BACKGROUND Adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet is linked to a lower risk of mortality and chronic disease, but the association with the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and genetic susceptibility is unknown. OBJECTIVE We examined the association of adherence to the Mediterranean diet and genetic susceptibility with progression to advanced AMD. DESIGN Among 2525 subje...

Most migration literature focuses on large scale movements of people across country borders, while the internal migration trends of countries are commonly neglected, despite the fact that the understanding of internal migration trends is crucial for planning the future for a country. In Iraq a major reason for migration has been security a direct result of its turbulent history since the 1980’s...

During object manipulation the brain integrates the visual, auditory, and haptic experience of an object into a unified percept. Previous brain imaging studies have implicated for instance the dorsal part of the lateral occipital complex in visuo-tactile and the posterior superior temporal sulcus in audio-visual integration of object-related inputs (Amedi et al., 2005). Yet it is still unclear ...

In sensory substitution devices (SSDs), visual information captured by an artificial receptor is delivered to the brain using non-visual sensory information. Using an auditory-to-visual SSD called "The vOICe" we previously reported that blind individuals perform successfully on object recognition tasks and are able to recruit specific ventral 'visual' structures for shape recognition using the ...

in most of history books 4th a.h. has been introduced a sadifferent kind of islamic civilization, because of having a lot of well known person that can astonish researchers. there were a lot of people who migrated to basre and learned arabic and literature from ebne doraid. sinse knowing words is very important and it’s source other knowledges and it shows his greatpart in growing science and c...

Using clean energy sources instead of traditional methods production is important to tackle global warming and climate change. As in the rest cities Kurdistan Region Iraq, national electricity outage crisis continues Duhok Governorate via different still needed. This paper studies simulation two types solar systems on school roofs using Homer Pro software. The first a grid-connected system seco...

Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) are a relatively novel concept, based on the idea of multisensory brain. Research synaesthesia and sensory pairings has revealed that modalities brain interconnected. Nature demonstrated examples people who have lost one sense, which then been substituted by increased ability in another, for example case Daniel Kish navigates like bat (Burgess, 2021) clicking...

Studying the brains of blind individuals provides a unique opportunity to investigate how the brain changes and adapts in response to afferent (input) and efferent (output) demands. We discuss evidence suggesting that regions of the brain normally associated with the processing of visual information undergo remarkable dynamic change in response to blindness. These neuroplastic changes implicate...