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Community’s Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Hydatidosis and Its Public Health Implication in Asella and Adama Areas Central Ethiopia
Full text linkThe study was conducted from November 2011 to March 2012 in Adama and Asella areas of central Ethiopia using a cross-sectional questionnaire survey and hospital based retrospective study. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of the community on hydatidosis were assessed. A total of 336 individuals composed of 226 householders, 50 butchers, 40 abattoir workers and 20 health professional were interviewed. From the total, 174 (51.8%) of respondents have been heard of dog tapeworm. 165(73.0%) of the householders and 23(46.0%) of the butchers had never heard of human hydatidosis. From the total of 174 respondents who had heard of dog tapeworm, 50(28.7%) believed that dog tapeworm is health risk to them, 17(9.8%) did not and 107(61.5%) did not know whether it is a health risk or not to them. The respondents owned an average 15 livestock and 2 dogs. 321(95.5%) of the participants reported to practice back yard slaughter during the holidays, ceremonies and other feasts from which, 283(88.2%) give offal and condemned organs to dogs or threw it on open field and 38(11.8%) of them bury it. From 253(75.5%) who owned dog (s). 180(71.1%) of them considered their dog (s) as stray or semi-stray dog and also 152(60.1 %) deliberately fed offal to their dog but, only 17(6.7%) reported to treat their dog (s) periodically with anti-helminthes. There js some difference on the knowledge and attitude between each categories but it is not as such significant. Case book analysis between September 2007 and August 2011 showed that, out of the total of 35,697 patients admitted for ultrasound examination, 67 hydatidosis cases were registered, giving prevalence of 0.2%. From the total of 67 patients with hydatidosis, 45 (67.2%) were females and 22(32.8%) were males. The present finding has indicated that hydatidosis is an important zoonotic disease in the study area and appropriate control and preventive measures need to be taken. Keywords: Adama, Asella, central Ethiopia. Hydatidosis, Medical records, public health risk, Retrospective study
PREVALENCE OF BOVINE FACIOLOSIS IN HALABA MUNICIPAL ABATTOR SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
No full textA cross-sectional study was carried out from November 2015 to march 2016 on bovine fasciolosis, to assess the abattoir based prevalence, predominant species of bovine fasciolosis and associated risk factors of the disease in cattle slaughtered in Halaba municipal abattoir. A total of 384 cattle were examined using post mortem examination. Infection rates were (3.64%), 2.34%, 2.08%, and 1.82 % F. gigantic, F. hepatica, mixed and immature respectively with the overall prevalence of 9.88 % (38). F. gigantic was found to be the most prevalent species in cattle of the study area. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that the risk of fasciola infection was significantly higher in poor body condition animals than in medium and good body condition animals (p 0.05).The present study showed that bovine fasciolosis is one of the important pathogens in cattle in the study area and warrants appropriate disease prevention and control measures and further epidemiological investigations to determine the different agro ecological risk factors on the occurrence of the disease
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Isolation, Molecular Detection, Antibiogram Profiles and Associated Risk Factors of Escherichia Coli O157: H7 in Raw Milk of apparently healthy Dairy Cow in Jimma Town, Southwest Oromia, Ethiopia
No full textEscherichia coli O157:H7, a common foodborne pathogen in developing nations, is found
in raw cow milk. Raw milk facilitates the growth of bacteria due to its nutrient-rich
properties, which make it ideal for bacterial growth. The current study aims to determine
the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7, identify associated risk factors, detect specific
virulence genes of E. coli O157:H7, and assess the antimicrobial resistance profile in raw
cow milk from Jimma Town from March to November, 202
Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Community Towards Bovine Tuberculosis in Dabo Hana District of Buno Bedelle Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia.
No full textn Ethiopia, there seems to be lower knowledge, attitude, and practice of the community on
bovine tuberculosis. Therefore, a community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from
March 2024 to October 2024 to assess the community’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices
toward the disease in the Dabo Hana district of the Buno Bedelle zone, Oromia regional state,
South-Western Ethiopia. A total of 422 randomly selected study participants were interviewed
face-to-face to collect appropriate information. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 27.
Descriptive statistics were used to determine the frequency, percentage, or proportion. A
binary logistic regression technique was used to determine the association between socio-
demographic characteristics and communities’ KAP of bovine tuberculosis in the area. The
confidence interval was considered at 95%, and p < 0.05 was set for significance. From a total
of study participants, 48.6% were between the ages of 18-35, 45.9% of them were between
36-50, and 5.5% of them were between 51-90 years old. Based on gender, 68% of the
respondents were male, while 32% of them were female. During this study, married
respondents were higher (82.2%) compared with unattached (17.8%) respondents. Among all
respondents, 41% of them were educated, while 249 (59%) of them were not. Concerning the
occupational status of participants, 332 (78.7%) were farmers, 6.4% were government
employees, 4.9% were merchants, 10% were labor workers, and 94.8% of them had cattle.
The overall mean score of knowledge indicated that 68.5% of the participants had good
knowledge toward bovine tuberculosi
Community Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Rabies and Retrospective Study on the Disease in Boloso Sore District, Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia
No full textRabies is one of the oldest and most feared human diseases, recognized since ancient times. It
is a fatal viral zoonosis that leads to encephalitis in all warm-blooded animals and humans but
can be prevented through vaccination and community awareness. The aim was to assess the
community's knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding rabies, alongside a
retrospective Investigation of the disease A cross-sectional questionnaire survey and
retrospective studies were conducted from February to June 2024, in the Boloso Sore district
of the Wolaita Zone in Southern Ethiopia. A Simple random sampling procedure was
employed 384 participants were recruited., and data was collected through face-to-face
interviews, while five years of retrospective data were extracted from case books of
individuals visiting Dubo St. Mary Hospital and Areka Health Center. The results indicated
that [78.39%] of participants had some knowledge about rabies, with more than half
demonstrating a good understanding of KAP related to the disease. Despite this, gaps in
knowledge were evident, particularly concerning clinical signs of rabies, modes of
transmissio
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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