The findings show that some groups who inject IPEDs may be more vulnerable to blood-borne virus transmission and/or less likely to know their blood-borne virus status. From design to delivery, IPED harm minimisation strategies should pay attention to the needs of CALD groups.

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The study focuses on the acquisition of English prepositions among students of Iraqi secondary school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Participants in the study were (20) students all of them at sixth level. The researchers studied the students' responses to the given test to investigate the problematic prepositions of English language that Iraqi English as foreign language (EFL) learners have in their everyday and academic usage; and investigate the way that EFL Iraqi learners differentiate between using English and Arabic prepositions. The major finding in this study is that the main reason for all the errors is the dominance of the mother tongue (MT) on English language (EL), especially with Arabic language having a syntactic structure when imposed on EL that too with Arabic meaning on EL. The dominance and influence of one's MT is a major challenge in using the EL in the right way by Iraqi EFL learners. In a subconscious manner, Iraqi EFL learners tend to use or impose their MT's syntactic, semantic structures and patterns on EL. Arabic and English have different number of prepositions and word-to-word equivalents of prepositions cannot be found between Iraqi Arabic and English Languages. Iraqi EFL learners are influenced by the prepositional system of their MT (Arabic) when they intend to use the prepositions in EL and this leads to errors and lack of idiomaticity. Inaccuracy is a result of this, which is reflected in class hours for EFL learners.

Iraq as a multicultural and multilingual country has different languages as Arabic, which is the dominant language, and it also has some other minority languages, such as Kurdish, Turkish, Syriac....etc. Over the last 80 years, Iraq which was involved in some political struggles, had faced many internal problems regarding the Arabic domination that occurred, and this was owing to the absence of clear language policy used. Children learning in the Iraqi system, for instance, speak and study all courses in Arabic, while speaking and using their own culture at home tend to be done in their first language. The minorities' language usage in Iraq was ignored both inside the schools as well as in the curriculum construction. So this study focuses on the following issues: the first issue is, What is the strategy of language planning policy in Iraq? the study discusses the strategy and the planning educational system that Iraq applies now, the second issue is, What is the status of minority languages in Iraq? Iraq is a multicultural county and has many minorities communities with different languages, the third issue is, What are the challenges of language in Iraq? as long as there is different languages within one country the study also focuses on the challenges that been faced in the planning policy system, and the last issue is, Is there a homogenous relationship during the current policy? How? the study shows the homogenous relationship inside the current policy and the researches give many suggestions and recommendations regarding to the current policy and what is needed for improving the educational planning policy system.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of Dexmedetomidine (Precedex) in addressing the mean haemodynamic stress response to laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation (L&I). Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Anesthesiology Department, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from Jun 2019 Jun 2020. Methodology: The patients were divided into two groups. Group A was given Inj. Dexmedetomidine and group B (placebo). Operation theatre assistant randomly assigned the patients to either group A or group B each day. The second person administered the drug or placebo. The third person (researcher) recorded all the parameters mentioned in the proforma. Results: There were 100 patients with an age range of 18-60 years. The majority of the patients were ASA-I physical status. The main surgical procedure was laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Recording of heart rate and systolic blood pressure during laryngoscopy and intubation, after administration of drug or placebo, showed mean heart rate less than mean basal value in group-A and 22% above mean basal value in group-B, and it was statistically highly significant (p-value <0.001). Whereas mean systolic blood pressure in group-A was 122.42 ± 14.91 (less than the mean basal value) as compared to group B, 155.00 ± 18.32/min (20% above mean basal value). This change was also statistically highly significant (p-value <0.001). Conclusion: It is concluded that dexmedetomidine showed statistically significant stabilizing effects on the expected changes of the hemodynamic stress response.