Zainab Camara cradles her two-week-old baby in the postnatal ward of Freetown’s Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. is is the rst child she has delivered in a hospital. And lucky that she did. Shortly a er giving birth at a regional hospital in Waterloo town, about 30 kilometres outside the capital, Camara began to bleed uncontrollably. She was swi ly transferred to Freetown, where doctors o...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) leads to a lot of stress and shock to the parents. Nurses, as the primary sources of information, could play an important role in reducing their stress. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational program on the premature infants' parental stress in NICU. METHODS This double-blind randomized controlled tria...

Multistage collectors are commonly used in travelling wave tubes (TWTs), klystrons, gyrotrons and inductive output tubes (IOTs). A dc beam transfers some of its energy to the input RF wave during its travel through the interaction circuit. The purpose of a collector is to recover most of the remaining dc power from the spent beam and thereby increase both the collector and the overall efficienc...

A postmortem survey on ten rats (Rattus spp.) caught in the Veterinary Research Institute (VRI) was done to evaluate the parasite, viral and bacterial status. The rats were trapped in the laboratory animal facilities in VRI. The results indicated that seven rats harboured mites (Demodex sp.) from skin samples. Parasite eggs such as strongyle and Strongyloides sp. were also recovered from the in...

The natural aging, environmental impact, and appropriate design are certainly playing a serious role in safety of the bridges function. The functional safety of bridge constitutes a prime element of the transportation system serving commuters, passengers and freight. According to Federal Highway Administration, the steel bridges share represents a large amount of the United States' bridges. In ...

For many years now, identification of native medicinal plants which are effective in improving human health has been the focus of attention by the United Nations World Health Organization. Sambucus nigra is a valuable medicinal plant used for a long time in traditional medicine for prevention and treatment of common diseases such as cold, joint swell, and rheumatic pains. In this research, root...

Bipod nettle Utrica dioica L has therapeutic properties in treatment of human chronic diseases such as anemia, joints pain and skin diseases. In this research the major components of extracts in different parts of plant (root, stem and leaf) were identified by gas chromatography (GC) apparatus. Twenty compounds were identified, the most important of which were Neophytadiene (25.21%), Phtaleic a...