This study examined the reproductive health situation in Bida Emirate of Nigeria, with a view to ... more This study examined the reproductive health situation in Bida Emirate of Nigeria, with a view to advancing frontiers in communication support for reproductive health education. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to randomly select 1,200 women respondents that participated in the study. Data was obtained on reproductive health and rights, reproductive health history, and personal and social characteristics of respondents. Data analyses showed that majority (68.1%) of respondents were aware of existing methods of birth control, while 31.9% were not. On the use of methods, abstinence, breastfeeding and use of condoms recorded 42.8%, 22% and 40.3% respectively. Respondents rarely used traditional methods of birth control. Forty five per cent blamed their husbands for not using family planning methods. Surprisingly, 84.8% of respondents had no idea of what HIV/AIDS is all about; only 13% and 3.1% could describe gonorrhoea and AIDS respectively. Results further revealed that there is no significant relationship between personal and social characteristics of respondents (religion, marital status and position, etc) and their attitude towards family planning. However, rural and urban women significantly differed in their health status (t = 0.2729; p < 0.001). Similar trend was observed for attitude towards family decision-making (t = 40; p < 0.001), sexuality and STD prevention (t = 90; p < 0.001), and maternity/childcare (t = 0.001; p < 0.001). In conclusion, the study reveals that there is a wide gap between social expectations of women's reproductive health and cultural realities in Nupeland of Nigeria. The study thus recommends, among others, the need for sustainable safe motherhood campaign in culture bound societies.
Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 2004
Food consumption and digestion of male and female dugongs (Dugong dugon) was examined by analyzin... more Food consumption and digestion of male and female dugongs (Dugong dugon) was examined by analyzing long-term (1979–1998) feeding records at Toba Aquarium (Japan). Throughout all captive feeding periods, dugongs consumed eelgrass (Zostera marina) ...
International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 2021
This paper proposes an architecture of content delivery network (CDN) based on big data for power... more This paper proposes an architecture of content delivery network (CDN) based on big data for power saving. There are two types of video content: hot content and cold content. When video content is accessed frequently, it is called hot content. Conversely, when video content is accessed infrequently, it is called cold content. In CDN, there is an origin server and a CDN cache server. A CDN cache server has a replicated content and provides its content to the end users nearby. Therefore, the user can receive the requested content from the closest proximity for fast content. The proposed architecture in this paper powers off the cold content server in CDN cache server when the number of cold content requests decreases. Hence, the proposed architecture for content delivery services based on power saving is expected to be useful for providing multimedia streaming services with low power consumption for content providers.
This research work is aimed at Isolating and Identifying Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria from Crud... more This research work is aimed at Isolating and Identifying Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria from Crude oil contaminated soils. A soil sample was contaminated with two different crude oils (Escravos and Urals) so as to isolate and identify the bacteria capable to acclimatize and degrade the crude oil contaminants present. The bacteria strains in a serial diluted solution were inoculated on nutrient agar plate incubated at 37 0 C. The isolates were characterized for Gram reaction, cell morphology and various biochemical/enzymatic analysis such as Triple sugar iron, Citrate, Oxidase, Indole, and Urease tests. The result revealed the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus vulgaris which are highly adapted bacteria with great potential to biodegrade total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) from crude oil contaminated soil.
This study examined the reproductive health situation in Bida Emirate of Nigeria, with a view to ... more This study examined the reproductive health situation in Bida Emirate of Nigeria, with a view to advancing frontiers in communication support for reproductive health education. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to randomly select 1,200 women respondents that participated in the study. Data was obtained on reproductive health and rights, reproductive health history, and personal and social characteristics of respondents. Data analyses showed that majority (68.1%) of respondents were aware of existing methods of birth control, while 31.9% were not. On the use of methods, abstinence, breastfeeding and use of condoms recorded 42.8%, 22% and 40.3% respectively. Respondents rarely used traditional methods of birth control. Forty five per cent blamed their husbands for not using family planning methods. Surprisingly, 84.8% of respondents had no idea of what HIV/AIDS is all about; only 13% and 3.1% could describe gonorrhoea and AIDS respectively. Results further revealed that there is no significant relationship between personal and social characteristics of respondents (religion, marital status and position, etc) and their attitude towards family planning. However, rural and urban women significantly differed in their health status (t = 0.2729; p < 0.001). Similar trend was observed for attitude towards family decision-making (t = 40; p < 0.001), sexuality and STD prevention (t = 90; p < 0.001), and maternity/childcare (t = 0.001; p < 0.001). In conclusion, the study reveals that there is a wide gap between social expectations of women's reproductive health and cultural realities in Nupeland of Nigeria. The study thus recommends, among others, the need for sustainable safe motherhood campaign in culture bound societies.
Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 2004
Food consumption and digestion of male and female dugongs (Dugong dugon) was examined by analyzin... more Food consumption and digestion of male and female dugongs (Dugong dugon) was examined by analyzing long-term (1979–1998) feeding records at Toba Aquarium (Japan). Throughout all captive feeding periods, dugongs consumed eelgrass (Zostera marina) ...
International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 2021
This paper proposes an architecture of content delivery network (CDN) based on big data for power... more This paper proposes an architecture of content delivery network (CDN) based on big data for power saving. There are two types of video content: hot content and cold content. When video content is accessed frequently, it is called hot content. Conversely, when video content is accessed infrequently, it is called cold content. In CDN, there is an origin server and a CDN cache server. A CDN cache server has a replicated content and provides its content to the end users nearby. Therefore, the user can receive the requested content from the closest proximity for fast content. The proposed architecture in this paper powers off the cold content server in CDN cache server when the number of cold content requests decreases. Hence, the proposed architecture for content delivery services based on power saving is expected to be useful for providing multimedia streaming services with low power consumption for content providers.
This research work is aimed at Isolating and Identifying Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria from Crud... more This research work is aimed at Isolating and Identifying Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria from Crude oil contaminated soils. A soil sample was contaminated with two different crude oils (Escravos and Urals) so as to isolate and identify the bacteria capable to acclimatize and degrade the crude oil contaminants present. The bacteria strains in a serial diluted solution were inoculated on nutrient agar plate incubated at 37 0 C. The isolates were characterized for Gram reaction, cell morphology and various biochemical/enzymatic analysis such as Triple sugar iron, Citrate, Oxidase, Indole, and Urease tests. The result revealed the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus vulgaris which are highly adapted bacteria with great potential to biodegrade total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) from crude oil contaminated soil.
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