135 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-whe-10.1177_17455065211060637 – Supplemental material for Eight-hour versus 24-h urethral catheter removal following elective caesarean section for reducing significant bacteriuria: A randomized controlled trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-whe-10.1177_17455065211060637 for Eight-hour versus 24-h urethral catheter removal following elective caesarean section for reducing significant bacteriuria: A randomized controlled trial by Emeka Philip Igbodike, Ibraheem Olayemi Awowole, Olufemi O Kuti, Kayode Olusegun Ajenifuja, George Uchenna Eleje, Simeon Olugbade Olateju, Bolatito Opeyemi Olopade, Omotade Adebimpe Ijarotimi, Emmanuel Oladayo Irek, Njideka Theresa Igbodike, Oluwole Ekundayo Ayegbusi, Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, Boniface Chukwuneme Okpala, Olabisi Morebisi Loto, Akintunde Olusegun Fehintola, Akinyosoye Deji Ajiboye, Olusola Fajobi, Chima Stephene Abuchi, Uchenna Uchenna Onwudiegwu, Olusola Benjamin Fasubaa, Ernest Okechukwu Orji, Olufemiwa Niyi Makinde, Alexander Tuesday Owolabi and Adebanjo Babalola Adeyemi in Women’s Health</p
sj-sav-1-whe-10.1177_17455065211060637 – Supplemental material for Eight-hour versus 24-h urethral catheter removal following elective caesarean section for reducing significant bacteriuria: A randomized controlled trial
No full textsj-sav-1-whe-10.1177_17455065211060637 for Eight-hour versus 24-h urethral catheter removal following elective caesarean section for reducing significant bacteriuria: A randomized controlled trial by Emeka Philip Igbodike, Ibraheem Olayemi Awowole, Olufemi O Kuti, Kayode Olusegun Ajenifuja, George Uchenna Eleje, Simeon Olugbade Olateju, Bolatito Opeyemi Olopade, Omotade Adebimpe Ijarotimi, Emmanuel Oladayo Irek, Njideka Theresa Igbodike, Oluwole Ekundayo Ayegbusi, Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, Boniface Chukwuneme Okpala, Olabisi Morebisi Loto, Akintunde Olusegun Fehintola, Akinyosoye Deji Ajiboye, Olusola Fajobi, Chima Stephene Abuchi, Uchenna Uchenna Onwudiegwu, Olusola Benjamin Fasubaa, Ernest Okechukwu Orji, Olufemiwa Niyi Makinde, Alexander Tuesday Owolabi and Adebanjo Babalola Adeyemi in Women’s Health</p
Solid Verifiable Credentials
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-66).Credentials are an integral part of our lives, as they express our capabilities and enable access to restricted services and benefits. In the early 2010s, the Verifiable Claims Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed a specification for what is now the Verifiable Credentials Data Model. This living specification, which is still in development, outlines a cogent framework for the issuance, storage, presentation, and verification of credentials on the Web. Many of the leading Verifiable Credentials projects leverage Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), potentially compromising Web interoperability and sometimes exposing otherwise personal data. SolidVC is a decentralized Verifiable Credentials platform built with the open protocols of the Web. It is implemented on top of Solid, a Web framework developed at MIT in 2016 that allows decentralized applications to interact with personal user data to provide services in an access controlled environment.by Kayode Yadilichi Ezike.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
Household energy conservation behaviour: A socio-economic perspective
No full textStudies on energy conservation and household behaviour were predominantly based on econometrics using secondary data with limited studies employing the primary data. In addition, the use of secondary data from developing countries are not without their inadequacies due to missing data points. However, generating data may lead to over or under estimations which led to this study deploying structural equation model and making use of cross-sectional data from a developing country perspective. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire from 329 respondents in Akure Metropolis households, Nigeria, that were selected using a random sampling techniques. The study adopted the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling approach. The results of the study showed that socio-economic variables electricity price, household size, income, number of appliance and weather have significant effects on energy conservation behavior with income having the largest structural weight. This implies that income is of utmost importance to residents` electricity saving practices as householders consume more and save less electricity with more income. It is therefore recommended that energy conservation policy should aim at regulating the purchase of electricity units at household levels, where the rich pay more tax than the poor. This will foster energy saving improvement at households sector of the Nigerian economy
INFLUENCE OF AFTER-SCHOOL LESSONS AND STAKEHOLDERS’ FACTORS ON PUPIL ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
No full textThe study investigated the influence of after school lessons and stakeholders’ factors (Pupil, Teacher and Parents) on pupils’ achievement in Mathematics in Oyo State, Nigeria. It study adopted the multistage sampling technique which was used in selecting the study population and sample. A total of fifteen (15) private and thirteen (13) public primary schools in Ibadan South East Local Government area of Oyo State was selected for the study. The population of the study comprised of all primary five and six pupils in the primary schools. Sample consisted of two hundred and nineteen (219) pupils, two hundred and nineteen (219) Parents of the pupils’ and forty eight (48) teachers. Data was collected with the use of questionnaires (TAASLS, PUAALS and PAASLS), attitude scale and achievement test; that were all developed and validated by the researchers. The data were collected from March to May, 2018. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression at p<0.05. The predictor variables that are most influential in predicting pupils’ achievement in Mathematics are: pupil parents’ attitude to after school lessons (?=0.57, t=3.60, P<0.05), parents’ academic qualification (?= -0.06, t= 0.95, P<0.05), peer group Influence (?=0.42, t=2.62, P<0.05) respectively. In order to improve Mathematics achievement among learners’ especially at the primary level of education, after school lessons should be reinforced; the stakeholders’ factors’ that predicted learners’ achievement in mathematics should be put into perspective. 
Novice teachers: the challenges, supports, and effective strategies
No full textThis study used survey research to investigate the challenges novice teachers experience, the support they receive, and the leadership strategies that are implemented to support them. The research was conducted in Manitoba, Canada. Quantitative methods and convenience sampling were used to explore the research questions that guided this study: What challenges do beginning teachers perceive they encounter in their first years of teaching practice? What supports do new teachers report they receive? What strategies do novice teachers perceive are the most effective in supporting them? What challenges do school principals perceive novice teachers face? What strategies do principals use to support novice teachers? A total of 41 novice teachers and 31 school principals in Manitoba, participated in this study. The majority of the novice teacher participants were female and the majority of principal respondents were male – statistics which reflect the gender demographics of teachers and principals in Canada. The areas that novice teacher participants found most challenging were differentiating instruction, planning and preparation, accessing teaching resources, working with students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs), and assessing student learning. With regard to gender, male novice teachers found differentiating instruction and organizing the classroom significantly more challenging than did their female colleagues. Beginning teachers in rural/small town areas perceived isolation and teaching multi-age classrooms to be a greater challenge than their colleagues who taught in urban/suburban schools. With regard to teaching experience, teachers with less than two years in the classroom perceived isolation to be a significantly greater challenge than colleagues with 2-3 years teaching experience. When considering school size, teachers in smaller schools with less than 200 students considered isolation to be a greater challenge than their colleagues in larger schools; however, teachers in larger schools found planning and preparation and developing collegial relations a greater challenge than those in small schools. With regard to the areas in which novice teachers reported they received most support, the areas most supported corresponded with the areas they felt to be the greatest challenges, with the exception of differentiated instruction, which was their greatest challenge, yet was not well supported. Overall, female novice teachers perceived higher levels of support than their male colleagues. Teachers in rural/small town areas felt more supported than colleagues in urban/suburban locations. Novice teachers valued support programs such as mentoring, induction, and professional development but indicated that not all these programs were available to them. Principals identified similar challenges for novice teachers as did the teacher respondents, with the exception of planning and preparation, an area that challenged beginning teachers but was perceived as less of a challenge by their principals. Principals reported greater availability of mentoring programs than did novice teachers. The recommendations for the study included specific areas for professional development and greater provision of research-based mentoring and induction programs.Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-121)."In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education.
The African development crisis: an evaluation of the ECA's policy responses 1975-1993, 1995
No full textMost literature on development in Africa readily assumes that every leader is interested in development and that when they proclaim their commitment to development and fashion their impressive development agendas, they are ready to deliver. Those in this school of thought seem to forget the primacy of power and its conflict with other goals. This is what this study is about. This research therefore, presents a critical evaluation of the alternative development strategies which have been proposed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) in conjunction with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as solutions to the Africa development problems and why, despite this concerted effort, no significant changes have occurred in Africa. To put this in proper perspective, some of the major EGA regional blue-prints since 1975 to date have been reviewed. The Economic initiatives appear in Chapter IV and the Political and Social initiatives appear in Chapter V. The primary source of the materials reviewed in this research is the UN-ECA supported by other secondary sources like the UN-Africa Recovery based in New York and the OAU, based in Addis Ababa. Our finding revealed that there are two major reasons for the abandonment of these initiatives: 1. The incompatibilities between the pursuit of development on the one hand, and the quest for political survival by the leaders on the other hand. 2. The reproduction of existing forms of economic and political domination by the ruling class. The researcher therefore comes to the conclusion that if the continent is to recover and confront the 21st century unencumbered by debt, hunger, poverty, disease and ignorance, it needs leaders who are strong, self-confident and generators of great ideas who are able to command the loyalty of their people and who are totally committed to the development of their countries. Africa's salvation, this researcher believes, lies in the hands of Africans
Financial integration and environment in Africa: The role of output growth and foreign direct investment
No full textAs economies integrate financially and both investment and output increase, the environment may be affected depending on the nature of international financial resources attracted into the country. Hence, this study examines the effect of financial integration, output growth, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the environment in selected African countries involving Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, and Angola between 1980 and 2017. The study uses carbon emissions and particulate emissions (PM) to proxy pollution and analyze the data through the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) technique. Empirical results show that financial integration worsens pollution in Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, and in Africa; output growth deteriorates pollution in South Africa, Algeria, Angola, and in Africa; while FDI fuels environmental degradation in Egypt and South Africa. We recommend that African countries should strive to establish specific targets for lowering emissions even though the Kyoto Protocoldid not set specific emissions reduction targets for them
Myth and Social Consciousness in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata
No full textThe study of myths—their relevance and importance—has always generated interest among scholars over the ages. After the initial engagements before the twentieth century when most interventions, from scholars such as Xenophanes, Plato and Euhemerus, pronounced myths as intangible, many writers today have continued to use myth as an anchor of their works. In Africa, writers like Wole Soyinka have deployed myths in the interrogation of crises in the postcolonial space. Since the publication of his seminal work, Myth, Literature and the African World (1992), which laid out the essences of primordial forms in his Yoruba tradition, Soyinka has continued to deploy the capacities of those primordial “literary” forms, particularly Ogun, in his interrogation and interventions on diverse conditions in the African landscape. Using Alapata Apatata, Soyinka’s latest play, where the issues of culture and its renaissance, survival and politics in his home country generate great concern, this article re-examines the playwright’s ambivalent attraction to myth and its use to intervene in the diverse social contradictions in the postcolonial space. The author, after establishing the link between Ogun and Alaba, the protagonist in the play, identifies Soyinka’s paradigm shift in a new twist that sees Ogun in the comedy terrain. The conclusion of the paper draws on Soyinka’s “mythmaking” or “mythbreaking” in the play in a way that conceptualises the evolutionary trend in the playwright’s exploration of Ogun
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