Laryngeal tuberculosis is an extra pulmonary form of tuberculosis and is found in about 2% of all tuberculosis cases. A retrospective analysis of 31 cases of laryngeal tuberculosis was done in the present study extending for 30 years in three Medical Colleges of West Bengal, India. Out of these 31 cases in the study, 20 patients were male and 11 were female with an M: F Ratio of 1.8:1. The age of the patients ranged from 31 years to 59 years. The highest incidence of 45.2% was observed in the age group of 51 to 60 years, followed by 35.5% in the age group of 41 to 50 years and 19.4% in the age group of 31 to 40 years. All the patients presented with hoarseness of voice and cough was the second common symptom. Out of the 31 patients, 9 patients complained of pain in the throat and seven of those had referred earache also. In majority of the cases, the lesions were limited to the vocal cords, arytenoids, and posterior commissure. False cord was involved in 15 cases and ulcer over the arytenoid was found in 14 cases. Patients with lesions involving only the vocal cords, presented with hoarseness of voice, whereas lesions involving the other areas of the larynx, such as arytenoid and aryepiglottic fold presented with odynophagia. Enlargement of the regional lymph nodes was observed in 5 cases out of the total 31 cases. Most of the cases were found during the first 20 years of the study whereas only 4 cases were found during the last 10 years, which could be attributed to the successful implementation of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in India. However, the emergence of multi drug resistant strain of the causative bacillus and tuberculosis-HIV co infection has complicated the scenario at present. On histopathological examination, tubercular granuloma with stromal hyperplasia, large number of phagocytes and giant cells, epitheloid cells, Langhans cells and typical necrosis with caseation were found. Confirmation of the diagnosis utilizing a proper diagnostic algorithm and treatment with specific Anti Tubercular Drugs (ATDs) are most important in the management of laryngeal tuberculosis.

Discoloration of orthodontic adhesive during the length of orthodontic treatment and after debonding of brackets poses a difficult aesthetic situation for the clinician and the patient. A detailed review of the causes of the discoloration from a clinical perspective is detailed in the article. Demineralization of enamel and penetration of resin tags, enamel cracks, surface defects are the main causes. The type of composite used, its constituents and the curing process also affects the speed and extend of the discoloration of the enamel. Steps the clinician can take reduce the amount of discoloration of enamel like use of a slow speed tungsten carbide burs are explained. Even though some discoloration of enamel is inevitable, steps can be taken to minimize the problem to a negligible proportion.

Traumatic carpo-metacarpal dislocations without associated fracture are rare lesions. Untreated, these lesions can lead to joint instability and early joint degeneration. We report 2 cases of dorsal carpo-metacarpal dislocation of the fifth metacarpal in 2 male patients. The age was 28 years and 39 years. On clinical examination both patients had edema and deformity of the dorsal surface of the right hand. The X-ray showed a dorsal carpo-metacarpal dislocation, pure, complete in both patients. The dislocation was successfully treated by closed reduction maintained with two K-wires. Immobilization of the joint was applied for 6 weeks. At 10 months' follow-up evaluation, the 2 patients showed no pain and had had regained their previous level of activity.

In this modern era, people living in scientific world. They enjoy their life through modern scientific inventions. On the other hand, we can’t ignore the dark side like everybody becomes victim of depression, in which poverty is one of the major causes of depression. Depression may lead to psychiatric disorders among people. This was an observational cross sectional study and data was collected from the rural area. Women are diagnosed with depression more frequently than men. The finding of the result revel that poverty lead to depression which affect the mental level. The government of Pakistan should be provided more and more opportunities for the job so that to bycot the poverty.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease KFD is a rare and benign cause of cervical lymphadenopathy. It is an anatomoclinical entity of unknown etiology. The confirmation of the diagnosis is always provided by histological lymph node study. The clinical picture sometimes evokes lymphoma or tuberculosis. The evolution is generally favorable with spontaneous healing after a few weeks. We report the case of a 26-year-old woman who had consulted for cervical lymphadenopathy associated with fever. The cervical lymph node biopsy concluded to Kikuch-Fujimoto's disease. The evolution was marked by rapid regression of lymphadenopathy under corticosteroid treatment.

The studywas to evaluate the relationshipbetween performance appraisal system and staff retention in Enugu Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria. The specific objectives include to; examine the relationship between employee’s rate of output produced and employee training. Examine the relationship between employee recognition and achievement of organizational goals. The population consists of 983 staff of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria (EEDC).The study used the survey approach. The primary sources used were the administration of questionnaire to staff. The 274 sample size of the study, the study used the Freund and Williams’s formula. 261 staff returned the questionnaire and accurately filled. The validity of the instrument was tested using content analysis and the result was good. The reliability was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). It gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.82 which was also good. The hypotheses were analyzed using f-statistics (ANOVA) tool. The findings indicated that there is positive effect relationship between employee’s rates of output produced and employee training F(95,n= 274)= 827.372,P<0.05;This indicates that there is positive effect relationship between employee recognition and achievement of organizational goals F(95,n=274)= 367.439,P<0.05.The study concluded that appropriate training and development programmes would be designed to correct deficiencies through performance appraisal. The study recommended that Performance appraisal should be encouraged in organizations to assists workers and management meets their expected target and Recognition of employees by the management should be a top issue in organization to enable workers gives out their best.

The oropharyngeal aerobic gram-negative bacillary carriage, uncommon in healthy people, is high in patients with head and neck cancer. A marked increase in oral Gram-negative enterobacteria and pseudomonads has particularly been shown during the period of radiation therapy. The aim of the study was to determine whether these bacteria could play a role in the causation of irradiation mucositis. The current study demonstrated that aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods and cocci and Gram-positive bacteria showed a marked increase in head and neck–irradiated subjects. There was a weak but non-significant correlation between the bacterial flora and oral mucositis.

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational program on quality of life among elderly regarding oral health. A quasi-experimental pre-test-andpost-test design was utilized to conduct this study. The study was conducted in the geriatric social club in Zagazig City. A purposive sample of 75 elderly subjects who fulfilled the study inclusion criteria. Five tools were used in the present study; Tool I was a structured interview questionnaire to assess elderly’s demographic characteristics, medical history, oral health status, periodic examination of the mouth, dietary habits, and smoking habits, Tool II was elderly oral health knowledge structured interview questionnaire, Tool III was elderly oral self-care practices questionnaire and checklist, Tool IV was the Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) For Non –Dental Professional, and Tool V was Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) Short Version. The results revealed post-program statistically significant improvements in OHRQoL scores, oral health knowledge, oral self-care practices, and oral health assessment (p<0.001). The follow-up phase showed some declines, but still significantly higher compared with the pre- program levels (p<0.01). The educational program is effective in improving the elderly’s oral health related quality of life.

Household air pollution (HAP) arising from use of high polluting cooking fuel use remains a global health threat .This study sought to determine the major type of household cooking fuel used by workers ,their level of knowledge of the health effects of use of various categories of house hold cooking fuel, the association between level of knowledge and category of cooking fuel used and the determinants of category of cooking fuel used by respondents A questionnaire based descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 352 staff of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Nigeria selected by multi-stage sampling technique between July and October,2017. Data was analyzed with STATA version 10. The major cooking fuel used was liquefied petroleum gas, LPG 221(62.8%). A good proportion 222 (63.1%) also used an alternative cooking fuel with kerosene 88 (37.8%) being the commonest. Main reason for choice of major cooking fuel was convenience 100 (28.4%). Most respondents had good knowledge (70.5%) of the effects of cooking fuel on health. Few knew that cooking fuel is associated with low birth weight 98 (27.8%) and cancer of the lungs174 (49.4%). Categories of staff and level of education were significantly associated with level of knowledge of effect of cooking fuel on health (P<0.001 and P=0.01 respectively) .Determinants of category of cooking fuel used by respondents were level of knowledge (P=0.004), education (P= 0.00), category of staff (P=0.002), place of residence (P=0.008), type of house (P=0.000) and main cooking site (P=0.000).LPG was the major cooking fuel used .Level of knowledge of the health effects of cooking fuel was good though areas of knowledge gap existed .Intensive public enlightenment programs is needed to sustain the awareness and address the knowledge gaps. Government policy of abolishing gas flaring will improve access to clean household cooking fuels and enhance its use.

Over the past two decades, gulf cities have been rapidly growing, mainly after the discovery of oil. Large-scale urban projects have been constructed as a result of globalization, which has affected the built environment and the urban fabric of gulf cities. Doha, the capital city of the State of Qatar, has been substantially influenced by globalization. The city has experienced great transformation in its environment since the 1950s, after the discovery of oil. Therefore, Doha has faced the challenge of keeping pace with urban developments that have been increasing and taking over the existing heritage embedded in buildings and traditional neighborhoods. Al-Hitmi is one of the neighborhoods affected by urbanization and sprawling. This research study investigates Al-Hitmi neighborhood and its features, opportunities, constraints, and relationship with the surrounding areas, specifically Qatar National Museum and the Museum Metro Station. The research design is based on the review of the literature, site analysis of the selected case, and surrounding context in order to (1) find opportunities and challenges and (2) to propose a strategy for the urban regeneration of the neighborhood of AlHitmi.

Purpose of the study. To study the relationship between the clinical course, hemodynamic parameters and the functional state of the kidneys in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Patients with CHF with progression of the disease have worsened kidney function, clinical course of the disease, accompanied by a decrease in exercise tolerance for SMWT and deterioration in the quality of life, which was most pronounced in patients with renal dysfunction.

Automatic focusing is very important to high-quality image acquisition for camera system. This paper proposes a new automatic focusing method using skin-color face detection to automatically determine focusing area. In order to overcome the influence of color temperature on the face detection method, we propose a new color correction method by learning a color temperature curve with statistical methods. The color temperature curve is a concise representation of the inverse relation between light sources in the logarithmic color space. The method compensates color shifts of images by locating a set of compensation gains from the trained color temperature regression curve. A comparative setup of experiments is built to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Controlled experimental factors include light source, object distance and initial lens position. Modulation transfer function of images is applied to objectively evaluate the image quality before and after the new automatic focusing method. Experimental results show our method has high success rate of face localization, and effectively achieves automatic focusing.

An experiment was conducted at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Jamalpur, Bangladesh which geographic coordinates located between 24034ʹ and 25026ʹ north latitude and between 89040ʹ and 90012ʹ east longitude during the period from November, 2015 to March, 2016 to observe the growth and yield performances of the rapeseed-mustard varieties under field condition grown from the seeds of different stages of siliquae maturity of the previous year experiment. Four rapeseed-mustard varieties viz. BARI Sarisha-11 (V1), BARI Sarisha-14 (V2), BARI Sarisha-6 (V3) and Tori-7 (V4) and seeds of those varieties harvested at four stages of siliquae maturity viz. H1 = Green stage of siliquae, H2 = Pale yellow stage of siliquae, H3 = Golden yellow stage of siliquae and H4 = Full maturity stage of siliquae were included as the treatments in the experiment. Harvested seeds of the previous year were stored in air tight polythene under freezing condition till set up the experiment. Results revealed that four rapeseed-mustard varieties varied significantly for most of the parameters studied. Variety V1 produced significantly the highest seed yield (1.99 t ha-1) while the lowest (1.04 t ha-1) was recorded from V4. Seeds of H2, H3 and H4 stages produced statistically similar and significantly higher seed yield ranges from 1.57-1.65 t ha-1 (H4>H3>H2)) than that of H1 stage which produced the lowest (1.34 t ha-1) mainly due to the poor stand establishment. Interaction effects of varieties and seeds harvested at different stages of siliquae maturity did not show significant variation in expressions of seed yield and yield contributing parameters.

This study assessed the influence of outbound logistics on retail marketing at Naivas Supermarket. The purpose of the study was to rate and appraise the success of company’s outbound logistics process by rating the success of transport logistic activity based on the supermarket retail marketing. The objective of the study was to assess how transportation affects outbound logistics of retail marketing at Naivas Supermarket. The study was informed by the organizational theory. The study utilized the descriptive research design. Purposive sampling was used to get a sample of 45 respondents who included the regional managers, branch managers, stock co-coordinators, floor supervisors and shelf stockers out of which 39 completed the study. The study collected both quantitative and qualitative data using both questionnaires and interviews. The research will collect and analyze both qualitative then quantitative data to get results of this research. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics mainly frequencies, percentages, and the Pearson chi-square while qualitative data was analyzed using the thematic technique. Findings reveal that Naivas Supermarket generally employs a centralized transportation where the company is directly involved in managing logistic services rather than outsourcing this function to third parties. The analysis of outbound logistics transportation had an effect (mean=8.9667). The chi-square test established that outbound logistics transportation (X2= 12.208, p= 0.043). The study recommends that to improve retail marketing, the supermarket should automate the process of loading and offloading goods before and after transportation.

This study aims to analyze Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy implementation on Semen Bosowa Maros (SBM) Ltd. in promoting community empowerment in Baruga village. The study took place in the area of operation of SBM Ltd. in Baruga village applying qualitative research with a case study approach. Sources of data in the study consisted of primary and secondary data. The result of analyzed CSR policy implementation research SBM Ltd. in the village Baruga based on the content and context of the policy suggests that the implementation of CSR policies SBM Ltd. still dominantly implemented in the form of charity and humanitarian assistance (charity and philanthropy) But in the form of a sustainable community empowerment must increasingly be made enterprising and enhanced to promote to be more capable of establishing communities’ independency, welfare, and empowerment around the company's operations, in particular Baruga village community.