African indigenous chickens (IC) though commonly kept by households in rural areas for consumption and sale, their contribution to livelihoods is generally overlooked. Literature suggests that IC production plays a vital role communities of South Africa as an important source animal protein income. Despite these claimed benefits, Alice other parts Africa’s very low. This study used cross-sectio...

BACKGROUND Residential-use pesticides have been shown to be a major source of pesticide exposure to people in the United States. However, little is understood about the exposures to household pesticides and the resultant health effects. One reason that little is known about home-use pesticide exposure is the lack of comprehensive data on exposures to pesticides in the home. One method to help a...

BACKGROUND Coverage of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions is often influenced by important determinants and decision makers are often concerned with equity issues. The net-benefit framework developed and applied alongside clinical trials and in pharmacoeconomics offers the potential for exploring how cost-effectiveness of MNH interventions varies at the margin by important covariat...

the paper determined optimum farm plan for food security among smallholder farmers in imo state, nigeria. data were collected with structured and validated questionnaire from 180 smallholder crops farmers in imo state. data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, frequency distribution and percentages), budgetary analysis and linear programming model. results show that the mean age of...

We analyze data from a variety of sources, including historical data from a women’s clothing catalog, a field study in that catalog, survey responses to catalog stimuli, and grocery store data for frozen juice, toothpaste, and tuna. The analysis yields three conclusions. First, sale signs are less effective at increasing demand when more items have them. Second, total category sales are maximiz...

there have been a lot of debates between law authors about formation of valid sale contract to the building while constructing for a long time. after enactment of forward sale act in 1389 forward sale building during construction process accepted. however some facts were not answered clearly when the transferring of ownership will be happened: through official forward sale contract or transferr...

one of the possessions that the mortgage, from the viewpoint of his actual right may do is the sale of the object pledged. dispensing with the well- known idea of the islamic jurists and the jurists that they believe that the sale is not binding but with, study some of the islamic ideas and articles 794 and 793 of code civil it seems that the sale of the object pledged is not harmful for mortag...

In the early 1990s, Sahelian countries embarked on a process to develop markets, limit government market interventions and liberalise trade. The achievements of this process, which was encouraged at the regional level by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Union économique et monétaire de l'Afrique de l'ouest (UEMOA), have to date been mixed: barriers to trade, both f...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) are used to investigate integrated algae bioenergy production and nutrient management on small dairy farms. Four cases are considered: a reference land-application scenario (REF), anaerobic digestion with land-application of liquid digestate (AD), and anaerobic digestion with recycling of liquid digestate to either an open-pond algae cult...

BACKGROUND Burns is a global problem and has its toll especially in a developing region like ours where poverty and ignorance are still rife. Previous studies in the sub-region have lumped children and adults together. We retrospectively studied the factors that lead to burns in children and the peculiarities in managing them. METHODS All case notes of burns injury in children managed at the ...