Background: Preeclampsia is a life-threatening condition, which carries adverse effects for women and fetus. Lifestyle modification can modify the preeclampsia and improve its outcomes. Educational programs are an effective method to modify the lifestyle among pregnant women with mild preeclampsia. Methods: Aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of an educational program on modifying lifestyle among pregnant women with mild preeclampsia. A pre and post research design was utilized on a purposive sample of 40 pregnant women at 20 – 24 weeks of gestation with mild preeclampsia at the antenatal outpatient unit, Port Said Maternity Hospital, Egypt; they get information regarding the proper lifestyle for mild preeclampsia and the lifestyle dimensions were assessed at the pre- program and post-program phases. Two tools were used for data collection: Interviewing Questionnaire Sheet and Lifestyle Questionnaire. Results: The findings showed a statistically significant improvement in the lifestyle after conducting the educational session. Conclusion: Educational programs about the proper lifestyle for mild preeclampsia through a PowerPoint presentation and distribution of the booklet are an effective method to modify the lifestyle among pregnant women with mild preeclampsia.

Using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics and the practice of Critical Discourse Analysis, the study demonstrates how ideas and thoughts are represented in selected speeches the governor of Rivers State. This personality is analysed to have certain ideologies as made manifest in his use of language. Recognising that situation actually determines what to say, recognition is equally given to the language features of the speeches in relation to the functions in particular contexts. The study revealed that Wike’s speeches open with words of appreciation God and humanity. In second step, intentions are declared by the governor who assures the people of Rivers State that their suffering has already gone into history. The governor is seen to have neglected the needs for international relations and foreign policies. He unveils his plans for his administration like restoring the legislature’s autonomy, restoring and enhancing independence of the judiciary, appointing and re-opening of the state’s chief judge and courts, amendment of chieftaincy laws among others. The grammar of the speech is featured frequently with we-pronoun, which is not merely a discourse feature but a sign of collectivity and togetherness. The governor also appeals for unity and cooperation from all the citizens of the state. He feels that the state is in deep trouble which requires careful plan to tackle it. In a similar fashion, he promises to equally cooperate by returning power to the people in the conduct of common affairs.

Background: Metabolic syndrome is common in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Some studies have suggested that vitamin D deficiency may play role in metabolic disturbance and vitamin D supplementation improves metabolic profile of these patients. Objective: To evaluate the effect of vitamin D supplementation on the metabolic profile in the polycystic ovary syndrome patients. Methods: Seventy seven diagnosed cases of vitamin D deficient polycystic ovary syndrome patient with metabolic syndrome, age range 18-45 years were administered standard therapy of oral vitamin D (OH)2 40000 IU weekly for seven weeks followed by maintenance therapy of oral vitamin D2 2000 IU daily. Follow up vitamin D was done 3 months after initiation of vitamin D supplementation. The changes in features of metabolic syndrome namely, waist circumference, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, fasting serum triglyceride and high density lipoprotein levels were recorded. Paired‘t’ test was done to see if the changes were significant. Result: Mean serum vitamin D was significantly increased (11.5±4.0 ng/ml vs. 36.8±10.7 ng/ml) after the vitamin D supplementation (p<0.05). Triglycerides level decreased (180.7±62.3 vs 148.1±46.2 mg/dl) and HDL level increased (38.2±11.3 vs 47.1±10.3 mg/dl) which were statistically significant (p<0.05). But the changes were not significant for the waist circumference (93.9±8.6 vs. 93.4±8.2), blood pressure (SBP-117.6±12.4 vs 117.5±11.9 mm Hg; DBP- 80.9±7.6 vs 80.8±7.8 mmHg), fasting glucose (5.77±1.02 mmol/L vs. 5.74±0.99 mmol/L). Conclusion: Vitamin D supplementation have favorable effects on features of metabolic syndrome.

Background: Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) of abnormal marrow stem cell with BCR-ABL1 fusion gene as a pathognomonic feature. In resource-poor countries, clinical and laboratory parameters were invaluable tools used in the diagnosis. However, the advent of GeneXpert technology was a paradigm shift in the detection of the fusion gene. Aim of the study: To highlight the clinical usefulness of geneXpert in the evaluation of clinical and laboratory features of newly diagnosed patients. Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu. Sixty-five BCR-ABL 1 positive consenting patients were evaluated using demographic, clinical and laboratory data. Data was analyzed using GraphPad Prism software version 9 with probability <0.05 as statistically significant. Results: A total of 65 patients with mean age 45.22 + 15.44 years were studied. Age group 39 – 49 were mostly affected 20 (30.8%) with Enugu State having the highest disease burden 20 (30.8%). Abdominal swelling was the most common presenting feature 57 (87.7%) while splenomegaly was the most common finding on imaging 60 (92.3%). Mean WBC and BCR-ABL1 were 207.37 + 87.57 x 109/L and 41.02 + 24.53% (IS) respectively (r = -180, P = 0.015). Majority of the cases were in chronic phase 56 (86.2%). Risk assessment of cases on presentation using Sokal and Hasford scores were statistically significant (t = 20.23, P < 0.0001), [CI = 1429 to 1739]. Conclusion: There was improved diagnostic yield of cases of CML using the molecular diagnostic technique.

Medicinal plants have long been used globally for the management and treatment of diverse disease conditions. They are endowed with diverse secondary metabolites responsible for the therapeutic effects they exhibit hence the possibility of discovering novel, effective and affordable therapeutic targets with limited side effects. Scientific investigation of these medicinal plants has witnessed an upsurge in recent times. Piliostigma thonningii (Schum Milne-Redhead) commonly known as ‘‘camel’s foot’’ and ‘‘monkey bread’’and locally as ‘‘kalgo’’ in Hausa, ‘‘Omukpakpa ajalu’’ in Igala, ‘‘abafe’’ in Yoruba, ‘‘nyihar’’ in Tiv, ‘‘mchekeche’’ in Swahili and ‘‘Kharub’’ in Arab is distributed widely in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa. The different parts of the plant are known for the treatment and management of dysentery, fever, respiratory ailments, snakebites, hookworm and skin diseases, and gastro-intestinal tract problems among others. Although promising scientific reports have been published on the various parts of P. thonningii, no review comprehensively summarizes its traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, and toxicology. Therefore, this review aims to provide a critical and comprehensive evaluation of the traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacological properties and toxicology of P. thonningii as well as offer suggestions for future investigations.

An experiment work has been carried out to evaluate the parameters affecting a one cylinder engine (spark ignition engine) at two throttle positions (1/2 throttle and full throttle) for two stroke engine and at three throttle positions (1/2 throttle, 2/3 throttle and full throttle) for four stroke engine. Parameters such as brake power, BMEP, Brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption where considered at varying speeds (780, 1560, 2340, 3120 and 3900rpm) and (1000, 1200, 1400, 1600 and 1800rpm) for two stroke and four stroke respectively. The results obtained showed that the brake power, brake mean effective pressure and brake thermal efficiency increases while the torque, specific fuel consumption and volumetric efficiency decreases as the engine speed increases when considering the three throttle positions. The volumetric efficiency and brake power of the two stroke engine for the half throttle positions at 4680rpm for two stroke were 0.229 and 7.545kw respectively compared to the full throttle positions which were 0.299 and 7.662kw respectively. The volumetric efficiency and brake power of the four stroke engine for the half throttle positions at 1800rpm for two stroke were 0.180 and 5.598kw respectively compared to the 2/3 and full throttle positions which were 0.1803, 8.2073kw and 0.1803, 9.2026kw respectively.

“Bian Cheng”, a representative work of ShenCongwen, has fully demonstrated Shen’s unique writing style—the “native soil” style—through his dealing with language. The present paper studies two English versions of “Bian Cheng” with a literary stylistic approach to examine how its originality and freshness can be preserved and recreated in translation. The detailed discussion covers both lexical and syntactical aspect, and introduces a particular situation translators may confront in translating literary texts—“deceptive equivalence”. It is found that the avoidance of lexical redundancy, careful arrangement of sentence structures and the dealing with “deceptive equivalence” are of vital significance in literary translation especially when the unique literary style should be preserved.

This study focuses on the management of nonperforming loans in Bangladesh's banking industry. A supplementary data set was used to conduct this research project. On a year-to-year basis, the total number of nonperforming loans, gross nonperforming loan ratio, and net nonperforming loan ratio are all considered factors from 2011 to 2018. SCBs, DFIs, PCBs, and FCBs had gross NPLs ratios of 30.0 percent, 19.5 percent, 5.5 percent, and 6.5 percent, respectively, at the end of 2018 according to the research. The NPL ratios of SCBs and DFIs were quite high, as were the ratios of gross NPLs to total loans as well as net NPLs to total loans, although FCBs and PCBs were a high level of NPLs but it was tolerable. As a result of a lack of borrower selection, inadequate monitoring, collateral deficiency, money diversion, CRM absence, Basel III implementation, corruption of bankers and political involvement, Bangladesh has accumulated a large number of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in its banking industry. Management of nonperforming loans in Bangladesh's banking industry comprises credit evaluation, loan monitoring, loss provisioning, regulatory framework, loans transferred to third parties and writing down NPLs in an effort to recoup credit losses, the study found. An intended outcome of this research is a set of rules and suggestions on how to reshape NPLs in Bangladesh's banking industry, improve bank management of NPLs, and ensure responsible lending practices.

Meditation known as influential factor on many neurocognitive variables, memory is one of them. Studies have identified that meditation affects working memory. This study aimed to identify the effect of mindfulness meditation on verbal memory and composite memory. Twenty (n=20) male volunteered students age ranged between 21 to 29 years were taken from colleges and university of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. As the subjects were randomly divided into two groups and named as control Group and Experimental group. At first, Linearity, Homoscadasticity, and Normality of data were checked by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test respectively in SPSS 23 software. In present study the mean, standard deviation (SD), paired sample‘t’ test were used for observing the effect of meditation programme. Independent sample t test was also used to identify the base line difference between the groups. After fourteen weeks of mindful meditation practice significant improvements were seen in verbal memory and composite memory of the experimental group. The findings suggest that mindfulness meditation practice can improve verbal memory composite memory of an individual.

The development of corpus technology has a profound effect on foreign language teaching. This paper explores application of corpus tools to writing class designing in order to improve the efficiency of College English writing instruction and promote students’ writing competence and autonomous learning abilities.

Delivery is the physiological process of giving birth to a baby. Besides other complications, both methods of deliveries impact the postpartum quality of life of mothers. The post-partum period is one of the critical period in which the health status of a woman changes. Objectives: To compare the physical health among post-partum mothers after cesarean and normal vaginal deliveries. Methodology: A causal-comparative study was conducted. Overall, 104 women with normal vaginal delivery (52) and cesarean section (52) were included using the consecutive sampling technique. Data was collected using the quality-of-life questionnaire (SF-36). Results: Overall, five (9.6%), 30 (57.6%), 13 (25%), and four (7.6%) women among the normal vaginal delivery reported very good, good, fair, and poor health. Similarly, two (3.8%), eight (15.3%), 20 (38.4%), and 22 (42.3%) women in the cesarean section group reported very good, good, fair, and poor health. Activities were “limited a little” among women undergoing normal vaginal delivery, and activities were “limited a lot” among women undergoing cesarean section. 80.7% of women in the normal vaginal delivery group and 90% of women in the cesarean section group reported that they cut down the amount of time they spent on work or other activities. Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that women who undergo normal vaginal delivery have a better quality of physical health as compared to women undergoing cesarean section.

Water Scarcity is one of the most important environmental hazards world-over associated with atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. In spite of receiving intensive orographic rainfall, different sources of fresh water; most parts of the population is facing increasing water scarcity day by day. It is more prevalent in the under developed as well as developing countries, than in comparison to the developed ones. The water scarcity is having multiple reasons behind it. in the broader sense, the causes behind the water crisis are mainly of two types. They are either natural or anthropological. The present paper tries to focus on the mechanisms of water scarcity from the perspectives of physical processes and anthropogenic processes. Today's water scarcity in the developing and under developed world is mostly triggered by anthropogenic activities decreasing water supply both in relative term and absolute term. This paper finally presents some measures that can be taken to reduce the hazardous effects of water scarcity for sustainable development of the ecologically fragile ecosystems. At the end, this paper also tries to throw some light as a solution to this problem (in a long term way) for betterment of inhabitants of those water scarce regions of the world.

The basic structure of melatonin is evolutionarily conserved. Hence, it was speculated that melatonin may be present in different animals (from unicellular to multi-cellular) and even in plants. Melatonin in plans is generally regarded as phyto-melatonin. Like the role of melatonin in animals, phyto-melatonin can perform a number of functions like attenuation of apoptosis, prevention of free radical generation, protection against UV irradiation etc. But, unlike phyto-estrogen, the role of phyto-melatonin in animals is totally an unexplored area. Hence, aim of the present study was to note the role of phyto-melatonin in maintenance of general health and immunity of goats. To fulfil the aim, we supplemented the goats with phyto-melatonin rich diet i.e. corn (Zea mays) which is having 1.4 ng/gm of dry weight of tissue and they are also edible to goats. We noted significantly high level of body weight, haematological (AST, ALT level, total RBC count and %Hb), immunological (TLC, %LC, %SR of PBMCs), metabolic (plasma glucose, cholesterol, HDL, LDL, protein levels and HDL: LDL ration), free radical (SOD, catalase, GPx levels), hormonal (estrogen, melatonin), cytokine (IL-6 and TNF-α) levels and significantly low level of MDA. However, plasma testosterone was unaffected upon phyto-melatonin treatment. Thus, for the first time role of phyto-melatonin as a protective molecule with improving effect on the health and immunity of Indian goat Capra hircusis being proposed, as the effect of phyto-melatonin supplementation can be brought back to normal and this dietary supplement might be utilizing the similar pathway as commercial melatonin. There are so many less expensive and readily available sources of phyto-melatonin that requires the proper knowledge of exploitation of these sources for extreme benefit for animals as well as for the human beings in near or far future.

Cotton is the most important crop that is used for the production of fibers based products, textiles, agricultural products, medical devices and bioelectronics devices. It makes chemical bonded structure during paper making in which cellulose molecules are cross linked to the each other as forming massive structure. It is biochemically compressed of monoterpenes such as myrcene, pinene, camphene, limonene, and sabinene. Gossypium barbadense is comprised of proteins, fatty acids, and long chains of carbohydrates that makes through cross linked network and form intra molecular bonding. Gossypium hirsutum is a short-staple cotton fiber, which means that it is not as high-quality as other forms of this textile fiber. Its seeds also have applications in food industry as edible oil that can be used in shortening, margarine, salad and cooking oils, and for protective coverings. Gossypium arboretum has much significant economic value as compared to other cotton varieties due to its fibrous characteristics. One of the most important applications is their use in clothing for manufacturing of large varieties of clothes thus significant role in leading industries.

This paper deals with the identification of Portuguese pre-colonial and colonial diplomatic agents who initiated and effectively implementedthe mechanisms and tools of 3Es for 400 years in Angola from 1575 to 1975. The study briefly presented two main actors countries of Central Africa and Western Europe, Monarchical figuresand Republican Presidents as holders of appointed diplomatic field agents in their different ranks and portfolios. The scrutiny of specialized sources, related scientific materials, different types of reports pertaining to these Portuguese agents in Angola and other institutional documents facilitate us to use a historical analytical approach with evidences drawn from variety of sources. The interpretation of evidence and findings shows that African history is frequently studied with some negligence with much lacking to disclose those European agents who strongly defended their countries by cheating Africans human and natural resources.The awareness of the above can likely opens new research avenues in the 21st Century. Our findings shows that within the period of the study, there were a total of 158 Portuguese official agents with 102 pre-colonial agents between 1575 and 1885 and 56 colonial agents from 1886 to 1975.Finally, about 23 elected or appointed Portuguese saved as President and Head of State during the colonial era spanning from 1910 to 1975.Comparatively to negligence of other European exploiters, the Portuguese at least tried to develop Angola. Therefore, this study is limited to the above as a means of building a historiography of 3Es agents which are often lacking in history books.