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Objective: To evaluate the different neurological changes in brain in eclampsia by CT scan in relation to neurologic symptoms. Method: This is prospective observational study in a tertiary hospital. CT scan of brain is performed within 48 hours of eclampsia after confinement of fetus and after stabilising the mother with standard MgSO4 protocol. The CT scans of brain are performed with 5mm and 10mm section in the axial plain. Results: CT scan of brain shows, 31.6% has cerebral edema, 23.7% have cerebral infract, 7.9% have cerebral haemorrhage, while 36.8% have no detectable findings. Parietal region of the brain is affected in 67% followed by parieto-occipital area (17%), occipital area (8%) and brain stem (8%). 68.4% mothers have headache, 18.4% have visual disturbances, 34.2% have altered sensorium with hyper-reflexia and 36.6% have coma. Conclusion: CT scan of brain in eclampsia can provide useful intracerebral information and should be done in cases with severe neurologic manifestations, if possible for every eclamptic mother.
Cloud computing acts as a vision of infinite computing resources that are provided on-demand to the cloud users as needed and are billed on pay as per usage basis. Cloud computing employs the concept of virtualization that provides an opportunity to achieve business and IT objectives. Scheduling is one of the most important challenges that a cloud computing environment faces. Scheduling process determines the order of execution of jobs and the virtual machine to which job is assigned to execute so as to improve the performance and quality of service and at the same time resources are utilized effectively. An attempt has been made in this paper to develop a simulator to schedule a job on allocated virtual machine so as to make efficient resource utilization. In the proposed work, scheduling is done on the basis of availability of allocated virtual machine, providing equal capabilities. We assumed that arrival of jobs in a cloud and their execution on a virtual machine is exponentially distributed. For analysing the proposed algorithm, the performance parameters of scheduling clouds are evaluated in Virtual Machine Environment.
The increase energy demand by the due to the growth of human population could cause decreasing fossil fuel energy. In near future energy demand will increase rapidly in the future. All those problems require each country to produce and to use renewal energy. Biogas is one of the renewable energy sources that can be used as the alternative energy. This is a kind of methane gas which is formed of various organic waste biomasses such as tofu waste. The aim of this research was to study the dynamic structure of methanogens community in the anaerobic digestion process by T-RFLP method. Sample was taken from anaerobic biodigester on day: 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 to measure the pH, temperature, CH4, and molecular analysis. The dynamic of methanogens community during anaerobic digestion was observed by the TRFLP (Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) technique. The restriction enzyme used in that method was Alu1. The Shannon-Wiener (H’) index was used to analyze the community diversity. The research obtained by three filotipe detected by TRFLP , namely the Euryarchaeota on fragment size 62 bp, Archaea in the size of the fragment 136, and Methanosphaerula palustrispada in fragment size 167 bp. The Methanosphaerula palustris was dominating community member from beginning until the end of the fermentation process. The result of pH measurements ranged from 7 to 8. The highest CH4 production was on day 5 equal to 1092.6 ppm. The temperatures range from 30-310C.
The study investigates the management effectiveness measured by the achievement of the goals established in the reward system for employees and its relation with psychological empowerment in a multinational company. Descriptive study with qualitative and quantitative approach was performed in an American company, based in Brazil. For data collection we used a questionnaire adapted from Spreitzer (1995). Data analysis used descriptive statistics, content analysis, and financial information published on the Stock Exchange of New York. The conclusion presents relation between management effectiveness measured by the achievement of goals established in the reward system and psychological empowerment.
Qos routing protocol design for mobile ad-hoc networks is more challenging than wire lane network. Mainly due to node mobility, multi hop communications, contention for channel access and lack of central ordination.QoS guarantees are required by the most of the applications. Most optimal route has to be selected from source to destination by using QoS routing protocol. Many routing protocols are designed for single QoS metric. If it requires to design routing protocol for multi constrained routing path, normal algorithms can be failed. In this paper we proposed genetic algorithm based route selection protocol to solve the multi constrained QoS route. Genetic algorithm finds the optimal route with population initialization, cross over, mutation and fitness function calculation. QoS constraints consists of end to end delay, band width, packet loss rate, node connectivity index (Ni) and dynamic resource availability. Simulations have been performed in ns-2. Performance of genetic algorithm is compared with AOMDV and results shows that genetic algorithm is giving efficient results for different metrics (delay, throughput and Delivery ratio).
This paper endeavors to investigate ATM Usage and Customers’ Satisfaction in Nigeria. It was discovered that despite the increasing number of ATM installations in Nigeria. Customers’ needs are not satisfactorily met as customers are always seen on queue in large numbers at various ATM designated centers as well as poor service delivery of some of these machine. The research engages comparative analysis of three banks in Ogun State, Metropolis of Nigeria viz-a-viz First Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and Skye Bank. However, questionnaires were distributed to the respondents. A total of 200 respondents answered the questionnaire cutting across the three banks, the chi-square statistical tool was used to analyze the data and the results showed a positive and significant relationship between ATM Usage and Customers’ Satisfaction.
The financial services delivered via mobile networks that performed through mobile phone or personal digital assistance allows customers to conduct a number of financial transactions without the access to traditional banks. The study explores the trend of the uses of Mobile Financial Services as a new service offered by the commercial banks in Bangladesh with its competitive market position through the utilizations of the both method of qualitative and quantitative techniques. MFS has started its work gradually from 2011 in Bangladesh. The research found that though MFS is a first-hand but has upwards trends in demand especially to the students with the limited age groups and incomes. Most of the transactions are made from the big cities like capital and metropolitan cities. It was observed that the MFS contributes in profits of the banks. The research also found that though the customers are satisfied about getting money through MFS but insecurity also can arises due to the networking problems, telecommunications services and unconsciousness of the agents. At the same time the research suggests that as MFS has great potentiality and demand in all respects whatever it is in money transactions or employment scope in Bangladesh, so with the joint collaboration of the MFS providers banks and telecommunications company if they implement the strategies to overcome the users limitations in the common groups of people and can provide the transactions in more secured way then MFS will play a significance role to generate profit for commercial banks in Bangladesh.
Thermal comfort, influenced by thermal sensation isan important building performance indicator. In the context ofthis work, the applicability of adaptive comfort model (ACM) tosimulatethethermalcomfortlevelinanaturallyventilatedhostel building at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeriawas investigated. The applicability of ACM was investigated bydetermined the neutral and comfort temperature in addition tocomfortrangetemperatureoftheoccupantsusingtheenvironmentaldataderivedfromfieldmeasurementsandinformationfromquestionnairesurvey.Atotalof288responses participated in the three months short-term thermalcomfort field study. The results obtained were compared withtherecommendationsofASHRAEStandard55,ISO7730Standardandresultsofpreviousfieldstudieslocatedinthewarm-humidtropics.Thepredictedneutraltemperaturewasfoundtobe26.8 o C.Theacceptablerangesofcomforttemperaturearoundthermalneutralitywere24.3-29.3 o Cand23.3-30.3 o Cfor90%and80%acceptability.ThesevaluescloselymatchedtherecommendedrangeofASHRAEStandard 55 and ISO 7730 standard. The results of this studyindicatedthattheuseofACMseemstobepromisingregardingthepredictionofindoorclimaticconditionsundersteady-state non-uniform environments. The study concludedthat the adaptive algorithms are more reliable to evaluate thethermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings.
This research was aimed to describe 1) thecurriculum implementation at High School 2 Padangsidimpuan; 2) to describe the supporting factors andinhibiting factors of curriculum implementation at State HighSchool 2 Padangsidimpuan; 3) to find the solution towards thefactors inhibiting the curriculum implementation at State HighSchool 2Padangsidimpuan; 4)to describe the steps oncurriculum developmentat State High School 2 Padangsidimpuan. Thisresearch wasqualitativeapproach. Theparticipants were the stakeholders of State High School 2 Padangsidimpuan. Observation and interview were used tocollect the data. The findings showed that theimplementation of curriculumat State High School2Padangsidimpuanwas not optimally implemented,dueto lack ofmasterythecompetence of teachers1)teachers cannot arrange learningplanning based contextual; 2)the supporting factor ofcurriculum implementationat State High School2Padangsidimpuanwere from quality achievement, availabilityof media and school gerographic. Meanwhile found thefactors inhibiting the curriculum were lack of teachers’pedagogy mastery,professional competence,and socialcompetence;3)there were solutions towards the factorsinhibiting the curriculum implementation at State High School2Padangsidimpuansuch producemeaningful teaching,change theconcept ofcurriculum paradigm, changethe paradigm of teaching into based religious, and provide motivation for students;and 4) the steps were used to developthecurriculum suchplanning instruction,learningexperiences, and learning outcomes assessment.
This research based on a preliminary study that thequality of teachers in Indonesia nowadays not much differentfrom 2007. The teachers did not apply ideal teaching strategy,they did not realize the change of school based curriculuminto curriculum 2013. The result of preliminary observationrevealed that the teachers could not operate computer as well,the national result of teachers’ competency test on August andOctober in 2012 was lowand also UNESCO (2011) stated thatICT in education policies have to tackle teacher competencies,learning materials, ICT equipment, student and teacher’smotivation. This study was aimed at implementing A Model forUpgrading Teacher’s Competence on Operating Computer asAssistant of Instruction. This study related to recent research atSaudi Arabia, Turkey, India, United State of America, Iran,Kenya and Tanzania that the computer assisted instruction asa supplementary instructional strategy in effective teaching, itincludes providing teachers with professional development,and in order to successfully implement ICT in educationalpractice. A Research and Development (R&D) approach wasconducted in this study. Ninety four (94) secondary schoolteachers were selected as sample by using purposivetechnique from five hundred fifty (550) populations that wereused as pilot test to determine the effect of this model towardthe teachers’ competence on operating computer. The findings revealed that a model was consideredvalid, practical and effective. This conclusion is relevance toboth teachers and the educational policy in Indonesia. Thisresearch implies needs to be consideration not just of how tobolt and weld computer science into the curriculum, but alsohow to ensure that teachers remain equipped to teach pupilsfundamental ICT skills