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Chapter One Introduction 1.1. Introduction: Determining the nutritional status accurately in hemodialysis (HD) patients is one of the most difficult problems; because it depends on indirect methods as well as the accuracy of some nutritional markers are questionable (Chumlea, 2004). Patients with end-stage renal disease often experience malnutrition as a result of decreased dietary intake; inadequate dialysis; loss of nutrients into the dialysate; abnormal protein, carbohydrate, and lipid…

The Survey was undertaken on 1213 Iraqi primary school children, 564 boys and 649 girls, of mixed socioeconomic classes. The schools and children were randomly selected by the Statistics Department in the Ministry of Health from the province of Baghdad, which is situated in the center of Iraq and is the most populated41. The results showed that there were no differences between boys and girls in the caries prevalence, which ranged from 0.6 at age 6 years old to 2.7 at age 12 years old. The rate…

behave or how to treat people. Fables are often short and feature comical qualities throughout their pages. In “Appointment in Samara,” the author humanized the force of nature, death. Lines like, "Death told his companion,"I'm gathering people in Baghdad," lead the reader to refer to the death as it's own character. Parables also teach moral and ethical lessons, but they only have human characters. In a parable the plot is much more realistic, and fall more into a mysterious and suspenseful…

Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban ii called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He form an army and head to Jerusalem, to have a Crusade. Anyone killed on this quest would go to directly to heaven. Some of the first responders were Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whose followers were some of the poor from Germany and France. They would soon destroy the Muslims and the Holy Land. This would…

In today’s contemporary society religion and law are viewed as two distinct categories, which seem to never interconnect or even cross lines with one another. Religion is often regarded as a personal entity that has no effect on the community as a whole. This westernized view of religion is true to a certain extent— religion is a personal choice, but it is also a method of control. Religion, in this case, Islam, is crafted in such a way that satisfies the wellbeing of the individual, and along…

The 13th century conquests of the Mongols have never been matched. Under Genghis Khan’s leadership, the “horsemen of the steppe” conquered China and the Muslim parts of central Asia and pushed deep into Europe and the Middle East in just about 25 years. Although their attempts to take Japan and Southeast Asia failed, only once did they suffer a notably decisive defeat, a defeat which came at the hands of Mameluke general Baibars at Ain Jalut, Palestine around the year 1260. The Romans had an…

Group polarisation and groupthink in society Introduction Group polarization (from the Latin. polarisatia - shift to the edge, the offset to the pole) - socio-psychological phenomenon that occurs as a result of group discussions during which diverse opinions and positions of the participants are not smoothed, and executed by the end of the discussion in two diametrically opposite positions, excluding any compromises. Also, under group polarization we understand the aggravation of extreme group…

George Pelecanos’s The Turnaround Analysis George Pelecanos is a native of Washington, D.C. and a best -selling author of eighteen novels. Pelecanos is also known for the HBO series The Wire and received an Emmy nomination as a writer and producer for the series. The Turnaround takes place in July 1972 in a neighborhood called Heathrow Heights. Heathrow is an all-black community with people who are proud of their history. The story is…

Ryland Ficzel Lori Walker ACAD 100 24 January 2016 Reading Response for There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy On any given day with a click of the remote control, we are bombarded with globalization, seemingly never ending conflicts of economic warfare and the reintroduced boogyman for adults that is known as terrorism. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major shares his thoughts in There Is No Terrorist Conspiracy on how to combat terrorism, and states the case that terrorism itself…

In the Middle East, during the Middle Ages, Islamic hospitals had a greater variety of roles. Islam believes that everyone who was ill should receive treatment, whether they were able to pay for it or not. Their hospitals were large buildings in the cities, and were open to all, without question. An Islamic hospital served many purposes: it was a place to receive medical treatment, a place for the mentally insane, a place to receive care while recovering from a sickness or an accident, and a…