Background: Behavioral aberrations such as nail biting, finger sucking, and pica have been postulated as risk factors that enhance helminths ova transmission. These aberrations may present commonly in children with chronic neurological disorders and predispose them to heavy intensity of intestinal helminthiasis. This comparative cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence, intensity, and behavioral risk factors for intestinal helminthiasis in children with chronic neurological disorders and apparently healthy controls.
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This retrospective study was designed to audit the pattern of intraoerative whole blood transfusion among surgical patients over a two-year period. Data were collected on the rate of intra-operative transfusion, estimated blood loss, units of blood transfused, pattern of use of autologous blood and circumstance of the surgery. Fifteen percent of the surgical population had blood transfusion in the intraoperative period. Over half of the patients (52.3%) received single unit transfusion. Preoperative anaemia was seen in 14.9% of the population.
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The purpose of this book is to introduce the fundamentals of manufacturing to readers in a low-technology environment. Thus, as much as possible, examples and applications have been related to the Nigerian situation.
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The concentrations of zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) and chromium (Cr) were evaluated in whole fish, muscle, liver and gills of the benthic fresh water fish, Crysichthys nigrodigitatus, from Ikpoba River Dam in Benin City, Nigeria, by atomic absorption spectrometric technique. The concentrations of the aforementioned trace metals were also determined in water and sediment.
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A community-based study was carried out among the Izon-speaking fishermen and women in Ekenwan Village in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The main objectives were to determine the extent of the use of obnoxious fishing methods and suggest control measures to enable the community practice sustainable fishing method. The results of the study revealed gross over fishing with all year-round fishing activities, including the widespread use of small nets less than 2 inches and use of dynamites as explosives to harvest fish.
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This paper examines investment in education as it relates to the girl child and women. The education of the girl child and women has been a topic of endless discussion in national and international education conferences. In pressing further the problem of girl child education, the UNESCO, UNICEF, and allied agencies, have reached agreement with nations on how to implement education for all. The paper discussed the position of Nigeria in equalizing educational opportunities and removing the gap that has existed between boys’ and girls’ education.
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We investigated the aetiopathological significance of garri a cassava (Manihot esculenta) based food incorporated in the regular diet of 16 mothers whose babies presented in University of Benin Teaching Hospital with varying severe congenital limb malformations. The pattern of these malformations had earlier been documented. The mothers who were from the coastal villages of the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria were predominantly garri makers and virtually subsisted on garri forms for their daily diets, even during pregnancy.
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Pyrenacantha staudtii is a medicinal plant used widely in the West African sub-region particularly in Nigeria for the treatment of threatened abortion and dysmenorrea. This study reports for the first time the chemical isolation and chraraterization of 3- carbomethoxypyridine from the active fractions of the methanolic extract of Pyrenacantha staudtii leaves.
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The ethnomedicinal use of Pyrenacantha staudtii leaf as remedy against threatened abortion was evaluated through activity guided fractionation techniques on rat isolated uterus in our earlier study.One of the biologically active fraction was subjeccetd to reversed phase lobar column C-18 chromatography with different solvent systems and other chromatographic methods. The structure of the pure compound isolated was characterized by spectroscopic techniques such as IR, NMR, MS and elemental analysis.
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This paper examines the issue that influenced the development of physical education in Nigerian school after the country’s political independence in 1960.
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It is true that the Nigerian construction industry is in deep trouble and has not witnessed any real growth for some time now. It is also true that most of the value-added to construction is lost to the Nigerian construction industry. The
contractual framework and procedures which are in practice in the Nigerian construction industry are not necessarily adapted to the local needs of our industry.
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This article examines the controversy surrounding the development of marginal oilfields in Nigeria. Marginal oil fields are non-producing fields that are held by the multinational Oil Companies.
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This paper discusses the graduate office secretary as distinct from other secretarial hands. Arising from the general mistaken identity of the true secretary the paper identifies the true office secretary as a secretarial graduate who is an invaluable asset and assistant to top of business and government organizations executives without whose help the executives cannot function optimally. It highlights the qualities of the graduate office secretaries and discusses some of their executive functions.
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BACKGROUND : Late presentation of patients at advanced stages when little or no benefit can be derived from any form of therapy is the hallmark of breast cancer in Nigerian women. Recent global cancer statistics indicate rising global incidence of breast cancer and the increase is occurring at a faster rate in populations of the developing countries that hitherto enjoyed low incidence of the disease. Worried by this prevailing situation and with recent data
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This study examined the knowledge, attitude and practice of private medical practitioners in Calabar on abortion, post-abortion case and post-abortion family planning. Forty eight private practitioners who were proprietors of private
clinics in the city were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The results showed that 22.9% of the doctors routinely terminate unwanted pregnancies when requested to do so by women, while 83.3% of them treat women who experience complications of unsafe abortion.
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Benin City, the headquarters of Edo State, is known to have one of the highest rates of international sex trafficking of young women in Nigeria. This study was designed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and experiences of young women in Benin City, towards international sex trafficking. A random household sample of 1456 women aged
15-25 years was interviewed with a structured questionnaire that elicited information on women's experiences of, and attitudes towards international sex trafficking.
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It has been slightly over 26 years now since the Land Use Act came into effect. For that entire period, the Act has been the subject of several academic discourses at different academic fora all with a view to exposing the contradictions and the obvious deficiencies in the piece of legislation. This paper is another of such discourse aimed at exposing some of the practical problems of implementation inherent in the landmark legislation.
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It has been slightly over 26 years now since the Land Use Act came into effect. For that entire period, the Act has been the subject of several academic discourses at different academic fora all with a view to exposing the contradictions and the obvious deficiencies in the piece of legislation. This paper is another of such discourse aimed at exposing some of the practical problems of implementation inherent in the landmark legislation.
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The fresh leaves of Ageratum conyzoides afforded a pale yellow volatile oil of 0.08% yield, density of 1.0?ml and a refractive index of 1.55. Both the volatile oil and its isolated major constituent (precocene 1) produced remarkable larvicidal activities on larvae of Culex specie mosquito. While the volatile oil produced 100% mortality at a dose level of 15µl, 10µl of the precocene 1 gave 100% mortality. The results confirmed a wider use of A. conyzoides volatile oil an insecticide.
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The Nigerian economy is at present beset with multi-dimensional socio-political-economic problems. Globalization, deregulation, and the instability of the value of the naira have crippling effects on business organizations...
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The role of a lawyer in the Commonwealth is of particular importance for several reasons. Firstly, member countries of this body command a significant proportion of the world’s population, territory and resources. Consequently, law schools in the commonwealth bear a special onus to contribute to the production of lawyers in the new millennium.
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This paper examines the legal and regulatory framework in the Nigerian petroleum industry. It argues that the legal and regulatory framework does offer to investors an excellent investment climate.
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The central challenges posed by international agreements such as the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing are the application of human rights principles to reproductive health and female sexuality in different jurisdictions.
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Intra ocular lens implantation is a relatively new surgical procedure in developing countries, although it has been the norm in developed countries for over three decades. It is carried out during cataract surgery for the purpose of aphakic correction. The aim of the study was to assess the level of awareness of the general population and their attitude as well as practices towards intra-ocular lens implantation.
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Intra ocular lens implantation is a relatively new surgical procedure in developing countries, although it has been the norm in developed countries for over three decades. It is carried out during cataract surgery for the purpose of aphakic correction. The aim of the study was to assess the level of awareness of the general population and their attitude as well as practices towards intra ocular lens implantation. A self administered questionnaire was used to interview doctors, medical students, cataract patients and other members of the general public.
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Samples were collected during the dry (February), dry-wet (May), wet (July) wet-dry (October) periods in Osu, Wagbafeleme, Urumena, Ifege and Makeke springs. Water samples were collected directly into clean plastic containers while algal samples were collected from water column as well as substrate such as leaves, sticks and stones. The physical and chemical characteristics of the water revealed that they were slightly acidic to circumneutral (5.6 – 7.5) and low (5.2µ Scm-1) to high (502µ S cm-1) in ionic composition.
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n account is presented of the chemistry and algal flora of two streams in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The two streams, one of which is much warmer than the other are separated upstream but subsequently merge. A comparison of the springs revealed that while they differed markedly in temperature, colour, turbidity, conductivity, solids, total alkalinity, total hardness, Ca, SiO3, SO4, Mg, Cl - and dissolved oxygen, they showed some similarities in pH, Fe, Na, K, PO4 and NO3.
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