Past Issue

An introduction to qualitative research methodology artistic approach

Many published textbooks and articles dealt with qualitative research and its methodologies; still, it is difficult for a clinician without proper qualitative research background to be engaged with these texts. They represent a different research paradigm. The essence of qualitative research is to understand a phenomenon in a natural environment appose to experimental setting in quantitative research, in which all the aspects (variables/ parameters) are examined under experimental conditions. Qualitative research studies the patient’s experience within the patient’s natural life setting.

Use of polymerase chain reaction for detection of trypanosoma vivax infection in cattle

Trypanosoma vivax is a protozoan that infects a wide range of wild and domestic ungulates causing important economic losses on the livestock industry. Considering a recent outbreak in bovines from the state of Pernambuco, the aim of this study was to utilize the PCR as a tool to detect T. vivax DNA in the blood of animals from different regions (i.e., Litoral, Zona da Mata, Agreste and Sertão). Based on previous serological survey, the cities in each region which had the highest frequency of reagent cattle to antibodies IgG anti-T. vivax by Immunofluorescence Antibody Test, were selected.

Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory features of children with febrile seizures

Objectives: With respect to the issue that febrile seizures (FS)is the most common seizure type in children, the purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological, clinicaland laboratory features of children admitted to Misurata Teaching Hospital with febrile seizures in2015 – 2016 and its comparison with similar studies in other parts of the world.

Appraisal of entrepreneurship studies programme in universities for enhanced economic diversification in Nigeria

The study was carried out in Ebonyi State to find out the opinion of students in the University on entrepreneurship education as a means of economic diversification in Nigeria. The study is a survey research designed guided by four research questions. All the students in Ebonyi State University (EBSU) Abakaliki and Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo (FUNAI) were used for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select twenty (20) students each from the eight faculties in EBSU and same from five faculties in FUNAI giving a total of 260 respondents as the sample size.

A Comparative study of the person of god in the bible and allah in the quran

The paper: “A Comparative Study of the Person of God in the Bible and Allah in the Quran argues that the Supreme God of the universe is very well known to African Traditional religions through the gods who are considered as intermediaries working for Him to bridge the gap between the transcendent God and humans through the lesser gods.

Status of maternal and child health in empowered action group of Indian States: A spatio-temporal analysis

The Empowered Action Group (EAG) of States in India includes Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Odisha and Assam. These States are in fact the backward ones in the field of human development in the country. The condition of maternal and child health in these States are extremely poor in comparison to the southern States of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The maternal mortality ratio is high due to the absence of the ante-natal and post-natal care of the mothers.

A comparative study of human rights awareness among rural and urban high school students

The present study was undertaken to study the human rights awareness among the students of 10th class belonging to Govt-aided and private schools of rural and urban area of Distt. Moga of Punjab State. Descriptive survey was used to conduct the study. T-test was applied to compare the results. The major finding of the study reveals that more than 52% of 10th class students are aware about human rights. Urban area students are slightly more aware about human rights as compared the rural area students.

Time series data modeling and prediction of liquid petroleum gas

Time series modeling and prediction has ultimate meaning to various practical domains. Thus a lot of research works are going on in this subject during several years. Many significant models have been suggested in various literature for improving the precision and effectiveness of time series modeling and prediction. The goal of this article is to present a brief sketch of popular time series prediction models used in practice. We have described here important classes of time series models. We have also discussed about the basic issues related to time series modeling.

A study on role of social media for recruitment in bpo industry

Social networking media is the buzz all about awareness and connection, and presently used for employee recruitment.  The use of Internet in recruitment is not new. In fact, over the years, E-recruitment has become popular both among the employers as well as job seekers. Many of us are registered with one or more of the social networking sites like Face book, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. The growing popularity of this social media sites for professional networking with the use of social media as a recruitment tool is much more famous and in fashion now a days.

Positive stimulus: an opportunity for decision making by Mexican managers, a vision from neuroscience

Nowadays, neuroscience has awakened a great interest in the scientific community and especially in what Organizational Cognitive Neuroscience is concerned, given that it allows the study of the brain activity of decision-making processes that organizational players carry out, when they face a diversity of factors, internal as well as those in their surroundings.