ABSTRACT Objective: This descriptive cross-sectional study assessed cancer patients’ use of traditional healers, the association between delay in coming to this clinic and patients’ use of traditional healers, reasons cancer patients use western medicine after trying traditional treatment and the cost of obtaining traditional treatment. Methods: Participants were made of 400 consecutive and consenting new patients in the Department of Radiotherapy, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibad...
ABSTRACT This study investigates security challenges in university libraries in Southwest Nigeria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data for the study. Findings from the study revealed that university libraries in Southwest Nigeria are confronted with security challenges. The challenges include noise making through the use of cell phone, theft, mutilation, and defacement of library materials and hiding of book to prevent other users from having access to them. The study also...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) production, marketing and utilisation have expanded beyond the traditional areas of the central and riverine zones to the humid, sub-humid and semi-arid regions in the last two-and-a-half decades. The national production figures reported by FAO showed a rapid increase in production and area harvested in the 1390s, surpassing two million tonnes harvested from more than 300,000 hectares annually by the end of the decade. However, estimates of s...
ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This study examines games and sports as indicators to physical and mental development of the visually impaired individuals using the survey design. Subjects for the study were randomly selected from two schools in Oyo and Lagos States. A set of questionnaire W
The vegetation of Agbara industrial estate, South-western Nigerian was studied with a view to determining the floristic and structural composition before the full take off of the various industries. The area is a IowIand rain forest,. drier - type with the major growth forms including trees, shrubs, palms and climbers. A total of 897plants were enumerated in five transect of 2 km Species diversity indez for the area is in the range of 0.01 - 0.24 while dominance values range from 0.00 - 0.01....
ABSTRACT This paper examined information literacy as catalyst to transforming the information society. The required information literacy skills - Task, definition, Information seeking strategies, Location and access, Use of information, Synthesis, and Evaluation (TILUSE) are discussed. Information Literacy skills training at the University of Ibadan Library, Nigeria is discussed.
ABSTRACT Access to archives is an important component of archives administration. In the past, public archival institutions were credited with the dual role of preserving and making accessible the public archives in their custody, access being regarded as a secondary function (Jenkinson, 1937). Today, access to information generally seems to have been acknowledged as a critical element of participatory democracy (Adams, 2005) as evidenced in the clamour for Freedom of Information legislation ...
Abstract Background: Breast cancer is a disease predominantly found amongst women. It is a disease which threatens an organ that is intimately associated with a woman’s self image, sexuality, as well as her reproductive and nurturing capacity. These threats have serious psychological implications for women living with breast cancer. Objective: To examine the pattern and predictors of depressive symptoms among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in the Lagos State University Teac...
Abstract This study assess the impact of home based HIV counselling and testing in expanding access to HIV voluntary counselling and testing in rural Nigeria. The participants of the study were 1, 200 drawn from five constituent wards in Saki town in four streets, in 12 households using multistage sampling techniques. The participants aged 15 – 55 years. The instrument used for data collection was HIV counselling and testing client intake form. The design adopted for this study was pre-post...
Abstract Nature has inspired many optimization technique/methods. This paper is directed to introduce some of these methods to the reader and emphasis was laid on the Ant algorithm by discussing its properties and what it entails. Also some of the problems that Ant algorithm has been used to solve was listed while two of them were discussed in fully. The TSP which the writer worked on and Network routing.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors which affect motivation of librarians in three selected Universities in Zambia namely; Mulungushi University, Copperbelt University and Nkrumah University. The objectives of this study were to determine the extent to which librarians are motivated in their work, to find out factors that influence motivation among librarians in the selected university libraries in the Central and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia, to assess the impact ...
Challenges facing rural primary school teachers in Zimbabwe towards the implementation of the new curriculum.
The difference in performance between rural primary schools and urban primary schools in the national examination.
Comparing and Contrasting the two main research approaches with special focus on their differences.
ABSTRACT: This study investigated the relationship which exists between Provost grievance management strategies and Lecturers‟ effectiveness in Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. Descriptive research of survey type was adopted. The population of the study consisted of all the academic staff in the whole of Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. Out of the whole academic staff in the six schools/departments (namely: ...