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الانفتاح الاقتصادي وتاثيراته على التنمية في الاردن == The Economic openness and its effects on Development in Jordan

Author name: عبد الله جميل النصيرات

General topic: Administration and Economics

Specific topic: Economy

Degree: Doctorate

University: Mustansiriyah University

Language: Arabic

University location: Baghdad

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Abstract: The current international system has faced and from the beginning of the nineties decade of the last century, a wide range of structural changes. Which have enlarged in speed and generalization, which have caused radical changes over most of the economical variables which have affected the economical and social situations for all the countries, of the most prominent events in the world from economical developments and which have evolved from different economical and political events arising from its period or getting its roots from the past, are the fall of the previous Soviet union, followed by the changes in eastern Europe, and the scientific different types of living ways ,and the increased role of global economic establishments in controlling the new economical system ,and the emergency of economical collections and regional intents between the different countries .These enormous developments have created a new environment for the economic international relationships, so the developed and developing world have become in the face of an economical theory of (almost unified economical policies with a difference in details, and it is the western economical theory which depends upon the economy and competence market. and increment of the private sector role, and diminishing the role of government, and the developing countries have raced to hold and implement those economical ideas and which are represented by the international and economical opening and limitation of commerce ,and increment of the foreign utilization role, and privatization of the general sector And because the developing countries are facing so many of economical problems, which is represented by the foreign debt and their bearings, and the failure of general offset ,and the failure in payment's offsets ,and the import in flation, and the dominance of foreign investments over most of economies of these states, so the idea of following the economical opening policy have occupied a big concern in developing states in the mean time .so many believe in this policy the curing medicine as the only solution to achieve economical and social development and after the failure of many development strategies .What is applicable to developing countries is so upon Jordan, so Jordan have found that the general interest necessitates going along with the changes and coping with the attitude towards opening and globalization rather than isolation, as being universal global attitudes, so it chose the policy" of universal economical policy as the only solution to achieve the economical and social development.It is important to mention that Jordan has faced in 1988 a shocking economical crises which made him unable to continue its developmental path, and,, paying its foreign debts or serving its bearings ,which have created too many difficulties ,the first of which is getting help from the international monetary fund to reschedule its debts and getting more of it ,and the second to lower the Jordanian Dinner value and the cash instability and the third is to adhere to the prescription of international monetary fund to rebuild the economy ,from here, so a lot of the procedures and legislation’s which are approved by Jordan within the structural adjustment programs, which were done with a previous preparation with the international institutes which were seeing that implementing these policies and procedures is necessary to have a maintained economical development, in addition to its interest in merging Jordan into the international economy through encouraging the policy of universal economic openness. The main objective of the study is to show the extent of economic openness in Jordan to specify the effects of this openness on Jordanian development.Result for studied years (1980 - 2000) showed Jordanian economy is open widely abroad, the rate of its economic openness is (72.5%), and the rate of imports to the gross national product (56.1%). Financial indicators showed that Jordan depends exclusively on abroad in financing the deficit in public budget and balance of payment. Rate of abroad general credit to gross national product (129.2%), and rate of remittance without charge (26.5%).This policy had bad effects on Jordanian Economy materialized in decreasing of national income and the individual's share it and aggravation of unemployment and poverty, The present work showed that population rate under extreme poverty line is (26%) during 1998, and (4.5%) of population is under thorough poverty. Unemployment compromised (27.5%) of the total labor according to non¬ - governmental data.If the policy behind the economic openness is to attract foreign investment, these investments constituted only low rate of (40.4%) out of total investments. The major part of this investments are Arabic investments which were focused on service sector to gain fast revenues with low risks that led to the expansion of this sector at the expense of other economic sectors.The study ends up with recommendations including dependence on the self, the optimum use of national resources, decreasing the dependence on capitalists and thorough economic openness orientation to Arabic nations

Design And Fpga Implementation Of Neural Network

Author name: مثنى حاجم حمد العامري

General topic: Control and Systems Engineering

Specific topic: Control and systems engineering

Degree: Doctorate

University: Mustansiriyah University - College Of Engineering - Department Of Electrical Engineering

Language: English

University location: Baghdad

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Abstract: The use Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) can be a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The feedforward neural network has a wide application area such as pattern recognition, image compression, and classification problem. Two models of a feedforward neural network are proposed and implemented using the schematic editor of the Xilinx foundation series 2.1i. Model - 1 consists of two layers and specializes in solving linear problems. Depending on the type of application, the input layer can receive 2 to 126 input values ordered in 256x16bits RAMs. The connection weights are distributed over four 256x16bits RAMs where, the four RAMs exchange their active role in swapping operation. Model - 2 is a modified copy from Model - 1 and consists of three layers and it is responsible for classifying non - linear problems.The mathematical model of the data set (weights and inputs) is presented in a matrix multiplication format. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is a modern method used to reduce patterns set dimensionality and hence speeds up the training phase iterations. Speeds up the training phase will eventually minimize the over all system execution time. Each model is designed and implemented in five stages without using the finite state machine. It controls the processes of the forward propagation phase, error calculation, and training algorithm. These processes are managed by many control circuits like, J - K synchronized circuit, sign - detector/sum - sub control circuit, and timers that takes the role of finite state machine. These five stages make the design easily to implemented and modified. Modification in the system parameters (No. of inputs, No. of outputs, or No. of layers) can be performed in the appropriate stage without reservation.The flexibility, low costly, and real - time operation are the main features of the proposed design. Model - 1 execution time is 2.935µs and model - 2 execution time is 2.96µs, while the costs of two models are 1927 and 2017 CLBs respectively.These features compare extremely well with other existing designs with good advantages.

دراسة نظرية لتحديد افضل قدرة مستحصلة في منظومة القدرة التناضحية المفتوحة == Theoretical Study And Optimization of An Open Cycle Osmotic Power Process

Author name: مضر صباح حميد

Supervisor name: عادل عبيد شريف الحسيني | احمد فرحان عطوان

General topic: Physics

Specific topic: Physics

Degree: Doctorate

University: Mustansiriyah University - Faculty Of Education

Language: English

University location: Baghdad

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تصنيع وتوصيف خلايا شمسية مرنة == Fabrication And Characterization of Flexible Solar Cells

Author name: علي محسن عبد الحسين اللامي

Supervisor name: زينب عبد السلام الرمضان | فلاح ابراهيم العطار

General topic: Physics

Specific topic: Physics

Degree: Doctorate

University: Mustansiriyah University - Faculty Of Education

Language: English

University location: Baghdad

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Author name: هدى سعدون البياتي

Supervisor name: ميسون علي سليم | ناهي يوسف ياسين | عصام سلمان العزاوي

General topic: Medicine

Specific topic: Microbiology

Degree: Doctorate

University: Mustansiriyah University

Language: English

University location: Baghdad

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Abstract: Worldwide, cancers of the urinary bladder are complex and involve genetic abnormalities and may be due to different environmental chemical carcinogens, as well as chronic infection like Schistosomiasis, all these will allow normal transitional cells to become cancerous which are typically transitional cell carcinoma(TCC).This study was conducted at AL - Yarmouk and Baghdad Teaching Hospitals in Baghdad from June 2013 to April 2014, of which urine and bladder tissue were taken from 57 bladder cancer patients and 80 controls to assess Interleukin - 8 (IL - 8), Matrix MetalloPeptidase - 9 (MMP - 9), Bladder Cancer - Associated Protein (BLCA - 4),Toll - Like Receptors (TLR - 2and TL - R4) level among them and to evaluate their roles in cancer development.One hundred thirty seven Iraqi individual were divided to 28(20.43%) newly diagnosed and 29(21.16%) recurrent bladder cancer patients (relapse), 40(29.19%) apparently healthy volunteers and 40(29.19%) autopsies (apparently normal urothelium), of whom urinesample and tissue biopsy were collected, clinical diagnosis of patients carried out by cystoscopic and histopathological examination, the mean ±SD age of bladder cancer patients were (63± 9.3) with (M : F ratio7.1 : 1).Predominant cancer type was Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). According to risk factors of bladder cancer, out of 57 bladder cancer patients, 34(59.64%), 29(50.87%), 9(15.78%), 7(12.28%), 6(10.52%) were smoker, had UTI, history of Schistosomiasis, family history ofcancer and stones respectively. In this study 30 patients had non - muscle invasive bladder cancer, most of them (21) had newly diagnosed tumors, and only 9 had recurrent disease, as well as, 27 patients with muscle - invasive bladder tumor, just 7 had newly diagnosed tumors and 20 with recurrent disease.According to the result of ELISA technique, the mean±SD urine level IL - 8(pg/ml) for recurrent bladder cancer patients was 359.6±170.1pg/ml, for newly diagnosed was 265.95±139.09pg/ml and for healthy volunteers was 62.04±37.66pg/ml. The mean ±SD concentration of urine MMP - 9(pg/ml) was 7368.3±1730.19pg/ml for recurrent, 6176.8±2366.9 pg/ml for newly diagnosed and 1131.53±1554.80 pg/ml for healthy volunteers. Mean±SD Level of urine BLCA - 4 (ng/ml) for recurrent was 1.45± 0.26 ng/ml, for newly diagnosed was 1.30± 0.22 ng/ml and for healthy volunteers was 1.02±0.067 ng/ml. Urine level of these markers was significantly higher in recurrence group when compared with newly diagnosed and these levels decreased in normal volunteers which was statistically significance (P<0.001 for IL - 8, MMP - 9and BLCA - 4),also there was a significant increase in urine IL - 8 level according to grade(P=0.0002) and muscle invasion(P= 0.0009) as well as BLCA - 4 showed this significant increase in high grade(P=0.0001), and muscle invasion(P=0.0001),but no significant difference was found in the level of urine MMP - 9 with grade(P=0.23) and muscle invasion(P =0.069)In comparison, IL - 8 and MMP - 9 IHC staining of bladder tissue, showed low expression in cancerous tissue with no significant difference between cancer and normal urothelium(P=0.140 for IL - 8, P=0.265 for MMP - 9 ), and unrelated to grade, muscle invasion and recurrence.Significant increase in TLR - 2 and TLR - 4 expression in bladder cancer tissue than in normal urothelium (P=0.0001 for each), and according to grade and muscle invasion, TLR - 2 showed significant over expression in high grade than low grade (40.7%vs36.6%) with P=0.018, muscle invasion than non - muscle invasion (44.4%vs33.3%) with P value of 0.02, while TLR - 4 was none significantly correlated with grade andmuscle invasion. As well as, there was no correlation between these receptors with tumor recurrence.In regard to risk factors, Smoking, schistosomiasis and family history showed correlation with study marker in different manner as, IL - 8 was significantly highly expressed in smoking associated bladder cancer group, as well as patients with family history of bladder cancer showed high expression IL - 8, for Schistosoma associated TCC patients and UTI they demonstrated a statistically significant high expression of TLR - 2 p= (0.0001).From this study we conclude that urine IL - 8, MMP - 9and BLCA - 4 measured by ELISA showed specificity in diagnosis of bladder cancer, besides that, urine IL - 8, MMP - 9 and BLCA - 4 have a role in discrimination between newly diagnosed vs recurrent, with a significant association between urine IL - 8 with BLCA - 4 (P= 0.0001) and IL - 8 with MMP - 9 (P= 0.005) in patients with recurrent bladder cancer. Urine IL - 8 and BLCA - 4 concentration were statistically with significant increase in high grade than low grade and muscle invasion than non - muscle invasion, On the other hand, bladder cancer cells over express TLR - 2 and TLR - 4,while TLR - 2 showed correlation with high grade and muscle invasion,TLR4 did not show such correlation. Lastly, IL - 8 and MMP - 9 staining showed low expression in tumor tissue of different grades, stages and groups.