Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of consumer acceptance of online shopping in Cameroon by comparing different online product types. Design/Methodology/approaches: The sampling method employed in this study is convenience sampling method. The descriptive study was carried out in survey method. The research group consisted of total number of 108 of participants (female 60, n=55.6%; male 48, n=44.4%) and age range is between 20 and 35. A total of 108 sets of questionnaires were distributed randomly to students in Universities of Buea, Yaoundé, Bamenda and working adults in Yaounde, Douala and Buea.

Choosing the right university for higher education is a crucial issue in Bangladesh. There are some factors that play vital role in choosing the right university for higher study. Students like to evaluate those factors prior to choosing their universities. Such factors which are mostly evaluated by the students are reputation, tuition fees, location, permanent campus, teachers’ quality, online service, IT facility, advertisement, and environment. Current exploratory study has identified reputation and online service as the most vital factors that play the most significant role in choosing university for higher education. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. Primary data were collected from 60 students of public and private universities in Dhaka city. Multiple regression equation is used to identify dependent and independent variables, their relationship and impact on this research. Based on research questions, hypotheses were developed and tested accordingly.

This paper explores the concept of loyaltyin the context of the South African telecommunications industry. From a theoretical investigation, it became apparent that several variables were associated with loyalty, namely, customer satisfaction, brand image, perceived quality and perceived value. Based on the theoretical arguments, a conceptual model is being proposed which depicts proposed associations between and among the aforementioned variables. As a follow up, the model should be assessed using inferential statistical techniques to analyse the data from a representative sample of customers.

In recent years, breakthrough in the development of modelling techniques and impact analysis of composite materials subjected to high velocity has been made. The study methodically reviews the modelling techniques for the structural response of composite materials under high velocity. Although, report gives numerical model as widely used method, yet experimental test is always required to validate both analytical and finite element designs. The assessment shows that all modelling methods are suitable for application based on loading conditions of the composite structure. Lastly, the reference list provides databank for future researchers and engineers on composite structure subjected to high velocity impact.

Wether to resurface or not the patella during total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains controversial. Actually there is three options: always, never or selective resurface. Surgeons in favour of resurface say that non-resurfaced patients have more anterior knee pain and worst knee function scores. In the other side surgeons that leave patella un-resurfaced advocate that it avoids complications with similar postoperative results. This review will discuss the recent available literature on patellar resurfacing based on randomized controlled trials and published meta-analyses. Most of the meta-analysis seems to favour routinely resurfacing of the patella based on less reoperations. However, the most recent RCT show no difference between both options. So far, a method for accurately predicting which patients can avoid patellar resurfacing has not been found.

Background: Pregnancy and parturition are events of considerable significance in the life cycle of women. Though it is supposed that the quality of care during labor, birth, and postpartum period plays a great role for adverse outcomes of birth, various reports claimed that cesarean section (CS) carries a higher maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality compared to vaginal delivery. Therefore, this study assessed the rate of cesarean section, maternal and fetal outcomes of cesarean section at Finoteselam hospital, northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Hospital based two-year retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted from March to May 2015 in Finoteselam hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. A total of 250 mothers who delivered by cesarean section from September 2013 to December 2015 and have completed data were included in the study. Data were extracted using structured data collection format and cleaned, and entered into EPI info software version 3.5.3 and transferred into SPSS version 20 for further descriptive analysis. Result: Among 2267deliveriesin the two years of retrospective data, a total of 250 mothers were delivered by cesarean section, giving cesarean section rate 11%. The leading indication for cesarean section was fetal distress (24.8%). Among the total cesarean section deliveries, 42neonates were died, giving the proportion of neonate mortality rate 16.8%.Three mothers were died following cesarean section delivery, giving maternal mortality rate following cesarean section delivery 12 per 1000 live births. Conclusion: However, cesarean section rate in this study was within the WHO recommended range, the health outcome of mothers and neonates’ following cesarean section was not acceptable. The neonatal and maternal mortality following cesarean section deliveries was 16.8% and12 per 1000 live births respectively. The main cause of neonatal death was birth asphyxia.

The most widely recognized neuropathic syndrome found in individuals with diabetes is diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes is the commonest reason for neuropathy around the world, creating an extensive range of disorders including diverse forms of nerves and pathological mechanisms such as ischemic, metabolic, compressive and immunologic.12 There are different forms of diabetic neuropathies (diffuse or focal) which present with various clinical sign and influencing distinctive parts of the nervous system. The common forms of neuropathies are autonomic neuropathies and chronic sensorimotor distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DPN). Diagnosis of DPN is reached by excluding other disorder that exhibits the same signs.3 Approximately, 8% of general population suffer from long standing pain are caused by the neuropathic pain.4 Around 50% of chronic diabetics’ individuals (more than 25 years) will develop neuropathy which affect their daily living.5 Hyperglycaemia is the chief reason of advancement of all neuropathies, counting PDN. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) demonstrated that good glycaemic control will lessen the occurrence of neuropathy up to 60%.6

The communitarians claim that the individual is a natural member of the human society, but that he needs the society and all the opportunities it makes available for the realization of his potential for living a life that is meaningful. This claim is synonymous to African conception of individual and the community. Thus this work set out to carry out the critique of some notable communitarians such as: John Dewey, Fredrick Hegel and Michael Sandel, Macinyre Alasdair, Charles Taylor. We discovered in the work that the claim of these theorists on individual and community is identical to African ideal. And the critique exposes the inadequacies in their claim as well as the African ideal because development today is beyond the narrow context of communal life which puts African under the illusion that communities constitute a “paradise lost”. As such there is the need for African to seek their rights; this will enable them to function properly in the global scheme of things.

Today’s world is becoming more and more technology-driven, and the speed of change in technology has become neck-breaking, mind-breaking and intractable to many related fields. Literature is one of such fields that have much to do with the information technology, particularly in relation to language use and retrieval and utilization of information resources – activities that require high or relatively high level of literacy. This paper examines the issues of illiteracy and e-literacy as some of the challenges confronting the 21st century Nigerian literary writer, critic and reader. Hence, it has three trajectories: the Nigerian writer’s use of information technology as a tool for propagating African literature; the Nigerian critic’s use of information technology as a tool for propagating the criticism of African literature; and the Nigerian reader’s use of information technology as a tool for accessing African literature. The study looks at the response of the Nigerian literary scholar to the global requirement of e-literacy against the backdrops of poor reading culture and high rate of illiteracy in Nigeria.

Political Parties have come to play significant roles in most democratic countries. For instances they have become critical links between the State and Civil Society (CSO), between institutions of government and interests groups that operate within the society. Other functions of political parties include: i. Representation ii. Educating and enlightening the electorates iii. Socialization, mobilization and formation of government iv. Goal formation v. Elite formation and recruitment vi. Interest formation