The purposes for the implementation of a homebased health care programme interventions was to empower the caregivers of children with heart diseases from the rural areas in Namibia, and the children alike for them to employ constructive coping methods, access community-based resources and implement care interventions which enhance positive health outcomes for their children concerned and therefore, to facilitate caregivers’ coping with the demands of care at home. Therefore, a qualitative outcomes evaluation was conducted three months after the implementation of the programme interventions to assess the long-term effects of the programme interventions on the participants. The findings indicated that the caregivers and the children with heart diseases gained knowledge about the child’s condition, skills for providing care at home as well as information about community-based resources that can provide them with support to cope. In conclusion, if sustained for a long-term, the programme interventions can make a difference in coping with the demands of home care for the caregivers of children with heart diseases from the rural context. This paper describes the processof implementation of a home-based health care programme intervention, and the subsequent outcomes of the programme evaluation.

Com a intenção de compreender com mais profundidade a alfabetização de jovens e adultos, este artigo faz uma reflexão sobre as práticas pedagógicas dos professores bem como de alunos estagiários do Curso de Pedagogia de um Centro Universitário Municipal que atuam nessa modalidade. Trabalhou-se com os seguintes referenciais: Boaventura Santos (2006); Freire (2001); Maturana (2001); Vieira Pinto (2001); Moran (2002); Arroyo (2005); e Massagão (2010). Como metodologia, escolheu-se a observação participante, que envolve três etapas: aproximação da instituição e estabelecimento de vínculos; realização da observação no contexto dos sujeitos para a coleta de dados; registro posterior de comportamentos, ações e diálogos observados durante a observação. Análises preliminares permitem afirmar que os saberes encontrados nas professoras observadas nas práticas pedagógicas apontam a permanência de uma prática de negação.

The study of the growth of the sardine Sardina pilchardus which populates the Moroccan Mediterranean coasts, based on the direct reading of the otoliths extracted from the internal ear, has allowed us to evaluate the age of 1015 specimens. The latter were sampled from the unloadings carried out in the main ports of the Moroccan Mediterranean from 2002 to 2004. The parameters of growth based on the equation of Von Bertalanffy are: L∞ = 21.3 cm, k =0.56, to= – 0.67, W∞= 76.2 ; a= 0,0066 and b= 3.0582.

From his very first novels, CamiloCasteloBranco sought to establish secure codes which, though appearing to subvert implicit rules, were in fact meant to safeguard the legitimacy of his narrative discourse while at the same time giving the impression of engaging readers in light conversation. Thus, the opposition at play between what is true and what appears to be true, as well as between the forced linearity of reading and discursive transgression take on a relevant role in the work of the author from Seide. This tension promotes the construction of novels that constantly seem to question the validity of the diegetic level when compared to the principles revealed in para texts or within the plot. Camilian discourse is thus ironically structured around a continuous ambiguity between saying and doing, while its ingredients unequivocally direct the reader towards the interests of the narrative. Aníbal Pinto de Castro (1976: 47) had already stressed that this process of manipulation and the consequent excess of justification are indeed common in CamiloCasteloBranco’s narrative and they create an ironic overtone which is hard to ignore. When Camilo makes explicit reference to narrative construction processes, he is implicitly alluding to cultural codes that readers are supposed to know and which they will easily identify. Readers are thus in a position to better understand the ‘game’ they are being invited to play and which works in two ways: while seemingly legitimizing narrative freedom, it actually reveals observance of the canon.

Anti typhoid properties of methanol leaves extract of Acacia nilotica was investigated. The phytochemical screenings for detection of the presence of bioactive constituents were carried out. Among other parameters investigated include LD50 of the leaves extract, inoculation of mice with Salmonella typhi parasites treating them with leave extract of Acacia nilotica followed by widal tests. The phytochemical screening of the methanol leave extract of Acacia nilotica revealed the presence of alkaloid, anthraquinone, carbohydrates, cardiac glycosides, flavonoid, saponin, tannins and terpens. The leaves extract of Acacia nilotica has possess some acute toxicity effect on animals (mice) at a dose of (LD50) 288.5mg/kg. The plant extract produced inhibitory activities against Salmonella typhi. It is interesting to note the widal test titer valve was found to be 140 for the treated group while the untreated group had titer value of 1160, suggesting that the plant leaves extract was effective as anti typhoid agent against salmonella typhi on mice infected with typhoid parasites. The extract demonstrated high activity against Salmonella typhi, bacterial typhoid causing agent.

Studies about purchase intention have grown in the marketing area. This is so especially for those seeking to associate loyalty and brand image. Within this context, this paper has sought to analyze the background of purchase intention of soccer club sport products. Then, to apply a descriptive research with 1056 respondents who are fans. The data collected were analyzed using a set of techniques from Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of this research show that the intension of buying is more directly associated to loyalty to the brand rather than the actual image of the soccer club. It was evident the psychological commitment, the emotional attachment and the recognition or association to the brand antecede the purchase intention of sports articles made available by the soccer clubs. In conclusion, the final consideration and academic and managerial recommendations were expounded upon.

This paper is a quick study overview of the space solar power, its current status and the prospects of the implementation of Solar Power satellite (SPS) in Bangladesh. Collecting energy in space and to redirect it to Earth provides significant advantages in the continuity of supply with very little environmental impact. But, its development represents many challenges both technically and economically. Bangladesh is very close to launch its first communication satellite in space. It is proposed in this paper to integrate SPS module with that Satellite for providing the long time solution of the power crisis.

University business education graduates, by the nature of their programme, ought to possess relevant information and communication technology competencies for successful entrepreneurship but casual observation and empirical reports indicate that they are not doing well in this aspect. Therefore, this study assessed the ICT competencies possessed by the university postgraduate business education students to handle entrepreneurship business challenges in Nigeria. One research questionand five hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population, also used as the sample, consisted of 388 business education graduates who are currently running their postgraduate programme in universities in the south-south and south-east geopolitical zones. A validated questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.96 was used for data collection. The mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that the respondents have relevant competent in ability to send e-mail, ability to receive e-mail, skills in producing documents with word processors among others. However, it was recommended that university authorities should encourage business education lecturers and students to organize workshops and conferences with a view to keeping them abreast to acquire more skills in ability to receive and send fax messages and ability to create website.

The increase in huge amount of data is seen clearly in present days because of requirement for storing more information. To extract certain data from this large database is a very difficult task, including text processing, information retrieval, text mining, pattern recognition and DNA sequencing. So we need concurrent events and high performance computing models for extracting the data. This will create a challenge to the researchers. One of the solutions is parallel algorithms for string matching on computing models. In this we implemented parallel string matching with JAVA Multi threading with multi core processing, and performed a comparative study on Knuth Morris Pratt, Boyer Moore and Brute force string matching algorithms. For testing our system we take a gene sequence which consists of lacks of records. From the test results it is shown that the multicore processing is better compared to lower versions. Finally this proposed parallel string matching with multicore processing is better compared to other sequential approaches.

Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system has the inherent problem of a high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), whichresultsin nonlinear distortion at the High Power Amplifier (HPA) and consequently reducespower efficiency, performance degradation at the receiver. High PAPR causeslowers battery life,andrequires HPAs. HPAs result in increased cost, reduced battery life, increased co-channel interference and Inter Symbol Interference (ISI). This paper analyzes a newidea that is combinationofexponential companding transform and clipping conceptto obtain a new Modified Exponential Companding with Clipping Transform(MECCT) technique for MC-CDMA PAPR reduction. This method evaluates performance analysis of MC-CDMA while consideringlinearcompanding and exponentialcompanding (nonlinear) with the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channelandissimulated using MATLAB. Thesimulation results show that theproposed algorithm reduces the PAPR by 2.0 dB,andareable to improve Bit Error Rate (BER),reduced Power Spectral density(PSD), and improvement in spectral bandwidth.