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Medical negligence and malpractice from a proceduralist paradigm
Get PDFMedical malpractice in South Africa, has gained significant momentum over the years. Healthcare professionals have had to ensure that their practices are insured for indemnification for significant amounts, in lieu of medical malpractice claims. This has resulted in healthcare professionals over insuring for medical malpractice and negligence claims, to ensure that they get suitably allocated legal representatives as well as cover in certain instances for the quantum sued by the aggrieved party. The burden of proof is that the plaintiff bears the duty to discharge on a balance of probabilities. This means that the version that was presented is more probable than the Defendant’s version, however, it does not end there, as the healthcare professional must have committed negligence, in that the reasonable medical practitioner would not have shown in the circumstances presented by the plaintiff. The paper navigates the procedural perspective of discharging the onus of proof in medical malpractice and negligence claims
The effectiveness of Smith's strategy in the achievement of fourt-grade female students in Biology and their thinking outside the box
Get PDFThe current research aims to identify the effectiveness of Smith's strategy in the thinking outside the box of fourth-grade female students in Biology. The research sample included two groups, one of them is the experimental group with (34) female students and the control group with (34) female students too. The researchers chose Al-Fajr High School for Girls affiliated to the General Directorate of Education in Dhi Qar / Qalat Sukkar Education Department in Dhi Qar Governorate / Al-Fajr City intentionally from the research community. As the researchers adopted the experimental research as a method to conduct their research, which includes an independent variable (Smith's strategy) and a dependent variable (the thinking outside the box), the researchers chose the experimental design to control the research variables. Before starting the application of the experiment, parity was conducted between the two research groups to obtain accurate results with the following variables (the chronological age of the female students in months, the academic achievement of the fathers, the academic achievement of the mothers, the previous information test, the Otis-Lignon intelligence test, the grades of the first semester in Biology). 
Evaluation of the level of application of the quality of the training process in accordance with the requirements of the international standard (ISO 10015:2019) applied research in the national insurance company
Get PDFThe research aims to evaluate the quality of training in the National Insurance Company in accordance with the International Standard for Training ISO (ISO 10015: 2019). The application and documentation requirements for the specification items. The checklist was approved for collecting data and information, and a workshop was held with the officials in the training for accuracy in accessing the data. The list included (104) questions distributed over all the items of the specification, and the frequencies, percentages, and mean were calculated. Arithmetic was weighted as the method in data analysis, and the research reached a set of results, the most prominent of which was that the researched company achieved the level of application and documentation of the specification amounting to (36%), which is close to the weight of (partially applied and partially documented), and this means that the researched company has moved away from applying the requirements of the specification by (64%)
Impact of product maturity on competitive advantage: A study of Unilever, Nigeria
Get PDFIn recent years the concept of competitive advantage has taken centre stage in discussions of business strategy; that is why one of the major challenges organizations face today is how to have a competitive advantage. In most cases, a stand-out product will do the job, since products are perceived as both highly relevant and meaningfully, the ability for any one product to stand out in a competitive category will guarantee the success of such an organization. While there are numerous ways to differentiate brands, identifying meaningful product-driven differentiators can be especially fruitful in gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage. Product maturity is when a firm or brand has grown to the point where it outperforms rival brands in the provision of a feature(s) such that it faces reduced sensitivity for other features. This study used a sample of 150 respondents to provide evidence on the relationship between product maturity and firms' competitive advantage in Nigeria. The study employed the ordinary least square (OLS) regression analysis. This study finds a positive and significant relationship between product maturity and firms' competitive advantage, as well as a positive and significant relationship between product differentiation and competitive advantage. This study, therefore, recommends that
Experimental study on effect of Plantago lanculata leaves extract on contaminated excisional wound healing in rabbits
Get PDFObjective: The experimental study was performed to assessment the influence of topical application of 10% of plantago lanceolata leaves extract (PLLE) in enhancement of contaminated excisional wound in 20 adult local breed rabbits. Methodology: Twenty adult local breed male rabbits were used in this experimental study. After animals anesthetized then twenty surgical excisional wound in diameter (2cm) were created on thoracic region (1wound\side). Rabbits were divided into control group in which wounds on right side were treated by irrigation with normal saline once \daily. Whereas, in treated group wounds on left side treated by topical application of 10% PLLE ointment (once\day). All wounds were dressing. The healing process was evaluated through macroscopic examination, wound contraction rate (WCR) and histopathological examination. Result: The presence study confirm there were significantly different at (P≤0.05) were registered between control and treated group along the time of study in which PMLE play accelerating role since it used. 
Evaluation of AGP, SSA concentration with the relationship of antibody titer in broiler chicken vaccinated with IBD virus
Get PDFGumboro or Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is one of the most important diseases in poultry industry. IBD causes economic losses as a result to mortality and reduction in performance and medicine expenses(de S. B. Fróes et al., 2018). IBD is Severe acute disease of 3-6-week-old birds is associated with high mortality, but a less acute or subclinical disease is common in 0-3-week-old birds (Sali, 2019). IBD virus causes lymphoid depletion of the bursa and if this occurs in the first 2 weeks of life, significant depression of the humoral antibody response may result. The current study aims to measurement of antibody titer and acute phase proteins (AGP and SSA) in broiler chickens subjected to the Gumboro vaccine to explore the intensity of the vaccine strain and the response of both the early innate immune response and late humoral immune responses (antibody titers) raised against the vaccine. A handed Ross 308 chicks were divided into three groups, control, intermediate and intermediate plus vaccine. At 10 days old, the chicks were vaccinated and then blood samples collected at 12, 24 hours, and 10 and 15 days. 
Compared cadmium adsorption from biochar and magnetite biochar in water
Get PDFWater safety is a prerequisite for sustainable global quantitative and qualitative development. Heavy metal pollution has become a major problem in our environment, where traditional heavy metal processing techniques were unsuccessful and expensive. In this study, biochar and magnetite biochar have been used as an efficient, low-cost, safe, and environmentally friendly method for heavy metal removal such as cadmium. The biochar has been prepared from palm fronds and then activated by sodium hydroxide before treatment with two concentrations (5 ppm and 10 ppm) of cadmium in the water. The biochar (BC) had a positive effect on improving the efficiency of removing cadmium (II). The percentage to remove cadmium was 98% when we added 0.5 g of biochar to the solution. On the other hand, we have prepared composite materials by mixing biochar with magnetite at the mole ratio of (2:1) to prepare magnetite-biochar (MBC). A property was added to the biochar prepared by adding Fe3O4 to the biochar, which led to the activation of the effective aggregates with a significant improvement in the adsorption performance of heavy metals while increasing the removal efficiency up to 100%
The availability of body language skills for philosophy and psychology teachers for the fifth literary grade from the students’ point of view
Get PDFThe goal of the current research is find out how much the body language skills is available in the teachers of philosophy and psychology for the fifth literary grade from the students’ point of view, as well as knowing the differences in body language skills according to the gender variant, and the specimen included (400) students male and female selected by the simple random method of the fifth literary grade in third Karkh education schools that belongs to the governorate of Baghdad divided equally by gender and the questionnaire consisted of (41) paragraphs divide to (5) fields which are (head movement, facial expressions, hand and foot movement, distance between the teacher and student, exterior look and, body movement), and the virtual validity was extracted by showing the questionnaire to a group of experts and arbitrators, then the consistency was extracted for all of the fields by using Pearson correlation coefficient whereas the total consistency coefficient reached (0.84) as for the five fields it was (0.82, 0.77, 0.84, 0.94, 0.86) sequentially and by using fisher’s equation and Chi-square equation
Treatment of non-specific inflammation mimicking oral sarcoma: A rare case report
Get PDFSarcoma occurring in oral and maxillofacial is a rare case. Sarcoma of the oral cavity is rare, accounting for around 1% of all malignant oral tumors. These tumors usually proliferate and are aggressive. The report aimed to show the treatment of non-specific inflammation mimicking oral sarcoma. We herein report a patient with a history of a lump in the maxilla. Initially, the size of a pea, painless and gum-colored, and does not bleed easily. It grew up rapidly for four months. The patient planned to be performed existential biopsy by the collaborative Pediatric Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for obturator fitting. The pathology anatomy results from the biopsy show that the lesion was surprisingly a non-specific inflammatory process. After two months, there was bleeding at the maxilla after removing sutures at the obturator, and there was granulation tissue under the obturator. After that, the patient planned to receive excision of granulation tissue and osteotomy with general anesthesia. Because the defect was so vast, reconstruction with a vestibular flap for excellent defect closure was needed. After three weeks from the treatment that had been given to the patient, the control showed a satisfactory result
Synthesis and characterization of pure and Au doped Fe3O4 using co-precipitation method
Get PDFIn this research, a sonochemical activation-assisted biosynthesis of Au/Fe3O4 nanoparticles is proposed. The proposed synthesis methodology incorporates the use of Piper auritum (an endemic plant) as reducing agent and in a complementary way, an ultrasonication process to promote the synthesis of the plasmonic/magnetic nanoparticles (Au/Fe3O4). The synergic effect of the green and sonochemical synthesis favors the well-dispersion of precursor salts and the subsequent growth of the Au/Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The hybrid green/sonochemical process generates an economical, ecological and simplified alternative to synthesizing Au/Fe3O4 nanoparticles whit enhanced catalytic activity, pronounced magnetic properties. The morphological, chemical and structural characterization was carried out by high- resolution Scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and X-Ray diffraction (XRD), respectively. Ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) and X-ray photoelectron (XPS) spectroscopy confirm the Au/Fe3O4 nanoparticles obtention. Finally, the catalytic activity was evaluated by sonocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO). In this stage, it was possible to achieve a removal percentage of 91.2% at 15 min of the sonocatalytic process (160 W/42 kHz). The initial concentration of the MO was 20 mg L 1, and the Fe3O4-Au dosage was 0.075 gL 1.