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Permanent pacemaker implantation is available in Nigeria. There is however no national registry or framework for pacemaker data collection. A pacemaker database has been developed in our institution and the results are analyzed in this study.The study period was between January 2008 and December 2012. Patient data was extracted from a prospectively maintained database which was designed to include the fields of the European pacemaker patient identification code.Of the 51 pacemaker implants...

This study examined the effectiveness of utilizing censored animated cartoons in teaching and learning English Grammar at St Louis Nursery and Primary School, IkereEkiti, Nigeria. An experimental design was used in comparing the effect of animated cartoons and traditional approach to vocabulary development on the experimental group and control group respectively. The subjects for the study comprised eighty four pupils in basic four in the private school selected for the study. The subjects...

In response to poverty, socio-economic inequalities, environmental degradation and spatial segregation, the urban poor in the Global South are increasingly organising themselves collectively to fight for more ‘inclusive cities’. Some of these groups have adopted a strategy of multiscalar networking to strengthen their possibilities of influence in the cities, which is a relatively new phenomenon. This study seeks to understand the dynamics of multiscalar organizing by urban poor in an...

Background: Medical imaging using ionizing radiation is an essential tool for diagnosis. Ionizing radiation has adverse biological effects on living organisms and the risk of adverse effects increases with higher doses of radiation. It is the duty of the requesting doctor to balance the risks and benefits of imaging tests involving the use of ionizing radiation. However, previous studies reveal that doctors' knowledge regarding the radiation doses incurred during diagnostic radiological...

Climate change is an issue that requires global attention and co-operation. As climate science develops an understanding of changes to the future climate state, policy makers and engineering project planners beg to know what claims can be made on the subject with a reasonable level of confidence. A common and popular mitigation strategy for reducing emissions is to build away from carbon intensive electricity production to clean energy sources like the energy produced from wind and solar...

I stopped going to school because I am from a poor family with limited financial resources. My family failed to pay my school fees and buy me a uniform and books in addition to the daily money I need for food and transport. Instead I found selling in the street more attractive and with economic benefits.

Background: Botswana is regarded as a leader of progressive HIV/AIDS policy, as the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to establish a free, national antiretroviral therapy program.In light of such programmatic successes, it is important to evaluate the potentially changing relationship of HIV/AIDS to the wellbeing of individuals, households, and institutions in the country.Methods: We evaluate the effects of HIV-related illness on absenteeism and earnings several years after the start of...

There is now a serious public outcry concerning the crisis in Nigerian education. National Conferences, Seminars and Workshops have bemoaned the multifaceted cause of this “falling standards” of education. There has been frantic search for solutions to the poor standard of teaching schools in the country. Some stakeholders have continued to blame teachers for the appalling performance of students in examinations. Across some states of the federation, where education summits were organized,...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and associated long term complications have become increasingly prevalent in developing countries.However, there is little evidence on the extent of shoulder and hand musculoskeletal complications in Ethiopia.Objective: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of shoulder and hand musculoskeletal complications and their associations among diabetic patients.Method: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June, 2012 at the...

The present paper is mainly concerned with the study of the effect of English writing proficiency in the type and amount of errors produced by Moroccan EFL students. It is meant to see whether the writing proficiency has an effect on the errors produced by students, and whether there are ways to overcome the making of such errors. The participants in this study are first year letter Moroccan EFL students enrolled in Ibn Battouta high school for the term 2008. Therefore, to meet the...

Though rates of doctoral degree completion have increased, African American doctoral students continue to face issues related to race during their doctoral study.Scholars often point to the importance of the faculty and student relationship in doctoral student socialization and success while few explore how race plays a role in the relationship.We concur that the faculty and student relationship is critical to doctoral student persistence and completion.However, given the growing diversity...

With the construction of west-bank economic region,college students enterprising has the regional advantages of the help from nation,the attention of a government,cultural advantages,and the increasing social support.Based on the survey of the college students group in the Xiamen University of Technology,we analyse that the college students are lack of rational knowledge entrepreneurship,technology content,effective financing method,and team building awareness,and it also has the bad...

Background: In Nigeria, the nurse anesthesia profession is relatively young.Nurse Anesthetists have professional responsibilities including nursing, treatment and medical-technical equipment usage.Task shifting is one approach to overcoming the lack of specialists in resource-limited settings, including surgeons and anesthesiologists.Objective: This retrospective descriptive study was undertaken to describe our own experiences in the surgical management of patients in our local environment...

In Hanjra, Munir A. (Ed.). Global food security: emerging issues and economic implications. New York, NY, USA: Nova Science Publishers

The Nile Delta major cities, particularly Cairo, experienced stagnant air pollution episodes, known as Black Cloud, every year over the past decade during autumn. Low-elevated thermal inversion layers play a crucial role in intensifying pollution impacts. Carbon monoxide, ozone, atmospheric temperature, water vapor, and methane measurements from the tropospheric emission spectrometer (TES) on board the Aura have been used to assess the dominant component below the inversion layer. In this...