Castration is a common procedure that is performed worldwide on animals. This paper undertakes a retrospectively study of castration in dogs in Jos from 2011 – 2016. Medical records from 2 major veterinary institutions were retrieved. A total of 38,201 cases were presented to the small animal units from 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2016. Out of which a total of 299 (1%) dogs were castrated. Based on age of the dogs, 206 (68.9 %) aged 0 – 11months; 55 (18.4%) aged 1year – 1year 11months; 24 (8.03%) aged 2years – 2 years 11months; 4 (1.34%) aged 3years – 3years 11months; 3 (1.00%) aged 4years – 4years 11months; 7 (2.34%) aged 5years and above were castrated. Most dogs castrated were Mongrel 271(90%), Alsatian cross 16 (6%), Rottweiler 6 (2%) and Caucasian 6 (2%). From clinic records, all 299 (100%) castrations performed were through surgical method. The study revealed that majority of dog owners requested that their dogs be castrated before 1year of age, but the demand decreased with increase in age of the dogs

In the present work a simple, rapid, accurate and precise method has been developed and validated for the determination of Rabeprazole in bulk using UV/visible spectroscopy. Rabeprazole is used for the treatment of GERD and duodenal ulcer. In this development methanol is used as a solvent and solution was scanned at 200 to 400nm range, rabeprazole showed maximum absorbance at 284nm. Linearity was observed in the concentration range of 12-18ug/ml. Percent recovery was found from 99.86% - 100.14%, %RSD for repeatability was calculated 0.628% and for precision inter and intraday was found from0.488% - 0.77% representing the accuracy, repeatability and precision of the method. Validation of the method was carried out for its linearity, accuracy, precision, specificity according to ICH guidelines. On the basis of results obtained it is concluded that the proposed method can be used for the routine analysis of rabeprazole. After method validation interaction studies were performed with chlorazepate dipotassium, both were taken in 1:1 ratio and readings were observed on UV/Visible spectrophotometer for 3 hours at buffers 4, 7.4 and 9. Results support to the fact that rabeprazole interact with chlorazepate dipotassium

Some of the British agents have wondered due to view of thousands of tanks in low country dry zone of Sri Lanka. The first topographical survey conducted in 1897 and the first systematic study on small tanks within a limited area in 1923 marked the turning point of studying the unique tank system in the country. After this a lot of researchers and professionals both local and foreign, attempted to explore and analyze these systems. Understanding the strategies, water management techniques and issues, anthropological background, ecological settings, organizational behavior of tanks, as well as the current issues and management approaches, were also analyzed within the past period. In addition to the tank based studies, there were a number of studies in relation to “set of tanks” or “combined group of tanks with its catchments as well as command areas”. This paper identifies the evolution of these study disciplines, as well as relevant study periods on different perspectives in relation to tank cascades.

The Digital India drive is a dream project of the Indian Government which was launched on 1 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remodel India into a knowledgeable economy and digitally empowered society, along with good governance for citizens with an objective of providing participative, transparent and responsive government. Digital India imagines, universal digital literacy and approachability for all digital resources for citizens by ensuring that the resources and services are accessible in regional languages and providing digital scaffold to participatory governance ensuring convenience, like making all government certificates and documents available on the Cloud with portability. The objective of this paper is to know the impact, challenges of digital India on all aspects of governance and improvement in the quality of life of citizens. The research methodology is descriptive cum analytical in nature and the data for this study is collected through secondary sources such as websites, research journals, newspapers, magazines etc. The study gives an optimistic thought of providing more employment prospects for the youth which will boost the nation’s economy if it comes into reality.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the accountability of local government's discretion in illegal mining in Bone Regency. The study used a more specific qualitative approach. Data collection is done by observation, interview and documentation, and research data, that is data reduction, data display, and image / verification conclusion. The result of the research shows that authority related to supervision is done to the central government that is mining inspector is legal aspect which grows regional bureaucratic discretion in the calculation of wild defender, to execute the illegal miners are on the police side while the authority of local government and province is Through the coaching of ethics (ethical) that emerged in this study. The functional officer who supervises such a strong mining inspector is 6 people and who is required to have professionalism in a position mandated by a regulatory mandate that is in the supervision of the center in which on the mine inspector. Expertise in mining mapping requires accurate data and precise methods of closed polygon forms. In the public interest aspect, the most concerned about the public is the developing environment as it is muddy because of the wild mining activities. The accountability of discretionary aspects that have been described indicates at the legal and ethical level so that the accountability of the Bone district government can be done with the tactical action of the provincial government that can do the discretion with the formation of the Integrated Team.

The study introduces HCD Practices as the main alternative for interventions that improve the efficacy of individuals working in the Ghanaian Banking Industry. HCD Practices are lasting practices such as training and continuous education designed to improve the competencies and skill set of employees to enable them perform tasks required of them. The study was conducted using qualitative and quantitative approach. A sample of (155) respondents from eight private owned banks in Ghana constituted the sample size unit for the study. Stratified sampling procedure was used to reach the participants in their workplace for data collection and analysis. Three factors were deduced from the study. Results of the study identified significant difference in the challenges associated with using intervention amongst the selected Private Banks in Ghana. In the light of this Private Banks should provide career planning and training opportunities for their staff as effective employees will result in effective groups and intergroup which could eventually lead to total organizational effectiveness necessary for sustainable growth.

Drug delivery platforms have the potential to improve patient adherence, reduce side effects, increase efficacy for treatment of ocular diseases. Recent efforts in ocular drug delivery have been made to improve the bioavailability and precorneal residence through topical application. The potential use of polymeric micro and nanoparticles as drug carriers has led to the development of many advanced colloidal delivery vehicles. Drug loaded polymeric systems offer several favorable biological properties, such as biodegradability, nontoxicity, biocompatibility and mucoadhesive characteristics. These polymeric systems are amenable for targeted drug delivery, leading to decrease in dose, dosing frequency and thus lowering systemic toxicity. This review discusses the recent advances in polymeric micro and nanoparticles and their therapeutic significances in the field of ocular drug delivery.

Waxes, included beeswax, as one of the most versatile natural substances ever used by man, have already been used in people’s life widely for a long time. Current dental waxes are mixture of paraffin’s, microcrystalline waxes, natural and synthetic raw materials. However, waxes characterize same disadvantage as plasticity and law stability of volume after melting and cooling. Aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different paraffin’s and microcrystalline waxes on the properties of base plate waxes. Fife new compositions (S1-S5) were compared to four commercial products like base plates from Modelling wax, Modelling wax, Modellierwachs rosa standard, Modelling wax Ceradent. The plasticity and the volumetric shrinkage of the waxes after melting and cooling were measured. Samples S1-S5 to reflect of the requirements of the ISO standard and have the proper plasticity. Changing the paraffin’s and microcrystalline waxes have a big influence on the plasticity of the final composition. Microcrystalline waxes decrease the wax contraction. Shrinkage after heating up to 110oC and cooling to 68oC is changing from one wax to other Modelling wax (Interdent) 4.5%, Modeling Wax Ceradent (Spofa) 8.9%, Modelling wax (Bredent) 9.8%, Modellierwachs rosa (Bego) 11.9%. During the re-melting process (inside wax warmers) waxes can change their properties like flowing and volumetric shrinkage due the thermal degradation. Such process can be reducing by producer adding thermal stabilizer, but this material can be consumed after several cycles. From clinical point of view is not recommended to heat and re-melt the base plate waxes for long time in wax warmer especially at higher temperatures.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the main problems in health systems and a global public health threat that has increased dramatically over the past two decades. According to epidemiological studies, the number of patients with DM increased from about 30 million cases in 1985, 177 million in 2000, 285 million in 2010, and estimated if the situation continues, to be more than 360 million people by 2030. Too many of the nearly 300 million people in the world with diabetes suffer from diabetes related foot complications. The understanding of the bacteriology of the diabetic septic foot is critical for guiding antibiotic selection and correlating culture results with appropriate therapy. This study is aimed to investigate the phenotypic and genotypic resistance among bacteria causing Diabetic Septic Foot patients. Bacterial isolates of diabetic patients with septic foot infection attending Jaber Abolez Diabetic Center from the 1st of February till the 31st of March, 2017 were recruited to the study. Total number of 204 wound swabs has been cultured during the study. Gram negative bacilli predominated as 183 isolates and Gram positive cocci as 30 isolates only. The commonest organism isolated was Proteus mirabilis as 96 isolates (45.07%). Regarding resistance; All Staphylococci identified are resistant to Oxacillin, resistance to Ciprofluxacin, Gentamicin and Amikacin is shown to be 25.7%, 50% and 27.9%, respectively. BlaCTX-M gene was detected in 27 multi-drug resistant Gram negative isolates (64.29%). The preponderance of ESBLs among the isolates from diabetic foot infections as well as tremendous drug resistance is of concern. Further research is needed to support these findings.

Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) was first described by Choukroun et al. in France. It has been referred to as a second-generation platelet concentrate, which has been shown to have several advantages over traditionally prepared PRP. It’s a new generation of platelet concentrates geared to simplified preparation without biochemical blood handling. This article describes the evolution of this novel platelet concentrate and its applications in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

The effects of combined scouring-bleaching and reactive dyeing were investigated by characterizing the functional groups changed of cotton, betel nut, banana and jute fibers using caustic soda, Hydrogen peroxide and reactive dyestuffs. FTIR ATR spectroscopy provided a fast and semi-quantitative assessment of the removal of pectin, lignin, Hemicelluloses, oil, waxes etc on those fibers surface by comparing the changes in intensity of the carbonyl peak induced by Hydrogen peroxide and caustic soda treatments well as bond changing in reactive dyeing around 4000 cm-1. Above all fibers are not reacting identically during changing impurities and covalent bond forming between cellulose and reactive dyes.

The thermal performance of proposed model deals with combined double bed vapor adsorption refrigeration system and 9MW of Rankine thermal cycle .The provision of evacuated tube type solar collector (ETC) is available with adsorption system to support the system for continuous cooling effect. The energy-exergy analysis refers live operational data of thermal power plant, and proposed cooling system is adopted as per thermal gain from condenser and solar heater for adsorbent-adsorbate pair of adsorption system. Major units of combined plant (boiler, turbines, condenser, pump, solar collector, adsorption bed etc.) have been investigated in thermodynamic analysis. The main objective of energyexergy modeling is to identify the magnitude of process, cause of losses and rectifying the components. The source temperatures available for both beds of Vapor Adsorption Refrigeration systems (VAdRS) from condenser exhaust and ETC solar system. The adsorbent and adsorbate pair for double bed VAdRS has been recommended by activated carbon as adsorbent and methanol and R134a as adsorbate respectively. This analysis shows the combination of adsorbentadsorbate pair is suitable for low grade heat recovery with solar thermal integration for continuous cooling effect generation and applicable for space cooling purpose. The major findings of present work, the maximum irreversibility found in boiler as 47% in thermal power plant and solar generator as 12% of adsorption machine, whereas overall cooling effect from adsorption system is increasing by 15% in double bed combination. EES software is used for all analysis.

Big data is currently a hot topic in HRM and academic research. It is undeniable fact that now a days as more and more data is being accumulated and stored, therefore analyzing and using data is becoming more and more reasonable. Big data technology use in Talent management is very under researched topic and the discussion mostly spins around the usefulness of Dig data in TM field like talent management. In this paper, we have focused on the operational side of TM and how to implement big data for Smart E-HRM in Talent management. In this paper we have proposed a model for Smart TM system and also reviewed that how Big data may be implemented for a Smart TM system and how this system can benefit Talent management in terms of recruitment, promotions and assessment of the employees. In this paper we have proposed a Smart TM system in a telecom organization that will consists of several offices belonging to the same organization and will be linked through a common server and by using big data technology all the employees progress will be analyzed, and by using this data changes will be done immediately in order to solve the crucial issues of talent management. We also performed quantitative analysis about this system with the help of unstructured interviews from employees working in a telecom organization.

The effect of date palm fruit wine on the haematological and some biochemical parameters (lipid profile, lipid peroxidation and protein) was investigated Date fruit wine was produced by fermenting the fruit must with Saccharomyces cerevisiae from Guangxi Danbaoli, China aerobically for 6 days and anaerobically for four weeks at 28 OC. During both fermentation processes alcohol content, total yeast counts and total heterotrophic counts were monitored. A total of 30 albino rats were divided into six (6) groups of 5 animals each. Group 1 (control) received the normal rat feed and water; while groups 2 – 5 were administered date fruit wine at 0.3ml/kg, 0.6ml/kg, 0.9ml/kg and 1.5ml/kg body weight respectively and group 6 (standard) received white wine (carlorossi) 1.5mg/kg body weight for a period of 28days.During the aerobic fermentation. Alcohol content increased from 0 to 5.5%, total yeast counts increased from 4.69×102 to 15.39×102 cells/ml while total heterotrophic bacterial count ranged from 2.0 to 9.0 cfu/ml. Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus spp. were encountered. During anaerobic fermentation .Yeast population dropped from 8.90×102 cells/ml to 0.92×102 cells/ml. The final percentage alcohol was 9.2%. The result after the experiment showed a general decrease in body weight across the groups compared to the control. Haematological indices showed no significant difference (p<0.05) in PVC, RBC, WBC and Hb of the groups treated with Phoenix dactylifera (PD) compared to the control. There was also a significant decrease (p<0.05) in lipid peroxidation in the liver homogenate across the groups and also in the serum of the PD treated animals relative to the standard control. There was no significant difference (p<0.05) in total cholesterol, LDL-C but elevated HDL-C in the PD administered groups compared to the control. Triglyceride was significantly reduced (p<0.05) in the PD treated groups compared to the standard control. The results of the present study showed that date fruit wine has no harmful effect on the blood tissue and vital organs such as liver etc. Thus, if properly processed and refined, it could be a good source of commercial fruit wine, with immense nutritional and health benefits.

This study was aimed to examine the influence of innovation toward business performance and competitive advantage as a mediator. To test the empirical models, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used. Among the software used to assist the analysis in this study were AMOS 21.0, SPSS 16.0 and Microsoft Excel 2007. The sample size of this research was 125 owners-managers of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Purwokerto Province, Indonesia. The result showed that innovation has positive effect on business performance, innovation has positive effects on competitive advantage, competitive advantage has a positive effect on business performance, and competitive advantage doesn’t mediate the influence of innovation to business performance.