Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Vision 2020: Preferred Sources of Eye Care Amongst a Semi-Urban Community in Nigeria

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine forms of eye care interventions among the subjects. Methods: it was a prospective study carried out in December 2016 in Kabba, Nigeria. Results: There were 106 subjects (female, 74 and male,32). Mean age was 53+/-5.37, and age range was 15-88 years. Eighty two (77%) participants were 40 years and above. Half of the participants use Chemist shops or native medications whenever they have eye problems and half had formal education. Petty trading (20.8%) and artisan (18.8%) were the most common occupations. Urine was the commonest home remedy used alone or in combination with other local remedies. The associations between sex and age groups and use of home remedies were not statistically significant (P values = 0.12, 0.17 respectively) unlike with education. Conclusion: the study showed that the use of nonorthodox medications is still rampant amongst this population three years to the deadline of 2020. There is need, therefore, for health education to increase the knowledge of eye-care, especially among illiterate persons. *1 MEGBELAYIN Emmanuel Olu, 2 OKONKWO
BOARD STRUCTURE, CORPORATE CHARACTERISTICS AND AUDIT QUALITY OF NIGERIA BANKS

This study examined the impact of board structure and corporate characteristics of Nigeria banks have on their audit quality. The study is based on the published audited accounts of 19 banks that were selected by simple random sampling technique from the population of the 25 Nigerian banks over the banks’ post consolidation/reformfiveyear period. The variables of the study were analysed using binary logistic regression analysis. The hypotheses of the study were tested using F-ratios from the results of the pooled binary regression of the pooled data at 5% level of significance. Results of the study confirm that non-executive, independent directors and director’s share ownership positively impact on the banks’ audit quality. The study recommends for an upward review of the proportion of non-executive directors as well as the optimum size of the boards of the banks.
Comparision of Three Different Methods for the Detection of Biofilm in Gram Positive Cocci and Gram Negative Bacilli Isolated from Clinical Specimens

Background: Biofilm production is an important virulence factor leading to chronicity of many infections. It is also responsible for the emergence of multidrug resistant strains resulting in treatment failure. Aim of the study: To detect biofilm production in clinical isolates by microtitre plate method, Tube adherence method, Congo red agar method and to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of these methods. To compare these three methods to know which is the most efficient method of biofilm detection. To know the antibiotic resistance pattern of biofilm producing isolates. Material and Methods: A total of 70 clinical isolates were tested for biofilm production by microtitre plate method, tube adherence method and congo red agar method. All the isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing by Kirby Bauer Disk Diffusion method as per CLSI guidelines. Results: Out of 70 isolates, 25 were gram positive cocci and 45 were gram negative bacilli. Biofilm production was seen in 19 (76%) of the 25 gram positive cocci and 42 (93%) of the 45 gram negative bacilli. Microtitre plate method was the most effective method and detected biofilm production in 76% of gram positive cocci and in 93% of gram negative bacilli. Sensitivity and specificity of microtitre plate, tube and congo red agar methods were 98.08%, 71.88%, 12.7% and 61.22%, 88.89%, 86.2% respectively. Maximum resistance in biofilm producing gram positive isolates was seen to Penicillin (100%) and Cephalexin (100%) while in biofilm producing gram negative isolates maximum resistance was seen to Ampicillin (83.78%) and Ciprofloxacin (70.27%). Conclusion: Microtitre plate method was found to be the most efficient method with sensitivity and specificity of 98.08% and 61.22% respectively. Microtitre plate method is a quantitative and reliable method and can be recommended as a screening method. Detection of biofilm production helps in better clinical management.
Defect Detection of Tiles with Combined Undecimated Wavelet Transform and GLCM Features

 Abstract— Development of an automatic defect detection system has a major impact on the overall performance of ceramic tile production industry. With this in mind, in this paper, a new algorithm has been offered for segmentation of defects in random texture tiles. firstly, by using undecimated discrete wavelet Transform (UDWT), frequency features of textures which are robust towards transition could be extracted. Then a co-occurrence matrices of sub-bands, in order to extract texture information, is obtained. Finally, after obtaining special characteristics from the combination of the two new methods, a back propagation neural network is applied for segmentation which is the final product of this. The results, both visually and computationally, show a higher accuracy while using this method than the conventional wavelet method and co-occurrence matrices that was utilized previously. The reason could be its independent from scale and rotation nature compared to the typical transform. Different locations of defects make different wavelet coefficients and ultimately increase the defect segmentation performance of a wide variety of defects.
eJBio: Electronic Journal of Biology

Two field experiments were conducted during growing season of 2011-2012 at two locations, 1. Seed and Plant Certification and Registration Research Institute (SPCRI), Karaj-Iran 2. Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Yazd-Iran, to study dry matter accumulation and remobilization in grain wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars under drought stress and potassium foliar application treatments. The experiment was carried out using a split plot factorial based on a randomized complete blocks design with three replications. The experimental treatments included three irrigation regimes; normal, mild stress (water withhold at the seed filling phase) and severe stress (water withhold at the ear emergence phase); potassium foliar treatments included, 0, 1.5% and 3.0% K2O applications and three wheat cultivars (Marvdasht, Pishtaz and WS-82-9). The amount of remobilized dry matter (ARDM), remobilization efficiency (REE), remobilization percentage (REP) and grain yield were measured. The results showed that water stress significantly increased amounts of remobilized dry matter, remobilization efficiency and remobilization percentage compared with normal condition in both locations. However it significantly decreased grain yield. Foliar application of potassium at the rate of 3.0% K2O gave the highest values of all studied wheat characters followed by 1.5% K2O as compared with control treatment in both locations. Marvdasht cultivar had the lowest values of the above mentioned characters as compared with the two other cultivars.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus – Detection, Prevalence and Usefulness in Clinical Management: A hospital based study

Viruses are the most frequent etiological agents of acute respiratory infections, and are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in children (Costa et al., 2006). Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is well recognized as the most important pathogen causing acute respiratory disease in infants and young children, mainly bronchiolitis and pneumonia (Oliveira et al., 2008). Influenza viruses’ type A and B (FLU A/B), parainfluenza virus (PIV), adenovirus (ADV), and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) are other important viral etiologic agents of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI) (Costa et al., 2006).
Investigating the Relationship between Job Resources and Job Burnout with Regard to the Factor of Equity

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between job Burnout and job resources while taking into account the factor of equity. This field research is an applied research in terms of purpose. It is descriptive in nature following correlational method. Population of the study included the entire staff of 150 at health and care network in Shahinshahr, Isfahan, established in 2014. Through the Cohen, Morgan, and Kerjcie table, 113 individuals were selected through non-probability sampling. In this study, the data were collected through a standard questionnaire and reliability and validity of the questionnaires were confirmed by experts in the field. Data were analyzed by Pearson's correlation, multivariate regression analysis, and Amos path analysis. The results of the regression analysis and path analysis confirmed the relationship between job resources and job Burnout, job resources and equity, as well as the relationship between equity and job Burnout. It was concluded that equity operated as a mediator.
Institutional Quality and Economic Welfare Nexus: Evidence from Panel ARDL Models

The development agenda for many African countries in the last few decades has been geared towards improving their quality of institutions and economic transformation through human development. This paper investigates the relationship between formal and informal institutional quality on human development using the Auto Regression Distribution Lag (ARDL) models. The paper makes use of secondary data collected from, Heritage Foundation, World Development Indicators, United Nations Development Program and Transparency International, from 2001 to 2018. The study reveals a long-run robust inverse relationship between institutional quality and human development with an adjustment speed of 10% for any deviation from equilibrium. The formal institutional quality (economic freedom) has a direct and significant relationship with economic welfare while informal institutional quality (corruption) has a significant inverse relationship with economic welfare. To mitigate the effect of institutional quality on human development, it is recommended that governments in African should enact laws to effectively fight corruption but should also allow some level of corruption to exist since this significantly increases entrepreneurial activity in the short-run.
Isometric exercise and its effect on blood pressure and heart rate; a comparative study between healthy, young, and elderly males in and around Raichur city

Introduction: Isometric exercise is a routine part of everyday activities and occupational tasks. Physicians have a responsibility to promote regular physical activity to reduce high blood pressure (BP) and to control weight as physical inactivity is considered as a risk factor for coronary artery disease. Isometric exercises for aging populations have often been discouraged due to harmful effects on the cardiovascular system. However, isometric exercise in older adults and patients of some age group has found to be beneficial for maintaining normal cardiovascular function, but still, controversies are there. The cardiovascular response to isometric exercise has been studied majorly in young adult males. The vascular wall becomes less elastic and stiffer with the advancement of age (Nichols et al., 1985; O’Rourke, 1990; and Cheitlin, 2003). There are very few studies that have compared the isometric exercise response in younger and elderly individuals. Purpose of the Study: The present study is done to determine the effect of isometric exercise on BP and heart rate (HR) in healthy, young, and elderly males. Materials and Methods: In the present study, 100 male subjects with age group of 20–30 years and 60–70 years satisfying the inclusion criteria were selected and divided into two groups, namely, young and elderly group, respectively. Resting HR and BP were recorded followed by HR and BP responses to isometric exercise in both the groups. Isometric contraction was held till 60 s using the force transducer at 40% of the maximal voluntary contraction. Pre and post HR and BP were compared. Results: The elder subjects had a lower HR and a higher BP response than their younger counterparts. Conclusion: From this study, it is concluded that the increasing age is associated with an altered HR and BP response to isometric exercise.
Indian Share Market Forecasting with ARIMA Model

: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a flexible computing frameworks and universal approximates that can be applied to a wide range of time series forecasting problems with a high degree of accuracy for the convenience of predicting the futuristic value in share market and give a better future scope for investment. But yet the artificial neural network is not to the satisfactory as it includes both theoretical and empirical findings have concluded that the combination of different models can be an effective way of improving upon the predictive performance, if the models in ensemble are quite different. In this paper, a novel hybrid model of artificial neural network is proposed using a auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to produce the more accurate forecasting model than artificial neural network. On this context, we collected data on monthly closing stock indices of sensex, on these we have tried to develop an appropriate model that would help us to forecast the future unknown values of Indian stock market indices, i.e, ARIMA. Therefore, it can be used as an appropriate alternative model for forecasting task, especially when higher forecasting accuracy is needed.
EFFICACY OF PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY AS AN ADJUNCT TO NONSURGICAL PERIODONTAL THERAPY IN TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS PATIENTS: A CLINICO‐MICROBIOLOGICAL STUDY

Background: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a local non invasive treatment modality without side effects caused by antibiotics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of adjunctive use of PDT with scaling and root planing as compared with SRP alone in the treatment of chronic periodontitis. Subjects and Methods: 40 participants with chronic periodontitis having probing pocket depths (PDs) of ≥5 mm were selected for the study. Patients were randomly divided into control group and test group with ten patients in each group. Full‐mouth SRP was performed in both the groups, followed by PDT in test group. Assessment of plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), PD and clinical attachment level (CAL) was done at baseline and after 1 months. Microbiological assessment of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola was done by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) at baseline and 1 months after the therapy. Results: There was a significant reduction in PI, GI, PD, CAL and microbiologic parameters in test group, following SRP and PDT, when compared with SRP alone in control group. Conclusion: PDT in conjunction with SRP has shown additional improvement in periodontal parameters when compared to SRP alone and has a beneficial effect in chronic periodontitis patients.
Effects of concept mapping strategy on students’ achievement in difficult chemistry concepts

This study investigated the effects of concept mapping strategy on secondary school students’ achievement on difficult chemistry concepts. It also examined the differential effect on the achievement of male and female chemistry students. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the research. The study used a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest on group design. Data were collected from 1,357 SS2 chemistry students using a stratified random sampling procedure from two schools in two local government Areas of Benue State of Nigeria. One instrument for data collection developed by the researcher and validated by experts was Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT), on structure of matter and energy changes. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation scores, while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significance level using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). Students taught using concept mapping strategy achieved higher and significantly better than those taught using conventional method. There was also a better performance in favour of female students compared to their male counterparts using this method. The study recommended among other things, adequate training of chemistry teachers on the use of concept mapping strategy in teaching chemistry at the secondary school level.
Factors determining patients’ satisfaction with health care services at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Kenya

This study aims to identify factors which determine patients’ satisfaction with health care services at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi Kenya. It assessed the client’s satisfaction with health care services at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. A descriptive cross sectional study design was used, purposive sampling method was applied to select the institution and a sample size of 280 of postnatal mothers was calculated from a population of 1000 using Fisher’s method. Systematic sampling was used to select the clients. Patient’s satisfaction on the quality of services offered to them was determined using observation checklist and structured Likert scale questionnaire for exit interviews to select clients. Data were collected over a period of 3 months, and both descriptive and inferential analysis was done. The study shows that despite the high cost services, inadequate staffing and poor sanitation, the hospital managed to offer quality services that satisfied the majority of clients. The factors identified to determine patient satisfaction were patient waiting time, attitude of the providers, availability of drugs and services, affordability of the services, level of staffing and level of cleanliness. The findings would help in implementation of quality health care and improvement for best results of clients’ satisfaction.
Yield Loss Assessment in Bread Wheat Varieties Caused by Yellow Rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in Arsi Highlands of South Eastern Ethiopia

Wheat yellow rust disease caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is one of the most feared and wheat production bottlenecks in the highland areas of Ethiopia. Field experiment was conducted to assess wheat yield losses caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici based at optimal frequency of fungicide with wheat varieties for the control of stripe rust at hotspot environments of Meraro and Bekoji, experimental stations in Arsi zone in 2017 main cropping season. Results revealed that there was direct linkage between the disease level and the yield loss in the most common commercially adopted bread wheat varieties. There was varying resistance level among different wheat varieties. The extensively cultivated wheat variety, Wane was found to be most resistant with minimum yield loss of 22.9 to 39.7% followed by Lemu and Danda’a with yield loss of 48.7to 56.5% and43.3 to 57.5% at Bekoji and Meraro respectively. While Kubsa, proved to be the most susceptible wheat variety with maximum yield loss of 91.5 to 96.7% at Bekoji and Meraro respectively. Therefore, it is advisable to use resistant varieties with appropriate fungicides with optimal frequency in order to reduce yield loss and get comparable yield advantage by reducing the incurring of wheat stripe rust in wheat farms.
Hyperthyroidism And Cardiovascular Manifestations

Introduction: Cardiac involvement in hyperthyroidism is of great prognostic importance as they can cause significant morbidity and mortality. The present study was undertaken to study the cardiac manifestations of hyperthyroidism, their correlation with thyroid hormone levels and the outcome with treatment. Methodology: A descriptive, prospective study about cardiac manifestations of hyperthyroidism was conducted among 50 consecutive patients of hyperthyroidism attending medical OP or admitted in medicine wards, Department of Medicine, KIMS Medical College, Bhubaneswar during the period from December 2013 to November 2014. Results:Mean age with hyperthyroidismin the study was 46.06 years. Majority of elderly patients with hyperthyroidism had MNG. The commonest presenting symptoms were heat intolerance and fatigue, followed by weight loss. Palpitation was the commonest cardiac symptom in hyperthyroidism (74%). Tachycardia (66%) was the most common cardiac sign noted. Conclusion: Grave’s disease was the commonest cause of hyperthyroidism. Treatment of hyperthyroidism reversed cardiac symptoms in majority of cases. Hyperthyroidism should be corrected or managed as soon as symptoms occur.
Drinking Preferences , Alcoholic Beverages , Consumption , Patiala ( Punjab )

Due to changes occurring in societal norms, people attitude towards consuming alcoholic drinks are now socially acceptable. This leads to females/youngsters drinking in family environment or at commercially catering outlets. In India there is no uniform drinking pattern found among gender in different regions of India. Consumption of alcohol in India has been reported since ancient times however trends in the pattern and frequency of use have not been systematically studied. Present paper is an attempt to explore frequency and pattern of alcoholic beverage drinking among gender. The objective is to gather sufficient information on respondents drinking preferences and pattern. The sample was selected from the city of Patiala (Punjab). The sample size was 100 with a response rate of 75 %. The population sampled was urban males and females. Data collection was through questionnaire survey by direct observation method. The sample population studied consisted of a non-probability sampling. Convenience sampling was used to collect data from the respondents . The questionnaire was designed following a review of existing work in the field. The questionnaire was given to fill up to only those who consume alcoholic beverages. Independent variables that were assessed in this study were gender, age and income level. Dependent variables were frequency of consumption, place of purchase, time of consumption, reasons for consumptions, purchase criteria’s, preferences and reasons for purchase. Respondents were asked to select their answers from given options. For descriptive analysis purpose frequency and percentage was used. Chi Square test was applied for testing framed hypothesis. Still there are gender differences on drinking pattern . In India there is no uniform drinking pattern found among gender in different regions of India. Drinking behavior pattern across India is changing with differences narrowing among gender. In the present paper, it has been observed there are significant difference exist among gender in terms of frequency of consumption . Similarly differences also exist among gender in terms of place from where they prefer to consume alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic Beverage Drinking Pattern Among Gender Paper ID IJIFR/ V2/ E12/ 007 Page No. 4393-4406 Subject Area Tourism, Hospitality & Hotel Mgmt.