Background: The pharmacists overall goal of interacting with patients is to promote rational use of drugs (RUD). The goal of communication with the patient is to provide information that the patient is able to understand ...

Background: Students in tertiary institutions are usually teenagers, adolescents and/or young adults and are known to be adventurous and engage in risky sexual behavior such as unprotected sex. Unprotected sex carries a ...

HIV/AIDS seriously affects adolescents throughout the world. One third of all currently infected individuals are youth between the ages of 15 to 24 and half of all new infections occur in youth of the same age. People of ...

Background: Increasing numbers of women experiencing delay in childbirth have been encountered in various locations including churches, community pharmacies, hospitals and even in the neighborhood. Also a higher proportion ...

Chloroquine has remained the first line in the management of malaria for over five decades. The avalanche of published research works and books on Chloroquine attests to its success and usefulness. Although, Chloroquine ...

This study examines proverbs in two different and unique cultures since proverbs, over ages, have been effective elements that people have employ to transmit cultural values. Data for this work was obtained through homogenous ...

Pre-colonial Idanre was built on household farming, and reciprocal economic system among family members, age group and the community. Economic system in precolonial Idanre was therefore, conducted with an eye on widening ...

Abstract The forest region of Nigeria—especially the south-western agrarian, and other non-farming communities has witnessed ruthless deforestation either for urbanization or other consumerist purposes, since the past few ...

ABSTRACT Globalization is not a new development in the international system. Given the interconnection of socioeconomic and political activities, woven through the information and communication technology across the ...

For any society to progress, there must be sensitive leadership that is willing to stir the affairs of the country towards the right direction, the provision of a good life, security, opportunity to exist peacefully, a ...

Marriage is an institution that has evolved over the years to signify different things; while the traditional notion of marriage is starting a family additional habitual conception of marriage is to extend the family ties. ...

Traditional societies such as the Yoruba and the Chinese share a lot in common. Their values and traditions are modelled on rules and regulations set by supernatural beings or deities. Both societies have historical ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To evaluated the effect of thyroid dysfunction on liver function tests and if there is any correlation between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 68 subjects (40 hyperthyroid and 28 hypothyroid) ...

The problem of countably quasi-barrelledness of weighted spaces of continuous functions, of which there are no results in the general setting of weighted spaces, is tackled in this paper. This leads to the study of ...

In this paper, we make a study of weighted locally convex spaces of measurable functions parallel to the studies of weighted locally convex spaces of continuous functions which has been a subject of intense research for ...

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that currently more than 246 million people have diabetes worldwide, and this figure is expected to reach 380 million by 2030. Although insulin resistance is a modifiable ...

This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical study of steady, laminar, incompressible flow and forced convection heat transfer through a two-layer rectangular microchannel heat sink inserted with pin fins. The objective ...

This paper presents the use of the constructal design technique to optimise the geometry of a multilayered microchannel heat sink. The objective of this numerical investigation was to minimise the peak temperature of the ...

Heat is a by-product which is constantly being generated in the operation of a power inverter and if left unchecked will inevitably lead to the damage of the device. Hence a means to efficiently dissipate this heat has to ...

This study investigates experimentally and numerically the performance of fibre-glass/talc filled epoxy as an insulator in domestic heating application. The epoxy composites with micro filler (talc) and fibre glass used ...