An experience sampling study assessed the relation between psychological functioning in daily life and emotional expressivity as measured by the emotional expressivity scale (EES). Four hundred and twenty-nine participants carried personal digital assistants that signaled them 8 times daily to complete questionnaires assessing affect, activities, and social contact. As predicted, participants h...

A survey was conducted to assess competencies of dental graduates of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, as perceived by the graduates and their employers, based on the five-year undergraduate curriculum introduced in 1995. All senior dental officers in the Ministry of Health (MOH), representing employers, and all 164 dental graduates of the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 were sent a se...

For much of its existence, Nigeria was governed by the military. From 1960 to 2007, a total of forty-seven years, the military ruled for twenty-nine years. The remaining eighteen years was taken up by civilian rule. The search for a functional and cohesive Nigeria was a constant leitmotiv that ran throughout the period. This search is what has been termed nation-building. The federal government...

2-Chloroethyl (methylsulfonyl)methanesulfonate (ClEtSoSo) was more toxic to the BE (Mer-) cell line than to the HT-29 (Mer+) colon carcinoma. The sensitivity of the BE cells closely paralleled the induction of DNA interstrand cross-links by ClEtSoSo. No DNA interstrand crosslink formation was detected in the HT-29 cells after exposure to ClEtSoSo. Pretreatment of the HT-29 cells with methylatin...

RESULTS A total of 998 vEEGs were undertaken during the study period. Of these, 128 were following a fi rst afebrile seizure: 119/128 were referred by general paediatricians and the remaining 9 by paediatric neurologists. The mean age group was 6.5 years (range 1 month to 17 years). Thirty-four of 128 children had an underlying neurodevelopmental problem. In 11 children, there was a family hist...