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Operating room delay has multiple negative effects on the patients, surgical team, and the hospital system. Maximum utilization of the operating room requires on-time knife on the skin and efficient turnover. Knowledge of the reasons for the delay will form a basis toward proffering solutions.This was a prospective study of all consecutive elective cases done over a 15-month period from January 2016 to March 2017. Using our departmental protocol that "knife on skin" for the first elective...
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The recruitment of African American males into chosen professions in the United States of America is an increasing challenge at national, state, and local levels. Gender and racial disparities between teachers in this country and the students they teach are present in classrooms. This chapter examines the Marygrove College's Griot program as an initiative established to address the underrepresentation of African American males in additional designated occupations. The philosophy and heritage...
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What is it you are thinking? Are you thinking about a tiny “class-of-classless” individuals, who are gradually but steadily drowning in the ice-cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean, amidst over 120,000 lifeguards? Then, you may not be too far from dreaming into the legal realm of lawyers with disabilities (LWDs) in Nigeria. But when you do awake, only then would you realise, perhaps to your considerable consternation, if not anger, that this is a reality much more than a dream. Since the...
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Attempt to use the target language is a communication problem for second language learners.Communication strategy is one way to overcome the problem.The research aims to describe and explain the communication strategies used by Indonesian for foreign speaker (BIPA) students from Turkmenistan and Rwanda during BIPA learning.The research is a case study with natural background.Observations of verbal and nonverbal communication from Turkmenistan and Rwanda students were carried out at UPT...
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Background: Medical education worldwide is more expensive compared to other university courses due to the structure of the training into two phases: basic medical sciences and clinical sciences, each with extensive syllabuses and involves an array of professionals in various specialties. The burden of medical education was largely borne by the government in Nigeria until recently when the private sector forayed into the provision of tertiary education including medical education. Methods:...
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Background: The burden of stillbirth is so huge in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Nigeria where many mothers and mothers-to-be are denied the joy of motherhood. Despite the frequent occurrence of this obstetric problem in our environment, little priority is placed on it. Objectives: The study aims to bring to the fore, the burden, trend, and characteristics of stillbirth delivery in Lagos, Nigeria. Subjects and Methods: This was a 5-year descriptive retrospective study of the case records...
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Climate change and human activities are increasingly linked with the extinction of species globally.In semi-arid regions, these pressures threaten the natural distribution and ecology of species.The threat that the shea butter tree (Vitellaria paradoxa subsp.nilotica) faces from human activity is well researched yet the sensitivity of its distribution to climate change remains barely known.We set out to assess the potential distribution of Vitellaria under different climate change scenarios...
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Abstract Climate affects the quantity of soil moisture within the surface of the earth and this is obtained by affecting the amount of radon flux density escaping from the land surface. This chapter contains the evaluation of climate change conditions as it affects the variability of soil water for the purpose of estimating the health effects of radon flux density within Ogbomoso metropolis. The simulated soil moisture content around Ogbomoso was done for a period of 34 years using the...
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On March 20th 2020 the Federal Government of Nigeria ordered the closure of all educational institutions, this was inclusive of all medical schools in the country. During the initial phases of this closure, most institutions were at a loss on how to proceed with learning as universities in Nigeria use mainly the didactic lecturing model. As the lockdown progressed it became imperative to the institutions to set up e-learning media for continued instruction of students. It was found that in...
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A project report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in E-science (Data Science)