In most cities in developing countries, dwellers continue facing difficulties in adequately accessing potable water in sufficient quantity for their daily needs. These difficulties are perceived by households each time they fetch drinking water or try to get access to potable water for other household activities. This study aims to assess the problem of potable water supply in the Yaounde III Subdivisions’ neighbourhoods and the coping strategies developed by citizens to meet their needs. To achieve this objective, 300 households were selected and investigated based on purposive and systematic random sampling, particularly in the most densely populated neighbourhoods. We proceeded by identifying the different water supply sources of households for their various needs, and assessing the difficulties encountered in getting water and how they overcome them. Results reveal that in Yaounde III Subdivision only 34.33% of the households are supplied by the Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation (CAMWATER), while 65.67% rely on alternative water supply sources (wells, drillings and springs) without any pre-treatment. Among those connected to CAMWATER network, 46.6% do not have a regular water flow. Results also revealed that water sources were located at reasonable distances (less than 1 kilometre) and that 70% of households take less than 30 minutes to fetch water. Failure in water supply is mainly caused by the insufficient pumping capacity of the existing potable water treatment plants which lead to rationing and shortages, but also to rapid population growth and city extension not followed by the extension of the potable water distribution network. To fill the gap in water supply, it is imperative for public authorities to quickly achieve the project on water supply from the Sanaga River. Also, CAMWATER should extend its distribution network and improve its maintenance system.

The study investigates the determinants of foreign banks’ entry decisions into Saudi Arabia and their relative importance. Seventy-one questionnaires were analyzed using the Distribution Fitting Algorithmic Approach (DFAA). This paper is situated in the existing literature on the Internalization Theory, Eclectic Paradigm, and Follow-the-Customers hypothesis. While we confirm the Follow-the-Customers hypothesis, we also found that the host market’s characteristics influence entry decisions. We envisaged that this paper would not only contribute to the existing literature but also inform policymakers and industry participants to better understand foreign banks’ entry into emerging and developing markets. Keywords: Foreign banks, Determinants, Entry decisions, Saudi Arabia.

The purpose of this research is to analyze and find the weakness in the regulation of rehabilitation for underaged narcotics abusers and how to reconstruct the law based on Justice Value. This study uses a constructivism paradigm with a sociological juridical approach to solve research problems by examining secondary data and primary data by finding the legal reality experienced in the field as well as qualitative descriptive methods, namely where the data obtained are then arranged systematically so that a comprehensive picture will be obtained, where later the data will be presented descriptively. Based on the research it can be seen that the ideal Legal protection for children as narcotics abusers has not been achieved yet because there are still found cases where children who abuse narcotics are punished with imprisonment because of the law on child protection and the law on narcotics does not see in eye-to-eye regarding child narcotics abusers as the law on narcotics still treat Underaged Drug Abusers the same as adult. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out legal reconstruction in the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics concerning General Provisions of Article 1, Article 103 where the provisions become, the addition of paragraphs in Chapter I on General Provisions in Article 1 so that Article 1 consists of 23 reconstruction paragraphs included in Article 1 paragraph (16), namely Children who are Victims of Narcotics Abuse, are children who are persuaded, deceived, cheated, forced, and/or threatened to use narcotics, alcohol, psychotropic substances, and other addictive substances. Article 103 becomes (1) Judges who examine cases of Narcotics Addicts are obliged to: a. decide to order the person concerned to undergo treatment and/or treatment through rehabilitation if the Narcotics Addict is proven guilty of committing a Narcotics crime; or b. stipulates to order the person concerned to undergo treatment and/or treatment through rehabilitation if the Narcotics Addict is not proven guilty of committing a Narcotics crime; c. In the event that a child commits an act of planting, maintaining, possessing, storing, controlling, or providing Narcotics Category I, II, II, he/she is obliged to obtain a rehabilitation decision; d. The rehabilitation of children who abuse narcotics is carried out in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The research aims to analyze the weaknesses of the current rules for stopping the investigation of road traffic accident cases and how to reconstruct the rules for stopping the investigation of road traffic accident cases based on the value of justice. To achieve this goal, an empirical juridical approach is used. The research specification is descriptive analysis. Primary data was obtained directly from the field. Collecting data through field studies (interviews) and literature studies. The data is presented in the form of descriptions that are arranged systematically, logically, and rationally, and analyzed using qualitative descriptive techniques. Research shows that the weaknesses are caused by the imposing conditional crimes which include the following: (1) the legal substance, related laws, and regulations have not accommodated the unique traffic accident cases. (2) Legal structure, not all Resort Police (Polres) implement traffic accident cessation based on restoration justice. (3) The legal culture and public views on stopping the investigation of road traffic accident cases have not been fully understood by the public. and based on this, the legal Reconstruction of stopping investigations of road traffic accident cases based on the value of justice can be done by encouraging the immediate ratification of the Draft Criminal Code into the National Criminal Code, by expanding the basic criminal sanctions on traffic accident cases in the form of humanitarian assistance based on the agreement of the litigants. With the following formulas: 1. The agreement of the litigating parties is requested for a resolution/deed of reconciliation to the Court Judge. 2. The decree/deed of peace has legal force and executorial power as well as control by state institutions outside the police as investigators. 3. The deed of peace from the judge is used as the basis for stopping the investigation for the sake of the law because the application of restorative justice is needed in order to realize a fair and transparent law.

Solar energy is a renewable source of energy. Usage of this energy can reduce the carbon emissions on the environment. To store electric energy produced from solar panels, a battery is used named solar battery. The capacity of storing electricity depends on the active materials of the battery cells. Normally the capacity of a lead acid battery depends on active materials, size of the plates, gravity of the acid, construction of the grid of the plates. In this research, all other variables responsible for battery capacity (gravity of acid, size of the plates, construction of grid etc.) are constant and only one variable is active materials of the plates. 4 batteries containing different amounts of active material are used to identify the best combination which gives the highest value of active mass utilization coefficient.

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune sub-epidermal bullous disorder with a complex etiopathogenesis, predominately affecting the elderly. We report a case of COVID vaccination- induced BP, in a 30-year-old previously healthy Indian male who presented with a 1month history of itchy generalized vesiculo-bullous eruption that developed 3 days after receiving the first dose of the COVID vaccination. Histological examination and direct immunofluorescence study showed a sub-epidermal blister with a dermal inflammatory infiltrate and linear epidermal staining of IgG and C3 along the basement membrane zone in an n-serrated pattern. Treatment with oral prednisolone and oral doxycycline resulted in significant improvement in his condition. To our knowledge, there are limited case reports to date particularly in the Middle-East, which describe BP triggered by COVID vaccination.

In December 2019, the WHO China Country office was informed of an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology, in Wuhan city. The pathogen was later identified as a member of the β-coronaviridae family, and the disease it caused was named Covid-19. The outbreak rapidly evolved over the next few months to become a pandemic that resulted in drastic effects on global healthcare and economy. Diabetic patients were affected equally as non-diabetic individuals; however, the impact of the disease was much worse amongst them. We aim to briefly review the incidence and characteristics of Covid-19 infection among diabetic patients, elaborating into the pathophysiology of the disease and the possible mechanisms which may explain the severity of the disease amongst them, through a review of published articles in Pubmed, Google Scholar and Cochrane databases, till the first of January 2022.

Colon cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the large intestine (colon). Its aggression is owing to late diagnosis so poor prognosis and higher mortality rate are reported. Colon cancer has become a thorny research region that requires more examination in cellular pathways involved in its emergency. Here we aim to investigate the possible anticancer properties of the clove oil as natural and popular oil in colon cancer CaCo-2 cells. Accordingly, cell viability rate and number of survived cells were monitored in response to the clove oil treatment compared with the black seed oil and DMSO-treatment. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) production was also considered as an indicator for necrotic event following treatment. The relative gene expression of Raf-1, MEK, and ERK was detected as proliferation effectors that linked to the expression profile of the tumor suppressor genes PTEN and TP53 using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Interestingly, here we identified Raf-1 pathway as a potential targeted singling by the clove oil resulted in controlling colon cancer cell proliferation. The current study elucidates the anticancer activities of the clove oil in colon cancer division through restoring the relative gene expression of PTEN and TP53 accompanied by over-production of interleukin 1 alpha (IL-1α) and IL-1β. Accordingly, treatment of the CaCo-2 cells with different concentrations of the clove oil increased programmed cells cell death (PCD) and inhibited the proliferation singling when compared with the black seed oil. Collectively, our results demonstrate that controlling of Raf-1 activity and PCD by clove oil treatment provide evidence for its anticancer effect in colon cancer cells.

Dentigerous cyst is a developmental odontogenic cyst that encloses the crown of an unerupted tooth. Dentigerous cyst linings were found to have the potential to transform into ameloblastoma. Two distinct examples of ameloblastoma developing in the wall of a dentigerous cyst are described here.

Background: Folate deficiency is associated with poor pregnancy outcomes and is one of the most common vitamin deficiencies in women, especially those of reproductive age. Folic acid intake prior to, and during, the first months of pregnancy significantly reduces the risk of fetal neural tube defects. Maternal folate status has been associated with other adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, malformations (orofacial clefts, Neural tube defects, anencephaly and encephalocele resulting from incomplete neural tube closure during early embryogenesis), spontaneous abortion, fetal death, fetal growth restriction and preterm delivery. Methods: The study embraced a cross-sectional study that assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of preconceptional folic acid supplementation among pregnant women (18-45years) attending antenatal clinic in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. 152 women attending antenatal clinics in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State were interviewed using structured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS version 21 for frequency and percentage at P < 0.05 significance level. Results: 98.7% of the participants had heard about folic acid, but an analysis of data shows that 26.6% of them knew that folic acid is a vitamin. In addition, very few (29.6%) knew that folic acid could prevent neural tube defects. The main source of information about folic acid supplementation among the surveyed women were through the health workers. Incidence of at least one episode of adverse pregnancy outcome was noted in about 35.5% of the population under study though a majority indicated the form for their loss were miscarriage and stillbirth. Finding showed that 37.5% of the respondent claimed to have used folic acid before pregnancy while 40.1% of the women in this study were aware of the right time to start using folic acid. 46% of the women took folic acid during Antenatal care and their reason were attributed to late presentation for antenatal care, delayed prescription of the folic acid for women during pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy while others claimed they are getting enough folate from food. Approximately 40.8% of the respondents had started supplementation on antenatal booking and from analysis of data on the preferred/normal booking time of the respondents it shows that a high percentage of them attended antenatal from the third month of pregnancy this shows that the majority of the respondents started supplementation too late which is inconsistent with the ideal time to start folic acid supplementation in prevention of neural tube defect. In this study it has been revealed that 48% of the respondents could identify green leafy vegetable as the only source of folate in local foods and 0.7% could identify other food sources like legumes and fruits as sources of folate. Conclusion: There is a low overall level of awareness of folic acid among pregnant women including lack of understanding of its natural sources, usefulness in preventing Neural Tube Defects and preconceptional intake recommendation. Health education regarding the preconceptional use of folic acid among women of reproductive age is recommended.

Meetings are integral to the operations of statutory corporations and incorporated companies. However, based on the current pandemic, restrictions were placed on public gatherings which meant that corporations in Nigeria (which hitherto mostly had physical meetings), could not conveniently meet at physical venues. While it was a norm for groups to hold their meetings electronically, it is questionable if corporations in Nigeria could properly hold virtual General Meetings. This article seeks to consider the regularity or otherwise of Virtual General Meetings with regards to incorporated entities under the Corporate Affairs commission.

This pilot study examines the production of Egyptian Arabic (henceforth EA) adjunct wh-questions (e.g., when) among two EA-English bilingual Children living in Ontario, Canada and an EA monolingual child living in Cairo, Egypt. The control group consists of two first-generation adult Egyptian immigrants in Ontario, Canada. The focus of the study is on the position of wh-phrases in EA wh-adjuncts, which exhibits a surface overlap between English and EA. In typical English wh-adjuncts, and wh-arguments as well, leaving the wh-phrase where it was originally generated (wh-in-situ) is ungrammatical and the wh-phrase must occur clause-initially (fronted wh-phrase) (Radford, 2004). In EA wh-adjuncts, there are two possible positions of the wh-phrase, fronted wh-phrase and wh-in-situ (Wahba, 1984). Findings from an oral elicited production task showed that the EA monolingual child significantly preferred wh-in-situ (94.4% of the time), and a fronted wh-phrase occurred only once in his responses. In contrast, the EA-English bilingual children predominantly preferred fronting the wh-phrase (97.3% of the time). As the fronted wh-question is the only grammatical option in typical English wh-questions, this result may indicate a possible crosslinguistic influence from English, the majority language of the bilinguals’ society, into EA. Regarding the adult controls, they showed true optionality as they produced roughly around the same amount of the fronted wh-phrase and wh-in-situ, 52.8% and 47.2% respectively. The results are discussed in relation to the crosslinguistic influence hypothesis of Müller and Hulk (2001) and the developmental trajectory proposed by Shin & Miller (2021).

Background: The outbreak of Covid 19 started in China in December 2019 and from then it rapidly spread around the whole world. Know a day, knowledge on the risk factors as well as the major symptoms of Covid 19 for its early detection and successful treatment of suspected Covid 19 patients. Aim of the Study: The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors and major symptoms in covid-19 suspected patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study and was conducted in the Department of Medicine, Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital, Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the period from November 2020 to March 2022. In total 126 suspected Covid 19 patients attended the mentioned hospital during the study period were selected as the study people. Data were collected from patients and/or their attendants through direct or telephonic interview by using a pre-designed questioner. The statistical analysis was done by the SPSS version 22.0. Results: In this study, in analyzing the risk factors among the participants we observed that, 10% and 7% were with ‘recent exposure to a Covid 19 patient’ and the ‘higher length of symptoms before the indexing’ respectively which were noticeable. Besides these, 6%, another 6%, 3% and 2% were with Bilateral lung infiltrates, peripheral lung infiltrates, Neutrophil count <7.5 × 103/L and LDH > 500 U/L respectively. As the major symptoms, the highest number of participants was with cough which was found among 54%. Besides this, 38%, 23% and 17% patients were found with shortness of breath, Hypoxemia/Oxygen use and lower limb swelling respectively. Conclusion: As per the findings of this current study we can conclude that, the ‘recent exposure to a Covid 19 patient’ and the ‘higher length of symptoms before starting treatment, may be considered as the most potential risk factors for suspected Covid 19 patients. On the other hand, cough is the most common symptoms for suspected Covid 19 patients.

This paper presents a real - time model of the DC motor speed control system. The PID controller is used to estimate the error between the actual speed and the set speed to adjust the Pulse - width modulation (PWM) inverter. The actual speed is measured through the encoder that provides training and testing data for PID controller. Simulation results are compared with the real-time results to address advantages and disadvantages of the system.

The concept of ‘New Woman’, a feminist ideal, emerged in the late 19th Century is one of the most explored themes in men and women writing. The phrase “New Woman” has been defined differently in different contexts, by men and women writers. Men writers tend to depict ‘new woman’ as the one who goes against the traditional norms and ethics to fulfill her desires following western culture and never minds her family and values, on the other hand women writers present her as progressive and conscious of her rights to contribute greatly for general welfare, playing a supportive role in the society and family. This is the significant shift that women writers focus in their writings through their realistic representation of new womanhood traumatised by socio-cultural constructs. The impetus for this study is drawn from the centrality of psychological trauma and internal anguish faced by the three generations of women characters - Kalyani, Sumi and Aru - in Shashi Deshpande’s novel, A Matter of Time, set in coterminous patriarchal Indian society. Facing the repression in the male dominated, tradition bound society, they resist the wrongs within the culturally determined space and gain their identity. The study concludes that the essence of ‘New Womanhood’ does not ascribe autonomy and individuation of woman through radicalism, rebellion or opposition of action; but expression of agency through self-actualization, as Deshpande’s repressed characters show in A Matter of Time. The research methods applied in the study shall be textual and discourse analysis along with psychoanalytic feminism.