BACKGROUND Injury threatens children lives worldwide. Most studies from Nigeria have been on accidental injuries in children. OBJECTIVES To study the profile of non-accidental injuries among children receiving care at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. METHODS Children with non-accidental injuries were serially recruited and studied. The Paediatrics Trauma Score (PTS) was tested against the ou...

Since the invention of “software engineering” in 1968, software development has been suffering from efficiency problems. Software development is bridging the gap between verbally formulated requirements and programming languages. This work equates development with communication. Communication efforts refer to either essential or accidental complexity. This work hypothesizes that accidental comp...