The fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis of democracy. conduct periodic, competitive, participatory, credible and non-violent is one main yardsticks used determine democratic condition a state. In Nigeria, have been conducted using manual system ever since we started practicing democracy 1999, but these means, marred with lot electoral malpractices hitches. Th...

The module was developed as an elective to give motivated senior dental students an opportunity to expand their horizons in planning oral rehabilitation. It comprised one tutor and 12 students, from five universities world-wide, communicating on the World Wide Web (WWW), to develop oral rehabilitation plans for simulated patients. Trigger material came from one of two Case Profiles and consiste...

PURPOSE Surgeons have noticed an increased incidence of finger lacerations associated with arthroscopic knot tying with solid-core suture material. This study examines glove perforations and finger lacerations during arthroscopic shoulder surgery. METHODS We collected 400 surgical gloves from 50 consecutive arthroscopic shoulder repair procedures using No. 2 solid-core sutures. Two surgeons u...

The article summarizes the tradition of teen services in public libraries and discusses the more recent incorporation of youth development principles and practices into those services, with the Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development project being singled out as a major contributor to current thinking about this issue. The Free Library of Philadelphia’s LEAP program, with its after-sc...

soil compaction is a major problem in many parts of the world. the determination of soil compaction profiles requires fast sampling systems to keep pace with the change in soil moisture condition over time. soil cone penetrometers are commonly used for this purpose. a tractor-mounted soil cone penetrometer was designed and fabricated with multiple probes and the ability to determine cone index ...

Managing waste has been an aged-old challenge, especially in developing cities, like the Freetown Metropolitan City. Solid Waste and/or waste general is artefact of human activities that can spring from individuals, families, community, commercial/industrial operations etc. This study a qualitative investigation, and it intended to gather inclusive knowledge of solid wastes management for...

Awakening heterochromatin ites in the human genome once thought to be inert structural material are brought to life in response to stress, according to results from Jolly et al. (page 25). These inactive DNA stretches are binding sites for HSF1, a transcription factor that activates individual heat shock genes and accumulates in nuclear granules after heat shock. These granules were, like HSF1,...

The virus world in which we live will never cease to amaze us. Historically, viruses were studied primarily from medical and economic perspectives; however, the last decades have shown that viruses play roles far more versatile than we could have imagined. Being the most abundant biological entities on the planet (there are ∼10 virus particles in every liter of seawater), viruses drive biogeoch...

Walking a fine caspase line W hether caspase enzymes perform developmental tasks or cause cell death can depend on the timing with which a caspase inhibitor protein turns over, fi nd Koto et al. They show that the inhibitor protein follows a dramatic temporal regulation specifi c to cell type and maturity. In the last decade, researchers realized that the destructive capabilities of caspase enz...