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ASSESSMENT OF THE ECOTOURISM POTENTIALS OF OSUN OSOGBO WORLD HERITAGE SITE OSUN STATE, NIGERIA
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Climate change, rural livelihoods and ecosystem nexus: forest communities in agro-ecological zones of Nigeria
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Perception of women entrepreneurship in ancient Greek and traditional Yoruba societies
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Sexual risk nehaviour of street Youth in South West Nigeria
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Corporate governance and firm performance: case of selected oil companies in Nigeria
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- Generating massive investment for growth and development has been one of the main policy goals of most economies around the globe. Countries, most especially developing ones, are highly susceptible to investment volatility owing largely to the fragile nature of their economies as well as weaknesses in terms of dysfunctional institutions. Therefore, sound economic management suggests the need to better understand possible sources for mitigating the adverse effects of investment volatility. Remittances have been identified as important capital flows which do a good job of dousing macroeconomic volatilities. It is on this basis that the study sought to uncover the causal relationship between remittances and investment volatility via the intermediating role of institutions. Using a panel of 70 countries and the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, three insightful outcomes come to the fore. First, remittances played countercyclical roles across the estimated regressions. Second, institutional quality had no significant role in mitigating investment volatility and lastly, the interactive terms of both remittances and institutions significantly mitigated the negative impacts of investment volatility with the exception of the political component of the institutional architecture. Policy suggestions are drawn based on our results. 4 results 4
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- Background: There exist sex disparities in the burden of Under-five deaths (U5D) with a higher prevalence among male children. Factors explaining this inequality remain unexplored in Low-and Medium-Income Countries (LMIC). This study quantified the contributions of the individual- and neighborhood-level factors to sex inequalities in U5D in LMIC. Methods: Demographic and Health Survey datasets (2010-2018) of 856,987 under-five children nested in 66,495 neighborhoods across 59 LMIC were analyzed. The outcome variable was U5D. The main group variable was the sex of the child while individual-level and neighborhood-level factors were the explanatory variables. Fairlie decomposition analysis was used to quantify the contributions of explanatory factors to the male-female inequalities in U5D at p<0.05. Results: Overall weighted prevalence of U5D was 51/1000 children, 55 among males and 48 among females (p<0.001). Higher prevalence of U5D was recorded among male children in all countries except Liberia, Kyrgyz Republic, Bangladesh, Nepal, Armenia, Turkey and Papua New Guinea. Pro-female inequality was however not significant in any country. Of the 59 countries, 25 had statistically significant pro-male inequality. Different factors contributed to the sex inequality in U5D in different countries including birth order, birth weight, birth interval and multiple births. Conclusions: There were sex inequalities in the U5D in LMIC with prominent pro-male-inequality in many countries. Interventions targeted towards the improvement of the health system that will, in turn, prevent preterm delivery and improve management of prematurity and early childhood infection (which are selective threats to the male child survival) are urgently required to address this inequality. 2 results 2
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- Construction work and industry, although highly important to Nigeria’s developmental processes, is characterised by high level of risks occurrence and hazards. The trend is exacerbated by the insecure manner in which the construction workers are recruited, placed and managed as well as non-enforcement of existing safety laws in the sector. This raises concern about the type of safety training provided in the industry and the instructional method used in imparting such safety trainings. Previous studies have focused largely on the causes, prevention, control, safety legislations and provision of safety trainings with little emphasis on safety training instructional methods. This study, therefore, determined the effects of syndicate (STM) and guided-practice (GpTM) training methods on occupational health and safety competencies (OHSC) of workers in the construction industry in Oyo State, Nigeria. The moderating effects of employees’ literacy level and employment status were also examined. This study was anchored on multiple cause and social learning theories while the pretest-posttest, control group quasi experimental design with a 3x3x2 factorial matrix was adopted. Purposive sampling technique was employed in selecting three reputable construction organisations in Oyo State. The workers in the three organisations who met the study’s inclusion criteria were randomised into STM, (12), GpTM (11) and Lecture method (12) (Control) groups while treatment lasted six weeks. Construction Industry Occupational Health and Safety Competencies Questionnaire (r=0.85), training guides for STM, GpTM and lecture method were used for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Analysis of covariance and Scheffe post-hoc test at 0.05 level of significance. Participants were male (80.0%) and female (20.0%) with a mean age of 34 years; 54.3% and 45.7% were on permanent and temporary employments respectively. Their levels of literacy status were: low (37.1%), medium (34.3%) and high (28.6%). There was a significant main effect of treatment on workers’ OHSC (F (2, 17) = 22.28, partial η^2= .72). Participants exposed to STM obtained the highest posttest OHSC mean ( = 175.42) followed by those in GpTM ( = 111.00) and control ( = 82.58) groups. There were no significant main effects of literacy level and employment status on OHSC. There was a significant two-way interaction effect of treatments and literacy on OHSC (F (4, 17) = 3.18, partial η^2= .43) but the two-way interaction effects of treatment and employment status, and employment status and literacy level were not significant. Also, three-way interaction effect of treatment, literacy level and employment status on OHSC was not significant. Syndicate and guided-practice training methods were effective in enhancing the occupational health and safety competencies of construction workers regardless of their literacy level and employment status. Both training methods should, therefore, be employed regularly in safety trainings to achieve improved occupational health and safety competencies in the Nigerian construction industry. 2 results 2
- Fairlie decomposition 2 results 2
- Female sex workers 2 results 2
- Hypertension 2 results 2
- Introduction and Objective: Poor obstetric outcomes in Nigeria with its attendant implications for measuring health indices have remained a significant health concern. The occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe care is a major contributor to the causes of maternal morbidity and mortality globally. The main objective of this study was to assess the pattern of admission as well as the outcome of Obstetrics practices in Oluyoro Catholic Hospital (OCH) Ibadan. Methodology: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional descriptive analysis of medical records of 194 cases managed between Janu-ary and December 2018. Using a proforma, data was obtained on obstetric characteristics of patients, indications for admission, outcome of pregnancy and the interventions received during patient's admission into the maternity ward. The socio-demographic characteristics were described sequentially with frequency tables and percentages. Chi-square statistics was used to determine the association between categorical variables at 5% level of statistical significance. Results: The mean age of the participants was 30.45 + 4.83 years and the majority, 183 (94.3%), of them were booked. Common indications for admission were onset of labour pains 74 (38.1%), and elective induction of labour 38 (19.6%). Two-fifths, 79 (40.7%) of the respondents had intrapartum augmentation of labour with oxytocin. The prevalence of episiotomy in this study was 22.2% while 5.2% had laceration. Majority, 182 (93.8%) had live babies out of which 8.2% required admission into the neonatal intensive care unit. Conclusion: Overall findings showed that the obstetric practices in the study setting were within the margin of acceptable standard and efforts to sustain the obstetric skills and practices of healthcare providers should be maintained. 2 results 2
- Knowledge 2 results 2
- Low- and middle-income countries 2 results 2
- Management 2 results 2
- Nigerian construction industry 2 results 2
- Occupational health and safety competencies 2 results 2
- Prevalence 2 results 2
- Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the causes and management of blindness and blinding eye conditions as perceived by rural dwellers of two Yoruba communities in Oyo State, Nigeria. Methods: Four focus group discussions were conducted among residents of Iddo and Isale Oyo, two rural Yoruba communities in Oyo State, Nigeria. Participants consisted of sighted, those who were partially or totally blind and community leaders. Ten patent medicine sellers and 12 traditional healers were also interviewed on their perception of the causes and management of blindness in their communities. Findings: Blindness was perceived as an increasing problem among the communities. Multiple factors were perceived to cause blindness, including germs, onchocerciasis and supernatural forces. Traditional healers believed that blindness could be cured, with many claiming that they had previously cured blindness in the past. However, all agreed that patience was an important requirement for the cure of blindness. The patent medicine sellers' reports were similar to those of the traditional healers. The barriers to use of orthodox medicine were mainly fear, misconception and perceived high costs of care. There was a consensus of opinion among group discussants and informants that there are severe social and economic consequences of blindness, including not been able to see and assess the quality of what the sufferer eats, perpetual sadness, loss of sleep and dependence on other persons for daily activities. Conclusion: Local beliefs associated with causation, symptoms and management of blindness and blinding eye conditions among rural Yoruba communities identified have provided a bridge for understanding local perspectives and basis for implementing appropriate primary eye care programs. 2 results 2
- Sex inequality 2 results 2
- Students with hearing impairment 2 results 2
- Syndicate and guided-practice training methods 2 results 2
- The paper investigated the changing culture of information retrieval, its utilization and storage among students in an academic library in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data was collected through the use of questionnaire, observation and interviews. A total of two interviews with the library management of the faculty over a period of two sessions, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009, was conducted. 100 users responded to the questionanaire. The questionnaire sought to find out the frequency of library use, the value users attached to the use of the library and why they used the library. about 49% of the respondents use the library three times a week, 40% of the respondents uses the library mainly to search for ohter information apart from thier lecture notes, and 94% of the respondents showed how much value they attached to the library by thier utilization of the information sources within the library. The study also described the online information storage practices in the library; the computer literacy level of users as well as the library user-education was examined. The study found that although students used electronic sources they still preferred to consult traditional information sources such as text books and thesis. The study also revealed that 51% of students liked accessing the OPAC (Online Public Acccess Catalogue) because its is faster to use and time saving when seeking information although this is often hampered by frequent electricity cuts. On their attitude to the increased ICT presence in the library, they inistially resisted the changes but later developed interest and adapted as library use instruction as being applied. In terms of the utilization and non-utilization of the internet there were complaints from the respondents that the time allotment was too short and the computers were not enough. Other respondents mentioned the issue of the server not working at a consistent and regular basis. The study also found that libray support by top management in all its ramifications was vital in order to meet up with current trends in information service provision and development. 2 results 2
- Under-five death 2 results 2
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- Energy Science & Engineering 1 results 1
- Environment & Ecosystem Science 1 results 1
- International Journal of Music Business Research 1 results 1
- Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers 1 results 1
- Maine Policy Review 1 results 1
- Plants, People, Planet 1 results 1
- Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 1 results 1
- Sustainable Development Law & Policy 1 results 1
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