Archives-April 2019

The focus of this research work was to investigate the influence of awareness and technological issues on the sustenance of institutional repositories (IRs) in three state universities in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population was made up of librarians and lecturers from Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, and Osun State University Osogbo. Data were collected using questionnaire designed to elicit response from respondents and analysed using descriptive statistics method of frequency counts and percentages. However, out of three hundred (300) copies of questionnaire administered to the respondents two hundred and forty three (243) were returned which represents 81% response rate for the study. Findings revealed that there is generally low level of awareness of the existence of institutional repositories among the respondents which could possibly inhibit its sustenance in the long run. In addition, technological challenges such as poor ICTs facilities and telecommunication infrastructure among other issues are factors militating against the sustenance of institutional repositories in Nigeria. However, the study concluded that university management and library stakeholders should mount awareness programmes and advocacy emphasising the benefits of IRs. It was recommended that for universities in Nigeria to keep pace with their counterparts across the globe, there is need to improve on the resources allocation to libraries by the university management to fast track IRs implementation and sustenance among other recommendations.

This study dealt with the theoretical framework basics of financial inclusion, then analyzing the most important indicators of financial inclusion in Iraq, which showed the reality of financial inclusion in order to determine the basic requirements for financial coverage. The study has reached a number of conclusions, the most important ones: The weakness of the levels of financial coverage in Iraq due to weak access and utilization of financial and banking services; the percentage of those who own a financial or bank account for the adult population )11%); the ratio of the number of borrowing accounts (4.2%), while the global average of those who have a financial and bank account is (70%). Also the weakness of the bank density index, where every )35000( people have one bank branch in Iraq, while globally a thousand people have one branch bank, these proved the weak situation of financial inclusion level.

Microscopic colitis, including lymphocytic colitis (CL) and collagenous colitis (CC), is a chronic inflammation of the colon accompanied by non-bloody aqueous diarrhea, while the colonic mucosa has a normal or almost normal macroscopic appearance. It is a benign affection that can evolve spontaneously towards remission or, more often, evolve with phases of respite and relapse. The physical examination is strictly normal and laboratory tests do not reveal any anomalies. The diagnosis will be confirmed by colonic biopsies staged per-colonoscopy. CL is characterized by an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes, while CC is characterized by a thickening of the subepithelial collagen band. In the light of data from the literature, we will study the epidemiological, clinical, endoscopic and histological characteristics of microscopic colitis through a series of 20 cases collected in the Medical Clinic B of IbnSina University Hospital in Rabat.

School reforms highlight the need for young people who make up the bulk (over 70 percent) of most African nations’ populations to be empathetic, reflective, creative, innovative and resilient servant leaders. While the formal curriculum plays a key in achieving these educational goals, there exists other factors that shape students’ beliefs, attitudes, intellectual and behavioral structure, which this article refers to as the invisible curriculum. A substantial number of scholars suggest that the hidden curriculum accounts for as much as 90% of all students’ learning outcomes. Its influences are even visible on students’ leadership styles, adaptive response to hardship and the ability to rebound back (resilience), creativity-the act of conceiving something unique, innovation-the implementation of something new, and in general their worldview, even to keeping a job in the future. The stressors associated with 21st century young people training to be innovative, creative, resilient and servant leaders necessitated an investigation on the role played by the hidden curriculum in students’ worldview through a sequential explanatory mixed method design. Four hundred and eighty-six closed-ended questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected undergraduate students. Out of the 486 distributed questionnaires, 417 were filled and returned and the information therein informed the follow-up qualitative phase to explain and enrich the quantitative data. An interview was then developed to guide in gathering explanations from purposively selected 10 students to provide in-depth explanations as why some factors were perceived as more influential than others. The results of the research indicated that hidden curricula are manifested through teachers’ demeanors and conduct not explicitly prescribed in any formal document but creates lasting impressions on young peoples’ worldviews and ultimately their behavior. For this reason, the researchers suggest educators must pay cautious attention to the human climate in formal learning contexts and the society in general if they wish to succeed in nurturing holistic leaders for the accomplishment of Vision 2030.

Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is an inherited genetic condition characterized by the presence of multiple exostoses (osteochondromas). We report here the management of a rare case of a 29-year-old woman presented with multiple painless bony lumps that had developed insidiously over the past 10 years. The sites of involvement were the knees and the distal thirds of the fore arms and femurs. Radiographs showed well-defined sessile bone-density spurs arising from the metaphyses, with no alterations in the surrounding soft tissues. After surgical resection, histological examination of the operative specimens established the diagnosis of hereditary multiple exostosis.

The Large- Scale Computing and network systems consume more amount of power and computer components like Mother Board, Processor, RAM, Hard Disk, VGA (Video Graphics Adapter), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), Network ports, data centers and supercomputers. Most of the places like schools, colleges, and IT Industries people work with computer. Day by day the energy consumed by these computer peripherals all over the world is high. Trying to reduce these high energy consumption a study and survey techniques have been analyzed. This survey techniques and solutions will improve the energy efficiency in computing devices and network resources. This method discusses to evaluate the maximum power consumed by the resources and explains the techniques that operate at distributing systems, trying to allocate resource for scheduling, network management. This study aims about the art of energy efficiency in computing resources and network components.

Previous tests on PVC-concrete composite columns showed that most of tested columns had failure regions near the top or bottom of the columns. Therefore it is intended, in this study, to reinforce the ends of these columns in an attempt to improve their behavior. A series of unreinforced and partially reinforced PVC-concrete composite columns were tested under axial compressive loading. It was found that the strength of partially reinforced PVC-concrete composite column is greater than that of corresponding unreinforced column by about 3%, and that the ultimate strain of partially reinforced PVC-concrete composite column is less than that of corresponding unreinforced column by about 4.4%. Although the increase in strength was unnoticeable, the steel reinforcement at the ends was adequate to prevent failure to occur at these ends.

The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) presented new challenges for medical humanitarian aid and little was known about primary health care approaches for these diseases in humanitarian response. We aimed to evaluate UNHCR’s use of total CVD risk based prevention strategies amongst refugees in Morocco to identify opportunities to improve total CVD risk based guidance for humanitarian settings. We evaluated CVD risk assessment and management in two outpatient NCD clinics in Morocco using a mixed methods design with qualitative and quantitative strands of equal priority, Integrate during data collection and interpretation during three years. We reviewed the clinical records of 400 patients. The number of consultations has increased by half between 2016 and 2018. The average age of the patients was 48 +/- 12.6 with a predominance of patients in the age group between 40 and 50. The sex ratio was 1,7 of men, the majority of patients consulted once time, the country of origin was Syria in 40% of cases, the most risk factor founded was hypertension in almost 70% of case, a history of coronary artery disease was present in almost 6% of cases, chest pain was the most frequent reason for consultation followed by headache, and the diagnosis was arterial hypertension in 58% of cases followed by ischemic heart disease In 26% of cases. All patients underwent a complete clinical examination, with an electrocardiogram based on the indications; echocardiography was performed in 37% of patients and coronarography in 10% with surgery in 1.5% and catheter intervention in 1.5% of cases. Most patients had at least one medical treatment to take. The high prevalence of unhealthy behaviors and risk factors for Heart disease in refugee groups might be a lifestyle remnant from their country of birth or might be brought about by a stressful migration and acculturation into a new social and cultural environment. Nevertheless, it is important in primary healthcare to be aware of a possible preventable increased risk of unhealthy behaviors and risk factors for heart disease in some immigrants.

Though major earthquake of large magnitude has not occurred in Nigeria from previous records, however, the incessant earth tremor currently being experienced within the central northern Nigeria basement complex whose cause is yet to be ascertained calls for concern. Hence, the need for site seismological evaluation and characterization becomes paramount before putting up structures. The aim of this research therefore is to carry out a detail seismic survey of the site under investigation, and determine among other factors, the velocity distribution, the overburden thickness, depth to aquifer, depth to weathered and fresh basement, which will be used to infer and evaluate the nature of Geological Hazards, Seismic shaking hazard, surface fault rupture hazard, ground lurching, liquefaction Hazard, water inundation and shrink swell potential of near-surface soil of the site. The results of the investigation revealed that the seismic wave velocity registered a general increase of velocity with depth, with velocity range of 990 m/s to 3340 m/s. The velocity distribution gave an indication that the site is majorly characterized by hard rocks which are of low elevation thereby ruling out the possibility of landslide in the event of seismic shaking from a remote earthquake. The seismic survey did not detect any obvious fracture or fault that will constitute geological hazard by acting as pathway for contaminant to move into the underground water, or that could engender major earthquake that will cause surface fault rupture hazard. The investigation also reveals that the soil is not predominantly loose sand and the groundwater is restricted to isolated aquifers, therefore the structure sited within this site will not heave or lurch in the event of any shaking because, the possibility of soil liquefaction is ruled out. It was also observed that since the near surface material is not predominantly clay but laterite, therefore the swell potential of the near surface soil will be infinitesimally small. The geological hazard analysis have revealed that the site under investigation is not prone to any geological hazards that could be induced by earthquake, faults, elevation depth to aquifer, and nature of soil.

The quality of three marine fish species smoked with a gas smoker (Abuesi Gas Fish Smoker) and a fuelwood smoker (Chorkor Smoker) were analyzed. The aim was to evaluate the nutritional profile and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) levels in smoked fish from these smokers. The three fish species were the yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares, the common white grouper Epinephelus aeneus and barracuda Sphyraena sphyraena. The Abuesi Gas Fish Smoker produced significantly better quality-smoked fish than the Chorkor smoker. The protein, moisture, fat, total carbohydrate and ash contents of the gas smoked fish were in the range of 54.23 - 70.32%, 13.69 - 24.73%, 5.28 - 8.76%, 2.97 - 13.21% and 2.77 - 4.27% respectively, whilst that of the fuelwood-smoked fish were 43.38 - 43.75%, 22.00 - 46.5%, 2.00%, 5.26 - 25.78% and 2.85 - 6.50% respectively. Total PAH concentration ranged between 321.7 – 514.41 ?g/kg for gas-smoked fish and 1038.8 – 1550 ?g/kg for fuelwood-smoked fish. PAH concentrations per fish species in the two different fish smokers were significantly different. The EU maximum residue limits (MRLs) for PAH4 and BAP were met in the Gas Fish Smoker but not in the Chorkor Smoker. It is concluded that the gas fish smoker is a better choice, in terms of fish quality, than the fuelwood smoker.