This study was conducted in 2017 among postgraduates students pursuing a business qualification at Kampala International University, Uganda; emotional intelligence (EI) was the predictor variable and leadership skills was the response variable. Testing four hypothesis: (i) Emotional intelligence has a significant positive effect on Leadership skills among postgraduate students in business management at Kampala International University, Uganda, (ii) There is a significant difference between gender and level of Leadership skills among postgraduate students in business management at Kampala International University, Uganda, (iii)There is a significant difference between age groups and level of Leadership skills among postgraduate students in business management at Kampala International University, Uganda, (iv) There is a significant difference between work experience and level of Leadership skills among postgraduate students in business management at Kampala International University, Uganda; the study adopted a descriptive- correlational research design. Purposive sampling was used to identify the 93 employed/working students who were considered for the study. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant effect between emotional intelligence and leadership skills (r2= .33, p<.001); there was no significant difference between gender and leadership skills; there was a significant difference between age groups and leadership skills; and there was no significant difference between work experience and leadership skills. On the basis of the findings, conclusions and recommendations were made. The study provided additional evidence confirming the role of emotional intelligence in leadership and how age influences leadership skills as called for by Van Solinge, 2014.

This text proposes an analysis of the temporalities involved in voluntary depigmentation practices. The study took place in the district "Sokoura" of Bouaké city, Côte d'Ivoire in 2016. Semi-structured individual and focus group interviews were conducted with a variety of social actors: practitioners of depigmentation, non-practitioners, former practitioners, sellers and manufacturers of lightening products, pharmacists and dermatologists. Research shows that practitioners use specific methods of application of products, depending on time. Representation of body interacts with a representation of the toxicity of lightening products, which in turn contributes to the unequal mobilization of time by the user in his "body techniques".

Performance management system is a process that focuses on individual performance against agreed work plans. It is a means of getting better results from the organisational teams and individuals by understanding and managing performance within an agreed-framework of planned goals, objectives and standards. In order therefore to assess individual’s work performance and contributions to the organisation, the performance management system has to be carried out. Zimbabwe has introduced the performance management system in its public sector institutions (including schools) as a way of improving the performance of the civil servants and public organisations. This study seeks to evaluate the impact of performance management on the supervision of teachers in secondary schools in Zimbabwe using the quantitative paradigm. The study adopted the survey descriptive design. The target population comprised all the secondary school teachers in Kwekwe District using a random sample of 200 teachers and 20 heads of schools made up of 112 males and 108 females. All the information was gathered using a questionnaire. The results of the study revealed that performance management had not changed the supervision practices of heads who still stuck to the traditional models of supervision that existed prior to the introduction of performance management. The study also revealed that identified training needs for personnel were not addressed at all. The study recommends that resources and opportunities be made available to address effectively training and development needs identified during performance management reviews in order to effectively improve personnel competencies and benefit the students learning.

Learning in SMKN 5 Jambi city took place with conventional methods suspected causes of students tend to be passive in learning. For that sought the effort to change the method of learning that can make students active. The research aims to: 1) To study the procedure of developing instructional media based on adobe flash CS3 program. 2) To study adobe flash CS3 program-based learning media that is feasible to use. Research type is research and development with reference to Lee and Owens development model that is ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Develpoment, Impelementation and Evaluationi). The subjects of the study were the students of class X in SMKN 5 Jambi city totaling 22 students. Instruments used: Observation, questionnaires, evaluation of media experts, evaluation of materials experts, media evaluation by teachers of study, media evaluation by students, and pretest and posttest questions. Research findings obtained: first: the analysis phase. Student needs analysis on learning media, second: design stage, making of media design that is storyboard, third: development stage, manufacture of media product, in form of typing and revision from experts, fourth: implementation phase, product trial, fifth: evaluation phase, based on questionnaires of media experts, materials, teachers and students can be concluded that the learning media has decent criteria. Result of research that, 1) The development of instructional media based on adobe flash CS3 program on economic and business introduction subject, done systematically by fulfilling the development model of ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation). 2) Learning media based on CS3 developed adobe flash program is feasible to be used and can improve the effectiveness of student learning on economic and business introduction subjects. From result of validation test of instructional media conclude: 1) expert validation result that is validation of content or material obtained by 87% very decent category, 2) result of media expert validation obtained by 85% decent category, 3) result of teacher study field is obtained equal to 88 % category is very feasible, and 4) the results of the assessment of the students obtained by 90% very feasible category. Development of instructional media of adobe flash program is done systematic model of ADDIE and Development of learning media can improve result of learning post-test result is 73%.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is commonly associated with other injuries such as cervical spine injury (CSI) which critically affects TBI patients, interfering with airway management techniques, selection of proper radiological studies, and the management approach of both the TBI and the CSI. This study aims to assess the prevalence, etiology, and characteristics of CSI in patients who sustained TBI. Also, we will investigate other associated injuries in patients experienced combined TBI and CSI, and their effects on patients’ mortality and course of hospitalization. The study was conducted in the health information management (HIM) department. The charts of all adult (>14 years old) patients with TBI presenting to the emergency department (ED) at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah or referred from other hospital over a four years period (January 2013 to December 2016) were reviewed. 220 patients with traumatic brain injury were included in the study. Most of the patients were young adult (median age 29 years). In 185 of the 220 patients (84.1%), a diagnosis of cervical spine injury was ruled out on the basis of the clinical presentation and computed tomography scans reports. in the remaining 35 patients, cervical spine injury was confirmed with the prevalence of 15.9%. The rate of cervical spine injury was highest among young adult (men greater than women) who sustained motor vehicle related injury, and usually associated with thoracic, thoracolumbar trauma and abdominal injury that only explained by mechanism of injury.

The law about national education system shows that in learning process, a student as an object of learning is not adequate due to student’s role itself is equal to teacher. Learning process in elementary school is found interesting on condition that teacher is able to optimalize the implementation of proper learning media. In other words, by optimalizing the use of media, learning process would amuse the students and provide a valuable meaning needed in developing the result itself. This article aims to highlight innovation or optimalization of learning-media use established at X Elementary School Bandung in 2015. Research findings show learning process in X Elementary School is unable to comply with expectation. Based on observation result, it shows that learning process is monotonous due to a dull presentation and unvaried performance. By involving students into implementation of learning media, their point of interest in learning can develop as learning process becomes uncomplicated to perceive.

This study investigated the impact of teacher motivation on teacher effectiveness in ten schools in Shurugwi District in Midlands Province in Zimbabwe. The study draws on a quantitative inquiry on the relationship between teacher motivation and teacher effectiveness. The population consisted of all the primary schools in Shurugwi District. The sample consisted of 100 respondents purposively sampled. The sample was composed of 48 males and 52 females. The study adopted the descriptive survey design and all the information was collected through a questionnaire which largely had close-ended questions and one openended question. The findings of the study revealed that teacher motivation is not given top priority by schools in Shurugwi District. It was also found that monetory incentives among other forms of incentives were highly valued by teachers in the District. The study recommends that teacher motivation should be given top priority by schools in order to enhance teacher effectiveness.

Drought causes decline in bio-productivity, affects livelihoods and threatens food security. However, it has been observed that access to assets (such as natural capital) and diversification of livelihood help in ameliorating drought risk. The aim of this paper is to examine the contributions of ownership of assets and livelihood diversification in the overall adaptation to drought of farming communities in Bungudu, Dange, Dawakin-Tofa and Rimi in Northwestern Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling adopted by this study led to the selection of four localities and eighty smallholder farmer households. The research used indicators for measuring adaptive capacity to construct an adaptive capacity index. The values of the indicators were normalized. All the normalized scores lie between -1 and 0. Then scorecard method was used to compare and rank contributions of ownership of assets and livelihood diversification to the adaptation to drought of the four communities. The Adaptation Index generated has shown that Dawakin-Tofa with scores the highest score (43.5) has been ranked 1st is among the communities with highest ownership of small ruminants and is the most adaptive among the four communities. The findings of this study have corroborated work that shown that low adaptation to drought is associated with among other things lacking of livestocks (including small ruminants). It is concluded that ownership of small ruminants scored highest and has been ranked 1st in its contribution to adaptation to drought in ¾ communities of the study area. The recommendations of this study are geared towards enhancing sustainable livelihood of the communities.

Competition is very high in the modern world. Every organization strive to achieve higher productivity. This is possible only with human resources in the organization. Organization need to keep relatively high standards to achieve and the same should be clearly informed to all the employees. The performance management system (PMS) in the organization should be effective and educative to all. In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the perceptions of Executives on how do they perceive PMS in NTPC, Simhadri, Visakhapatnam. This research article is a part of the author’s thesis work.

Endometrial Stromal Tumours are rare mesenchymal neoplasms of the uterus, the cells of which resembles stromal cells of proliferative endometrium. Grossly, most common appearance of Endometrial Stromal Nodule is a circumscribed solid mass. We report a case of Endometrial Stromal Nodule which has undergone complete cystic degeneration and has acquired a unilocular tender coconut-like cystic appearance which is very unusual.

The use of medicinal plants in human and animal health care systems is well documented in ancient literature. However, excessive consumption of these plants could cause damage to some body tissues as well as impair their functions. There is dearth of information on the medicinal use of Costus lucanusianus in males hence this study was designed to investigate the effect of methanolic leaf extract of C. lucanusianus (MLECL) on male reproductive parameters using albino rats as model. Twenty animals were divided into four groups. Group A (Control) received 0.5ml/kg of 20% Tween 80 (vehicle), Group B (100 mg/kg of MLECL), Group C (200 mg/kg of MLECL), Group D (300 mg/kg of MLECL) by oral gavage daily for 28 days. Thereafter, Animals were anaesthetized and testes collected, homogenized and used for determination of sperm characteristics. Blood was collected for hormonal assay (testosterone) using ELISA. Histopathological study of the testes and epididymides were conducted. Methanolic leaf extract of C. lucanusianus has no significant (p>0.05) effect on sperm cell count and characteristics relative to the control, although the percentage of the sluggishly motile sperm cells increased in a dose dependent manner. No abnormality was observed in the testicular and epididymal sections of rats in the treated groups except the thickened interstitial spaces of testicular sections of rats treated with 200 and 300 mg/kg MLECL. It is therefore concluded that Costus lucanusianus methanolic leaf extracts have no deleterious effect on male reproductive parameters and can be considered relatively safe in male fertility

Several studies have highlighted the health hazards of cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption to include addiction, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory disorders, and electrolyte disturbances. However, none has reported the effect of aqueous leaf extract of tobacco on blood glucose and plasma concentrations of many electrolytes. This study was designed to find answers to these questions. Ten male albino Wister rats were randomly divided into test and control groups of 5 rats each. Each test rat was given 100 mg of aqueous tobacco leaf extract dissolved in 1.5 mls distilled water once daily for 21 days through an orogastric tube. Each control rat received 1.5 mls distilled water once daily for the same duration. After 21 days, blood samples were collected from each rat for the estimation of plasma concentrations of glucose, sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, magnesium, and calcium. Blood samples were collected and plasma concentrations of glucose, sodium, potassium, chloride, and calcium determined. There were no significant differences in plasma glucose, sodium, chloride, bicarbonate, magnesium, and calcium in the test and control groups of rats. However, there was a significant decrease in plasma potassium in the test group compared to the control group of rats as shown by the mean values of 5.7 ± 0.25 mmol/L and 6.60 ± 0.25 mmol/L respectively and P value of 0.0005. Orogastric administration of aqueous tobacco leaf extract produced statistically significant reduction in plasma potassium, but not in plasma glucose, sodium, chloride, bicarbonate, magnesium, or calcium in male albino Wister rats.

One of the most serious complications of DM is cardiovascular disease, particularly among asymptomatic patients or those without glycemic control. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease (Heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke and deep vein thrombosis) among Saudi Diabetic patients. In this study, bout 1406 diabetic patients’ records were retrieved from different hospitals and primary health centers in Hail region, Northern Saudi Arabia. The overall prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among Saudi diabetic patients was 10.2%. The highest prevalence rate of cardiovascular conditions was pointed out to heart attack followed by stroke, CHF and DVT representing 4%, 3%, 1.6%, and 1.5%, respectively. The prevalence rates of CVD are relatively higher among Saudi diabetic population. There is urgent need for implementing specific strategies to decrease the prevalence of CVD among Saudi diabetic patients.

Breast lump constitutes a significant population affecting all ages and ethnic groups. They are a cause of concern to patient and hence are reported early in OPD. BBD is a complex of reactive/inflammatory lesions, proliferative and fibroepithelial lesions some of which mimic malignancy clinically or mammographically and poses diagnostic dilemmas to both clinicians and pathologists. FNAC, Histopathology and other ancillary techniques are essential for exact pathogenesis. This study was carried out with the aim to study Incidence of Benign and Non neoplastic breast diseases out of total breast lumps presenting in OPD, 2.Frequency of individual benign breast disease 3. Distribution with age and sex. This is an observational type of study conducted in department of pathology, SMS medical college, Jaipur over period of one year (1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016). Out of total 469 cases received for histopathology, 326(69.50%) were found to be benign lesions. Commonest benign lesion was fibroadenoma 160 cases (52.45%) in females and gynaecomastia 39 cases (11.96%)in males followed by and granulomatous lesion, 23 cases ( 0.8%) and fibrocystic change 20 (0.6%). BBD accounts for 70 to 80 % in Indian population as seen in different studies. In our study, benign breast diseases comprised greater proportion (69.50%) than malignant disorders. Since, the prognosis and treatment of benign and malignant lesions are wide apart, and some proliferative benign lesions tend to convert into malignancy, so it is necessary to identify these lesions at the earliest and initiate appropriate treatment surgery or medical.

There are numerous classifications on diabetic foot available today but only few are used. Each classification has its own merit and demerits. This article classifies the diabetic foot classifications to make our understanding simple, easy and much clearer. This is in fact the first novel attempt by author to classify the classifications itself. The diabetic foot classifications are classified based on some features of the classification. This new classification for diabetic foot classification has made a pavement for Amit Jain’s classification for diabetic foot classification to be considered a universal classification as it is now a classification supreme.