He have approximately equal probability.
Isotopes(Deuteron and Tritium) in energy production fields, because of the greatest energy emitted from these reactions in comparison with other applications especially the fission reactions which have many dangerous effects.In the recent research we concentrated on the calculation of proton-neutron energy emitted srom D-D reaction as a function of deuteron energy and angle of reaction.

BaT:O3 and doped YbaO, SmO, were prepared according to the recommended procedure using the ceramic method. The doping concentrations ranged from (0.1, 0.2, 0.5 mol %) and the prepared materials were structurally investigated by X-ray diffraction. The dielectric constant and AC electrical conductivity were measured within the frequency band (100 - 10º) Hz and the temperature range
(303 - 408) K. The results were correlated with the structure of the titanates and the effect of doping was discussed.

Bauxite produced by AL-Gaar'a area containing (55.08 w %)
AlCO, used as row material for Gamma-alumina extraction by using the acidic method and acidic-basic method. The Gamma-alumina was identified by X-ray technique.
Iwo catalysts type Pralumina were prepared, one of tem supported on extracted alumina (by this work) and the other was supported on commercial alumina, then compared the activity of these catalyst on hydro conversion reaction of n-heptane and its selectivity.
The catalyst prepared from extracted alumina showed a higher activity towards isomerization products, while the catalyst prepared from commercial alumina showed a higher activity towards cyclization products, also the results shows a similar behavior for both catalysts at different reaction conditions.

The specifie activity of xanthine oxidase in serum of atherosclerotic patients was determined and corelated with MDA and some elements vis. (Fe) and (Cu) - The patients were divided into three groups according to the period of disease as follows.
1" group consist 40 patient, period of disease <2 yrs. group consist 40 patient,period of disease 2-5 yrs.
3a group consist 40 patient, period of disease yrs yrs.
The control was consisted of 30 healthy persons,
The results revealed an increase in the specific activity of xanthine oxidase with duration of disease specially in the 2 nd and 3 rd group compared to control group. Moreover an increase in MDA, Fe and Cu levels in sera of patients with duration of disease were detected. This could be an indication of the damage in the artial wall due to lipid peroxidation and generation of free radicals,

Copper (IT ion selective PVC membrane electrode based on a bimetallic bridged complex [CuL-Ni(cn 2] where L- 4 -oxo -1- (2H) phthalazinone as a newly prepared ionophore and o-nitrophenyl octyl ether (o-NPOE) as plasticizer was prepared. The electrode exhibited a Nernstian response for Cut ion (29.0 $ 2.0 mV/decade) over a wide concentration range (7 × 10% - 1.5 × 10 M) with a detection limit of (2.0 × 10* M ). The sensor showed a fast response time (30 s) and the membrane can be used for more than two months without observing any major deviation. The electrode revealed very good selectivity with respect to many cations including Na*, Mg**
+, Mg', Pb, Zn**
+. Ni**
- The proposed sensor could be used in a pH range of 3.5 - 7.0. It was applied to the direct potentiometric determination of copper and in potentiometric titration of copper (IL) ion with EDTA.

This study was performed to examine the relationship between ascorbic acid (vitamin C) supplementation to cholesterol and triglyceride levels in sera of apparently healthy individuals before and after supplementation with vitamin C in sera of (40) healthy volunteers subject (21male &19 female ) were divided to four groups A ,A,B,B' refer to male volunteers before supplementation ,male volunteers after supplementation, female volunteers before supplementation and female volunteers after supplementation with vitamin C respectively .
Asignificant decrease cholesterol and triglyceride in sera of all studied group after supplementation with vitamin C ,compared to the before supplementation were found
This study showed the relation between serum ascorbic level and reduction in serum cholesterol and triglyceride level

The Fatty acid compositions of the Seed Oil of some prunus genus such as prunus persica (peach), prunus armeniaca (apricot), prunus salicina (plum), and prunus mahleb which are grown in Kurdistan Region-Iraq (Season 2003) were determined.
The percentages of seed oils were found to be 3.7, 4.4, 5.5, 33.5, and 32.8% respectively.
It has been found that the seed oils of all studied fruits contain myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic, and linoleic acid, while seed oils of prunus armeniaca (apricot) and two varieties of prunus mahleb (Haji &Qaradak) contain (C17) heptadecanoic acid which is the odd number of Carbon and the rare fatty acid in nature.
All seed oils contain high levels of oleic, linoleic, and palmitic acid about 60-67%. 30%, and 10% respectively.
Key Words: GLC, Fatty acid, Heptadecanoic acid (C17),
Prunus genus fruits.

Aseries of Bis-1,4.[3(2-thio-cthanoio hydrazide-2N-Arylidene)
-1,3,4-Oxadiazole-2-yl] butane derivatives.[6 a-h],and
another series at Bis-1,4-[4N-amino Arylidene -3 ithiol -1,2,4-triazole - 3-yl] butane derivatives [9a-f] were synthesized from diethyl adipate ester.
Representive samples of the prepared compound were characterized from their I.R. and mass spectral data.

In this paper, we shall introduce a new kind of Perfect (or proper)
Mappings, namely co-Perfect Mappings, which are strictly weaker than perfect mappings. And the following are the main result: (a) Let f :X→Y be @-perfect mapping of a space X onto a space Y, then X is compact (Lindeloff), if Y is so. (b) Let f: X-Y be -perfect mapping of a regular space X onto a space Y. then X is paracompact (strongly paracompact) if Y is so paracompact (strongly paracompact). (c) Let X be a compact space and Y be a p-space then the projection p:X×Y→Y is a @-perfect mapping. Hence, XxY is compact (paracompact, strongly paracompact) if and only if Y is so.

Let R be a commutative ring with unity. In this paper we study rings satisfying ascending (descending) chain condition on semi-essential ideals, where a nonzero ideal I of a ring R is semi-essential, if INP # (0), for any nonzero prime ideal P of R. Moreover, we study semi-uniform rings, where a ring R is called semi-uniform, if every nonzero ideal of R is semi-essential.