The study assessed the influence of clinic-based health education on women’s knowledge and attitudes in relation to pregnancy management in Ogun State. Stratified sampling method was used to allocate 48 pregnant women each to experimental and control groups, making a total of 96 respondents. Structured questionnaire was used to gather data from the respondents. The women in the experimental group were exposed to two hours of health education discussion addressing pertinent maternal health issues weekly for five weeks. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent t-test. All tests were measured at p≤0.05 level of significance.

Orality is primordial, transcends all races and permeates all facets of life from birth to maturity and death. Each of these stages of human life and endeavor is prone to composition and delivery of Oral material as well as linguistic manipulation either in celebration of life or in adoration and thankfulness to a deity who superintends over human affairs. Language, in the form of ordinary verbal utterances, signs or gestures, has often lent itself to diverse uses at different levels of interaction or communication in the articulation of messages either in social parlance or in sacrificial and ritual circumstances. The complexity of Oral communication becomes evident when language is viewed in every day social interaction-sociolinguistics- then in stylized forms-ethnopoetics, and in ritual enactments-incantations. This can perhaps explain why Orality or language operates at different levels of complexity. Ekajuk new yam festival provides opportunities in social as well as ritual circumstances for the use of language in both ordinary and stylized forms. This paper aims at an examination of the ethno-linguistic and ritual potential of the new yam festival in Ekajuk community of Ogoja Local Government Area in Cross River State with a view to ascertaining how language is used at different levels of communication during the entire festival period. It will also portray the cultural value of the festival as a binding force within the community.

Objective: To assess the effects of bosentan on Raynaud’s phemonenon and the skin temperature of hands and feet in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTDs) complicated with digital ulcers or pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Methods: An open-label, non-controlled, single-center, prospective study, which was designed to exclude the seasonal bias. Bosentan was commenced from 62.5mg twice daily for four to six weeks, followed by 125mg twice daily for 10 to 12 weeks (total period was 16 weeks). Bosentan was reduced or discontinued if adverse events were appearing. Patients without adverse events for 16 weeks continued the trial for 52 weeks. Results: In 13 enrolled patients, six were patients with suspected PAH and eight had digital ulcers. Ten patients were diagnosed with systemic sclerosis (eight with limited cutaneous and two with diffuse cutaneous form), two with mixed connective tissue disease and one with systemic sclerosis (diffuse cutaneous form)-polymyositis overlap syndrome.

A survey of natural vegetation of Shahbaz Ghari, District Mardan was undertaken in 2013-2014. Total 48 plant species in 9 communities were observed by Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and Detrended Correspondence. Plant species of each community are presented together which showed the correlation between species. The results represent that group A1a have 6 species, group A1b (2 species), A2 (3 species), group B1a (9 species) group B1bi (13 species), group B1bii (6 species), group B2 (9 species) and total important value was 53.9, 27.4, 37.6, 43, 44.9, 36.6 and 56.5 respectively. The Detrended Correspondence Analysis showed that the highest weighted mean species scores 2.88% was presented by Stellaria media followed by Boerhaavia procumbens (2.76%) and Chenopodium album (2.75%). Classification and ordination techniques provided very similar results based on the floristic composition and communities similarity. The results produced the source for the mapping division of vegetation.

This paper examines how television advertisement is linked with children’s behavior in Jaffna district in the post-war market situation. Researchers examine whether these children paying attention on television advertisements are influenced by the characteristics of the child’s early home environment and parental behaviors. In Sri Lanka, Parent – Children conflict is one of the most vital issues.

The purpose of this research is to review of subsidies removal for fuel, implementation of new taxation system, and drawbacks of green investment as the impacts of falling oil price in Malaysia. To identify the impact of oil price falls and fully deregulated system of retail fuel product for consumers and how it affects the current consumer behaviors and purchasing pattern in Malaysia. Facts were analyzed and explored to understand what kind of impacts will effect on consumers when the price of oil continuously falling in the market. Results of the study showed that the falling oil price has negative and positive impact on consumers and businesses.

After 55 years of political independence, Nigeria continues to grapple with the challenges of democratic transformation and good governance. All efforts by successive civilian governments to entrench true democracy and good governance in the country seem to have met brick walls in which for every gained step: two are lost. The generality of Nigerians had expected that the return of democratic rule to the country in 1999 will usher in a new dawn. These optimism, hope and great expectations were regrettably misplaced. The paper interrogates this state of affair and sheds light on those critical elements in the country’s democratic experiment that tend to frustrate the enthronement of true democracy and good governance. Worried about the future prospects of democracy in Nigeria, the paper concludes with suggestions on the way forward towards the domestication of true democracy and good governance in the country, stressing that the time to act is now.

Physical and chemical factors of marine ecosystems were measured in Anfoushy and Abu Qir Bay (Mediterranean Sea) Egypt during 2009 & 2010 and Northern and Southern Khobar during 2012 & 2013 to study their effect on the distribution of the zooplankton densities. Seasonal variations of water transparency (Secchi disc reading in cm) ; water temperature (°C) ; total dissolved solids (mg/l) ; total alkalinity (mg/l) ; total hardness (mg/l) ; salinity (g/l) ; chlorides (mg/l) ; total Nitrogen (mg/l) and Tributyl tin (μgg-1) were measured. Samples of the four pan marine beaches were taken at each site, using screw top polypropylene bottles of 1000 ml. capacity. The bottles were transported filled with distilled water and washed out and refilled with sea water at each site. Closing the bottles have been done underneath the water surface so as to make sure that they were completely full. These samples were returned to the laboratory and analyzed within twenty-four hours.

The struggle to replace fossil fuel with clean bioenergy has come to an end. The possibility of electric batteries opens a new era for the transportation sector. This revolution is causing a great impact on the automobile sector by replacing fossil fuel with hybrid batteries. As such, there is a huge marketing potential for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as the popularity of electric vehicles continues to grow. Aside from the potential revenue of owning one, planning and strategic management plays an important part. This research attempts to prove the flexibility of owning and managing an electric vehicle charging station, as with the current pace of the technology revolution it is believed to be a potential major field and a worthy investment.

In this paper a broadband four ports MIMO antenna with pattern diversity is presented. To obtain pattern diversity, four microstrip feeding lines are printed on one side of the substrate where as the modified ground plane is printed on the other side. These microstrip lines generate orthogonal radiation patterns. In annular slot four shorts are placed between the microstrip lines to maintain isolation more than 25dB. The antenna operates in the range of frequencies from 2.3GHz to 12.6GHz (nearly 139%) which covers FCC defined wireless applications. Besides FCC, the proposed antenna covers WLAN and Wi-Max applications. A design and optimization of proposed geometry is done in Ansoft’s HFSS 13. Simulated and measured reflection coefficients, coupling coefficients and radiation patterns are presented.