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This study aimed to examine the potentials of the NLP approach in detecting discourse markers (DMs), namely okay, in a transcribed spoken data. A total of 138 concordance lines were presented to human referees to judge the functions of okay in them as a DM or non-DM. After that, the researchers used a Python script written according to the POS tagging scheme of the NLTK library to set rules for identifying cases where okay is used as non-DM. The output of the script was compared to the reference human-annotated data. The results showed that the script was capable of identifying the function of okay as DM or non-DM accurately in 92% of the cases. The inaccuracy of detecting the rest was found to be caused by a lack of proper and detailed punctuation. The implications of the results are discussed, and relevant recommendations are presented by the researchers.

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 The isolation and identification of the bacterium  L.monocytogenes among abortion in pregnant women were investigated in this research. One hundred and fifty samples including placental tissue and maternal blood were randomly collected from cases of abortion from AL-Habibia Teaching Hospital and AL-Yarmuk Teaching Hospital. These samples were taken from patients in 16 - 45 years of age. Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from three cases only, two of them  from AL-Habibia Teaching Hospital ,while the other one from AL-yarmuk Teaching Hospital. Their gestational age were 22 , 24 , and 28 weeks. Bacterial isolation was done by using routin and specific culture media and two methods for enrichment were preformed.  The biological and biochemical properties of the isolates as well as the pathogenicity of L.monocytogenes in mice were described in the original paper. Infected mice were died after 2 - 5 days post inoculation. The histopathological changes were acute suppurative inflammation in the begining « later on chronic granulomatous reaction were developed , within internal organs

In order to study some aspects of pathogenesis of Rhodococcus equi, 60 white Swiss mice were used. They were randomly divided into 2 groups. The 1s' group (40 animals) was inoculated subcutaneously with a dose of 4x10° CFU .of R.equi while the 2nd group was kept as a control. Four animals from the 1st group and 2 animals from the 2nd group were sacrified at day, 1,2,4,8,12,16,20,24,28 and 30 postinoculation (P.I) Six animals of 1stgroup were died during the first and second days P.I. Microscopical examination showed acute to subacute suppurative inflammation in the liver, lung and spleen at I to 4 days PI. While pyogranulomatous lesions and epithelioid granuloma were seen in liver, lungs and spleen at 4 to 24 days PI R.equi was isolated liver, lungs, spleen, kidney and brain in the first day PI. The bacteria persisted in the spleen from and brain up to 20th day, in the liver up to 24" day while in the lungs, and kidney bacterial isolation continuous till 28th day PI.