This article engages with the notion of ‘break-down’ as a way going beyond claims to recover discarded or practice repair. It experiments ethnographic cross-pollination, setting vignettes from seemingly disparate field-sites alongside one another, meditate on singular unfinished moments that together reflect wider dynamics invisibility, negation, stigma and suspension at urban interstices. From...

The experiment was investigated to survey of yield and yield components of sunflower cultivars under drought stress in 2012 in Kabootatabad of Esfahan farm. An experiment was conducted in split plot and was designed in randomized complete block with three replications. Irrigation was as main plots in 3 levels (control (normal irrigation), irrigation of 130 mm evaporation from pan evaporation, i...

BACKGROUND The management of abdominal trauma (particularly blunt trauma) has undergone tremendous revolution in the last 30 years with significant reduction in morbidity and mortality in developed countries. The aim of this report is to highlight the challenges of managing abdominal trauma in children in Nigeria based on our experience in Zaria, northern Nigeria. METHOD This is a retrospecti...

Electrical resistivity method was used in carrying out geophysical investigations at the Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with a view of determining the depth to the bedrock, thickness of the top soil and weathered basement.Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) using Schlumberger array was carried out at forty (40) VES stations. ABEM terrameter (SAS 3...

12 cases of conjoined twins from West Africa were reported between 1936 and 1978. Eight sets were liveborn and were surgically separated either in local hospitals or abroad. Four were stillborn. Two new cases of stillborn conjoined twins were recently delivered at this hospital. The most common type and the ones most likely to be born alive were the omphalopagi. Surgical separation was successf...