This study assessed the empowerment status of women in Rural Nigeria. Following Alkire and Foster (2007) multidimensional poverty measure, we constructed the multidimensional women empowerment index across selected dimensions and indicators using the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey data (DHS). The logit regression was used to profile its determinants. The multidimensional women disempowerment index was 0.427. The study finds that when the empowerment cutoff k=2, approximately 43% of the rural women were disempowered. The education and resource dimensions had the highest relative contributions of 33.59% and 31.61% to the overall multidimensional disempowerment index. The study revealed that while age of the women, age of the household head and employment in skilled and unskilled sector significantly increase the probability of rural women’s empowerment, gender of household head, employment in agriculture and allied sector, household size, and location of rural women in the Northern region of Nigeria reduce the probability of women economic empowerment in rural Nigeria. It is recommended that efforts must be directed at these individual indicators to improve on the empowerment, inclusion and agency of rural women especially in planning intervention strategies. This should be backed up with enforcement of policies that will ensure rural women enjoy the same potentials, rights and privileges as men in society in order to ensure and achieve sustainable rural development.

In this experimental study, a cylinder of aluminium metal matrix composite (AlMMC) consisting of 6061 matrix alloy and 15 wt.% (12.93 vol.%) silicon carbide (SiC) particulate reinforcement was joined by transient liquid phase diffusion bonding (TLPD) process using a mixture of silver and copper powder in a definite ratio. Four SiC reinforced AlMMC cylinders with a diameter of 15mm and a height of 10mm each was to be joined using a mixture of 59.5989mg of silver and 28.2620mg of copper as the interlayer at 520°C with a holding time of 9 hours to form two cylinders of 15mm diameter and 20mm height (approx.) with an interlayer of 50μm. Then one of the sample was tested for shear and the other was used for metallography.

Study objective was to hypothesized that the consumption of green leafy vegetables (GLV), including cruciferous vegetables (CV), significantly reduces the incidence of urothelial cancers. The hypothesis was answered by using the experimental approach of meta-analysis by synthesizing relevant worldwide studies that address the association between the consumption of GLV and risk of incidence of the disease. Three models were used, and the first indicated an overall odds ratio effect size of the ‘almost every day’ highest vs. lowest quantile intake category of GLV on urothelial cancer as: OR = 0.749 (95% CI .678 to .827), p<.001. The second model indicated an overall hazard ratio effect size as: HR = 0.803 (95% CI .699 to .922), p=.002. The third model indicated an overall risk ratio effect size as: RR = 0.896 (95% CI .691 to 1.16), p=.405.

Innovativeness is requirement for a long ran we can’t overlook the significance of either. This research work talks about that which where the major categories of products and services being advertised on social media during the period of this study. This further suggests with regards to the identification of the content which has been used to advertise the selected categories of products/services identified for the study on the selected social media website. Further the sixteen identified variables which are Message, Tag line, Brand Logo, Images, Celebrity, Offers/Discounts, Colour, Text, Customer Reviews, Jingles, Audio, Video, Product Information, Product Comparison, Price information, Call To Action and there relation with the selected social media websites and categories of products and services selected for the research study has been studied in detail

With the rapid use of digital data in information technology and multimedia, piracy and malicious manipulations have become a common concern, thus it is inevitable that the digital content is protected. Hence copyright protection has become a vital issue. Digital watermarking has emerged as a solution to this problem. In this paper, a watermarking technique is proposed and implemented. In which the original image is sorted out to another form by applying zigzag process followed by DCT and SVD. Watermark is then embedded by modifying the singular values and extraction of watermark is the inverse process of embedding. The deliberated algorithm gives good Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) which ensures good imperceptibility and Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) which ensures more robustness against different kinds of noise such as Histogram equalization, JPEG compression, Speckle noise, Gaussian noise, Salt and Pepper noise, Cropping, Rotation, Sharpening and so on.

In this paper, we obtained solution of Einstein field equations for Bianchi type VI cosmological model with time dependant cosmological term of the form and . It is observed that cosmological term is decreasing function of time which is consistent with results from recent supernova Ia observations. Also, it is noted that the model approaches to isotropy for = 1. All the physical parameters are calculated and discussed.

Objective: Explore the causal relationship between food deserts and presumed health outcomes of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Design: Simulate food desert conditions by having a subject eat only what he could purchase in convenience stores for 30 days on a financially constrained budget. Setting: Conducted as a field experiment utilizing local convenience stores. Subjects: One of the coauthors acted as the subject. Results: The results indicate that typical measures of negative health outcomes associated with food deserts, such as weight gain, elevated cholesterol, and elevated blood sugar, were not supported. However, the intake of many micronutrients was significantly below recommended levels. Conclusions: Results suggest that further investigation of other diet-induced illnesses should have greater attention in food desert research.

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of the quality of e-government services dimensions including: website design, reliability, responsiveness, security and privacy, and the availability of information and ease of use that are provided by the Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates in achieving customer satisfaction. To achieve the objectives of the study, data were collected through a questionnaire that was developed and distributed to an appropriate sample of beneficiaries of the services provided by the Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates. Also, appropriate statistical methods in data analysis were used to test the hypotheses of this study. Based on the results of the statistical analysis, the study has reached a number of conclusions of which the most important was: the impact of a statistically significant dimensions of the quality of electronic services community provided by the Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates in achieving the satisfaction of beneficiaries.

Eating Disorders (ED) affect a great deal of individuals around the world, yet initial diagnosis continues to be elusive to detect. Many of the physical and psychological manifestations that occur in patients suffering from an ED can be seen by both medical and dental professionals; however the mentality behind this diagnosis is complex. The task of discussing the disorder with the patient has a tendency to be passed amongst practitioners even though current literature agrees that early diagnosis is key to prevention and successful treatment. Two areas of focus that need to be addressed are who is responsible for making the initial diagnosis and what needs to be included for prevention and/or successful treatment.

Background: Bovine cysticercosis and human taeniasis is an important parasitic disease and more common in developing countries including Ethiopia where meat is an important component of human diet and traditionally consumed raw on several occasions. Methodology: Cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2014 to April 2015 at Asella municipal abattoir in Arsi zone of Oromia to determine prevalence of bovine cysticercosis and status of human taeniasis with its associated risk factors around Asella town. Routine meat inspection method and questionnaire survey were performed for this study. Result: From the total of 430 carcass inspected, 5(1.2%) were positive for bovine cysticercosis. The statistical analysis revealed that risk factors like sex, breed, body condition and ages are not associated with the prevalence of cysticercosis. The questionnaire survey showed that 44.3% of total respondents were infested with Taenia saginata at least once in their life time and out of these positive respondents 32% and 6.7% become positive only before and after 2000 E.C respectively, while 5.6 % wereinfested many times. A statistical analysis showed that human taeniasis prevalence is significantly different (p<0.05) among the categories of the considered risk factors like: residence area, age, sex, raw meat consumption, education and occupational status. Religiondifference was not a problem for Taeniasis prevalence distribution. Conclusion: In general, the current study revealed that the presence of bovine cysticercosis was small but it’s still a public health hazard in the study area which needs increased awareness about the health impact of taenisis.