in nigeria, crowded housing is one of the housing stresses that bother policy-makers and housing authorities.this study examines the crowding levels in seven marital status categories among the occupants of lagos state development and property corporation’s apartments. the focus is on the capacity of an apartment’s internal spaces to meet the sleeping needs of households in different marital ar...

MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local And Global Research Observations) is an international collaborative project to examine the behavior and the export of atmospheric emissions from a megacity. The Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) – one of the world’s largest megacities and North America’s most populous city – was selected as the case study to characterize the sources, concentrations, transp...

Chemically-resolved aerosol volatility measurements from two megacity field studies J. A. Huffman, K. S. Docherty, A. C. Aiken, M. J. Cubison, I. M. Ulbrich, P. F. DeCarlo, D. Sueper, J. T. Jayne, D. R. Worsnop, P. J. Ziemann, and J. L. Jimenez Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, Colorado, USA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Col...

BACKGROUND Immunity in pregnancy is physiologically compromised, and this may affect CD4 count levels. It is well-established that several factors affect CD4 count level in pregnancy. This study aimed to determine the mean and reference range of CD4 count in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive pregnant women in Lagos, Nigeria. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out at antenatal...

Globally, Nigeria is the second most unsafe country to be pregnant, with Lagos, its economic nerve center having disproportionately higher maternal deaths than the national average. Emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is effective in reducing pregnancyrelated morbidities and mortalities. This mixed-methods study quantitatively assessed women's satisfaction with EmOC received and qualitatively engag...

Background: Malaria infestation in pregnancy is a major public health concern and ranks amongst the commonest complications of pregnancy in Nigeria. Approximately 50,000 Nigerian women die each year from largely preventable pregnancy related complications. Intermittent preventive therapy for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) is a key recommendation in the National guideline for malaria treatment in N...

Since early detection of pathogens and their virulence factors contribute to intervention and control strategies, we assessed the enteropathogens in diarrhoea disease and investigated the link between toxigenic strains of Escherichia coli from stool and drinking-water sources; and determined the expression of toxin genes by antibiotic-resistant E. coli in Lagos, Nigeria. This was compared with ...

A major concern in modern monetary theory has been the development of models where money is essential and yet substantive issues can be analyzed in a tractable manner. At the center of this e¤ort is Lagos and Wright (2005). The tractability in their framework is due to the fact that trade alternates between a centralized market and a decentralized market. A widespread view is that money is esse...