A practically important parameters of strength and chemical resistance of polyepoxide based on resin-analogue ED-20 with PEPA hardener, filled with microdispersed powders of Si, Zr, Cr, Nb, Ti, Mo carbides, have been experimentally studied in this article. The microstructure of the composites is characterized by a relatively uniform dense distribution of filler agglomerates, which can be seen in the example of compositions with 50 wt% TiC and ZrC. The absence of a significant effect of carbides on the temperature ranges of oxidative degradation of composites was established. Swelling method established that filling can radically increase the resistance of composites to acetone organic solvents. At the same time, resistance in an acidic environment is noticeably reduced (for example, nitric acid). It was found that the introduction of 50 wt% carbide fillers gives a significant increase in the strength and modulus of elasticity during compression of the composites. There is also a decrease in shrinkage and an increase in adhesion to steel (with normal tearing).

Introduction: Masseter muscle hypertrophy can cause a prominent mandibular angle, which results in an unaesthetic lower face contour. Botox injection is a minimally invasive procedure compared to conventional surgery and is safe and easy to handle. Patients often request an aesthetic alteration by surgical procedures or masseter muscle injections to attain an aesthetic facial contour. While aesthetic surgery can reshape the lower face contour, numerous patients still choose a minimally invasive therapeutic approach. Aim: This study aims to review published articles that discussed the effect of buccal fat pad removal versus masseter muscle Botox for improving facial aesthetics. Materials and Methods: A literature search was performed from multiple databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Google Scholar. The most eligible articles were included using specific keywords. The literature search was limited to full-text English articles, which were screened for eligibility by two reviewers. Results and Discussion: Six studies were included in our study, these studies demonstrated that aesthetic results were improved in all discussed clinical trials. However, more clinical trials are needed for fat pad removal surgery trials. Conclusion: Our study showed that masseter muscle Botox injection can improve overall facial aesthetic appearance. However, more clinical trials are needed for buccal fat pad removal surgery.

This paper reports the need to enrich the teaching and learning of the English language and Literature through the use of ICT and group methodology. The research was quasi-experimental in approach. A structured questionnaire using three-point scales was administered to 30 respondents from two schools each in Kaduna, Kano, and Zamfara State (meaning 5 respondents from each school). The questionnaire was used in collecting data for analysis. Data were analysed using statistical tools of frequency (F) and percentage (%). The average age of the participants was 25 and above. The results emanating from this revealed that using ICT and group methodology has been reported to be an effective teaching method for improving students’ attitudes toward English and Literature acquisition. This paper however recommends the adoption and adaptation of using ICT and group methods for regular conduct of both face-to-face and online teaching.

Background: Preeclampsia, a hypertension condition that develops during pregnancy, is one of the most common causes of premature labour and delivery, perinatal death, and maternal mortality. Preeclampsia and other hypertensive diseases of pregnancy complicate a significant percentage of all pregnancies, necessitating early detection and warning. Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the presence of serum level of albumin, uric acid and creatinine in pregnant women who developed symptoms of preeclampsia and who are free from symptoms of preeclampsia. Method: A prospective study was carried out among 119 pregnant women in the outpatient Department of obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh, from June 2005 July 2006.Details and data obtained from medical records section were analyzed. Results: Among 119 women, PE developed in 10 patients and 109 patients remain normotensive. Among the study group incidence of PE was 8.4%. The mean age was 25.48±5.26 vs 25.60±3.89 in control vs PE subjects respectively. At booking the mean SBP was 104.40±10.67 vs 121.50±6.26, mean DBP was 65.73±6.41 vs 68.00±5.87, mean MAP was 77.66±5.28 vs 78.62±6.39 respectively in control and PE subjects. The mean serum albumin (gm/dl) of the study groups were as follows: control 2.97±0.55 vs PE 3.73±0.52. Serum creatinine of the study group (0.78±8.5 and 0.79±6.11 in control vs PE) and serum uric acid (2.24±0.71 and 2.65±0.56 in control vs PE) shows no significant difference at booking visit. The sensitivity of S. albumin, uric acid and creatinine area is 50%, 10%, 0%. Specificity of serum albumin is 5.25%, uric acid is 9.09%. But specificity of creatinine is high (97%) positive predictive value of all parameters are low. PPV of serum albumin is 4.76%, serum creatinine is 6.6%. Negative predictive value of creatinine is high (72%). Negative predictive value of serum albumin and serum uric acid are 6.42% and 9.12% respectively. Conclusion: In developing nations, pre-eclampsia is a common cause of maternal and neonatal illness. In maternal serum, many biochemical markers of pre-eclampsia have been identified. Uric acid, creatinine, and albumin are only a few of them. Uncorrelated serum uric acid, serum creatinine, or serum urea readings are insufficient to be considered as reliable predictors of preeclampsia.

C20 and C21 tricyclic terpanes were investigated in crude oils from Niger Delta, Nigeria. From comparison of the mass chromatograms (m/z 191) of two crude oil samples (CEN-21 and WST-69) with related literatures on tricyclic terpanes which eluted from the gas chromatography (GC) within certain retention time, 12 peaks were selected. Peaks 1 - 5 were selected as C20 tricyclic terpane isomers (TR20a-e) and peaks 6 - 12 selected as C21 tricyclic terpanes (TR21a-g). This distribution is usually as crude oils show a single peak each and indicate the distribution of C20 and C21 tricyclic terpanes in the Niger Delta crude oils is uncommon. Total abundances showed the C20 and the C21 tricyclic terpanes were more in CEN-21 than WST-69 with ratios of 3.07 and 1.84, respectively, with TR20a, TR20b, TR20d and TR21d being the most abundant isomers in both oil samples. These abundances indicate CEN-21 was thermally more mature than WST-69 and that the C20 tricyclic terpanes were generated more than the C21 tricyclic terpanes with increasing thermal maturity of the crude oils. Significant similarities observed in the normalized composition profiles and 66 derived ratios suggest the Niger Delta crude oil samples were genetically related and were predominantly derived from terrigenous Tertiary deltaic petroleum systems. Some differences observed in the composition profile and derived ratios indicate minor input from a different source, depositional environment and/or maturity level and are suggestive as indicators for evaluation, correlation and/or discrimination of the Niger Delta crude oils.

Introduction: Conservative endodontics advocates sparingly altering standard procedures in order to preserve tooth structure if possible. Every bit of structure that is saved is a benefit, according to conservative endodontics. As a result, conservative endodontics may be performed by both endodontists and general dentists. Aim and Objective: The comprehensive evaluation of conventional radiology employed in endodontic conservative therapy has as its primary goal the endodontic conservative therapy. Methodology: The electronic databases that underwent rigorous individual searches were Embase, Google Scholar, LILACS and MEDLINE using the Ebsco search engine, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science. Results: Conventional radiography (CR) is without a doubt the most widely used imaging method for evaluating root canals due to its availability, affordability, and convenience. Digital Radiography (DR) has gained popularity as a replacement for CR because it offers better image quality and enables the dentist to do radiographic exams with less radiation exposure. Conclusion: For root canal treatment, radiographic diagnostic value is essential. Additionally, this technique is utilized to find procedural errors, resorptive defects, and fractures. Radiographic examinations are important because they provide details on how difficult the therapy is.

This study aims to explore, identify and understand the design and the strategy for healthcare delivery at both macro and micro levels in an informatics field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For both patients and professionals, health information technology offers greater quality, safer treatment, and much more. Despite their potential, they are expensive to create and execute. The success of applied information technology in healthcare, on the other hand, is determined by user acceptance and utilisation. This study offers a framework for analysing how health professionals view and intend to use health information technology. To define the primary factors to be assessed, thorough literature research was done. As a measuring methodology, a questionnaire was created and sent to the experts, who are information systems professionals with at least five years of experience. According to a five-point Likert scale, the replies were generally highly agreed, with roughly 79 per cent agreeing. Female respondents were more accepting of electronic data storage than male ones. Other notable distinctions between occupations were also discovered.

Background: Measurement of Prostate Volume (PV) is fundamental in the proper management of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Although a crude way of assessing PV, digital rectal examination (DRE) has been used in various centres and then objectified by the use of Transrectal Ultrasound Scan (TRUS) measurement for reasons of accuracy. Prostate volume measurement together with the use of international prostate symptom score (IPSS) is central in choosing treatment modalities whether medical or surgical. In this study, we aimed at correlating PV measured by DRE and TRUS. Patients and Methods: This is a prospective study of seventy four (74) patients being managed for BPH in our facility between September 2019 and December 2020 who met inclusion criteria. Full clinical history was obtained together with physical examination and well-focused DRE of the prostate to estimate PV based on Romero et al., technique combined with the sliding scale technique. Subsequently patients were sent for TRUS measurements of the prostate which is also a routine procedure in BPH managements. Data were collated and analysed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 Results: A total of 74 patients were studied with a mean age of 63.05±9.89 years ranging from 43 to 90 years. Mean PV estimated by DRE was 47.91±14.16 mls and that by TRUS was 53.42±25.33 mls. There was a statistically significant correlation in PV measurements between the two modalities (P v=.750, PV < .05). Conclusion: PV measured by DRE closely approximates TRUS measurements.

End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a serious condition that has a significant impact on patients' lives. The most preferred treatment is to get a kidney transplant, or the patient is shifted to dialysis options including haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Peritoneal dialysis is one of the effective modalities for the treatment of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), but it was found to be associated with a serious complication called peritoneal dialysis- associated peritonitis (PDAP). The consequences of PDAP have been found to include removal of the catheter, relapse, transfer to haemodialysis, and death. Thus, it is usually treated using the appropriate antibiotic, which is based on the results of the culture. However, most of the conventional antibiotics used for the treatment of PDAP are not currently showing effectiveness, which is due to the growing resistance worldwide among the causative micro-organisms including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Therefore, newer antibiotics that can eradicate these high-resistance microorganisms are required. This article reviews the available examples of novel antibiotics that can be used for peritonitis caused by strains that are showing resistance against conventional antibiotics. Examples include antibiotics like oxazolidinone, lipoglycopeptide, glycylcycline, moxifloxacin and cephalosporins.

Introduction: During the period of pregnancy, many physical and social activities can become of great risk to the fetal and maternal outcome. Among the many physical ailments that have an effect on maternal and fetal outcome, hypertension and diabetes are the most common cause, and effects. During diabetes, maternal hypertension and gestational diabetes can occur, and can cause great changes to the outcome of pregnancy. The present study was conducted among all hypertension patients to see the different types of hypertension and their incidence rate among pregnant women, and their maternal and fetal outcomes at pregnancy. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Gynecology, Kushtia 250 bed General Hospital, Kushtia, Bangladesh. The study duration was 1 year, from January 2020 to January 2021. During this period, a total of 100 cases of hypertensive pregnancies visiting the study place were admitted following the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Result: Majority of the hypertensive mothers had been between the ages of 21-25 years, while mean birth weight was below normal range among the neonates. Moderate preeclampsia had the highest prevalence among the mothers, and anemia and nulliparity were observed in 67% and 44% respectively as risk factors among the participants. Adverse perinatal outcome had a significantly high prevalence among neonates of preeclampsia groups. Conclusion: The study observed higher incidence of preeclampsia among pregnant women, and adverse perinatal outcomes had significant rise among preeclampsia cases. Anemia was the most common risk factor for hypertension in the present study, followed by Nulliparity. Adverse maternal outcomes did not have a significant association with type of hypertension, but seizure and oliguria were more common among preeclampsia cases.

Background: Urinary retention is a worldwide health problem mostly noted in elderly men who may have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), cancer of the prostate (Cap), urethral stricture disease or bladder tumour. It has a negative impact on the quality of life (QOL) of the sufferer as well as national or global economy. Urethral catheterization is used to relief the retention and suprapubic cystostomy where the urethral route fails or it’s contraindicated. Complications have been reported especially when catheters are worn for prolonged periods of time. The aim of this work was to study the burden of prolonged use of catheters after urinary retention. Patients and Method: The study was conducted in March 2021 and lasted for four (4) weeks to prevent data duplication since our patients change their catheters once in 4 weeks. A questionnaire was designed and completed by all patients after informed consent was obtained. Data collected were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20.0 and results used for discussion. Results: Eighty two (82) patients with a mean age of 63.12±14.67 years were studied. Aetiology of urinary retention was BPH, Cap, and Urethral stricture in 58.5%, 19.5% and 23.0% respectively. More patients were in their 7th and 8th decades of life. Most patients had indwelling urethral catheter (65.9%), average duration of catheter use was 21.26 months. There was no statistical significant difference in the mean duration between those who used SPC and Urethral catheter (P= .411).Ninety-eight (98.7%) of patients had complications and 22% of them reported more than five (5) complications. Qol correlated poorly with those who had sexual issues due to prolonged catheter use. The estimated annual cost for catheter change was between N1.5million and N2.0 million in our facility. Conclusion: Prolonged catheter use is a source of concern to patients and poses serious health-related and financial burden to them.

The paper analyzes the manifestation of spiritual imbalance in The Sound and the Fury from the perspectives of Caddy, Mrs. Compson and Dilsey through the lens of Lu Shuyuan’s spiritual ecology theory.

Background: Amniotic fluid is the fluid present in amniotic sac which surrounds the foetus, provides nutrition and maintains temperature of the foetus. Physically it allows the foetus to move and prevents it from injury. Functionally it enables foetal breathing mobility that prevents pulmonary hypoplasia and exercises digestive tract by swallowing amniotic fluid. Objective: The objective of the study was to explore the role of amnioinfusion in intrapartum management of meconium stained amniotic fluid in the pregnant women at labor and foetomaternal outcome of the patients attending labor ward of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Methods: This experimental randomized control trial study carried out in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, Rajshahi from July, 2012 to June, 2014. Sample size was 100 and randomly allocated into equally two halves as study group and control group. Purposive sampling technique was followed. Results: In this study the age of the study group up to 30 years was 38(47.5%), control group 42(52.5%) and total 80(80.0%). On the other hand, in >30 year’s study group was 12(60.0%), control group 8(40.0%) and total 20(20.0%) respectively. and that of control group was 26.24 (±4.75) years. The mean age of the study group was 27.44 ± 5.59, control group was 26.24 ± 4.75 and total was 26.84 ±5.18 years. The mean weight of the study group was 66.84 (±3.25) kg and in the control group 62.64(±2.84) kg. In this study, 96.0% of the respondents had normal vaginal delivery and among them, 52.1% were in the study group and 47.9% in the control group. On the other hand, only 4% of the respondents had lower segment caesarean section and all of them were in the control group. The mean gestational age at delivery of the respondents in the study group was 39.88 ± 0.78 weeks and in the control group 39.84 ± 0.75 weeks. Conclusion: In this study Tran’s cervical amnioinfusion gave positive result by providing reducing picture of operative delivery in study group. There was significant difference in respiratory distress in the baby having lower percentage in the study group. A large scale study should be carried out to make the result of this study a reliable one.

This study analyzes the parliament speech delivered by the British queen under the framework of transitivity through the employment of qualitative and quantitative methods. The function and distribution of the transitivity process in the speech are explored, aiming at revealing the linguistic feature of the speech so that the understanding of the linguistic characteristics and the speech content is deepened. The study finds out four process types in the speech, among which the material process accounts for the largest proportion, with the relational process, the mental process and the existential process followed. There is no verbal and behavioral process in the speech. The material process shows the vigorous actions of the government. The relational process makes the power of the government closely connected with the country and the citizens, and the mental process implies the government’s outlook on the future and the confidence to do all the work well. This linguistic pattern shows the seriousness and authority of the speaker and the study concludes that the specific linguistic structure determines the implied meaning of the utterance.

This research takes the formulation of the problem of why is the regulation of the implementation of Credit Union activities not based on the value of justice and how is the reconstruction of regulations for implementing Credit Union activities in Indonesia based on the value of justice. This research uses normative legal research methods and empirical legal research where the research specification used in this research is descriptive-analytical. The Primary data sources are based on data or facts and legal cases obtained directly through research in the field and Secondary data is done through literature study. The result of the research shows that the regulation on the implementation of Credit Union activities in Indonesia has not been based on the value of justice, because Credit Unions, which in their implementation are based on the Model Law for Credit Unions, are still analogous to the Savings and Loans Cooperative which in its implementation is based on Government Regulation Number 9 of 1995 concerning Implementation Savings and Loans Business Activities by Cooperatives. There are differences in the recruitment of members, forms of education, and indicators of loan requirements and institutional health, it is necessary to reconstruct the regulations for implementing Credit Union activities in Indonesia based on the value of justice. Reconstruction of Law Number 25 of 1992 concerning Cooperatives can be done by adding new paragraphs in Article 44, namely; (4) The implementation of savings and loan business activities by the Credit Union is regulated based on the Model Law for Credit Union.