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Mar 30, 2015Open Access
Indigenous knowledge
exists and particularly in Africa and is being challenged as science and this negatively
influences the harnessing of it globally. The study focused on the history of knowledge
as science and the evolutionary analysis of science as a body of knowledge, within
a Grounded Theory approach. The findings revealed that indigenous knowledge is a
body of knowledge like the western science and has survived the custodians of this
body of knowledge for generations; it dictates the prog...
Mar 30, 2015Open Access
The paper critically interrogates and assesses the importance of reading
and its indispensable contributions
to the educational development of the society. The paper also laments the
fallen standard of education in Nigeria and addresses the decay and the rot
that have characterised the educational system in Nigeria, which are a consequence
of the dwindling reading culture among the Nigerian youths. An analysis of the
recent Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination results conducted by
bot...
Mar 27, 2015Open Access
This article examines how Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs)-state relation
influences the democratization process in Kenya. Ideally, the state should be
in the forefront in nurturing the democratization process. However, evidence
suggests that the Kenyan state has for a long time appeared as an unwilling participant
in the democratization process. Instead, the Kenyan state has refused to let go
of the old system of governance associated with restricted political freedoms,
ethnic discrimination, h...
Mar 26, 2015Open Access
Copper oxide nanoparticles
(CuO-NPs) were synthesized via chemical precipitation method using
copper (II) chloride dihydrate and sodium hydroxide. Then nanoparticles were characterized by using X-ray Diffraction
(XRD), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray
(EDX), and Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) spectroscopy. The XRD patterns
and EDX spectra showed that the prepared CuO-NPs were highly pure, crystalline
and nano-sized. The SEM image suggested that nano particles were ...
Mar 26, 2015Open Access
Studies have shown that
soil-transmitted helminth infections are widely distributed throughout the tropics
and subtropics. Poor sanitation is a major factor in the spread of intestinal helminth
parasites. Hence, a study was carried out from July to September 2014, to determine
the prevalence of intestinal helminth parasites among undergraduate students at
North Gate, FUTA. A total of two hundred (200) stool samples were collected randomly
from both males and females. Faecal samples were analyzed...
Mar 25, 2015Open Access
In this paper we will show the possibility of studying physical
properties and irreversible phenomena that occur in biological tissues by
applying the dielectric Kluitenberg’s non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory.
Namely, we shall use some recent extensions of this theory that allows deducing
its main characteristic parameters from experimental measurements. We determine
frequency spectrum for phenomenological and state coefficients of the non-equilibrium
thermodynamic approach. Applying these r...
Mar 24, 2015Open Access
Background: The majority of research with gay
men has been conducted in urban populations, with minimal work on partner
violence in non-urban (suburban and rural) settings. Syndemic theory, the
concept that negative health outcomes are increased with the addition of each
new deleterious health variable, has been used to understand partner violence. The
aim of the study was to determine differences in prevalence and associated
factors of male same-sex intimate partner violence (MSSIPV) among gay ...
Mar 23, 2015Open Access
Background: Tobacco use is one of the important preventable causes of death
and a leading public health problem all over the world. Multiple factors are involved
in the initiation of smoking in adolescents and young adults. Adolescents may incorrectly
believe that cigarette smoking is less risky than other behaviors, such as alcohol
consumption and drug use, and they do not understand the short-term effect and addictive
nature of smoking. Objectives: The main objective of the study was to find o...
Mar 20, 2015Open Access
Context: The in-house techniques or experimental methods are increasingly
recommended for their low-cost reagents for the determination of the Viral Load
(VL) in resource-limited settings. The objective of this study was to compare
the determination of VL from HIV-1 non-B samples by an in-house technique with
the COBAS AmpliPrep/TaqMan version 2.0. Method: In this cross-sectional
study, 39 plasma samples from patients infected with HIV type 1 non-B from N’Djamena
and Kinshasa were used to determ...
Mar 20, 2015Open Access
In this conceptual paper, we try to take a step to explore theoretical
foundation of sustainability transformation in dimension of resilience
thinking. Firstly, this paper will reexamine the ontology of ecosystem resilience
so as to avoid the conflated view between ecosystem resilience and engineering resilience;
secondly, it will propose social-ecological evolutionary resilience as theoretical
and conceptual foundation for sustainability transformation.
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