The dynamic business environment is ingrained with high levels of competition eulogizing the need for salient functional strategies to stay afloat. Thus, the management of the manufacturing industry must formulate and implement functional strategies which would guarantee their competitiveness. However, after years of policy mending through strategic framework and government interventions the sugar factories in Kenya are still under- performing with low productivity culminating to low competitiveness and massive indebtedness within the industry. It is in this regard that the study was designed to assess the effect of functional strategies such us financial, marketing, production, human resources on competitiveness of sugar industries in western Kenya as moderated by government interventions. The study relied on institutional theory, Porters generic theory and resource-based view theories. In a bid to effectively achieve this, the study adopted a cross-sectional study design based on samples drawn from across the sugar industry in western Kenya. The study relied on all heads of departments and supervisors of all the five sugar firms which are 98 purposively selected. Data was collected by use of a questionnaire from the respondents and analyzed by use of both inferential and descriptive statistics using SPSS version 25. From the study findings correlations among the functional strategies and competitiveness were significant. With a moderator the variables jointly explained 66.6% (R2= 0.666) variation in competitiveness of sugar industry with a significant F change at ρ<.05. In conclusion government intervention significantly influences the relationship between functional strategies and competitiveness of sugar industry. The management of sugar industry should formulate and implement functional strategies in line with government interventions to effectively enhance their competitiveness.

A current paradox in the Vietnamese labor market is that there is lack of workers with enough knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the job, but an abundance of those who cannot. The reason for this situation is that in the process of training and education, universities have focused a lot on equipping learners with knowledge, the formation and development of professional skills are often given less attention. Therefore, post-trained human resources entering the labor market still lack the necessary skills in the labor process. Meanwhile, firms in Vietnam are well aware of the great role of workers' working skills, which is an important factor in the current period, especially skills to adapt to the 4th industrial revolution. Therefore, in the process of educating, training and fostering human resources in school, higher education institutions need to consider supplementing and equipping learners with necessary skills to create products. The school’s output can best meet the needs of recruitment and jobs in the labor market in the current new period.

The centrality of exchange rate in stock market performance cannot be over-emphasized. Thus, this study examined the dynamic effects of exchange rate on market capitalization in Nigeria. The specific objectives are to examine the effects of nominal exchange rate, real effective exchange rate, real interest rate and inflation rate on market capitalization using time series data which were obtained from the WDI and World Federation Exchanges Database between 1993 and 2020. Unit root test, cointegration test, ARDL estimation method, Granger causality tests were applied to analyze the data. The unit root test results showed that only market capitalization is stationary at levels whereas the other variables become stationary at first difference. The bounds cointegration test result revealed that market capitalization has long run relationship with the explanatory variables. The results revealed that real effective exchange rate impacted positively on the market capitalization. This implies that increase in real exchange rate (depreciation of the naira) creates opportunity for increase in the capital market size. The results further revealed that nominal exchange rate has an insignificant positive effect on market capitalization in the short run and long run. This could be linked to the inconsistency that characterizes the official exchange rate policy in Nigeria. It was also found that real interest rate has significant negative effect on market capitalization in the long run. At the same time, inflation rate negatively affected market capitalization. The Granger causality test results showed that a unidirectional causality runs from real interest rate and market capitalization. Given the findings, this study recommends that policymakers should ensure that the exchange rate management prioritizes a realistic and stable exchange rate to boost global competitiveness and improve market capitalization.

Background: Coronary artery disease is a known entity of morbidity and mortality in industrialised countries. It is a major public health problem around the world. Coronary artery disease increase incidence in Indian population at least 10 years before in age than other ethnic groups. There are a numbers of factors associated with atherosclerosis the most important one is dyslipidemia. Recent studies suggest that over the span of 20 years, the total amount of triglycerides, cholesterol and Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) `levels is usually increased in young urban populations. So, a study was performed out to know the prevalence of dyslipidemia in urban North Indians among different set of age groups. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study which was carried out on patients visiting to the blood collection centre of the Department of Pathology. Patients were divided into 3 groups with age 18 year to 40 year, 41 year to 60 year and >60 year by involving 1989 subjects of whom 532 were between 18 year to 40 year, 522 were between 41year to 60 year and 935 were > 60 year of age. This study included measurement of fasting serum lipid profile comprising of, Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), High Density Lipoproteins (HDL), Triglycerides and total cholesterol. Results: Number of subjects studied, the prevalence of dyslipidemia was higher in <60 years age population. A remarkable difference in mean was observed statistically with the levels of triglycerides, LDL and total cholesterol of this age group ranging from 18- 40 years and for those who are >60 years. A remarkable difference for the levels of HDL was not found in age group between 18 – 40 years and > 40 years to 60 years. Mean cholesterol level was observed to be elevated between the age group 18 – 40 years. The mean peak triglycerides were observed in age group between 41-60 years. This elevated mean HDL levels were noticed in the age group who are > 60 years of age. Conclusions: Elevated percentage of dyslipidemia was observed in less than 60yrs age groups. Large population study is required to substantiate the results of this study. It is necessary to plan out comprehensive strategies for the screening and awareness in all ages on periodic basis.

Introduction: Nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) are a taxonomically diverse group of aerobic, nonsporing, bacilli that either do not utilize glucose as a source of energy or utilize it oxidatively. They occur as saprophytes in the environment and some are also found as commensals in the human gut. In recent year NFGNB have emerged as important health care associated pathogens. They have been incriminated in infections such as bacteremia, meningitis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, wound infections, osteomyelitis etc. Materials and method: During Nine Month study period, various samples were collected aseptically and transported immediately to the bacteriology laboratory. The pathogens were identified by standard laboratory procedures including Gram’s staining, motility, culture, colony characters and biochemical reactions. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by modified Kirby Bauer method as per the CLSI guidelines using Muller-Hinton agar and available antibiotic disks. Result: A total number of 312 NFGNB were isolated from 4112 clinical samples. Most frequently isolates NFGNB were Pseudomonas aeruginosa (42.62%) and Acinetobacter spp. (25.32%). NFGNB isolates were more common in males (58.33%) as compared to females (41.67%). Maximum sensitivity was seen to Polymyxin B (100%), Meropenem (83.45) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Meropenem (78.48%), Pipracillin-tazobactum (62.02%) in Acinetobacter spp. Conclusion: NFGNB are emerging as important pathogens and shows resistance to commonly used antibiotics. Minimized use of available antimicrobial, regular use antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance and strict infection control measures are required to control this emerging antimicrobial resistance among NFGNB.

The increase in company value is a success that meets shareholders' expectations, because the increase in company value makes shareholders feel more prosperous. The company's high value, resulting in high stock market prices. The goal of this research is to show that profitability and good corporate governance (GCG) have an effect on firm value. In addition, to see if GCG can reduce the impact of profitability on firm value. Furthermore, to see if GCG can mitigate the effect of profitability on firm value. Return on assets is a profitability indicator, whereas GCG indicators include institutional ownership, the number of directors, and the ratio of independent commissioners. This study uses a population of 83 companies. This research uses a population of 83 companies, including 42 banking companies, 14 financial companies, 12 securities companies, and 15 insurance companies. Methods of data collection include literature review and documentation. The SPSS version 25 program was used for data analysis, which included multiple regression and the residual test. The findings of this research indicate that only the number of directors has a significant effect on firm value and GCG is shown as an independent variable. The research's implications will be to help management apply GCG principles more effectively.

Supervision is the most powerful activity in attaining organizational goals. There are different approaches in the field of academic supervision. The purpose of the study is to justify whether the primary school supervisor’s belief is democratic or bureaucratic approach? A survey model has been used and a pre-determined survey tool was used for data collection, where 125 primary school supervisors provided data willingly by simple random sampling. The results of primary school supervision indicates, 64% of the school supervisors believe in democratic views of supervision, whereas the trend differs depending on working experience or seniority, as well as educational background of supervisors.

Background: COVID-19 is one of the emerged pandemics that threaten the globe. On the other hand, cannabis smoking is considered one of the risk factors for increased incidence of lung infection, and hence covid-19 infection. Aim: Investigation of potential interactions between covid-19 therapeutic agents and cannabis addiction associated with changes in both or either of therapeutic safety and efficacy. Besides, the effect of cannabis smoking addiction on covid-19 incidence and severity. Discussion: Different studies indicated the effect of cannabis components on the metabolic rate by induction or inhibition of several metabolic pathways. Different drugs used in covid-19 management are either substrates or inhibitors for those metabolic pathways. The final result could be a bidirectional interaction between tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol and those drugs used in COVID-19 management. Side effects of elevated levels of both tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, or drug therapeutic agents may occur. Studies showed that cannabis smoking is acting as a risk factor for elevated incidence for pulmonary tract infection and so covid-19 infection. Conclusion: Caution should be taken in consideration, and addiction screening for COVID-19 patients should be performed before starting therapeutic regimen to avoid any possible undesirable effects during treatment and to predict patients response to therapeutic measures applied and disease severity.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a major problem worldwide that can be categorized into two main disorders, Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). IBD development is related to a multifactorial combination including environmental factors, intestinal microflora, pathological immune responses, and genetic influences [1, 2, 6] IBD can affect the complete GI tract, starting from the mouth to the anus [3]. Dental considerations regarding IBD oral manifestations and complications must be acknowledged by dentists to reduce morbidity, and mortality, and improve overall patient lifestyle. In this review, we will provide an overview of dental considerations and oral manifestations related to Inflammatory bowel disease.

Introduction: Cloud computing is an innovative paradigm that provides users with on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage, and applications. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of employees in the medical records and E-health departments to cloud computing in King Khalid General, Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia. Further, it determined their perceived level of understanding and knowledge to this technology especially on its utilization in safely accessing and securing personal health record of patients. Method: A total of 53 participants filled-up and completed the survey questionnaire that measures their level of knowledge and understanding to cloud technology. A descriptive cross-sectional design was utilized for this study. Results and Discussion: From the results of the survey, a general mean of 3.72 and standard deviation of 1 having a verbal intepretation of ‘agree’ were obtained. These results translates to an acceptable level of utilizing cloud computing in the hospitals. Conclusion: Cloud computing creates an efficient management of patient health records making it more accessible and secured. It is an innovative management approach of record databases in a Saudi hospital with a promising future to be adopted by other hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

The study has been carried out with the objective to explore the provision of occupational safety and health standards in Nepalese legislation in building construction of Gautam Buddha International Airport. For this building such as international terminal building, administrative building, control tower, and fire rescue block were taken for study and analysis. For this population size, sample size of respondent was taken through purposive sampling method. The study found that enforcement status of rules and regulations at construction site was not satisfactory. Most of the workers even didn’t hear about labour act and labour regulation, yet. There was poor implementation of rules &amp; regulations in project site by contractor. Not even a single project was found of having provision of safety officer and no any factory inspector visit to project site till date by which it could easily predict the implementation status of labour act and labour regulation. While a legal framework has been developed, the proper implementation of such legislation is a must to keep up with changing times. The workers must be aware of safety requirement. A saturator action against the issue should be enforced through strong safety committee.

Hydatidosis is a parasitic disease caused by the cestode Echinococcus granulosus. The present study focused on the multi-diagnosis of a clinical case including; histopathology, the clinical presentation of the patient, and the molecular diagnosis of the tissue. This is a cross-sectional study for patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst disease. Four hospitals in Gaza Strip were included as follows: European Gaza Hospital, AL-Shifa Hospital, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, and Nasser Hospital (Histopathology Department). A total of 15 clinical cases of hydatidosis are described, with hydatid cysts collected from the four hospitals diagnosed by the clinical presentation of each case, histopathology, and molecular diagnosis. A total of 46.7% of the examined hydatid cyst disease cases were from the liver. The sequencing and analysis revealed one genotype of E. granulosus (G1) responsible for these human hydatid cysts. It is concluded that hydatid cyst disease occurrence is confirmed in the examined human tissue samples and belongs to genotype G1. It is recommended that hydatisosis is known among senior surgeons, we recommend that these cases should be presented in front of early career surgeons, interns and Internists in Gaza Strip Hospitals.

Rapid technological developments have implications for the development of online transportation modes, one of which is Taxi-bike online. Many online Taxi-bike transportation drivers generally carry out professions with the status of a partnership relationship pattern with the company as the partnership is regulated in a civil law agreement. The pattern of relationships that occur between online Taxi-bike drivers and companies that are not based on a working relationship has an impact on the invalidity of Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Employment, one of which is related to the absence of legal certainty over guaranteed work safety protection for online Taxi-bike drivers. This research provides an understanding of how online Taxi-bike drivers stand with companies and how to guarantee legal protection for work safety for online Taxi-bike drivers according to regulations in Indonesia. The research method in this research is normative juridical with the approach of library materials or secondary data. The results of this study indicate that first, the Taxi-bike company as a partnership-based transportation company has not provided guaranteed protection for the recognition of legal status for its working partners, in this case, the online Taxi-bike driver. Second, there is no regulation on work safety guarantees for online Taxi-bike drivers that are based on partnerships or have not been regulated in laws and rules, so this reason is used as the basis for online transportation companies not to provide compensation or compensation when an accident occurs to online Taxi-bike drivers.

Herbal remedies are widely utilized as therapeutic approaches for different medical conditions all over the globe. Various chemical herbicides and pesticides, including the organic and inorganic Sulphur compounds, benzimidazoles, imazalil, and oxidizing compounds, have just been proposed to handle the diseases in plants in recent years to achieve this goal. Anti-inflammatory, antihyperlipidemic, anticancer, and oxidative, analgesics, anorexiant, plasmid curing, and antihyperglycemic properties prominent in medicinal plants. The leaves of another medicinal plant , Dracocephalum moldavica have been used for the treatment of stomach and liver disorders, headaches and congestion. Different plants also exhibit the multiple action against variety of microbial pathogens. Baccharis trimera used against the infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella gallinarum and Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus strains. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C), carotenoids, tocopherol (vitamin E), and plant phenolic compounds are examples of low-molecular-weight compounds, non-enzymatic anti - oxidants obtained from nutrition. Bilirubin, serotonin, lipoic acid, ketoacids, uric acid, sex hormones, coenzyme Q, and other low-molecular-mass antioxidant chemicals are produced in vivo.

This study examined the influence of psychosocial variables on social networking among senior secondary school students in Obingwa Local Government Area (LGA) in Aba educational zone of Abia State. Two research questions were posed and two hypotheses formulated to guide the study. The study employed descriptive survey design. The population of the study consist of senior secondary school students in Obingwa LGA within 2017/2018 academic year. The respondents were drawn from five schools out of 17 existing schools using the stratified random sampling technique. Questionnaires was use for data collection. The instrument was validated by two experts in measurement and Evaluation, and educational psychology. Two research questions were answered with descriptive statistics and the hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significantly. Results of the study indicated that self-esteem and family type do not significantly influence social networking among students. While self-actualization significantly influences social networking among senior secondary school students in Obingwa LGA. Based on findings, it was recommended that stakeholders in education should collaboratively develop ways to capitalized on social network technologies in education system while ensuring effective safeguards are in place.