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Background: Coma is a highly frequent situation associated with several diseases.Objective: That is to assess the prognostic factors of comas at the intensive care unit of the university teaching hospital of Parakou.Patients and Methods: It is a cross-sectional study with descriptive and analytical purpose based on prospective gathering of data.It has been performed from March 1 to July 31, 2014.The population study consists of 100 adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit for...

Introduction: Anemia among reproductive age group women in Ethiopia is moderate public health problem.However, the prevalence of anemia among school going adolescent girls is not well documented yet.Objective: To determine the magnitude of anemia and associated factors among school going adolescent girls in Berahle district, Afar, northeast Ethiopia.Methodology: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed.Multi-stage sampling technique was used: In first stage schools were...

The study investigates, by way of comparison, the performance level in GSE Courses, offered by students majoring in Language Combinations and those majoring in Vocational and Technical Education combinations. These GSE courses are otherwise known as Use of English in most tertiary institutions in Nigeria. In Colleges of Education, they are referred to as 'General I, II, III, IV and V. The study sets out to affirm whether field of study and duration of course do impact positively or otherwise...

Background: Non-adherence to drug therapy is an important cause of treatment failure among patients with chronic conditions like diabetes.Previous researches have presented associations among personality traits, medication beliefs and adherence to long-term medication treatment in individuals with different chronic diseases.However, there is limited knowledge about associations among personality traits, medication belief and adherence to diabetic treatment in Africa.It was on this basis that...

The use of traditional medicine as alternative or complimentary therapy is gaining prominence in primary health care worldwide. This is because of the efficacy in the management of mild, chronic seemingly incurable ailments/diseases. Though the publicity is on the increase from country to country in the world, however, one cannot conclude that the information has reached all classes of people. This study therefore investigated identification, knowledge and consumption practice of herbal...

This study examines causal impact of 1976 Universal Primary Education (UPE) on individual schooling attainment in the Nigeria. This study exploits the quasi-natural experiment offered by the large-scale government investment in Universal Primary Education between 1976 and 1981 to confront the identification problems associated with this kind of study. Results from the Differences-in-Differences technique established that the UPE programme had positive and statistically significant impact on...

Background: Owing to progressive urbanization and the associated changes in lifestyle, childhood overweight/obesity is becoming a challenging problem in many emerging countries while malnutrition is far from being over. This study, which was carried out in the school setting, therefore, aimed to compare the pattern and determinants of the weight status of school-age children from rural and urban communities of Osun State, Nigeria. Methodology: A total of 300 respondents each was selected...

A study was conducted to analyze adaptation strategies employed by farmers in meeting the adverse effect of climate change on rice production. Primary data were collected from 135 respondents selected from 7 villages with the aid of questionnaire and data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics and tobit regression model. The result revealed that majority of the respondents (98.9%) believed that climate change is experienced as a result of God's punishment because of evil act. The...

Background-Sexually transmitted diseases are a major health problem affecting mostly young people, not only in developing, but also in developed countries.It is an infection that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.Objectives: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice on sexual transmitted infection among Haile Mariam Mamo preparatory school students, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia,...

The role of architecture in education, business, practice, community and national development cannot be underestimated; as it combines expression, technology and the satisfaction of human needs in terms of social, cultural, behavioural, psychological and other specific and generic needs in the particularity of the users. But today, to what extent can architecture influence the process of design in planning for user-clients in different societal categories; individual, group, communities, and...

Physics instruction in secondary schools is a fundamental panacea towards achieving scientific knowledgeable citizens which can propel a nation in the realization of a sustainable economic force. This paper therefore x-rayed ordeals of physics instruction in Nigerian secondary schools and the way forward for the attainment of global competitiveness. The research has descriptive survey design. Ninety-two (92) physics teachers and eight secondary schools (four in each Local Government Area)...

In this study, eleven soil samples and twenty-twoplants samples were collected in the vicinity of eleven industries and a thermal station was analyzed for zinc, copper, iron, lead and cadmium.Soil sample from Egbin thermal station had the highest concentration of Zn (141.06 mg/kg) and Cu (131.70 mg/kg).Soil from international textile had the highest level of Fe and the soil from Nichemtex had the highest concentration Pb and Cd was the highest in soil from Guinness (28.91 mg/kg, 59.80 mg/kg...

The study investigated the impact of entrepreneurship education on employment generation and the effect of entrepreneurial skill acquisition on entrepreneurial performances. It also examined the impact of the university attended on employment generation among Nigerian graduates. Survey research design was employed for the study. 72 graduates’ entrepreneurs which form our respondents were selected from 6 Local government Areas (LGAs) of Oyo State, South West, Nigeria, through the use of...

The threat to lives and property by flood is now becoming very frequent and almost an annual event in many Nigerian urban centres, claiming many lives and property worth several billions of Naira in each occurrence. Although, several studies have traced the causes of the menace to human factors and topography, it has been predicted that the crisis is likely to be exacerbated by climate change with many of the sub-Sahara African countries most vulnerable. This has generated research interest...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) predominates in sub-Saharan Africa, East Mediterranean areas, Middle East, and India. Nigeria, being the most populous black nation in the world, bears its greatest burden in sub-Saharan Africa. The last few decades have witnessed remarkable scientific progress in the understanding of the complex pathophysiology of the disease. Improved clinical insights have heralded development and establishment of disease modifying interventions such as chronic blood...

The study investigated farmers’ notion of climate change and their response to rainfall variability in Oron, a Coastal settlement in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study is to determine farmer’s notion of climate and their response to climate variability. The farmers’ perception of climate change  is necessary for preparedness and planning purposes in an agrarian community in order to boost farm productivity. Through the use of structured questionnaires, data for...