Abstract\nWomen’s participation in politics and governance is of strategic importance, not only for women’s empowerment but for its wider benefits and impact on society. In contemporary times, women are increasingly being politically elected to serve as Heads of State and Government. More than 20 countries currently have women holding offices as the heads of national governments, while the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is nearly 20%. A number of countries are exploring measures that may increase women\'s participation in governance at all levels, from the local to the national. Nigeria, from the advent of the Fourth Republic, in May, 1999, which has sustained the stretch of democratic rule till date, the political scene is still dominated by men, though the female are tagging along, yet with little attention paid to their clamour for 35% affirmation. Benefitting from documentary data and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), the paper submits that Anambra State has been leading the pack in women’s participation in politics; and, it has thus shown ‘amazons’ who have immensely contributed to the strengthening of the country’s democracy. The study identifies factors hindering women’s participation in politics, most especially patriarchy. It finally suggests that women should be more empowered to participate in politics to enhance their political experience for good governance and nation-building and that Ondo State should emulate Anambra State’s model so that there can be an equitable balance and more democratic dividends to the people.
As the object of our study, we have chosen present-day Russian families, living and functioning in a provincial urban environment and bearing the marks of social deprivation or at risk of suffering from it. The aim was to assess the intra-family practices through which children are provided with social protection in situations of social deprivation, or when there is a risk of deprivation. As the hypothesis of our research, we put forward the proposition that the intra-family social protection practices adopted in Russia include some that are traumatic for children.\nThe research is based on three blocs of data: 1. focused interviews with teachers in urban schools and with social workers; 2. individual and group interviews with members of families that are at risk or that display various signs of social deprivation; 3. inclusive structured observations of the work of social work specialists in social institutions in the city of Penza (Russia).\nOur study leads us to conclude that families can do a great deal to raise the level of child social protection, but if intra-family practices of child social\nprotection are of a traumatic nature, they become factors of child social deprivation, and must be taken into account in the course of interactions with the children concerned.
These days, the innovations of technologies are contributing significantly to the quality of education in spite of their limitations. Mobile technologies are rapidly attracting new users, providing increasing capacity, and allowing more sophisticated use. Since they are becoming very accessible for individuals in most parts of the world, it has a great role in facilitating learning both in formal and informal context. Due to this, Mobile Learning (ML) was introduced and attracted the attention of educators in various academic institutions. When it comes to language learning, it is termed as Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) approach as a way to be considered in the environment language learning. In line with this, various studies have been conducted in the contributions and related factors of MALL. Thus, this review carefully analyses the nature, the principles, the merits and demerits, and the challenges and opportunities with their pedagogical implications in the second or foreign language learning context.
ABSTRACT\nIn the past decades, there has been increasing concern on adequate and appropriate body for the female gender; previous studies blamed the print media as well as television for the constant bombardment of females with what an “ideal” body image should look like. It is clear that in the contemporary environment of digital culture, these images are proliferating. Although an empirical search has not been carried out in the current study, (which might be necessary to look at in subsequent studies), an analysis of adverts campaign is discussed, since there exist this proliferation. However, this research attempts to examine the influence of the media on female body image using qualitative research method. It focuses mainly on internet advertisements and seeks to investigate how the media through internet advertisement, in particular, have influenced the female gender to have a rethink of their body image with respect to their shape and looks among others. This research further argues that the media has a strong and negative influence on female body image due to how it is constructed globally. The study indicates that advertisements have recently gone beyond gaining consumers attention, particularly females, to include developing interest and desire resulting in consumers taking action based on how persuasive these adverts are presented. Furthermore, the analysis reveals the power of thin image with respect to modelling through media advertisements, and how greatly obsessed the contemporary culture is with thinness.
The overall shape of the trypanosome is defined by an internal cytoskeleton consisting of a network of microtubules that are cross linked both to each other and the inner face of the plasma membrane. However, the total compliment and identity of the trypanosome cytoskeleton proteins are not yet fully determined despite the fact that some of them may be good targets for diagnostics, drugs and/or vaccines discovery. Therefore, in this study rabbit anti-Trypanosoma brucei detergent insoluble cytoskeleton sera were produced in vivo and used to probe a T. brucei expression library. The picked plaques were made clonal by a series of library screening followed by PCR amplification, cDNA sequencing and identification of the proteins coded by these sequences using BLAST. The previously well known cytoskeleton proteins (paraflagella rod protein and histone H2B), putative cytoskeleton proteins (Dynein light chain and nucleoporin), conserved hypothetical protein (Tb10.61.2430) and novel cytoskeleton protein coding cDNA sequences (not in the sequenced and published T. brucei genome) were identified in this study. This approach is therefore, useable in the search for novel proteins whose utility in the design and development of diagnostics, drugs and/or vaccines can further be studied.
First time in 1991 Lal [ 2] has been discussed the degree of approximation by (c,1) (E,1) product summability means. The degree of approximation of function belonging to generalized Lipschitz class by Nörlund means has been determined by several researchers of modern analysis. But nothing seems to have been done so for in the direction of study of degree of approximation of Lipα function by product summability means of the form (E,q) (c,1). In present paper, the degree of approximation of Lipschitz function by (E,q) (c,1) means of its Fourier series has been determined.
Ultrasonic velocities,densities and viscosities have been measured in binary liquid mixturesof quinoline with mesityleneover the entire molefraction range of quinolineat temperatures T=(303.15,308.15,313.15 and 318.15)K. From experimentally measured data of ultrasonic velocity, densityand viscosity, thermo-acoustical parameters such as adiabatic compressibility(), intermolecular freelength(Lf), acoustical impedance(Z) and internal pressure(π) have been calculated in the binary liquid mixtures. These results have been explained in terms of inter molecular interactions between the components of liquid mixtures.
The following analysis wants to prove which cinematic variable differ seriously the successful and unsuccessful instep kicks in football. The analysis included survey within 30 boys who are 11 years old , their average weight is 38,53±6,18 and the average height is 146,17±7,23. The boy are members of the FC Sloboda Soccer School. Each participant performed five kicks that were video recorded with two synchronized cameras (Casio Ex‐F1) positioned 12 m away from the place of the kick. The data was collected by analyzing the video recordings of each kick. The processing of the data was completed with the use of the APAS motion analysis system (A.Sriel Dynamics Inc., San Diego, CA). The differences between the successful and unsuccessful group is in the following variable : Hcgl- high of the centre of gravity in the last step before positioning the landing leg to the ball (p=.05), Akneel-angle in the stifles of the kicking leg in the moment of contact with the ball (p=.05. The results of the study show that the successful performance of this technical element, sportsman and trainers need to pay more attention on three important elements. Firstly, the height of the centre of the gravity of the body in the last step before placing the lag on the ball. In addition, the increase of the swing phase which doesn’t contribute to the speed of the ball, it actually precise the place of the contact of the kicking leg and ball. All in all, it has to be a bigger inclination of the torso forward when it comes to successful kicks.
The quark-gluon plasma at the stage of thermodynamic equilibrium is reviewed. The quark hadron phase transition and the color superconducting phases of quark-gluon matter with the help of phase diagram are discussed. The lattice QCD results on the order of the phase transition of QGP. We discuss some aspects of atomic Fermi gas in the unitary limit in the first order transition. We consider the equation of state and the critical temperature for pair condensation. The strongly interacting phase transition (Quark-Hadron phase transition) also discussed.
This study is designed to reveal the physical and social impact of child obesity as seen by the educational super visors in the schools of Ajluon governorate in Jordan. To get the advisors view of the issue, an eighteen-item questionnaire distributed by two variables (the physical and the social impacts) of obesity was given to a sample of (58) Male and female educational advisors. After ensuring the validity and reliability of the instrument, it was distributed to the sample of the study members. The study showed high degree of impacts of the physical and social variables.\nThe study showed no significant differences among the items of the instrument that can be attributed to sex or the educational qualifications. The study concluded with a set of recommendations
Air pollution is assuming significant and even alarming dimensions particularly in Urban and\nIndustrial areas and as such need to be controlled at the source of air pollution. Industrial air\npollution is generally controlled by installing Electrostatic Precipitators, Bag filters, Multi cones\nand Cyclones, etc for particulate matters control and wet Scrubbers of different types, adsorption,\nOxidation and reduction techniques and so on so forth for the control of gaseous air pollution.\nPollution due to Suspended Particulate Matter ( SPM ) is very common and caused particularly on\naccount of Vehicular and Industrial emissions. These Particulate Matters are classified as\nsetlleable, suspended and respirable in nature. An effort has been made in the present research\npaper to explain and design the cyclone and Multi cone to control dust emissions particularly of\ncoarser nature from a typical cement grinding unit by using Stairmad design model
Objectives: Salmonellosis is still being reported as the second most common food-borne infection of bacterial origin. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) and S.enterica subsp. enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) are the most prevalent serotypes. In our study, we investigated the food associated Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in factory workers in Turkey. \nMaterials and Methods: The same meatball that patients had lunch and dinner had caused food poisoning on July 2014, when 257 workers in the same factory sought medical care. Among 257 ill persons with diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, fever and vomiting 48(19%) were hospitalized. Stool samples were smeared on Salmonella-Shigella agar (Salubris, Turkey) and Eosine Metilen Blue agar (Salubris, Turkey) plates and incubated at 37o C. Suspected colonies were selected for further identification on the next day using API 20E (BioMérieux, France). \nResults: Serotypes were found as S. Enteritidis (9,12;g,m;-) by agglutination test. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis have been used for epidemiological analysis of isolates and were found same S. Enteritidis PFGE pattern. PFGE analysis performed by XbaI enzymes. Antimicrobial susceptibilities were determined by disc diffusion method as recommended by CLSI. All isolates were susceptible to ampicillin, nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, ceftazidime and cefotaxime. \nConclusion: All patients have been treated with ciprofloxacin 2x750 mg/day. After successfully treatment, the patients returned to work 7th day.
One of the simplifying assumptions made for dynamic analysis for concrete gravity dams is the\nuniformity of foundation with respect to physical parameters such as elasticity module and damping.\nThis is while in practice, different parts or dam foundation have different geological conditions and\ngeological and rock mechanics reports describe the dam foundation as non-uniform. In such\ncircumstances, generally parameters of the weakest area are considered as the uniform foundation\nparameters in dynamic analysis of dam on under specific conditions, weighed average of parameters are\ndefined as the uniform foundation parameters for model input. In this research, seismic behavior of a\nconcrete gravity dam with 110 meters height under non-uniform foundation effect is investigated.\nFor his purpose, Abaques software is used to define a finite element model of dam, lake and foundation\nsystem. Using this model, the dam response is calculated by considering the interaction between dam,\nfoundation and lake while an earthquake having maximum 0.8g acceleration is acting on the system.\nComparing stress and displacement values in crest of dam shows that the assumption of non-uniformity\ncan have significant effects on the exerted stress to dam. Also, the results indicate that in non-uniform\nfoundations, the stress distribution pattern in dam body is totally different from uniform state.
The aim of the present research is to apply the optimization approach in mechanical \ndesign areas. In this paper, a recently developed algorithm called, Jaya Algorithm (JA) is \nused for design optimization of cooling tower and pressure vessel. Jaya Algorithm (JA) is \nrecently developed by Rao in 2015. The algorithm always tries to get closer to success \n(i.e. reaching the best solution) and tries to avoid failure (i.e. moving away from the worst \nsolution). The optimization design for the different thermal engineering problem such as \npressure vessel, cooling tower is performed using Jaya optimization approach. The Jaya \nalgorithm is formulated so as to minimizing the total annual cost of pressure vessel, also it \nis used for design optimization of total annual cost of natural draft wet cooling tower. An \napplication example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the \nproposed algorithms. The effect of variation of the algorithms parameters on convergence \nand fitness value of the objective has performed and the results are reported. The ability of \nthe proposed method has also been verified by this two examples. The results obtained \nusing proposed algorithm is compared with those obtained by using different optimization \nalgorithms and found to be improved.