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To determine the perception of pain and discomfort associated with orthodontic separator placement in patients attending the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.Sixty four patients scheduled for treatment with fixed orthodontic appliances completed questionnaires before insertion of separators and after placement at 4 hours, 24 hours and 7 days. The level of pain and discomfort during these time periods was assessed by a visual analogue scale.There was a significant increase...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has suffered from a bloody conflict for more than a decade. More than 5,400,000 people died from war-related causes since 1998 and exposure to violence was wide-spread. This study investigated the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms on perceived health and physical and social functioning, filling an important gap in the current literature. Data were collected from a sample of 93 adults living in Bunia, Eastern Democratic Republic of...

This study sought to examine the attitude of teachers in Rusununguko Cluster of Shurugwi in the Midlands Province in order to establish the extent to which performance management helped to improve performance of teachers in schools. The descriptive survey research design was used and the sampling technique used was the random sampling. Thirty (30) teachers and seven (7) heads were used as research subjects. Questionnaires and interviewers were used as instruments. The data that was collected...

As for many other effusive volcanoes, Mount Cameroon (MC) is a volcano for which only limited information exists on lava flow properties and emplacement dynamics for recent eruptions. This study provides new quantitative constraints for rheological and dynamic characteristics of lava flow effusion for the 1982 and 2000 eruptive events, used to calibrate the FLOWGO thermo-rheological model for these lava flows. The FLOWGO 1-D physical model is used to simulate down-flow evolution of the...

The study assesses the effects of climate change on poultry production in Ondo State, Nigeria.Eighty three (83) poultry farmers were interviewed to elicit relevant information in line with the objectives of the study.Descriptive statistics and inferential statistical tools were used for data analysis.Findings revealed that majority (93.3%) of the respondents are aware of climate change, 78%, 98.8% and 86.7% of the respondents agreed that temperature fluctuation, increased in sunshine...

Although twin gestation is associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality, optimal management of this high risk pregnancy is associated with improved outcome for the mother and her baby. Globally, Nigeria has the highest incidence of twinning. This makes studies on twin gestation important, especially on the outcome of the babies which is reflection of the type of care received during the antenatal and intrapartum period.This study was designed to determine the fetal outcomes of...

The study was carried out to examine the effect of training and visit system on professionalization of extension agents in Osun State Agricultural Development Programme of Nigeria. Seventy-five data were collected by interviewing extension agents constituted the sample size and were interviewed through the aid of using a well-structured questionnaire and information obtained were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and person correlation coefficient was used for testing the research...

One of the problems confronting Muslim women in Nigeria today is lack of good knowledge of Arabic and Islamic Studies. This is greatly affecting their roles to rear children that will contribute positively to the society. The glorious Qur’ān shows that women are competent by making them partners with men in the work of preaching (Da‘wah). A detailed knowledge of Islam is, therefore, needed and this made knowledge of Arabic language necessary for every Muslim woman. This work looked into the...

Research has shown a positive relationship between substance use and delinquent-type behaviours among adolescents. The aim of this study is to explore the temporal relationships between these outcomes through secondary data analysis of a longitudinal study of high-school students' risk behaviours. Two regression models were compared and gender, socioeconomic status and repeating a grade were found to be consistent predictors of delinquent-type behaviour. Alcohol (OR: 1.26, CI: 1.02-1.55, p =...

In August 2010, data for this exploratory study were drawn from a sample of 185 undergraduate social work students from a public university in Ghana. Ordinal logistic regressions were run to analyze the relationship between social work students’ demographic variables and their perceptions toward poverty and social welfare policies in Ghana. The results of this study found that social work students’ age, gender, marital status, number of children, socioeconomic status, and area of...

The extent to which electronic resources are utilised by undergraduate students will depend largely on some factors pertaining to the users, especially computer literacy and subject background. Therefore, the study investigated the influence of computer literacy and subject background on the use of electronic resources by undergraduate students in two universities in South- western Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted in the study with the questionnaire as a major instrument for...

The study has used a descriptive survey design.The study was carried out in Meru County.The study area was limited to the lower part of Meru County whose climatic condition is suitable for mangoes production.This study adopted a likelihoodselection method for getting the respondents.Out of 13,442 farmers, traders and exporters, 447 farmers, 12 traders and 2 exporters were randomly selected for interview.Secondary data used in the study was collected from the Ministry of Agriculture...

This essay sets out to give legal perceptions on resolve social stigma towards the mentally disabled persons in Zambia. It focuses on the stigma towards persons with mental disabilities and questions why society finds it difficult to accept mentally disabled persons as being comparable to physical disabled persons, and as amenable to treatment and prevention. The essay further establishes what society itself is doing to integrate persons with mental disabilities into mainstream society.The...

Drought is one of the major scourges of humanity with its devastations manifested in form of negative economic impacts, massive malnutrition, human miserly and death to both livestock and people. Yet drought (and its impacts) is not new and has been a subject of writing from early days and from many parts of the world. This paper discusses weather and human related causes of drought in Kenya, using a case study of the 2008-2009 and the 2011 droughts in Kenya and affecting the whole Horn of...

This article explores how Applied Ethics, especially Business Ethics, is taught at the University of South Africa (Unisa). This discussion refers to the content of a particular Unisa module, Theoretical and Applied Ethics, which serves as an introduction to Bio-medical Ethics, Business Ethics and Environmental Ethics. The fundamentals of this course are: defining ethics; providing methods for moral decision-making; describing the role of ethics in a particular field and addressing common...

Background : Food intake contains various nutrients which the loss or destruction are exogenous factors of oxidative damages in our body, aggravated by infectious diseases. Blood ratio Cu/Zn is an indicator about the pool of defenses anti oxidizing to measure damage oxidative. The present study aimed to investigate the blood ratio Cu/Zn an indicator of pool of oxidative stress and eating risk factors in children school age, living in malaria endemic area. Methods : A total of 113...