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Objective: In order to provide an effective method for the comprehensive and scientific evaluation of respiratory rehabilitation nursing, a nursing quality evaluation index system for respiratory rehabilitation was constructed. Methods: Based on the theory of structure-process-outcome three-dimensional quality model, indexes and weights of respiratory rehabilitation nursing quality evaluation at all levels were determined by using literature review, semi-structured interviews, Delphi method, and Analytic Hierarchy Process. Results: The response rates of the two rounds consultation were 100% and 93% respectively, and the authority coefficients of experts are 0.872 and 0.922. The coordination coefficients of expert opinions were 0.583, 0.498, 0.407 for the first, second and third-level respectively. The significance test value P was less than 0.01. The final indicator system is constructed with 3 first-level indicators, 9 second-level indicators, and 46 third-level indicators. Conclusion: The constructed respiratory rehabilitation nursing quality evaluation index system is not only reliable, scientific, comprehensive, and but also with outstanding specialty characteristics. It provides an effective strategy to improve respiratory rehabilitation nursing quality.

This study evaluated the potentials of the seed extract of Ricinodendron heudelotii on the oxidative stress biomarkers of diabetic albino rats of the wistar strain. Diabetes mellitus was induced via intraperitoneal administration of 160 mg/ kg bodyweight Alloxan monohydrate in normal saline and confirmed after 120 hours of blood glucose level above 300mg/dl. Blood samples were collected from the animals and analyzed for Malondialdehyde, Catalase, Reduced Glutathione, Glutathione-S-transferase, Glutathione peroxidase, and Superoxide dismutase activities as biomarkers of oxidative stress. The result revealed a significant decrease at P≤0.05 in blood glucose concentration of diabetic rats with increase in the seed extract concentration, Malondialdehyde (MDA) decreased significantly in the diabetic rats while Catalase increased significantly at P≤0.05 as the extract concentration increased. Variations in Glutathione-S-transferase, Glutathione Peroxidase, Superoxide dismutase and Reduced Glutathione in comparison with control was observed. The results therefore suggests that the aqueous seed extract of Ricinodendron heudelotii has the potency to reduce glucose level and act as antioxidants against oxidative stress, hence its use therapeutically.

This study is on issues and Challenges facing intellectual Property right in Nigeria. Although intellectual Property right laws exist in Nigeria, it is observable that the enforcement of this aspect of law is not taken seriously compared to that of real property. This problem has caused a decrease in the economic value of the productive sector, especially the creative industry, in Nigeria, and a corresponding decrease in our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In view of this problem, the study aims at investigating the issues and challenges affecting intellectual property right in Nigeria, with a view to enlightening the public on the availability and role of intellectual property laws in our Jurisdiction and to proffer solutions on how to achieve more effective enforcement. The study employs a qualitative research approach, while information was sourced primarily through oral source mainly interviews with learned Jurists and practitioners in the creative industry. Secondary sources of information used comprise written sources which include decided cases, Books, Journals, Newspapers and dissertations/project. The study revealed that if intellectual properties are properly protected and the applicable laws enforced, Nigeria will witness a phenomenal rise in the economic value of most productive sector in Nigeria and a corresponding increase in Gross Domestic Product. The study will recommend among others, to improve on legal education in Nigeria by generating best practices and approaches that can be employed to redesign legal education to make it responsive to contemporary realities and needs of the society.

The current biomedical Buruli ulcer case management strategies emphasise the importance of early reporting and appropriate medical treatment of nodules before they ulcerate and give rise to deformities and disabilities. However, there are a wide range of factors that influence health seeking behaviour for Buruli ulcer case management. The purpose of the study was to determine health seeking behaviour for Buruli ulcer by affected persons and their families. This was a descriptive study involving both qualitative and quantitative data collection. Thirty (30) in-depth interviews were conducted for Buruli ulcer patients and their corresponding caregivers on barriers and facilitators to health seeking. Three (3) Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were also conducted among elderly community members. Survey questionnaire interviews were conducted with 300 community respondents in Ga, Akan and Ewe languages in the study area. Systematic sampling was used to select 300 respondents for the survey. The study revealed that most respondents (41.0%) would resort to self-medication as their first treatment option when infected with Buruli ulcer. However, the health seeking of self-medication before seeking biomedical treatment was alarming since it leads to delays in reporting. This is a serious public health concern since delay in reporting could lead to category three lesions.

The application Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that are readily available across many developed countries of the World can drastically improve the rapid response of health practitioners in handling and managing infectious diseases in patients, especially Zoonotic disease like Ebola Virus disease. The management of Ebola Virus disease in real time is a challenge and will be our focus due to the danger it poses in case of an epidemic outbreak as it requires rapid response to checkmate the disease. This paper uses a case study approach in its methodology. It presents an investigative framework for the application of Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies in tackling the Suspected Case of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. The study proposes the use of IoT technology and other smart devices (such as smartphone, body temperature sensor) in sensing and identifying Suspected Case of Ebola Virus, and Reporting of Real time data generated from the Suspected case anytime, anywhere for quick response intervention. The result is to provide better health emergency rapid response and proper management of the virus disease pattern to achieve timely intervention in the control or containment of the outbreak while limiting the spread and risk factor. The general aim of this work is to design a real time detection and/or identification system for Suspected Cases of Ebola Virus Disease. The specific objectives are to: conduct a relative review of frameworks to aid the propose system, design an Ebola Smart Detection System (EDS) to detect and/or identify a Suspected case of Ebola Virus disease. Identify/evaluate whether or not a Contacted (infected) case is symptomatically a suspected case of Ebola Virus disease. And report data in Real-time to the healthcare practitioner/facility and patient’s guardian, while focusing on providing quick response intervention capable of reducing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease amongst…

The objective of the present study was to investigate the performance, haematology and serum biochemical parameters of rabbits fed different levels of fermented Lagenaria brevlifora extract (LBE). A total of fifty (50) weaner rabbits aged 9-10 weeks with an aver-age weight of 405 ± 1.8 were allotted to five treatments with 5 replicates of two rabbit per replicate in a CRD. Treatment 1 was fed 0 ml LBE while 2, 3, 4 and 5 were fed LBE at 20ml, 40ml, 60ml and 80 ml per liter of water respectively and the experiment lasted for 12 weeks. The data obtained was used to evaluate the growth, haematological parameters (PCV, RBC, Hb, MCV, MCH , MCHC, WBC and its differentials ), serum biochemical indi-ces (Albumin, globulin, total protein, urea, creatinine, cholesterol, calcium, phosphorus, ALP, AST and ALT). Result obtained revealed that there was a significant differences (P

The objective of the present study was to investigate the performance, haemato-biochemical parameters of broiler chicks administered Daniellia oliveri leaf extract (DOE) as an antibi-otic alternative. A total of 250 (Ross 308) one-day old broiler chicks were allotted to five treatments in a completely randomized design and each treatment group was further sub-divided into five replicates containing ten (10) birds each. Treatment 1 (Control) was given 1.20 g/ liter of Neomycin in water, while treatments 2, 3, 4 and 5 were given DOE at 10 ml, 20 ml, 30 ml and 40 ml/liter of water respectively. The experiment lasted for 8 weeks dur-ing which performance, hematology and serum parameters were recorded. Average daily gain (DWG) and feed conversion efficiency (FCE) were significantly influenced by the die-tary treatment (P0.05). However, increasing the level of DOE from 10 ml to 40 ml/liter tend to decrease the AFI. Highest mortality was recorded in birds fed T1 (10%) followed by T2 (3%), T3 (1%) respectively, none was recorded in T4 and T5. Results on hematology revealed that there were significant differences (P

This study was carried out to generate baseline information on village chicken production objective, breeding practice and trait preference of chicken producers in South Achefre, Banija and FagitaLekoma districts of western Amhara. Multi-stage sampling procedures were employed to select the study villages and respondents, where nine villages and 180 respondents were selected by purposive and random sampling techniques, respectively. Data were collected by individual survey using Open Data Kit. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of SPSS version 20 and ranking index. The main purposes of keeping chicken in the study area are the sale of egg and live adult chicken and farmers have a multiple breeding practice. The exotic breed was the first priority of chicken producers. The three most preferred traits for the selection of breeding hen are egg production trait, disease resistance and mothering ability, while the three most preferred traits for the selection of breeding cock are body conformation/ physical appearance, body size and disease resistance. Comprehensible knowledge on breeding practices, objectives and trait preferences of chicken owners are crucial for the development of holistic and applicable genetic improvement programs. Hence, production objectives and trait preference should incorporate in designing genetic improvement breeding programs to assure sustainable utilization and improvement of indigenous chickens.

Angiogenesis is the most critical step in the development and progression of malignant tumors. Anti-tumor angiogenesis has become the most promising new strategy for tumor treatment. Rapidly growing tumor cells secrete a variety of vascular growth factors under hypoxia to stimulate tumor angiogenesis. One of the important growth factors is Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF). Some small molecule compounds that inhibit VEGFR have been used to treat Tumors. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness and safety of Apatinib Mesylate tablet in the treatment of advanced solid tumors. We found that Apatinib Mesylate tablet can treat advanced solid tumors.

Artificial Neural Networks have been widely used in security and privacy domains for alleviating the issues of malicious attacks. Several embedded codes like Visual Basic for Application Macros are reasonably powerful scripts that can help to automate iterative processes in word processing documents. It has been observed that, unethical hackers exploit these embedded scripts for their malicious intents. Since most of the Microsoft Word users are unaware of such malicious attacks because they are layman end users and mistakenly considers less suspicious contents. And therefore these hackers, prefer to use Microsoft Office documents as most vulnerable items for or Attack vectors. As a general approach, non-executable files are assumed to be less vulnerable than executable files. This implies that these document files could provide an easy and convenient exploitable pathway that can allow hackers to execute their intended malicious actions on the victim’s machine. This research paper presents an automatic detection of malicious embedded codes in general and Microsoft Office documents as a specific case for experimental analysis. This research paper considered only malicious behavior of the embedded codes i.e. checks the status of inclusion or exclusion of the executable code. The malicious datasets are developed to create a knowledge base where documents are pre-processed. Thereafter the data sets are disassembled using reverse engineering and then malicious features are extracted from the documents. In this research paper, nineteen different malicious keys were extracted. Later, feature reduction technique were applied. Based upon actions; these malicious keys were reduced to eight behaviors. Finally, a machine is trained using artificial neural network with eight input features; extracted from individual disassembled scripts. Afterwards, output nodes that represent malicious or benign behavior classify the existence of attack i.e. exists or does not exists. Based on the training model, a total of seven hundred ninety-two samples…