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It is common to discover that many patients admitted into the hospital for certain pathological or physiological disorders would end up manifesting one infectious disorder or another. Nosocomial infection is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and medical cost. This study was aimed at assessing knowledge and practice of standard infection control among health care providers in secondary health facility in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey.

Background: Access to basic health services of acceptable quality is still denied to many of the world’s poorest people, Identification or application procedure and screening criteria by local kebele administrator for free health services provision at public health facilities are not transparent.
Objective: The aim of the study was to assess free health service delivery system and the extent to which strict criteria are followed in granting free health services to the eligible poor in Dilla town, South Ethiopia.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of three different retraction agents on the color of dentin and artificial gingiva following the gingival retraction.

For several decades, wind power is experiencing tremendous growth, however, the production of wind energy depends on wind intensity, strongly volatile, and is therefore characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Planning the installation of a wind farm for several stations requires the assessment of the risk which in turn results in an assessment of the variability in production. Longevity, it starts with the recognition of the links between the various stations.

The objectives of the present investigation were to find out the correlation between thyroid abnormalities and environmental pollution, occupation, industrial area, endosulphan and roof of residence used by human population. Two study groups were surveyed for the study of the prevalence of thyroid diseases. One study group is from Dakshina Kannada and the other Kasargod Districts of West coast of India. A total of 398 subjects were surveyed. Questionnaires were prepared and distributed to conduct the survey.

There are host of distinctive ways for education and training of children with special needs.  Gentle teaching is one educational tool that has shown to be effective towards progress in students with special needs. It is a unique relational approach centered on building safe, loving and engaged relationships. With the amendment of RTE Act and progress of legal provisions for protection of child rights; there is now a blanket ban over punishment of any form, physical or mental.

This study aims to identify the extent of the administrative empowerment effect on staff creativity. The study sample consisted of (82) individuals from the administrative body in the Saudi Telecommunications Company (Zain).This effect has been tested by using Multiple Regression Analysis and One-Way Analysis of Variance. Results have indicated that there is a statistically significant administrative empowerment effect at the level of administrative creativity felt by employees.

The ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) isnovel concept to improves the routing performance of network because multiple choices of path available to deliver data to destination. The link capacity in network is limited and it is also not possible extend easily as wired network. The multipath protocol like AOMDV is balance the load by providing alternative path but not proficient at every condition. The problem of congestion in MANET is not possible to removes completely because of limited bandwidth capacity of link between the two nodes.

An attempt has been made to study the market arrival and price behaviour of potato in Uttarakhand. The study is based on secondary data on wholesale monthly/weekly arrivals and prices for the period of 2003 to 2012. The seasonality in market arrival and wholesale price was analyzed using multiplicative model; the Fourier analysis was used to analyze cyclical variation in market arrivals and wholesale prices. Distribution lag model and Autoregressive model were used to study the relationship between market arrival and price of potato in major markets of Uttarakhand.

The purpose of the present study was to identify the various enterprises undertaken by the members of women Self-Help Groups in Almora district of Uttarakhand. The study also aims to determine the extent of entrepreneurial skills of women under Self Help Groups in Uttarakhand. Hawalbagh block of Almora district was selected purposively considering the entrepreneurial activities and availability of active and functional SHGs under various Government and NGOs. Two villages namely village Bakh and village Sar ka ali were selected using simple random sampling.