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Défis dans l’accès aux Messages de santé pour les Personnes en situation De Handicap Sensoriel pendant la Covid-19 en Côte d'Ivoire

Les bouleversements induits par la Covid-19 n’ont pas que secoué les personnes valides. Les personnes en situation de handicap sensoriel ont été fortement impactées par la pandémie. En Côte d'Ivoire, les autorités ivoiriennes ont mis en place un plan d’urgence et de communicationqui a, dès le départ, exclu les personnes handicapées sensorielles du fait de l’inaccessibilité des informations clés diffusées à travers les médias publics.

Sip Smart: How your Milk Choices impact Oral Health. A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Salivary and Plaque ph Changes

Background/Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the changes in the salivary and plaque pH after the consumption of three types of milk — high protein milk, full-fat milk, and sweetened condensed milk. Method: The study population comprised 75 children aged 6-10 years and were divided into groups of 25 each. Children participating in the studyrefrained from brushing their teeth, eating, or drinking for at least 2 hours before the experiment. Salivary and plaque pH were recorded at baseline (t0). Each child then consumed 20 mL of one of the three types of milk.

Effect of various growth Conditions on Phenol Degradation by two Bacillus cereus Strains

Phenol is a toxic environmental pollutant. Two strains of Bacillus cereus (RC29 and RM4) capable of utilizing phenol as their carbon source were selected to study the effects of various growth parameters such as pH, temperature, volume of inoculum, period of incubation, and the concentration of substrate (phenol) on its phenol degradation abilities and thereby optimizing the growth conditions for their maximum phenol degradation. The minimal salt phenol medium (MSPM) was used.

Scrub typhus infection Presenting as Pancerebellar Ataxia

Pancerebellar ataxia is a syndrome characterised by bilateral signs of cerebellar dysfunction involving trunk, limb and cranial musculature. We describe an adult female presenting with this syndrome following a febrile illness diagnosed as scrub typhus fever. Since majority of the cases of cerebellitis has been described in children, we highlight this case where the patient presented with an acute onset of tremulousness, imbalance and instability involving all the limbs and trunk, with ocular signs on examination.

Short-term Weather Prediction using Historical Data: Evaluating Supervised Machine Learning Techniques

Weather Forecasting or Predictions plays an important role in human life as it impacts agriculture, transportation and natural disasters. Therefore, the development of new techniques in machine learning is continuing to enable better and accurate predictions of weather using historical data such as temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, visibility, pressure, and wind speed over the years. The primary goal of my system is to develop a model that will be precise and accurate for short-term predictions.

Performed and Unperformed Activities of the Assessment phase of the Nursing Process by Nurses of the Regional Hospital Bamenda

Assessment is the first step of the nursing process. It is performed by nurses when patients are admitted, within a maximum of 8hours for stable patients and 24hours for unstable patients. Sometimes, the activities of this phase are well performed. In other times, the performance might not be satisfactory. The objective of this study was to identify the activities of the assessment phase that are regularly/irregularly performed by nurses. Convenience sampling method was used with 80participants. Instruments for data collection were a questionnaire and checklist.

Obstetric Morbidity among Santals and Bengali women of Puruliya, West Bengal: A Comparative Study

The objective of the present study was to compare the obstetric health outcomes and care practices between Santal, a Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Bengali women (referred as Non-ST hereafter) across antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. A total of 800 study participants were selected by purposive sampling method. All the data were collected by using pretested question naires and universally accepted methods and techniques. Results showed significant population differences in many demographic and socioeconomic variables.

Histopancreatic Architecture in Diabetes Mellitus Wistar rats Treated with Extract of Beetroot

This study assessed the effects of Aqueous Beetroot extract on the pancreas of diabetes mellitus Wistar rats by evaluating histo-architecture. Thirty male Wistar rats, aged 8 to 10 weeks and weighing 160-200 g, were divided into five groups: A-normal control, B-diabetic only, C-diabetic treated with beetroot, D-diabetic treated with metformin, and E-beetroot extract only. Diabetes was induced via a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (STZ) at a dose of 70 mg/kg.

Financial Performance of Brazilian Companies that Carried out Ipos at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

O presente estudo teve como escopo analisar a forma como o desempenho financeiro das empresas brasileiras, provenientes de setores econômicos que abriram o capital em 2020, foram afetadas pelo IPO. A partir de uma amostra de dados provenientes da B3 (durante o período de 2020 a 2021- período de recessão determinado pelo Covid-19) pertencentes a empresas que realizam IPO no ano de 2020, o estudo faz uso da abordagem econométrica GMM para atingir ao objetivo da pesquisa.