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The prevalence of malaria among 250 pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Agbonchia Health Centre Eleme, Rivers State, Nigeria was investigated using thick and thin blood film stained with Giemsa. The stained slides were examined microscopically for malaria parasites. The prevalence of malaria among the pregnant women was 40.6% and the prevalence among 50 non-pregnant women used as control was 16.0%. The prevalence of malaria by age group among the pregnant women was 36.1-46.8% from age 20-40yrs.

In this  paper,  we introduce  new  Lyapunov-type inequalities  for fourth order  linear  di¤erential  equations  under  the  third-point  and  four-point  boundary conditions.  The result for four-point boundary conditions improve some existing ones in literature and also, we note that the results for three-point boundary conditions are new.

Let G=(V,E) be a (p,q)- graph. A Triangular divisor cordial labeling of a graph G with vertex set V is a bijectionf∶V→{T_1,T_2,T_3,….,T_p} where  T_i is the i^th Triangular number such that if each edge uv is assigned the label 1 if f(u) divides f(v) or f(v) divides f(u) and 0 otherwise, then the number of edges labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 1 differ by at most 1.If a graph has a  Triangular divisor cordial labeling, then it is called Triangular divisor cordial graph.

Currently, obesity is a major health problem worldwide because of its rising prevalence and strong association with pathological disorders such as cardio vascular diseases, diabetes- type 2, hypertension, infertility and some forms of cancer. Nanotechnology has been developed into a multidisciplinary field of applied science and technology for target application. People prefer to take antiobesity drugs to reduce body weight rather than work outs. But these conventional drugs may cause adverse effects on heart and other organs.

Prunus africana is an endangered tree species, endemic to Africa and was included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). In this study, we described the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonized roots and pool of spores of P. africana from three dry Afromountain forests of Cameroon. The large sub-unit (LSU) rRNA gene was amplified from these materials cloned and sequenced using the Glomeromycota specific primers FLR3 situated between the D1 and D2 domains of LSU rRNA and FLR4 in the D2 domain.

Education With the advent of composite resin, amalgam is no longer indicated as first treatment option. And so began a successive change in dentistry restorations which disregards the research as the longevity of a restoration. The controversy over mercury contamination emphasized this practice. Thus, this literature review study aims to guide the professional and the public about the risks of using and removal of amalgam.

Type of beach sediment is very important in determining what the beach looks like, beside waves, tides and wind factors. Different beaches have different types of sediment texture. Beach classification can be usefull coastal planner to group beaches of similar characteristics and behaviours. This paper aims to explain beach morphodynamic states based on sediment texture in Wright and  Short method, so this aspect will be considered as one of the an important variable.

Education is the process of developing the power of adaptation to ever changing social environment. New challenges are there before every society and education plays a vital role in meeting these challenges. Anxiety is a general feeling of not being able to cope with the world. Anxiety has a psychological component, a cognitive aspect, particularly in narrowing attention and subjective experience of discomfort. Almost any change in surrounding makes some sort of anxiety in an individual. Over anxiety leads to frustration, stress, maladjustment and then it finally affects achievement.

Despite their high enthusiasm and inherent capabilities to grow, SMEs in India are facing a number of problems like technological obsolescence, increasing domestic and global competition, and change in manufacturing strategies. To survive with such issues and compete with large and global enterprises, SMEs need to adopt innovative approaches in their operations.

Baryons, especially protons and neutrons, the main constituents of observable matter, were first formed from energy in the early stages of the development of the universe after the Big Bang (according to the Big Bang theory), and hydrogen and helium atoms were created. Later, new and heavier atomic nuclei were formed inside stars from the existing elements by nuclear reactions. The present article focusses on the processes involved in both Big Bang nucleosynthesis and stellar nucleosynthesis.