Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions at a Tertiary Hospital, South-south, Nigeria

Objectives: To determine the indications, type and outcome of hysterectomy performed for benign gynaecological conditions over a 5-year period. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of 152 women who had hysterectomy for benign conditions at the gynaecology unit of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, (UPTH) Nigeria, between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2015 was conducted. Data was obtained from the theatre records and case notes of patients and entered into a proforma. This was analysed using the statistical package SPSS 20. Results: Hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions accounted for 15.4% of all major gynaecological operations. The leading indication for hysterectomy was uterine fibroid 75 (49.3%). The mean age and parity were 49.9 + 11.3years and 4.2 + 2.4 respectively. Abdominal hysterectomy with either unilateral or bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy accounted for 105 (69.1%). Majority of the patients 104 (68.4%) were transfused and the mean number of blood units transfused was 2.08 ± 1.24. The crude morbidity rate was 22 (14.5%) with anaemia occurring in 15 (68.2%) of the women. There was one death from hypovolaemic shock during this period. Total abdominal hysterectomy had a statistically significant higher rate of blood transfusion (P= 0.03). Conclusion: Hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions is a relatively common and safe procedure. The trend in the indications and pattern of morbidity has remained largely unchanged.
Empathy in Social Work Education

Empathy is at the core of the provider-consumer relationship in social work; without it, successful outcomes for psychological treatment are unlikely (APA Presidential Task Force, 2005). The use of empathy is considered an essential part of the professional encounter and a standard in providing ethical care. Therefore it is expected and assumed that the mental health practitioner possesses the ability to be empathetic and that s/he is capable of providing empathetic social work services to clients who are experiencing physical, psychological, and/or emotional pain.
Does Imatinib Change the Outcome in Philapdelphia Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in Adults? Data from the UKALLXII/ECOG2993 Study.

The UKALLXII/ECOG2993 international study for adults with acute lymphoblastic leukeamia (ALL) included a separate, single-arm study (still open) to evaluate the role of etoposide/TBI conditioned allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in patients with Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph pos) disease. Patients received 2 phases of induction, intensification with high dose methotrexate and BMT using unrelated donor stem cells where a matched sibling was not available. 267 patients with Ph pos ALL were treated from 1993 onwards, in the pre-imatinib era. The study was amended in 2003 to add imatinib 600mg per day following induction and after BMT for 2 years or until relapse. A subsequent amendment at the end of 2005, added imatinib 600mg per day also to phase 2 of induction. 153 patients have now been treated on the imatinib-containing protocol − 89 received imatinib following induction and 64 started imatinib with phase 2 induction. Complete remission (CR) rate at the end of 2 phases of induction was 91% with imatinib started in induction, 81% with imatinib started in consolidation only & 83% in the pre imatinib era. 128 of the 153 patients treated with any imatinib were eligible for BMT. Of the 98 patients with over 6 months follow-up, 57 (58%) actually received BMT. This transplant rate does not differ from the 62% in the pre-imatinib era although the data pertain mostly to those whose imatinib started later during therapy. Overall survival of the imatinib-treated group as a whole is 23% at 3 years, which does not differ from the 26% pre-imatinib rate as shown in the figure. Hence, imatinib started post-induction does not appear to improve survival. Imatinib given with induction may improve the CR rate, but there is insufficient follow up to assess transplant or survival rates. Earlier imatinib may be optimal but overall, our study does not provide evidence yet that imatinib alters the outcome of this disease.
Examining Performance and Challenges of Private Universities in Malawi

Private higher education has been extensively accepted by many countries in the world, including Malawi. Are the private universities performing effectively? This study sought to examine the performance and challenges of the private universities in Malawi. The study was guided by three research questions which examined the performance of private universities and how universities’ accreditation policies and resources such as financial, human and physical were contributing or affecting their performance. Guided by the systems theory by Bertalanffy, this study was conducted at six private universities located in the Blantyre City in Malawi using a mixed methods research approach; utilizing the descriptive convergent parallel design. It involved a total of 152 respondents using questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. Documentary review and observations were also used for collecting data. The key finding of this study was that private universities were extending higher education opportunities to a lot of Malawians left out by public universities with relevant study programs. However, the study revealed that the quality of higher education offered in these universities left a lot to be desired due to numerous challenges starting from insufficient finances due to their over dependency on students’ fees, of which their enrolments were beyond minimum levels. This led to challenges of inadequacy of qualified teachers and physical resources such as infrastructures and equipment. As a result of all these hiccups, education quality was compromised. The study therefore recommended that government should strengthen its monitoring and control efforts as well as support financially these institutions, and that private universities should come up with other ways of fund raising, as well as considering merging.
Developmental impact of gender and therapeutic conditions on depression : A study on adolescents

contended that variation in age, gender and therapeutic conditions would lay their impact on depression. Two hundred participants were tested under repeated measure condition and thus, the sample was framed under 400 observations. Findings were derived by analysis of variance and it was found that all independent variables laid their impact on depression independently and jointly. At last, implementation and indication of inner self integration therapy were discussed. 246 www.worldwidejournals. com Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018 | PRINT ISSN No 2250-1991 PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH
Microbial Urate Oxidase as Anti Hyperuricemic Agent: Current Scenario and Future Prospects

Urate oxidase catalyzes the degradation of uric acid, a product of purine disintegration pathway, into allantoin, carbondioxide and hydrogen peroxide. Owing to its efficacious uricolytic activity, urate oxidase employed to treat hyperuricemia and gout. Urate oxidase enzyme has been isolated from a wide range of organisms, including plants, animals and microorganisms. This review catalogues major sources of urate oxidase enzyme, its mechanism of action, modification, dosage and administration, past and present applications along with future prospects.
ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF LIBYAN SEAWEED EXTRACTS

Marine organisms are potentially prolific sources of highly bioactive secondary metabolites that might represent useful leads in the development of new pharmaceutical agents. The Libyan marine biodiversity including macroalgae remains partially unexplored in term of their potential bioactivities. Method: The phytochemical analysis of the alcoholic extracts of some commonly occurring seaweed Cystoseira compressa, Enteromorpha intestinals, Corallina and Ulva lactuca and their evaluated for antibacterial activity by well diffusion assay were studied. Four different solvents namely water, ethanol 99 %, methanol 99 %, and methylated spirit 95 % were used for extraction. Results: The phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of Carbohydrates, Steroids, Tannin & Phenols, Saponins, Proteins, and glycosides. The extracts were subjected for study of antibacterial activity. The zone of inhibition ranged between 8 to 16 mm in aqueous extract and up to 16 mm in methanol extract. The maximum activity (16 mm) was recorded from methanol extract of Ulva lactuca against Staphylococcus aureus and, minimum activity (8mm) recorded by Cystoseira compressa against Staphylococcus aureus. INTRODUCTION: Marine organisms are rich sources of structurally new and biologically active metabolites 1 . There are about 2400 natural products have been isolated from macroalgae belonging to the classes Rhodophyceae, Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyceae 2 . The antimicrobial activity was regarded as an indicator to detect the potent pharmaceutical capacity of macroalgae for its synthesis of bioactive secondary metabolites 3 . QUICK RESPONSE CODE DOI: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(12). 5425-29 Article can be accessed online on: www.ijpsr. com DOI link: http://dx.doi. org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(12). 5425-29 Marine algae are widely distributed in the coastal regions of continents. Several works have been carried out on the extracts from marine algae. Extracts of marine algae were reported to exhibit antibacterial activity 4, 5, and 6 . Antimicrobial activities on bacteria and fungi were reported by Hellioet al 7 . In recent years, there have been many reports of macroalgae derived compounds that have a broad range of biological activities, such as antifungal 8 , antiviral 9, 10 , antitumors 11, 12 antioxidant 13, 14, 15 and anti-inflammatory activity 16, 17, 18 . The use of antimicrobial drugs has certain limitations due to changing patterns of resistance in pathogens and side effects they produce. These limitations demand for improved pharmacokinetic properties which necessitates continued research for the
Knowledge and Attitude of the Staff of Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo Campus on the use of Ozone Layer Depleting Substances

There are many situations where human activities have significant effect on the environment, ozone layer damage is one of them. This paper aims to investigate into the knowledge and attitude of the staff of Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo State, Nigeria, on the use of ozone layer depleting substances. Data in the study was collected via a questionnaire divided into two parts; the first part is designed to determine the knowledge of the respondents about the ozone layer as well as elucidate common misconceptions several people have about the ozone layer and related concepts such as greenhouse effect and global warming and the second part was constructed to determine the attitude of the respondents towards the use of ozone layer depleting substances. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance, the results of the data obtained were analysed using percentages and chi-square statistical tool of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that the knowledge of the staff in the field of science supersedes those of other disciplines, yet they have a few common misconceptions. Also, it was found that the attitude of the staff is significantly influenced by their level of education and area of academic discipline, as the null hypothesis formulated was rejected. It was recommended that environmental studies should be included in the school curriculum from primary level to tertiary level in order to enhance the knowledge of the populace on ozone layer depletion and its consequences.
A Survey on Recent Cryptographic Hash Function Designs

-Hash Functions are important tool in information security over the internet. The hash functions that are used in various security related applications are called cryptographic hash functions. They accept arbitrary length of input and produce a usually small, fixed size output, known as message digest. They are designed to provide message integrity, i.e. if the message has been changed after transmission from sender and before it may be received by the corresponding receiver, can be traced by the receiver, and thus, such a modified message can be discarded. This property is also useful in may other applications such as creation of digital signature and random number generation etc. Most of the hash functions are based on Merkle-Damgard construction, such as MD-2, MD-4, MD-5, SHA-1 etc, which are not hundred percent safe from attacks. The paper discusses some of the attacks that are possible on this construction, and thus on all of these hash functions also face same attacks. Today, the aim of researchers is to find new hash functions with either modification in Merkle-Damgard construction or with totally new designs. This paper discusses few modifications in the popular Merkle-Damgard construction, and few of recent hash function designs such as Whirlpool, TAV, JH Hash, RC-4 Hash, BLAKE-256 and CHA-, that are using the new modified design architecture.
Economic Contributions of Honey Production as a Means of Livelihood Strategy in Oyo State

Economic contributions of honey production as a means of livelihood strategy in Oyo state was examined with a view to describing the socio-demographic characteristics of honey producers; to determine the economic contribution and level of honey production in IseyinOgbomoso Local Government Areas of Oyo State. Six (6) Local Government Areas were purposively selected for this study. Seventy three (73) questionnaires were administered to honey producers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools such as frequency distribution and percentage, while inferential statistics such as Gross Margin and Linear Regression were implored. The result revealed that 26% of honey farmers were females while 74% were male, this showed that honey production is male dominated and the people involved are in their active working age. R 2 value (0.5948) explaining almost 60% of the dependent variable, the overall P – value(0.0000) indicates the level of significance of explanatory variables at 1%. Positive co-efficient of educational level revealed that the higher the educational status, the higher the productivity and better management. The economic efficiency was 2.31 which implied that for every N1 spent to produce honey, in the study area 15.5 kobo was realized as profit. Honey business is however found to be lucrative.
Structural Cardiac Abnormalities in Children with Congenital Malformations in Lagos

Congenital heart diseases structural cardiac abnormalities present at birth. They represent abnormalities of the heart or intra-thoracic great vessels excluding abnormalities of systemic veins and arteries such as persistent left superior vena cava or inferior vena cava-azygous continuity and combined innominate-left carotid arterial trunk [1]. A malformation is a primary structural defect arising from a localized error in morphogenesis, resulting in the abnormal formation of a tissue or organ [2].
Application of RO System to Desalinate Brackish Surface Water in Southern Iraq

Brackish surface water desalination is a primary path to relieve the shortage of useable water. The application of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology to desalinate the surface water in southern Iraq has recently increased due to the fresh water scarcity for drinking water to meet local needs in this region. Several studies by using simulated brackish surface water which represented the same quality of the water of this region have been conducted. In this study, actual samples of brackish surface water from three locations (Al-Jeweber, Al-Hadam and Al-Masheb) which are, respectively, located in the southern provinces of Iraq (Thi-Qar, Maysan and Basrah) were used as a feed water to conduct several desalination experiments. These feed waters were used to run a pilot scale of spiral wound reverse osmosis (RO) membrane system. The purpose of this research is to study main parameters of RO membrane system as a result of the application of this technology to desalinate the brackish surface water of the Iraqi marshes. The changes of the flow and quality of the permeate and concentrate of the RO membrane system with time were investigated. In addition, salt rejection by the RO membrane including total dissolved solid (TDS), electrical conductivity (Ec), total hardness (TH), sodium (Na), potassium (K), carbonate (CO 3 ), bicarbonate (HCO 3 ), alkalinity (Alk.), chloride (Cl - ), total organic carbon (TOC), nitrite (NO 2 ) , nitrate (NO 3 ), phosphate (PO 4 ), sulfate (SO 4 ), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) were also studied . Moreover, the effect of the pretreatment on the water quality that is used as feed water for the RO system was included in this study. The results showed that 95.9% to 98% of total dissolved solids (TDS) removal percentage was attained for all runs conducted for the three selected sites. In addition, a wide range of permeate water flux which was (0.3442 – 1.3042) Lpm/m 2 was achieved. Moreover, pretreatment unit results showed that 90.67%, 93.9%, and 97.32% of turbidity reduction and 50.8%, 60%, and 71.7% of total organic carbon (TOC) reduction of the feed water of the three selected locations were achieved. Keywords: Brackish water, Desalination, RO membrane, Salt rejection.
Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rural Bihar

Background: That intestinal parasitosis is a major health problem in developing countries including India is well known. Many a studies have been done in our country on this issue, but most of them are from South India and a few from North and Central India. However, very few studies in recent years have been done from Bihar. Ours being a rural medical college in Bihar, we have ventured to study the epidemiology of intestinal parasites to find the recent changes in trend and differences from other parts of India and from other developing countries. Materials and Methods: An institution-based retrospective study was done on the stool examination reports of the past 2 years. All symptomatic patients clinically suggesting intestinal parasitosis in the Medicine Outpatient Department were referred to the Microbiology Department for routine stool examination to detect the intestinal parasites in that population. Only adults above 18 years were included in the study irrespective of sex. Apart from naked eye observation, each sample was examined microscopically for ova, parasites, and cysts, after preparing the sample with saline wet mount and Lugol’s iodine wet mount. Results: Out of 3343 samples examined, 1346 (40.26%) were positive for parasites. The rest 1997 were parasite negative. Out of those positive, 1113 had only one parasite in their stool specimen, 221 had two parasites, and only 12 had three parasites. The prevalence of Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, and Ascaris lumbricoides was the highest in that order. Discussion: The prevalence of E. histolytica (~40%) was almost common throughout India. G. lamblia was the next common in Bihar, but Blastocystis was the second most common in South Indian studies and those in all coastal regions of the country. Incidences of hookworm have reduced throughout India compared to that in 1980s studies. Conclusion: Our studies reveal that the situation of intestinal parasitosis is a matter of concern and drastic steps should be taken to minimize the gravity of this malady.
What are the Stimulating Factors Affecting NPL in Banking Sector of Bangladesh? Evidence from Econometric Exercises

A well-organized, well-structured and developed financial sector ensures efficient allocation of financial resources and perks up the competitiveness of the private sector, thereby promoting investment and growth in the real sector. The thrust of the development is to improve the regulatory and governance environment and to enhance the ability of bank owners, management and regulators, and the markets themselves to provide for better governance and regulation to achieve the objectives. In this perspective, improvement of the situation of non-performing loan is important. A high volume of non-performing loan can never be a boon for the economy. Credit to economy is the main source for financial support of business. On the other side, banks have limited investment tools for their deposits. This study present results from an econometric analysis, favorably Random Effect Model, using pooled panel data collected from the central bank of Bangladesh categorizing four sectors of banking based on the pattern of ownership. Based on the analysis of the bank specific microeconomic factors, which are selected on the availability from reliable sources, used as the regressors, it is observed that the liquidity and the management soundness is more significantly affect the Non-performing loan(NPL) in Bangladesh. Therefore, the recommendation is placed towards formulation policy instruments in favor of solvency rather liquidity. In addition to that, the improvement of managerial efficiency must be sought as well.
Quality of Life as a Result of Health Literacy among Patients with Non-Communicable Diseases in Saudi Arabia

Recent study showed that the prevalence of chronic disease in Saudi Arabia is increasing, in which the prevalence of hypertension is 71.3%, diabetes 27.3%, heart disease 16.4%, asthma 9.7%, ulcer 8.9%, and cancer 2.0% [1]. Health literacy which is recognized as being able to find, understand and use the health information necessary for making health-related decisions Chin et al., 2015; can play a crucial role in the management of chronic diseases [2].
Isocratic-Reverse Phase Liquid Chromatographic meth od for the quantification of isradipine by UV detection in tablets

A simple isocratic RP-HPLC method was developed and subsequently validated for the analysis of Isradip ine in pharmaceutical dosage forms. Separation was achieve d by using kromasil C 18 (100 x 4.6mm, 5μm) column with flow rate of 1.7ml/minute and Analytes were monito red by UV detection at 326 nm, using a mixture of m bile phase containing 500 ml of water, 400ml of methanol and 1 00ml of tetra hydro furan mix well and sonicate to degas it. The retention time for Isradipine was found to be 8 . 95 minutes. Calibrate curves for Isradipine was li near over the concentration range 50-400 μg/ml with correlation c oefficient 0.999. The percentage estimations of the Isradipine in market formulations by RP-HPLC were found in bet ween 99.61-99.86%. The developed method was validat ed according to ICH guidelines and values of accuracy, precision and other statistical analysis were foun d to be in good accordance with the prescribed values. The rec ov ry of the drug by standard addition method was f ound in range of 99.99-101% LOD and LOQ were 0.003 μg/ml and 0. 01μg/ml respectively. Thus the proposed method was found to be accurate, precise, reproducible and spe cific and can be successfully applied for simultane ous quantification of Isradipine in pharmaceutical dosa ge forms for future.