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» INTRODUCTION Food starts to be digested and absorbed in the stomach, although absorption is mostly limited to water, alcohol and some drugs. The stomach is an expandable, muscular bag, and it keeps swallowed food inside it by contracting the muscular pyloric sphincter. Food can stay in the stomach for 2 hours or more. Food is broken down chemically, by gastric juice, and mechanically, by contracti...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Quality laboratory services are essential and integral part of improved health outcome especially for HIV/AIDS patients on ART. We aimed to assess clients‘ satisfaction with laboratory services as an indicator of quality and factors affecting quality of laboratory services from service providers‘ perspective. We conducted a hospital based cross sectional study from January Apr...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Phoenix dactylifera (Date palm) belongs to the family Arecaceae and its leaves, barks, pits, fruits and pollens have anticancer, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, antidiabetic, anti inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities. It is rich in antioxidants, vitamins, steroids, flavonoid, saponins and simple sugars.The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of aqueous ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Vitamins C and E are naturally present in some foods and are available as dietary supplements. While vitamin C is also known as L ascorbic acid, vitamin E is a generic name for tocopherols and tocotrienols each with α, β, γ and δ subunits. Neurobehavioural models have been used to study behaviour in animals with models specific for each animal species and behaviour....Continue Reading »
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» INTRODUCTION Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific syndrome and is one of the leading cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Preeclampsia is defined as the existence of hypertension, proteinuria and edema, occurring after 20 weeks of gestation in previously normotensive women, (Sunithaet al.,2012) The aetiology of preeclampsia is yet unknown, however, it is associated with alteration ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Lawsonia inermis commonly known as henna has been used traditionally, especially in ayurvedic medicine, for various conditions including liver ailments, and reported to have hepatoprotective properties. This study aims to study the effect of aqueous extract of L. inermis leaves in acute ethanol induced hepatic damage in adult Wistar rats. Thirty (30) female rats were equally divided into ...Continue Reading »
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» Background of Study Blood is characterized as the red gooey liquid that flows round the body providing O2 and nutritive substances consumed from the gastrointestinal lot to the tissues, returns CO2 to the lungs and different results of digestion to the kidneys, capacities in the guideline of internal heat level, and disseminates chemicals and different specialists that manage cell functional (Sala...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction Expert system for human nutrition analysis is an expert system for diagnosing, controlling, and monitoring human nutrition. The system assesses the physical characteristics of the user to determine their nutritional status and makes recommendations for reaching nutritional requirements and a balanced diet, as a consequence generating a knowledge database with the nutri...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction Heavy metals are those metallic elements with high atomic or specific gravity that is at least five times greater than that of water. Several elements have been listed in this group. The presence of heavy metals in the aquatic environment in trace concentrations is important for normal development of the organism (Kori Siakpere and Ubogu, 2008). They could be detected ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1.0 Introduction Aloe barbadensis or aloe Vera is a succulent plant from the family “Liliaceae”, it originated in the African content. The genus has many common names and is often referred to as aloe vera, lily of the desert, burn plant, the plant of immortality, first aim plant, wand of heaven and medicinal plant. The name is derived from...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT This study seeks to examine the effect of doctor nurse relationship on patient care in Federal Medical Centre Owerri, Imo State. The null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. They are: Medical teamwork; hospital administrative structure; and doctor nurse value orientation. In order to generate data for testing these hypotheses, a 42 item questionnaire was developed by the resear...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of study Anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen carrying capacity is insufficient to meet the physiological needs. It has been shown to be a public health problem that affects low, middle and high income countries and has significant adverse health and socio economic consequences (Munasinghe, 2014).The most reliable indicat...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Maternal and child health has emerged as the most important issue that determined global and national wellbeing. This is because every individual, family and community is at some point intimately involved in pregnancy and the success of childbirth (WHO, 2006). Despite the honour bestowed on womanhood and the appreciation of the birth of a new bo...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study Family planning is widely acknowledged as an important intervention towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) three (3) as it has proven to reduce maternal and child mortality. Family planning can prevent unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Some family planning methods such as condom usage can protect individuals from Sexually Tr...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The problem of every hospital when the targeted objective is not achieved is that there is something wring either with health care givers, the patients or the general public. In order to improve the standard of health of the patients and keep them progressively fit. The reason why such lapse are present here to be sought and the remedy met in order to achieve the set objective of the hosp...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Pregnancy is almost certainly the greatest physiological stress and the most common major change of the normal biological process to which the woman is subjected during her life. Anemia is the most common nutritional problem among women and is on the wholerampant among pregnant women (Admad, Saeid, & Leila, 2008).However, anaemia is defined ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The aim of the research work was to investigate the impact of challenges and limitations confronting international organization in carrying out humanitarian aid in Nigeria. The primary source of data used for the purpose of this research was the questionnaires for the primary data. Which the secondary data was obtained from journals and other related articles. The method of chi square was...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1.1 Background to the Study The practice of HIV care has dramatically changed during the past two decades. Knowledge regarding HIV pathophysiology has quickly accumulated and has led to the development of new medications. In addition to knowledge updates, the attitudes of health care professionals toward current concepts about HIV care are even more critical. ...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The research observes the role and importance of local government administration in community development with particular reference to Obowo local government area of Imo state. The research work adopted the structural and functional theory as a theoretical framework for analyzing the performance of the local government. This research contains five chapters, chapter one deals with the back...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Despite Nigeria’s progress on democratic, economic and political reforms, Nigeria’s prisons are yet to make appreciable impact on the welfare of the inmates. A recurring debate within contemporary academic circles, criminologists, health workers and prison experts, is to ensure an appropriate health template for proper prison administrat...Continue Reading »
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