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Volume 12 Issue 1

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Title : Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control in IMO State LGA: Factors Affecting the BCG Vaccination Programme

Authors : Omeaku Maris, Ozims Stanley, Azudialu Bede

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Background: A single dose of BCG vaccine given to a neonate at birth or as soon as possible thereafter is key element for successful protection against mycobacterial infections including tuberculosis, leprosy and other non-tuberculous mycobacterium infections.

Aim: This study aimed to contribute to the vision of ‘the End TB Strategy 2016-2035’ through the determination of the current BCG policy implementation on vaccine uptake by estimating the BCG vaccination rate in IMO State, Southeast Nigeria.

Method: A cross-sectional and community-based study was conducted in Ideato-North local government area (LGA) of IMO State, south east Nigeria; from 2013-2017. Cluster sampling method was used for household selection. A total of 210 children aged 0-11months and their mothers/caregivers were included in the study. Data was collected using a pre-tested, interviewer administered questionnaire, and from review of vaccination records in the national program on immunization unit, public health department of the LGA of study and analyzed using SPSS version 25.

Result: Only a minority of the children (21.9%) were vaccinated with BCG by card-plus history whereas none at all (0%) was vaccinated with BCG from the review of the vaccination records. The factors responsible for the poor BCG vaccination were BCG multi-dose vial policy/fear of vaccine wastage, poor turn-out for vaccination, place of child’s birth, mother’s knowledge on vaccination and mother’s education level.

Conclusion: There is need for a review of the multi-dose vial policy, ensure policy implementation; periodic training and re-training of the health care personnel, human capacity development, data monitoring/evaluation, as well as sensitization campaigns among others, as ways to improve the people’s awareness on and uptake of BCG vaccination, a key component of the very first pillar in the End TB Strategy.

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Title : SME Supply Chain Finance: The Role of Micro Finance Banks Activities in Abuja (FCT)-Nigeria

Authors : Aikor Shirgba Timothy

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This study sets out to assess Micro Finance Banks' activities and SMEs Supply Chain Finance in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), with the twin objectives of assessing if Micro Finance Banks activities in the FCT meets the supply chain obligations of SMEs and to determine whether the growth and survival of SMEs in the FCT are independent of the activities of Micro Finance Banks. The methodology adopted for the study is descriptive survey design and at the end, the study found that, MFBs activities have a negative relationship with SMEs supply chain finance meaning; the activities of Micro Finance Banks are not related to SMEs meeting their supply chain obligations in the FCT, Abuja. While on the other hand, it is found MFBs activities has positive relationship with the growth and survival of SMEs, meaning; the activities of Micro Finance Banks are not independent of the growth and survival of SMEs in FCT. It is therefore recommended that; the Federal Government/CBN should direct MFBs to prioritise SCF services to SMEs sector, lower interest rates to single digit, and ensure adequate monitoring on intervention initiatives, while SMEs should also acquire relevant business skills.

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Title : Bayesian D & A Optimal Designs for Logistic Regression Model with Biomedical Application

Authors : Ali H., Nwaosu S. C., Lasisi K. E., Abdulkadir A.

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Bayesian optimal designs for binary responses analyzed with logistic regression describing a linear health effect were considered. To overcome the problem of dependence of Bayesian designs on the choice of prior distributions, Bayesian D & A-optimal designs were proposed for logistic regression model. The results show that the optimal number of time points depends on the subject-to-measurement cost ratio and increases with the cost ratio. Furthermore, Bayesian D & A-optimal designs are highly efficient and robust under changes in priors. When implementing the efficiencies of designs with the Bayesian D- & A-optimal designs in modelling chronic heart disease, age and body mass index, it was found that age and BMI are significant in patients heart disease.

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Title : Sexual Objectification of Women in Selected Kipsigis Popular Songs of Kenya

Authors : Leonard Kipkirui Ruto, Henry S. Nandelenga, Wamaitha L. Mwai

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Songs perform key roles in the society such as entertainment and education but can project certain ideologies and stereotypes. This study examined the objectification of women in selected Kipsigis popular songs. The researcher purposively picked 15 songs from speakers of Kipsigis popular artists, 30 respondents and five composers. An interview schedule was used to obtain the relevant information from the respondents and composers of the songs. The study was guided by Politeness Theory by Brown and Levinson (1978). The results of the study indicated that artists objectify women as instruments, female sex organ as food and a place while sexual intercourse is portrayed as a journey, war and work to mitigate their offensiveness. It is believed that the findings of this study would be of great significance in information dissemination to the media, schools and churches in censuring and sensitization of songs that objectify women. Also, the results of this study is expected to be instrumental in mitigating offensive expressions that cause harm and shame to the listeners of Kipsigis popular songs through proper interpretation of words and phrases that objectify women.

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Title : Imine Coupling Between Thienothiophene and Benzothiadiazole Derivative for Optoelectronic Properties

Authors : Hafiz I. Okino, Abdulazeez Yusuf, Ibrahim A. Ibrahim

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The synthesis of (E)-N-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-yl)-1-(3-nonylthieno[3,2-b]thiophen-2-yl)methanimine through coupling between 4-amino-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole and 3-nonylthieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2-carbaldehyde through a series of synthetic routes from functionalisation of the primers of the reactants in a bid to investigate stable Schiff-base benzothiadiazole molecule for opto-electronic applications. A single coupling was successfully achieved from preliminary studies in the 4-amino position of the acceptor molecule and 2-carbaldehyde position of the donor molecule to produce an imine bridge which was however characterised by low stability as it degraded afterwards upon exposure to mild light. Thus, such mechanistic approach suggests unsuitability for obtaining opto-electronic compounds. Para amination was not successful and thus symmetrical D-A-D optoelectronic compound was not achieved.

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Title : A Review on Human Activity Recognition Techniques and Comparative Performance Analysis

Authors : Rohini Bhattarai ,Vipra Bohara

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In this paper, we discussed about the several machine learning algorithms and its use in recognition of human activity .Human activity recognition is an active field of research today that aims to understand human behavior by interpreting sensory information collected from humans and their living environment. Machine learning is an evolving branch of the computational algorithms that are designed to find the human intelligence by learning from the surrounding existing environment and it considered the working horse in the new era of the so-called big data also. The techniques based on machine learning have been applied successfully in diverse fields ranging from pattern recognition, computer vision as well on spacecraft engineering, finance, entertainment, and computational biology to biomedical and medical applications. These are few types of machine learning: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. Machine learning have neural networks like ANN, RNN, CNN and algorithms classifier like first is Linear Models, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines.second is Non-linear Models. K-Nearest Neighbours. Kernel SVM. Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree Classification, Random Forest Classification. This paper shows the technology analysis of some recent existing human activity recognition techniques using different algorithm and neural networks. At end of this review paper compared results show the accuracy parameter of different algorithms.

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