The objective of this study was to evaluate cases of brought in dead (BID) patients in the accident and emergency unit of Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital through a retrospective study of a period of 3 years. A retrospective descriptive study of BID cases from the death register and patients’ records of the accident and emergency unit of the hospital was carried out from January 2011 to December 2013. 31% (180/574) of BID cases were recorded over the study period with the age range from below 1 y...

Public Health  Epidemiology  Global Health 

In this paper we construct conjugate spectral problem and the conditions of biorthogonality for distribution in extended plates of variable thickness of the problem considered. It describes the procedure of solving problems and a numerical result is on wave propagation in an infinitely large plate of variable thickness. Viscous properties of the material are taken into account by means of an integral operator Voltaire. Research is conducted in the framework of the spatial theory of visco elastic...

Mathematical Analysis  Mechanics 

A holographic origin of missing mass and extremely high value of Einstein’s cosmological constant Λ ~ 10¹²² in quantum cosmology, compared to observational data 0 ≤ Λ ≤ 1, is sought and related to extremely large relativistic mass defect of gravitional semiclosure of Friedman universe joined to an asymptotically flat outer space.

Special Theory of Relativity  Quantum Mechanics 

This paper reviews the attitude of undergraduate to extension education and possible job opportunities influencing career direction in agricultural extension. It examined awareness level of undergraduates as well as social factors that influence prospective undergraduates in the field. Stratified random sampling techniques was used to drawn one hundred (100) students of Agricultural Extension (AE) and Agricultural Related (AR) courses in School of Agriculture, Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu to...

Agricultural Science  Education 

The focus of this paper is more on children’s academic outcome when challenges like divorce occur in the home, and the emphasis is on children in secondary school level of education in Nigeria which are usually children aged 11 to 16 years. The primary environment of the child is the home and this can exert tremendous impact on students’ achievement. The home is the primary agent of education, thus, the way the child lives, the food he/she eats and his/her life style are influenced by the home. ...

Education  Art 

Abnormal application behavior in mobile can produce a number of undesirable effects. An incorrect or insufficient implementation of application lifecycle, memory related issues and malicious application might cause an unexpected behavior of the application such as bad usability, not responding, crashed and even data loss. Current analysis and detection of abnormal applications behavior are still not comprehensive enough where behavior under user visible failure category such as crash, “stopped u...

Mobile and Portable Communications Systems  Applications of Communication Systems 

This paper focuses on the ionospheric anomalies observed in the F2 layer at Tortosa in Ebre Observatory (40.8°N, 0.49°E), before and after a seismic event in Morocco (Agadir). The data on optimal frequency of F2 layer (f0F2) were acquired using ground based ionosonde. The median- based statistical technique was applied to the data to examine the possible relationship between the earthquake displacement field and the variation of the f0F2 in the ionosphere. The results point to a variation charac...

Geophysics  Atmospheric Sciences 

The present study investigated the effect of cooperative learning strategies on Iranian intermediate students’ writing achievement. The researchers selected 83 English students in Khorasgan Islamic Azad University. The researcher assigned Oxford Placement Test by [1] test with 100 multiple choice questions as the homogeneity test and selected 60 students and divided them equally as the experimental and control groups to teach them how to write TOEFL es...

Education  Linguistics 

This study appraised the awareness and willingness of faculty staff in Nigerian universities to deposit their pre and post research publications in open access institutional repository. Two universities (one private and one public) were systematically selected for the study. Nigeria has a total of 129 universities; 79 are public universities, while 50 are private universities. The researcher purposefully selected two universities from the public and private for convenience and easy analysis. The...

Information Science  Library, Intelligence and Philology 

Simple mathematical model of gene expression has been studied thoroughly in this paper. We assume that protein synthesis and protein decay are deterministic in nature whereas transition from active to inactive state is totally stochastic. The probability distribution function of transcript number is calculated and evidence of binary and graded response has been observed for different reaction rates. Slow and fast kinetics have been studied explicitly. Different rate constants play a significant ...

Computational Biology  Synthetic Biology  Biophysics