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THE REFERRAL SYSTEM AND FEEDBACK PROCESS BY MEDICAL CONSULTANTS AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, IBADAN.
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Developing an integrated library management system with agile methods, the University of Ibadan experience
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The Potentials of Derby Eland ( Faurotragus dcrbianus) For Commercial Hush Meat Production In Jos Wildlife Park, Nigeria
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A BIBLIO-TEXTUAL STUDY AND EDITION OF THE POEMS OF ANDREW MARVELL
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- Agile methods is the software development methodology and practices used in software industry in which the elements and principles of agile methods are used. Generally, the agile development process is an incremental work process that promotes the importance of customer satisfaction, collaboration, communication, teamwork, good quality and planned follow-up practices. The paper aims to discuss these issues. This paper first presents an overview of agile methods, addresses the most relevant ones for developing library management system then discusses the utilization of these methods in the context of the development of an integrated library management system presenting the case of Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. The Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan after several attempts at automating its processes since the early 90’s eventually resolved to develop an in-house Library Automation System in 2015 using agile methods. The paper refers to definite initiatives taken to improve development processes as well as discuss the benefits and challenges when applying the agile methods in order to change traditional working culture and encourage end user participation in the building process. The following elements of agility can be considered the most effective and relevant: appreciating the needs of the customers, end-user participation and satisfaction, quality assurance, ability to redesign and make decisions fast and empowering the team, eliminating of waste. The paper finally highlights what the library can achieve by adapting a fresh approach for developing, evaluating and managing its operations and how the library staff can benefit from the agile way of working. Automation, Agile Development methods, Management, Quality, User satisfaction and University libraries 1 results 1
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- Imported Used Electronics (IUEs) are officially conceived in research oriented policy as potential and actual toxic “solid waste”, yet Nigeria remains a high consumer demand economy for them. IUEs include electronic monitors, digital devices, docking stations, cell phones, hand-held diagnostics, screening tools, television sets among others. Nigerian economy has evolved a socially constructed merchandise structure, which sustains IUEs trade. Literature, however limits IUEs discourses to pure-scientific framing of toxicology and dump in the Third World countries. This study, therefore, examined the subjective meanings that sustain the demand and merchandise of IUEs against official prohibition. Social action theory guided the study. The research design was exploratory. The qualitative research method was used. Data were generated from both primary and secondary sources. The research area was Lagos, and data were collected from Ikeja Computer Village, Westminster Used Electronics Market, Alaba International Market, Apapa Customs Office (ACO) and National Environmental Standards and Regulatory Enforcement Agency (NESREA). Participants were selected through purposive and snow-balling techniques. Non-participant observation for 15 months, In-depth Interviews (IDIs) were held with 22 IUE consumers and 22 market-actors. A total of 15 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were held with ACO officers (three), Association Heads of the three markets (eight) and veteran market actors (four). Six FGDs were conducted with IUEs consumers and market-actors, while five case studies were carried out on large scale consumers and market actors with at least 10 years working experience in IUEs merchandizing. Secondary data were sourced from NESREA and Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for African Region, Ibadan. Data obtained were content analyzed. Demand for IUEs was hinged on peculiar social relations of consumption and merchandising which rationalized and constructed IUEs as desirable and affordable modern material objects. This relations involved processes of upgrading “solid waste” into tradable commodities infused with deluxe values and potentialities for leveling class. Artful transactions involved offer of disused electronics to market-actors in exchange for upgraded IUEs at a little token. A structure of interdependent actors sustained the IUEs merchandise. It included official gatekeepers such as Customs and NESREA, whose variable roles sustained entry of solid wastes into the market as IUEs; and administrators, merchants and interlinks-security who provided administrative, economic and coercive functions respectively. Furthermore, resuscitators upgrade otherwise wastes into merchandisable goods. Scavengers-collectors extract the irredeemable from merchants, to scrap-collectors who trade them to bulk-scrap-buyers. Bulk-buyers in turn, trade the scraps to domestic iron-smelting companies and/or illegally export them. In essence, IUEs remained tradable even in their end-of-life stages. Thus, local meanings of utility of IUEs and of employment potentialities were constructed against official policy perception of them as solid waste. Through a structured system of market interactions, actor-merchants contrived utility for Imported Used Electronics in the process of merchandise and consumption. Government should therefore accommodate local realities in order to proffer inclusive and robust IUEs policy. 1 results 1
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- Most conservation centres in Nigeria are economically dependent on governmental and non governmental organizations for sponsorship as opportunities to generate revenues for conservation and the much needed protein for the growing population are being neglected and /or wasted This work focuses on the potentials of derby eland (Taurotragus derbiamis) Jor commercial bush meat production in Jos Wildlife Park. Nigeria. The data for this study were collected through observation, review of records and indepth interview of experienced wildlife officers. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results show that derby eland has a favourable breeding trend for commercial meal production in Jos wildlife Park. No infant mortality of the species was recorded in Jos wildlife Park between 1979 and 2005 The mortality of the species recorded in the Park were cases of an elderly cow that died during parturition and a bull that was called in 2005 Both dead individuals of the species lived up to 25 years which is the life span of derby eland in the wild Derby eland feeds on vegetation and feed supplement composed of maize, soybean and groundnut that are locally sourced and processed in Jos. It has good carcass quality dnd high dressing percentage Derby eland will be a sustainable source of lender and lean meat to the public because of the semi intensive management system it is subjected to, in Jos Wildlife Park The management, medication and suitability of derby eland for meat production were discussed 1 results 1
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- Referral is an essential two-way process linking the three tiers of health care together. Lack of feedback is a common constraint to the proper functioning of the referral process and information is lacking on the factors which affect this process. This study was therefore designed to assess the knowledge, level of practice as well as the factors influencing the feedback process in the two-way referral system by medical consultants at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. A cross-sectional study of all medical consultants (82) who routinely receive referrals and actively provide specialized patient care at the University College Hospital, Ibadan was carried out. Using a self-administered questionnaire, information on socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, practice and the factors affecting the two-way referral process was obtained from respondents. Validation was done by assessing all new patients� records (1,207) in their clinics. Knowledge scores ranged between 0-8, scores of 0-4 were classified as poor knowledge and 5-8 as good knowledge. Chi-square test was used to determine association between categorical variables at 5% level of statistical significance. The mean age of the respondents was 46.5 �7.5 years, 64.6% of the respondents were males and 51.2% had 15-24 years working experience as a doctor. The respondents included were surgeons (17.1%), dentists (15.9%), paediatricians (14.6%), physicians (12.2%), obstetrician and gynaecologists (9.8%), psychiatrists (6.1%), community health physicians (6.1%), haematologists (6.1%), radiotherapists (4.9%), ophthalmologists (3.7%), and otorhinolaryngologists (3.7%). Although 84.1% of the respondents had good knowledge of the two-way referral system, only 56.1% reported sending feedbacks. Evidence of feedbacks was available however in only 9.7% of case notes. The decision to send feedbacks was based on the reason for referral and detail of clinical information supplied by the referring healthcare provider as reported by 42.7% and 32.9% of the respondents respectively. Ignorance of the existence of the feedback system (14.6%), lack of commitment to the practice of sending feedbacks (13.4%), inadequate resources (11.0%) and a heavy patient load (9.8%) were identified by respondents as challenges to the two-way referral system. Most (97.6%) of the respondents believed that there was a need to improve the feedback system. Working experience was significantly and positively associated with sending of feedbacks. Feedback was also significantly associated with the existence of a coordinating system for referrals within the departments. Feedbacks were given more on outpatients than inpatients. Feedbacks from Ophthalmologists were significantly higher than those from other consultants. A feedback was also more likely if the information on the referral letter to the consultants contained detailed information. Knowledge about the two-way referral system was high in the study population but the feedback practice was poor. There is a need for a mechanism to monitor referrals, provide adequate resources and re-orientate medical consultants about the feedback. 1 results 1
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- The introduction of recent bibliographic techniques into editorial practice raised hopes of finally finding objective solutions to many seemingly insoluble textual problems. Yet as the eminent bibliographer Fredson Bowers points out (Bibliography and Textual Criticism, 1964) such hopes - either because the techniques are still not completely developed, or because of their inherent limitations - have not been fully realised. Walter Greg, another pioneer in the field, had earlier warned that the new techniques could not be expected to carry the textual critic the whole way to perfection (Bibliography - An Apologia, 1932). The present thesis represents an attempt to apply the techniques to, and to overcome their limitation in, the editing of Marvell’s poems - with what success the sequel will show. Chapter 1 considers the circumstances surrounding the first printing of most of Marvell’s poems in 1681 at the instance or with the connivance of that Mary Palmer who falsely claimed to be his widow. It is shown that certain items intended for inclusion in the Miscellaneous Poems were cancelled because o£ the political upheavals of the year; that these cancelled poems deal with Cromwell and would have been likely to mind the public at the Civil war and the Regicide at a time when repetition of both catastrophes had been narrowly averted; that because the cancellations, the 1681 edition actually survives in three states. It is further suggested that the volume was printed by ‘casting-ort’ the copy, that, during printing, other materials not supplied by Mary Palmer were added, and that none of those directly concerned with the printing can be expected to have exercised salutary control over the process of publication. Chapter 2 discussed the various theories of textual criticism evolving from editorial practices in the fields of Biblical, Classical, and Modern Bibliographical scholarship. The objective common to all three is the determining of the text closest to the author's original by tracing the descent of surving copies through the use of various methods: by Dom Quentin's theory of intermediaries, by Paul Maas’s system of stemmatics, by Walter Greg’s calculus of variants and the like. For Marvell, with only one edition to be followed, the common problem of preferring one of a series of early editions does not exist; the real difficulty is to ascertain the poet’s own intention whenever there is a cause for doubt, always bearing in mind the not-too-favourable ambiences of poems either published posthumously or circulated anonymously. In addition to the problem of establishing Marvell’s intention in authenticated poems attributed to his authorship. The conclusion is that because of the peculiarities of transmission and survival, an edition of Marvell’s poem must necessarily be based not upon one but upon several methods of approach. Chapter 3 examines the background and technique of the ‘copy-text|’, the use of which is made obligatory by the repeated successes of the bibliographic school of textual critics in its application to earlier English works. Where only one copy of questionable superiority can be singled out, no one need quarrel with this technique; difficulties begin to arise when there are several copies of comparable authority available. To insist upon a ‘copy-text’ even in this case is justified by what Greg calls the ‘accidentals’ of a text (i.e. the spelling modes, the punctuation system, etc.). It is even more justified when it ensures that a modern edition retains significant ‘accidentals’, whatever they be, to the point where all linguistic traits of the author’s period, all significant indications of linguistics and philological peculiarities, whether temporal, or social, or private, should be transmitted through the text. In case of Marvell, the setting-up of a ‘copy-text’ without thorough exploration of ‘accidentals’ is scarcely feasible. That completed, the final question is the degree to which the results of the exploration, the resolutions of the difficulties it reveals, must be followed. Chapter 4 considers many of the peculiarities of the English language in Marvell’s time, particularly those (consequent upon the tangle of vowel-shifts known as the Great Sound Shift) which have immediate effectiveness for the ‘copy-text’ technique. Thanks to research by philologist-linguists like Luich, Sweet, Wyld, Whitehall, Dobson, Nist, Trager- Smith, et al., the overall pattern of Early Modern English, particularly that of the sonantal system, emerges with some clarity. Here, the results are schematized on a phonetic basis, and the confusions that might confront an editor, especially those reflected on spellings and rhymes, are broadly charted. From this exercise emerge several linguistic guide-lines to be followed, or at least considered in editing Marvell. Chapter 5 attempts to demonstrate how the study of para-linguistic factors of metre, rhythm, rhyme, and repetitive sound-patterning facilitates the editorial task, especially for rhymed verse. Here the metre and rhythms of Marvell’s verse are analysed in some detail and from several point of view. The most obvious prosodic feature is the maintenance of a strict syllable count- so strict that any apparent violation can be attributed to an error of transmission. In the octosyllabic couplet, his favourite form, Marvell not only makes good use of traditionally accepted variations, modulations, and metrical equivalences but is also able to absorb into his verse the principles of the ‘Classical plain style,’ the so-called sermo. In him, this is not merely a matter of achieving post-Elizabethan elegance and colloquial ease of diction and syntax; it also, and more importantly, involves the natural ordering of syntactic units in such a fashion that the pauses bordering segmenting them can be varied as freely and unaffectedly in verse as they normally are in prose and speech- all these within the strict metrical framework of syllable count. As a result, there is remarkable free positioning of the ‘caesuras’, which fall at various places in a line after odd- as well as even-numbered syllables and not- as advocated by certain Elizabethan posts and authorities- in a fixed medial position. Following the method of Ants Oras (Pause Patterns in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, 1960), an attempt is made to graph pause distribution profiles for the two famous poems “To His Coy Mistress” and “AN Horatian Ode” on the basis of both printed punctuation and syntactic analysis of actual readings. Chapter 6 brings forward the argument that capitalization is a device employed to indicate emphasis- particularly in stress bearing words of a poem- and is therefore an important ‘accidental’ to be reckoned with in editing verse. This fact is revealed in the analysis of Marvell’s On a Drop of Dew, and is confirmed by the practice of contemporary poets, by printing practice, and by statements of primers at tile time. What emerges is that this poem as printed in 1681 (and probably some other poem), seems to have fewer printed capitalized words than appeared in the original manuscript. In editing the poems, while it may not be possible to restore all the capitalization that Marvell intended, it is at least possi1ble to detect words wrongly capitalized, if they destroy what seems to be the intended rhythm and sense. Chapters 7 to 9 deal with the problem of attributing to Marvell some poems written anonymously. In Chapter 7 the various methods of determining the authorship of disputed works are reviewed. These fall into two main groups: internal evidence of style and ideas, the external evidence of direct statements by the author or his contemporaries, or statements from letters, diaries, and so forth. For Marvell external evidence is found to be rather weak – sometimes a contradictory. Internal stylistic evidence is relatively unhelpful mainly because the characteristic styles of the lyrical poems are different from those of the political poems. On the other hand, evidence from ideas seems important because of the feasible comparison between the views expressed in his prose written and those in the political poems. For this purpose, Marvell’s activities and attitudes as a politician are examined in Chapter 8. The picture given is that of a loyal citizen with a deep reverence for law and the constitution and a strong belief in the providential guidance of affairs of state. In a mixed constitution such as that of England at the time when the political poems were written, Marvell was determined to support equally the prerogatives of the King and the privileges of Parliament; and rejected any section – from parliament or King - that might upset the balance. -Finally, in Chapter 9, the political poems attributed to Marvell are re-examined individually. After this consideration, only four of the sixteen poems printed by Margoliouth - The Last Instructions, The Loyall Scott, Bludius et Corona and Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus –are found to be fully acceptable as Marvell’s. Four others – Clarendon’s House-Warming, Britannia and Rawleigh, and the Second and Third Advices are probably his. All the others, it appears, have been wrongly ascribed to him. 1 results 1
- There is an inevitable need to improve the operation portfolio of the boutique, and erase problems like time consumption, inconsistency and a host of other problems encountered by most business enterprises. This research study focused on the design of a web based shopping system. The reason for the development of this system is because every shopping software system is precipitated by some business need which are: the need to correct a defect in an existing application, the need to adapt a legacy system to a changing business environment, the need to extend the functions and features of an existing application or the need to create a new product, service or system. A feasibility study was carried out through interviewing an entrepreneur (business proprietor) in order to acquire knowledge about the mode of operation of the boutique; also specialists in the field of fashion designing were interviewed to acquire knowledge that will be used by the proposed software agent to give recommendations online. The existing system was studied and deficiencies such as long queues, customer dissatisfaction and staff impatience, as well as the need for customers to get professional guidance. The Scripting language used for developing the database is MYSQL, and the application used in developing the database for this site is an SQL application called SQLYOG and it is compactable with MYSQL Server which is either wamp, xammp or zends. The system accepts input from the user whether an administrator or a customer, processes the input i.e. (carries out the required action on the input collected as specified by the system design) and produces an output (either a completed transaction report and receipt or an outfit recommendation). Interfaces were designed using PHP on Dreamweaver platform. MySQL Query Language on SQLYOG platform was used as a database tool to develop, organize and store all vital details about customers, suppliers, sales, product, and product categories. The proposed system is designed in a bid to improve speed, accuracy, storage capability, customer satisfaction, job flexibility for the staff as well as shopping flexibility for the customer and consistency in the boutique; it can be used by trained personnel as well as for general public due to its simplicity. This work elaborates on the implementation and use of software agents in global transaction i.e. people can transact from the various locations and their goods are delivered at their doorstep enabling them to save time and the stress involved in physically doing the shopping. 1 results 1
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