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The study aimed to determine the performance of twelve thousand six hundred twenty-six(12,626) second year students of selected high schools in the Division of Zambales in the National, Regional and Division Achievement Tests in relation to academic performance in Mathematics during the school year 2005-2006 to 2009-2010.The descriptive research design was used in the documentary analysis of the National, Regional, and Division Achievement Test results, and the Academic Grades obtained from the Division Office of the Department of Education.

This WSN applications for civil and environmental engineering first of all deals with monitoring condition of the objects created by human, as well as the environmental objects. For a researcher these applications are interesting first of all because of a great number of various types of sensors used, and also because of variety of places where it is necessary to implement a network.

In vitro experiments on chromium, copper, lead and zinc heavy metals bioaccumulation using duck weed Lemna polyrrhiza L. (Lemnaceae) was conducted with 5, 10 and 20 mg/100 ml concentrations for a period of 20 days. The SEM-EDX results revealed the bioaccumulation of lead as high as 20.91% followed by copper 9.71%, zinc 5.66% and chromium 1.86%. There was a change in the pH of the medium, the bioaccumulation of metals were confirmed by FTIR analysis involved in the binding characteristics of alcoholic, phenolic, amino and amides groups in the biomass.

Introduction: The aim of this paper is to present new approach for nicotine dependence treatment with Cytisine (Tabex) and to compare it to the dosage regimen, prescribed by the manufacturer.

It is common to discover that many patients admitted into the hospital for certain pathological or physiological disorders would end up manifesting one infectious disorder or another. Nosocomial infection is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and medical cost. This study was aimed at assessing knowledge and practice of standard infection control among health care providers in secondary health facility in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey.

Background: Access to basic health services of acceptable quality is still denied to many of the world’s poorest people, Identification or application procedure and screening criteria by local kebele administrator for free health services provision at public health facilities are not transparent.
Objective: The aim of the study was to assess free health service delivery system and the extent to which strict criteria are followed in granting free health services to the eligible poor in Dilla town, South Ethiopia.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of three different retraction agents on the color of dentin and artificial gingiva following the gingival retraction.

For several decades, wind power is experiencing tremendous growth, however, the production of wind energy depends on wind intensity, strongly volatile, and is therefore characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Planning the installation of a wind farm for several stations requires the assessment of the risk which in turn results in an assessment of the variability in production. Longevity, it starts with the recognition of the links between the various stations.

The objectives of the present investigation were to find out the correlation between thyroid abnormalities and environmental pollution, occupation, industrial area, endosulphan and roof of residence used by human population. Two study groups were surveyed for the study of the prevalence of thyroid diseases. One study group is from Dakshina Kannada and the other Kasargod Districts of West coast of India. A total of 398 subjects were surveyed. Questionnaires were prepared and distributed to conduct the survey.

There are host of distinctive ways for education and training of children with special needs.  Gentle teaching is one educational tool that has shown to be effective towards progress in students with special needs. It is a unique relational approach centered on building safe, loving and engaged relationships. With the amendment of RTE Act and progress of legal provisions for protection of child rights; there is now a blanket ban over punishment of any form, physical or mental.