Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: A Critical Study of war and its negative impact From an Ironic Perspective

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of the many American writers who lived during the World War-I and was highly affected by it. He wrote a number of well-known war novels and the most famous of them is his war novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). Hemingway has adopted an ironic method to show the contrast between the ideal and the real of the world of war and its influence upon both the military and the civil people as well. Irony as used in this study involves the recognition of incongruities, the contrast between the appearance and reality. The role of irony in his fiction is to elucidate this attitude which affects his vision of the modern world and its horrible war. By analyzing the method of irony in A Farewell to Arms, this study aims at showing the writer's ironic point of view in treating the negative effects of the war and its atmosphere both physically and psychologically

The Effect of the Round House Strategy on Acquiring Geographical Concepts for Fourth-grade Literary Pupils and Developing their Effective Communication

The current research aims to identify (the effect of the round house strategy in acquiring geographical concepts for fourth-grade literary pupils and developing their effective communication). This sample Andalusia for girls was randomly divided into two groups, one of them was an experimental group that included (32) male and female students who studied geography using the circular house strategy, and the other was a control group consisting of (33) male and female students, who studied the same material in the traditional way. Which:(Chronological age of students in months, educational level of parents, measure of effective communication).The researchers identified the topics studied during the experiment, which included the first, second and third chapters of the geography book for the fourth literary grade to be taught for the academic year (2019-2020) in the Republic of Iraq. The first test was the Geographical Concepts Acquisition Test consisting of (13) items, and its validity, stability and distinction were verified, as well as conducting statistical analyzes of its paragraphs. The results showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the test of concept acquisition and the effective communication scale

Expert System to Manage the Safety Requirements for Concrete Works Related to Jordanian Construction Projects

Numerous investigations that had been conducted in Jordan to evaluate the safety management in carrying out construction projects revealed that the implementation of this item is relatively below the desired level. In this research, a specialized software (Expert System) was proposed to improve the current situation regarding the application of the right rules in safety management for concrete works related to Jordanian construction projects. The proposed system contains a lot of ideal terms, specifications, and standards for conducting an acceptable safety management and for getting rid of (or reducing) accidents and other types of risks inside the project site. As a conclusion derived from this research, Expert System is aimed at enhancing the existing situation regarding the safety management for construction projects, and therefore to keep the workers and other staff to be away from all kinds of public risks inside the construction project, and accordingly the proposed software is recommended to be adopted in following up the application of safety management procedures in construction sites. Keywords: Safety Management, Concrete Works, Expert System, Construction Projects, Safety Requirement

IWCD-PROPOSED IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD BASED ON INTEGER WAVELET AND DCT

This paper describes a new lossy image compression decompression algorithm. In lossy compression techniques there are some loss of information, and image cannot be reconstructed exactly.This algorithm will be referred to as (IWDC), which stands for integer wavelet (IWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) and this algorithm improves existing techniques and develops new image compressors.(IWDC) is efficient than corresponding DCT and wavelet transform functions and incorporating DCT and integer wavelet transform are shown to improve the performance of the DCT and integer wavelet (IWT). In the new proposed compression is more efficient than the still image compression methods

ADHESION OF UROPATHOGENIC AND ENTEROPATHOGENIC Escherichia coli TO HUMAN BUCCAL EPITHELIAL CELLS

Fifty urine samples were collected from patients with urinary tract infections and a 50 stool specimens from diarrhoeal patients . These samples were investigated bacteriologically. The invitro adherence test of Enteropathogenic and Uropathogenic E. coli to healthy human buccal epithelial cells was carried out. The results show no significant differences in the mean adhesion of these bacteria (two sources) on the epithelial cells as compard with the control . but there is a little variation among EPEC isolates and among UPEC isolates too as compared with the control

Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of Isatin Schiff Base Derivative with 3-Aminoacetophenone and its Ni(II), Co(II) Transition Metals Complexes

The (E)-3-(3-acetylphenylimino) indolin-2-one (Bidentate) ligand type [HL], has been prepared from Isatin and 3-aminoacetophenone in the presence of KOH. In general, the ligand contains oxygen (O) and nitrogen (N) donor atoms. The reaction of Isatin and 3-aminoacetophenon was carried out in ethanol by condensation reaction at 80°C with reflux for 4 h, to form [HL] ligand type. This ligand has been used to prepare NiII and CoII complexes in the ratio of 1:1 metal-ligand. All compounds have been characterized by spectroscopic methods (Fourier transform infrared and ultravioletvisible), C.H.N, thin-layer chromatography, mass spectrum, X-ray diffraction, magnetic moment, conductivity measurements and milting point, the synthesized ligand and its metal complexes have been tested for their antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis using agar disc diffusion method. The ligand and its complexes showed significant activities against S. aureus and B. subtilis. Our study revealed the formation of four coordinate square planar complexes around NiII and CoII metal ions

Synthesis and Characterization of Iron(II), Cobalt(II), Nickel(II), Copper(II), and Zinc(II) Complexes Using Diphenylmethyl Xanthate Ligand

Potassium Diphenylmethyl Xanthate and its monomeric complexes were synthesized at room temperature under inert gas and stirring condition. The ligand and its complexes of the general formula [M(L)2] (where M= FeII, CoII, NiII , CuII, ZnII and CdII) were characterized by spectroscopic methods (IR, UV-Vis, 1H-, 13C-, DEPT-, HQMC- and COSY-NMR), elemental analysis, metal content, magnetic susceptibility  measurement and molar conductance. These studies revealed the formation of four coordinate complexes

Enhancement of the Tensile and the Compression Properties for Heat- Cured Acrylic Resin Denture Base Materials

This work aims to investigate the tensile and compression strengths of heat- cured acrylic resin denture base material by adding styrene-butadiene (S- B) to polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). The most well- known issue in prosthodontic practice is fracture of a denture base. All samples were a blend of (90%, 80%) PMMA and (10%, 20%) S- B powder melted in Oxolane (Tetra hydro furan). These samples were chopped down into specimens of dimensions 100x10x2.5mm to carry out the requirements of tensile tests. The compression strength test specimens were shaped into a cylinder with dimensions of 12.7mm in diameter and 20mm in length. The experimental results show a significant increase in both tensile and compression strengths when compared to control (standard) results for the preparation material

A fully automatic nerve segmentation and morphometric parameter quantification system for early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy in corneal images

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) is one of the most common types of diabetes that can affect the cornea. An accurate analysis of the nerve structures can assist the early diagnosis of this disease. This paper proposes a robust, fast and fully automatic nerve segmentation and morphometric parameter quantification system for corneal confocal microscope images. The segmentation part consists of three main steps. First, a preprocessing step is applied to enhance the visibility of the nerves and remove noise using anisotropic diffusion filtering, specifically a Coherence filter followed by Gaussian filtering. Second, morphological operations are applied to remove unwanted objects in the input image such as epithelial cells and small nerve segments. Finally, an edge detection step is applied to detect all the nerves in the input image. In this step, an efficient algorithm for connecting discontinuous nerves is proposed. In the morphometric parameters quantification part, a number of features are extracted, including thickness, tortuosity and length of nerve, which may be used for the early diagnosis of diabetic polyneuropathy and when planning Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) or Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). The performance of the proposed segmentation system is evaluated against manually traced ground-truth images based on a database consisting of 498 corneal sub-basal nerve images (238 are normal and 260 are abnormal). In addition, the robustness and efficiency of the proposed system in extracting morphometric features with clinical utility was evaluated in 919 images taken from healthy subjects and diabetic patients with and without neuropathy. We demonstrate rapid (13 seconds/image), robust and effective automated corneal nerve quantification. The proposed system will be deployed as a useful clinical tool to support the expertise of ophthalmologists and save the clinician time in a busy clinical setting

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Annona muricata extract and their antibacterial and antibiofilm activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria

The study is centered on the synthesis, characterization, and application of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs), which show promising potential for biomedical applications. Nanobiotechnology allows for broader application while reducing the reliance on expensive and hazardous chemicals through the sustainable production of nanoparticles from plant resources. This research aims to develop an environmentally safe process for producing silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) using the Annonaceae fruit's aqueous extract as both a capping and reducing agent, and to assess their potential pharmaceutical applications as antibacterial and antifungal agents. Ag NPs were characterized using UV–vis spectroscopy technique, FT-IR, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), AFM and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The biological activity of Ag NPs was investigated against two genera of pathogenic bacteria, Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus. using the agar well diffusion assay. This study includes the plant's possible use in the pharmaceutical industry. The plant's nutritious fruit extract opens the door to further research into possibly using it as an edible medicine