ABSTRACT The study examined men's involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) ofl-IIV programmes in the Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study aimed at identifying correlates of PMTCT in the hospital. Questionnaires was used to elicit information from eligible respondents in the study area. Response were analysed at univariate by using simple frequency distribution and percentage. Cross- tabulation was done to examine the relationship betwe...
ABSTRACT The study described the neighborhood factors influencing contraceptive use among adolescents in Ile Ife. The problems of unwanted pregnancy and inadequate use of contraceptive methods among adolescents is worse in developing countries like Nigeria due to uneven distribution of contraceptives and lack of knowledge on its uses. This study was carried to examine the neighborhood factors affecting contraceptive knowledge among adolescents in Ile Ife. The study made use of primary data wh...
Abstract Nigeria is a country with one of the world’s highest rate of under-five mortality. Any innovative research aimed at bringing solutions to this problem should be considered worthwhile. This study examined how socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors (called underlying factors), influence under-five mortality in Nigeria by identifying some other direct factors (called proximate determinants) through which the underlying factors influence under-five mortality. It used data fro...
Abstract Nigeria is a country with one of the world’s highest rate of under-five mortality. Any innovative research aimed at bringing solutions to this problem should be considered worthwhile. This study examined how socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors (called underlying factors), influence under-five mortality in Nigeria by identifying some other direct factors (called proximate determinants) through which the underlying factors influence under-five mortality. It used d...
ABSTRACT Games of strategy, such as chess have served as a convenient test of skills at devising efficient search algorithms, formalizing knowledge, and bringing the power of computation to bear on “intractable” problems. Generally, minimax search has been the fundamental concept of obtaining solution to game problems. However, there are a number of limitations associated with using minimax search in order to offer solution to Ayo game. Among these limitations are: (i.) improper de...
ABSTRACT Three species of garden egg namely Solanum aithiopicum, Solanum aubergine and Solanum anguivi processed into raw and boiled powdered flour, samples were taken for their nutritional and mineral components using standard analytical methods. Proximate composition determined include total ash, moisture content, crude fibre, crude protein, crude fat and carbohydrate by difference, the mineral components determined are P, Fe, Mg, Na, Mn, Zn, Ni and Cu. The proximate analysis (%) shows th...
ABSTRACT Alpha amylase enzyme (EC 3.2..1. 1) (a-1, 4 glucan-glucanohydrolase) is widely distributed in nature such as plants, animals and microorganisms. Production of extracellu Jar alpha-amylase from fungi was isolated from rhizosphere of Moringa oleifera. Three (3) fungi isolates were selected after serial dilution of the soil samples, four optimization parameters was employed to determine the enzyme activity and they include effect of inoculum size, pH, nitrogen source and surfactant·on...
ABSTRACT Problems of pregnancy and birth delivery cause more deaths and disability than any other reproductive health problem. The situation is worse in developing countries like Nigeria due to inadequate access to antenatal care services and lack of utilization. A pregnancy not long after the previous childbirth may result in poor health outcomes for the mother, poor health status for the child and a reduction in probability of survival for both mother and child. There are past studies on m...
.ABSTRACT The growing population concern about health has recently led to the development of natural antimicrobials to control diseases. Medicinal plants and spices are one of the most commonly used natural antimicrobial agents in food and have been used traditionally for thousands of years by many cultures for controlling common health. Zingiber ojjicinale has long been used as naturopathy due to their potential antimicrobial activity against different microbial pathogens. This study was co...
Abstract Lack of contraceptives use is major concerns not only in Sub-Saharan Africa but also in many other developing countries in the world especially in Nigeria. Therefore, this study assess the factors that determines contraceptive useamong couples in Nigeria, Data were obtained from 2013 NDHS, and weighted sample of 38,676. Univariate result showed that the socio demographic factor is significant with the contraceptive use. The bivariate analysis revealed that there is a significant ass...
ABSTRACT Dengue Virus is the most prevalent arthropods borne viral infection in tropical and sub-tropical regions worldwide and they are transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. This experiment was conducted with the aim of detecting and establishing possible sylvatic transmission of Dengue Virus in mosquitoes caught in Oye Ekiti. Mosquito life traps were used to trap 200 Aedes mosquitoes which were then knocked down by the use of insecticides. RNA were extracted from the mosquitoe...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to highlight the importante of radiation protection in nuclear medicine, to assess the level of application of Radiation safety measures programs in the nuclear medicine department. This study was done in selected departments of nuclear medicine included the National Center for radiotherapy ,Alneilin , Fadil and Royal Care using questionnaire for workers for evaluation of radiation safety in the departments, in the period from January 2015 to may 201...
ABSTRACT: One of the most important characteristics of file compression is to preserve memory with all its temporary and permanent images, in addition to maintaining the speed of performance in the process of compression and decompression and increase the frequency range in the transmission and reception from long distances. The examined the performance of Variable-Byte compression scheme over sequences of integers. Variable-Byte algorithm which has high compression speed and decompressio...
Abstract In this research we consider discontinuous dynamical systems. We discuss the uniqueness of solutions and the stability analysis. We also report a number of sufficient conditions for uniqueness. We also present specific results to piecewise continuous vector fields and differential inclusions, with some examples and applications