32 research outputs found
Primary Health Care in South West Nigeria: Evaluating service quality and patients' satisfaction
No full textAdaptive capabilities of the cardiovascular system in children with systemic lupus erythematosus
No full textAdaptive capabilities of the cardiovascular system in children with systemic lupus erythematosus
No full textRelative Effects of Parents’ Occupation, Qualification and Academic Motivation of Wards on Students’ Achievement in Senior Secondary School Mathematics in Ogun State
No full textThe importance of mathematics to an individual and the society is clearly beyond debate thus, every individual needs some knowledge of mathematics in order to live a useful life and be an effective member of the society. Despite this impo9rtance role accorded mathematics in the school curriculum, many academically capable students prematurely restrict their educational and career options by discontinuing their mathematical learning early in the high school. The poor results in this subject have continued to be stumbling-blocks in the realization of the educational and employment desire of many candidates because it is a gatekeeper for many careers. This study investigated the relative effects of parents’ occupation, education and academic motivation of wards on students’ achievements in senior secondary school Mathematics in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study employed ex-post facto type of research and the sample was selected using the multistage sampling technique. Two thousand four hundred students from 60 selected schools in nine local government areas within Ogun State, Nigeria were involved and two research instruments namely; Students’ Questionnaire; (r = 0.81) and Mathematics Achievement Test; (r = 0.84) were used. Data were analyzed using multiple regression at .05 level of significance. The result reveals that parents’ education has the highest significant influence on the academic achievement of students in Mathematics while the effect of academic motivation had the least effect among the variables which exerted significant effects on students’ academic achievement in Mathematics. Keywords: Parents’ education; Occupation; Academic Motivation; Achievement
Effects of a 12-Week Structured Fitness Exercise on the Red Blood Cells of College Students in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
No full textThis study investigated and determined the effects of a 12-week structured fitness training programme on the Red Blood cells of College Students. The structured exercise/ training programme consisted of graded physical activities lasting for about fifty (50) minutes and administered three times a week, The pre-test, post-test control group - design was used for the study. Sixty (60) College Students were used comprising thirty (30) subjects each for both the experimental and the control groups. Statistical procedure employed included the descriptive statistics of mean, range and standard deviation, inferential statistics of Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to determine significance of adaptation. A post-hoc analysis of Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) was also applied to find out the magnitude of the adaptation. Graphical illustration was also used to pictorially display the pattern of changes in the variable. The result of the findings showed a rejection of the hypothesis which stated that there will be no significant effect of a 12-week fitness training programme on the Red blood cells of College Students in Ekiti State. Based on the findings of this study, it was therefore concluded that a structured exercise training programme of 12 weeks duration is capable of reducing the red blood cells of college students in Ikere Ekiti. It was recommended that such fitness training programme be encouraged among the youths. Keywords: Resistance exercise, hematological variables, college students
Antibiotic Residues in Food Samples Sold In Abeokuta Metropolis: A Cause for Concern
No full textThe use of antibiotic plays a major role in the emerging public health crisis of antibiotic resistance. Although, the majority of antibiotics usage occurs in animal husbandry and relatively little attention has been paid to how these antibiotics in farm animals contribute to the overall problems of antibiotics resistance in human. This research focuses on antibiotics residues in seven different most commonly consumed food samples in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria as a case study. These food samples are: Chicken, Eggs, Cow-meat, Cheese, Goat-meat, Pork-meat and Turkey-meat. The antibiotics tested were: tetracycline, penicillin and streptomycin. The result, however, gave an inhibition zone of 8mm, 5mm, 6mm in frozen Turkey; Nill, 5mm, 4mm in Cow-meat; Nill, Nill, 5mm in boiled Cheese; Nill, 4mm, 5mm in frozen Pork; 6mm, 7mm , 4mm in Eggs; 5mm, 4mm, 6mm in frozen Chicken and 4mm, Nill , 5mm in Goat-meat for Tetracycline, Penicillin and Streptomycin respectively. Most of the results obtained showed relatively high amount of antibiotics residues above the permissible limit of 2mm
Effect Of Mastery Learning Strategy On Students\u27 Learning Outcomes In Senior Secondary School Biology In Lagos State
No full textThe study is a pre-test, post-test control group randomized quasi–experimental research design. The population comprised all SSII Biology Students in Lagos Education District II, with two intact classes of 60 students from two selected public secondary schools. Four instruments were used namely; Mastery Learning Strategy Instructional Aid, Conventional Teaching Strategy Instructional Aid, Biology Achievement Test (r = 0.77) and Biology Attitude Scale (r = 0.82). Six null hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). Findings showed significant main effect of treatment on achievement (F (1, 59) = 2399.983, P (.000) \u3c .05), no significant main effect of gender on achievement (F (1, 59) = 1.677, P (.201) \u3e .05) and no significant interaction effect of treatment and gender on students’ achievement in Biology (F (1, 59) = .279, P .599 \u3e .05). Estimated Marginal Means revealed that the Mastery Learning Strategy group performed statistically better than the Control group. Also, result established significant main effect of treatment on attitude towards Biology (F (1, 59) = 867.963, P (.001) \u3c .05), no significant main effect of gender on attitude (F (1, 59) = 3.093, P (.084) \u3e .05) and no significant interaction effect of treatment and gender on students’ attitude towards Biology (F (1, 59) = 1.845, P (.180) \u3e .05). The study concluded that Mastery Learning Strategy significantly enhanced students’ achievement and attitude towards Biology. The study recommends that teachers should adopt mastering learning strategy in classroom instruction when dealing with difficult and complex topics in Biology
Efficacy of Allium Sativum (Garlic) In the Treatment of Diabetes Induced In Laboratory Rats
No full textDiabetes has become one of the top killing metabolic disorders in which a person has high blood sugar either as a result of the pancreas not producing enough insulin (type I / Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus [IDDM]) or the cells of the body not responding properly to the insulin produced (type II or Non Insulin Dependent diabetes Mellitus [NIDDM] or Adult Onset Diabetes). This research was centered on the induction of diabetes using Alloxan and subsequent treatment using Allium sativum (Garlic) extract (both fresh and aged). The result showed most of the Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) being lowered from 68-50, 44-57, 51-47, in rat treated with diabetmin, 60-69, 51-72, 55-60 in rats treated with aged Garlic extract and 62-79, 67-76, 50-93 in rats treated with fresh Garlic extract and control given no treatment showing 74-160, 71-162, 49-138 all in milligram per deciliter (mg/dl) and weight reduction from 150-138, 138-125, 150-140 in rats treated with diabetmin , and weight increase from 138-160, 88-100 and 113-125 in rats treated with fresh garlic extract and weight reduction from 138-90, 137 – 90 and 100-97 (all weights are measured in grams) in rats that are not treated. The extracts of fresh and aged garlic show a promising ability in the management of diabetes
Post-authorship attribution using regularized deep neural network
No full textPost-authorship attribution is a scientific process of using stylometric features to identify
the genuine writer of an online text snippet such as an email, blog, forum post, or chat log. It has
useful applications in manifold domains, for instance, in a verification process to proactively detect
misogynistic, misandrist, xenophobic, and abusive posts on the internet or social networks. The
process assumes that texts can be characterized by sequences of words that agglutinate the functional
and content lyrics of a writer. However, defining an appropriate characterization of text to capture the
unique writing style of an author is a complex endeavor in the discipline of computational linguistics.
Moreover, posts are typically short texts with obfuscating vocabularies that might impact the accuracy
of authorship attribution. The vocabularies include idioms, onomatopoeias, homophones, phonemes,
synonyms, acronyms, anaphora, and polysemy. The method of the regularized deep neural network
(RDNN) is introduced in this paper to circumvent the intrinsic challenges of post-authorship attribution.
It is based on a convolutional neural network, bidirectional long short-term memory encoder,
and distributed highway network. The neural network was used to extract lexical stylometric features
that are fed into the bidirectional encoder to extract a syntactic feature-vector representation. The
feature vector was then supplied as input to the distributed high networks for regularization to
minimize the network-generalization error. The regularized feature vector was ultimately passed
to the bidirectional decoder to learn the writing style of an author. The feature-classification layer
consists of a fully connected network and a SoftMax function to make the prediction. The RDNN
method was tested against thirteen state-of-the-art methods using four benchmark experimental
datasets to validate its performance. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the
method when compared to the existing state-of-the-art methods on three datasets while producing
comparable results on one dataset.The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsciam2023Computer Scienc
Relationship between adolescents’ family function with socio-demographic characteristics and behaviour risk factors in a primary care facility
No full textBackground: The family as a unit of care has great effect in tackling adolescent problems and this could be influenced by family functioning.
Objective: This study assesses the relationship between adolescents’ family functioning with socio-demographic characteristics and behavioural risk factors.
Method: The research was a cross-sectional, hospital-based study carried out at the General Outpatients Department, University College Hospital (GOPD,UCH), Ibadan, over a period of three months. Four hundred subjects were recruited using a modified Guideline for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) questionnaire, with an incorporated family APGAR (Adaptation,Partnership, Growth, Affection, Resolve) score table. The results were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 11 and the findings on the family assessment and behavioural risk factors were relayed to the respondents.
Results: The ages of the adolescents ranged from 10 to 19 years. Of the subjects, 8% were sexually active. Mean age for first coitus among the respondents was 15 ± 2.4 years. The rate of ingestion of alcohol and cigarette smoking was very low. The family APGAR scores obtained revealed that 84.5% subjects were rated as having a functional family (7–10 points) and 15.5% of the subjects were rated as having a dysfunctional family (0–6 points). There was a significant association between perceived family function and subjects’ occupation (p = 0.01), parent social class (p = 0.00) and subjects’ sexual activities (p = 0.00).
Conclusion: The majority of the adolescents were rated as having functional families. Dysfunctional families had significantly sexually active respondents
