There is need for the investigation into heavy metals and microbial loads in edible aquatic organisms, to evaluate their safety and compliance with standards approved by international regulatory bodies’ which regulates food and water quality. The heavy metals and total heterotrophic bacterial (THB) concentrations in catfish, surface water bodies and sediments collected from the wetlands of Isoko region of Delta State, Nigeria were determined in accordance to standard approved methods. The laboratory results revealed that the lead, cadmium, zinc and THB concentrations in the fish body parts (gills and muscle) sampled were lower, compared with those obtained from sediments samples. The lead concentration was 1.13 mg/kg and 28.01 mg/kg for the water and sediment samples respectively. Cadmium concentration of 0.19 mg/kg and 1.64 mg/kg was recorded for the water and sediment samples respectively. Then the zinc concentration was 0.39 mg/kg in the water sample and 87.17 mg/kg in the sediment samples. In terms of the fish body parts, the results revealed that the zinc, lead, cadmium and THB concentrations in the fish gills were higher, compared to the values recorded in the fish muscle. It was observed that the cadmium concentration in the fish gills and muscle was higher than the maximum allowable limit of 0.17 mg/kg approved by the FAO; while the lead and zinc concentrations in the fish gills and muscle were lower than the maximum allowable limit of 0.5 mg/kg and 67.1 mg/kg respectively, approved by the FAO for edible fish. Finding from this study will be helpful in taking appropriate measures to prevent bioaccumulation of toxic heavy metals and microbes in aquatic organisms, to levels above the maximum allowable limits approved by FAO or other regulatory bodies.

Patient satisfaction, which is linked to nursing care, is the cornerstone of good hospital services. As a result, this survey was designed to record inpatients' perceptions of nursing staff and use it as a foundation for future improvement. The current cross-sectional study was carried out in Najran General Hospital, Najran. Data was collected from 135 patients by using the Karen patient perception scale and analysis through statistically. The overall satisfaction level for nursing staff was being good among 56 (41%) and 68 (5%) felt satisfactory level of nursing care and 11 (8%) perceived as low level of nursing care quality. At the p 0.001 level, there was a significant relationship between patients' perceptions of nursing care quality and their age, sex, related illness, and number of hospitalizations. Although overall satisfaction was excellent, six patients expressed dissatisfaction with the atmosphere and one patient expressed dissatisfaction with the hospital's system. The authorities were alerted of the situation in order to take any necessary corrective measures. This was quite beneficial in terms of enhancing patient care.

The study investigated service quality and customer satisfaction in resorts hotels. The primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction in resort hotels in the south-east, Nigeria. In line with the purposes of the study, three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A quasi-experimental research design was adopted. The sample size comprised of three hundred and eighty-four (384) adult guests who visited the selected resort hotels in the South-East Region of Nigeria. A structured questionnaire based on a five-point Likert scale was used for data collection. Percentages and frequency were used in analyzing demographic information of the respondents, while means and standard deviation were for responses to questionnaire items. Spearman Rank Order Correlation was used to test the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that a significant relationship exists between tangibility, reliability, responsiveness dimensions of service quality and customer satisfaction in resort hotels in South-East, Nigeria. The study concludes that when the quality of service is improved in resort hotels, it enhances customer satisfaction. Also, the level of awareness towards the importance and benefits of service quality will put managers of resort hotels to be up and doing to increase customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty. The study, therefore, recommends amongst others that; hotels should always make the first experience of any customer exciting and unforgettable to make the customer wanting to return; Management of hotels should hire enthusiastic employees who would like to deal with the customer nicely and try to solve customer complaints and other issues in an effective manner. This will build the confidence of the customer about the hotel, hence, opening opportunities for more patronage.

Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation establishes a special agency that manages land, namely the land bank agency, which functions to carry out the planning, acquisition, procurement, management, utilization, and distribution of land. The establishment of a land bank in Indonesia has been realized with the issuance of Government Regulation Number 64 of 2021 concerning the Land Bank Agency. Based on this regulation, the Land Bank Agency has a function to distribute land assets owned to realize the economy. With the existence of a land bank, existing interests lead to the community or only the interests of the government to expand assets, especially for equitable distribution of national development. Both internal and external supervision are expected to minimize the behavior of land liberalization, especially the issue of licensing and land use in the context of development which is expected to increase efficiency and strategic utilization in accordance with its designation. The land bank supervision mechanism in the Job Creation Law will provide preventive measures in minimizing the authority over the land bank that will be misused. The distribution of land assets is carried out by the Land Bank based on the activity plan, criteria regarding the land object to be distributed and priority ranking. This is to ensure the accuracy of the target for guaranteeing the provision of land. The distribution for the provision of land for various development purposes must be based on consideration of the interests of the community and regional development.

Foreign bodies may be embedded in the oral cavity either by traumatic injury or iatrogenically. Cases in which a foreign body embedded in the oral cavity due to self-inflictions are uncommon and rarely reported. The discovery of foreign bodies in the teeth is often accidental and is a special situation. Detailed case history, clinical and radiographic examinations are essential to come to a conclusion about the size, nature, location of the foreign body and the difficulty concerned in its retrieval. Such an object may act as a possible source of infection and lead to complications. This case report presented a accidental impaction of self-inflicted foreign body in the form of wire in the maxillary left posterior region.

Cinnamon is a medical herbs tree and all are a member of the genus Cinnamomum in the family Lauraceae. Cinnamon (Dalchini) is found in the Himalayan region, Ceylon and Malaya. It is used as an aromatic in a variety of medicine and foods. Due to which the food items are very tasty and full of quality. The cinnamon has different types of some physicochemical properties; foreign matter (28.56 % w/w) and total ash (58.2 % w/w) and water-soluble ash (28.3 % w/w) and water-soluble extractive (28.28 % w/w) and loss on drying (47.8 % w/w) and the help of TLC saw and identify that it has the same bioactive compound which has important medical properties and microbial & pathogen examination, which are useful in medicine and important food industries1. Cinnamon contains a variety of important derivatives with acids and it also has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties & it reduces the growth of cancer cells2. In physicochemical studies, we get information related to the structural characteristics of cinnamon as well as their physicochemical properties and can use them for our use likes the field of medicines, the field of human health, and food preservation.

Introduction: Managerial style is a function-based personality that reflects the way of administration and behavior. Further, managerial style attaches numerous activities and procedures within the organization, which are based on a set of rules that managers utilized the workforce abilities, which reveals the managing framework rather than the management procedures. However, the managerial style could influence the staff and their presence at work. This study was conducted to explore whether the managerial style influences the nurse’s absenteeism among Saudi nurses working in northern region hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 10 government hospitals in Saudi Arabia. We enrolled 420 nurses from these 10 hospitals and assessed the influence of different managerial styles on their absenteeism. We used descriptive statistics to calculate the frequencies and proportions. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results: The study findings revealed nurse's dissatisfaction and a strong feeling of administration shortcomings. Significant differences were found among all the types of organized groups in managerial styles (line of authority, work climate, leadership, communication, employment, decision making, and innovation) with a p-value of <0.05. However, the study results showed that the managerial style supervision did not influence the nurse's absenteeism. Additionally, the findings demonstrated that the management does not describe the job duties and responsibilities explicitly do not involve the employee in making decisions. Conclusion: The study findings revealed that an organizational structure needs to be created where lines of authority are defined clearly, employees are involved in the decision-making process, and employees are authorized to make choices about their job duties in a way that is best suitable to them.

The study aims to identify the determinants of profitability in Saudi insurance companies. For this purpose, the data were collected about the study variables (company size, debt ratio, loss ratio, retention ratio, investment income) as independent variables. To measure its impact on the profitability of insurance companies, expressed as return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Using Panel Data for 25 insurance companies in Saudi Arabia during (2010-2016), the random-effects model (REM) was used to examine the relationship between the profitability of insurance companies and the independent variables. The study concluded that the profitability of insurance companies is significantly associated with the size of the insurance company, debt ratio, and the rate of actual loss. The results also showed that the volume of written premiums is the most influential variable on the profitability of insurance companies, followed by the indebtedness rate and then the actual loss.

Toxoplasmosis acquired in an immunocompetent individual will usually be asymptomatic. However, the problem arises in the case of a primary infection in a pregnant woman, which may cause congenital infection of the fetus. Through maternal-fetal contamination, this infection poses two main risks to the fetus and the child, one neurological (hydrocephalus and intracranial calcifications) and the other ophthalmic (chorioretinitis that can affect the visual prognosis), which makes preventive actions necessary, through compulsory monthly serological surveillance of women who are not immune to toxoplasmosis. The biologist is often confronted with difficulties in interpreting the results, particularly during the monitoring of pregnant women. However, this is an essential step in the prevention of congenital toxoplasmosis because the results of the serological analysis are the basis for subsequent prenatal and postnatal treatment serodiagnosis is based on the detection of specific IgG and IgM. Although serological techniques have improved in recent years, problems of interpretation of serology persist, particularly in the presence of IgM antibodies. Results should be interpreted with caution. The mistake not to be made is to conclude immediately that the patient is primitively infected on the basis of the presence of IgM or IgG antibodies associated with IgM antibodies alone. The knowledge of the evolution of antibodies during the infection and the practice of complementary tests in particular the measurement of the avidity of antitoxoplasmic IgG allow in the majority of the cases a correct interpretation of the results and a dating of the infection.

The human eye is an organ that can provide physicians with valuable clues for the recognition and management of many systemic diseases, including many disorders of the endocrine system. Ocular manifestations are common in many endocrine disorders such as diabetes mellitus and Graves' disease. However, there are a significant number of lesser-known endocrine diseases in which ocular changes are common. Endocrine glands communicate with each other through hormones. Hormones include cortisol, thyroid hormones, insulin, testosterone, estrogen and many others. They are made and stored in the endocrine glands and released by these glands to exert their effects on nearby or distant target organs. The main glands of the endocrine system are the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal glands, gonads (testes and ovaries), thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, and pancreas. Endocrine glands control the physiology of the human body and maintain its homeostasis. The effects of hyper or hyposecretion of each endocrine gland separately, usually manifest themselves in a multi-organ fashion. Some disorders of the endocrine system manifest in the eye first through a variety of distinct pathophysiological factors. It is an interdisciplinary pathology, falling under both endocrinology and ophthalmology, and knowing these ophthalmic manifestations is the most important step for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of these manifestations, which can thus significantly reduce the morbidity related to these disorders including permanent visual dysfunction.

Background: Coronary artery disease is a progressively worsening condition that may present as stable angina or Acute coronary syndrome (Unstable angina/Non-STEMI or STEMI) when restriction of blood flow to the myocardium occurs. The present study is undertaken to determine the time taken in conversion of stable angina to acute coronary syndrome and to compare the incidence of ACS in male and female populations. Objective: To study the time taken in conversion of stable angina to Acute coronary syndrome in patients with coronary artery disease and to compare the incidence of ACS in the male and female population. Material and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted at the cardiac ward and follow-up in the out-patient unit, Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam. 50 participants, male and female, admitted with ACS were taken for study after obtaining written informed consent by purposive sampling. Data is analyzed using SPSS 20.0. The statistical test used is the student’s t-test. Results: Out of the total population under study, 54% presented for the first time to the cardiologist with ACS only, 36% patients developed ACS from stable angina within a time interval of (0-6months) and 10% of patients developed it in the time duration of (>6months). While the incidence of STEMI is significantly higher in females than males (p=0.035), the incidence of non-STEMI is significantly higher in males than females (p=0.035). Conclusion: The present study indicates that the majority of the patients present with ACS as a diagnosis at their first visit to a cardiologist whereas stable angina gets converted to ACS in 6 months in most of the untreated patients. We recommend further detailed multicenter study in this area with a higher sample size to confirm the results and use them for benefit of society.

Since colonial days when Cameroonians in particular and Africans in general came in contact with the use of pen and paper for communication, the effect of first contact captured the psychology of the natives who to this day see the alphabets of western languages (English and French) as sacred or God given for the writing of all languages. This misconception partly explains the initial opposition and rejection of the introduction of new symbols for the proper writing of native Cameroonian languages. The development and introduction of the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages has faced common questions like: Why not simply use the English alphabet to write our local languages as a global and unifying system? Why introduce new unnecessary symbols or letters which are strange or unfamiliar and difficult to write, read or understand? It is in the light of this research problem that we use the Ngwo language to examine the place, role, importance and necessity of the General Alphabet of Cameroonian languages to clear doubts about the question of whether it is redundant or appropriate.

Melon seed has been described as very important oilseed crop that serves numerous food purposes across Nigeria. Since melon seed is within a shell, dehusking or decorticating or dehulling or shelling, it is expedient so as to use it for food. To carry out the process of removal of the shell, a melon decorticating machine was designed and developed. The machine was designed based on standard engineering design procedures. A CAD drawing was used to develop the machine and a detailed design of the machine was implemented. The CAD drawing was fabricated. The machine was built using materials available locally and it consists of the following components the melon shelling machine were the hopper, the shelling chamber, the base, the blower unit, the body frame, the blade, switch, fan regulator, feed controller, blade housing, electric motor, motor holder, bolt and nut. Two different performance evaluation were carried out: one, a comparison based on time of shelling using both the designed machine and the manual shelling method and two, the performance evaluation was carried out for different Melon seeds of three (3) varying moisture contents. The parameters evaluated include decorticating efficiency, percentage of decorticated seed and damaged, machine performance and capacity. Results from the developed machine shows a shelling efficiency of 73.1% with seed damage percent of 14.3% when using moisture content of 30%d.b. while, for the manual shelling was reported to be of a shelling efficiency of 10%, 15.7% and 20.2% with 20.2% being its highest efficiency which is seen to be very small compared to that of the machine. Shelling speed of the machine and moisture content of the seed Melon affects the rate, efficiency and percentage of damage to the seeds. This design and the set of conditions selected were the most preferred due to their speed operation, less damage to the seeds and minimal expenditure of human energy. The developed machine does not require skilled labor, and this melon sheller can effectively address the challenges of the traditional method of decorticating melon.

The purpose of the study was to examine whether higher levels of adolescents’ perceptions of intimidating behavior and negative conditional regard by the PE teacher, thwarting of the psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, fear of failure, contingent self-worth, and challenge avoidance are linked to the presence of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) in physical education. Motor proficiency was evaluated using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (2nd ed.) in a sample of 336 adolescents. Students’ perceptions on motivational constructs were measured via self-report questionnaires and compared between adolescents with DCD and typically developing peers. Independent of gender, presence of DCD was linked to significantly higher levels of the above negative motivational constructs. Independent of DCD, boys reported significantly higher levels on all negative motivational constructs than girls except contingent self-worth. Among adolescents with DCD, boys reported greater autonomy and competence thwarting compared to girls. Within boys, those with DCD reported greater levels of intimidation, autonomy thwarting, competence thwarting, and fear of failure compared to typical boys. No differences emerged between girls with and without DCD. Adolescents with DCD seem to report higher levels of negative motivational experiences in school physical education compared to their typically developing peers. The present study extends the evidence base of psychosocial variables of a motivational nature in physical activity linked to the presence of DCD.

Varicocele is a dilated veins pampiniform plexus secondary to valvular dysfunction; it is also one of the most frequent causes of male-factor infertility. There are several options for the treatment of varicocele, including surgical repair either by open or microsurgical approach, laparoscopy, or through percutaneous embolization of the internal spermatic vein. Our study involved 60 patients treated for primary varicocele in the urology and vascular surgery departments of the Moulay Ismail Military Hospital in Meknes.