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University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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About: University of Nigeria, Nsukka is a education organization based out in Nsukka, Nigeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 10211 authors who have published 13685 publications receiving 138922 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Medicine, Public health, Pregnancy
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TL;DR: The community perceived schistosomiasis and intestinal helminthiasis as important health problems in school‐age children and most people would prefer placement of the control programme in school because it would eliminate transportation cost to the health facility.
Abstract: In a population with high prevalences in schoolchildren of infection with hookworm (32.4%), Ascaris (22.9%) and Trichuris (2.5%), visible haematuria (17.9%), micro-haematuria (17%) and proteinuria (47.3%), the knowledge about transmission of schistosomiasis and acceptability of a school-based control programme were assessed. The community perceived schistosomiasis (80.6%) and intestinal helminthiasis (66.5%) as important health problems in school-age children and most people would prefer placement of the control programme in school because it would eliminate transportation cost to the health facility. They welcomed the idea of using teachers for detection of infection and drug administration. The health staff, on the other hand, were willing to work with teachers, but emphasized that teachers should be limited to organizational and supervisory roles while they do tests and administer the drug. This view was also shared by the officials in the state ministries of health and education.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate temporal changes in aggregate stability and cold water-soluble, hot water soluble, and acid-solvable carbohydrate fractions of a sandy soil under different organic residue management practices.
Abstract: An understanding of the dynamics of soil carbohydrate pools is necessary for assessing the impact of organic residue management in organic matter build up and structural stability in tropical ecosystems. The objectives of this study were to evaluate temporal changes in aggregate stability and cold water-soluble, hot water-soluble and acid-soluble carbohydrate fractions of a sandy soil under different organic residue management practices. The soil is an Nkpologu sandy clay loam (fine-loamy, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic, typic kandiustult) at Nsukka in southeastern Nigeria. In July 1995, it was incorporated with complete fertiliser (N:P:K = 12:12:17 at 480 kg/ha) (F); rice mill wastes (RW, 10 t/ha); RW+F; poultry manure (PM, 10 t/ha) and RW (5 t / ha )+ PM (5 t / ha ) up to the 0–20 cm depth. A control, tilled up to the 0–20 cm depth, was also included. Surface soil samples (0–20 cm), collected at 3, 6 and 12 months after residue applications were used to measure changes in aggregate stability by mean weight diameter (MWD), total OC and carbohydrate pools. In all treatments MWD increased whereas the concentrations of acid-soluble, hot water-soluble and cold water-soluble carbohydrates decreased with sampling time. Also irrespective of the type of amendment, the carbohydrate concentrations at each sampling period varied in the order, acid - soluble > hot water - soluble > cold water - soluble . Aggregate stability correlated very poorly with all the carbohydrate fractions and OC. The correlation coefficient values were rather low and did not mean much in the physical interpretation of these results. This shows that these carbohydrate pools were not very effective in stabilizing the soil aggregates.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of different management practices on the physical properties of a sandy loam soil in Southern Nigeria were studied for two cropping seasons, and the results showed that up to 33% of the saturation water content was released between tensions of 0 and 0.06 bar in all the treatment plots.
Abstract: The effects of different management practices on the physical properties of a sandy loam soil in Southern Nigeria were studied for two cropping seasons. The bulk densities of the top 0–10-cm soil depths were significantly reduced in plots under 13 years of Panicum maximum and Centrosema pubescens covers. Pores of equivalent cylindrical diameter > 0.05 mm were increased significantly under the two covers. Up to 33% of the saturation water content was released between tensions of 0 and 0.06 bar in the sandy loam soil of all the treatment plots. Furthermore an average of 24% of this water was released between tensions of 0.06 and 0.33 bar. Infiltration rates, measured at the end of the growing season, ranged from 240 mm h −1 under the bare fallow treatment to 1326 mm h −1 under the Centrosema cover. There was no significant difference between the tilled and no-tillage plots. Saturated hydraulic conductivities were significantly higher under the Panicum and Centrosema covers. The effect of tillage on conductivity was not appreciable. The highest weekly 5-cm depth, 1.30 p.m. soil temperature (32°C) was obtained under the bare fallow treatment and the lowest (23.5°) under the Panicum cover. Tillage had no significant effect on the soil temperature. Thirteen years of continuous Centrosema and Panicum covers had a significant effect on the physical properties of the tropical sandy loam soil. Tillage effects were not significant after 2 years of cropping.
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TL;DR: The Ishiagu lead-zinc deposits of southeastern Nigeria are associated with folded shales of the Asu River Group as discussed by the authors, and the style of mineralization is exclusively fissure-filling, whereas the distinctive pattern of mineralisation suggests two separate phases of epigenetic hydrothermal emplacement.
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TL;DR: The paper contributes additional knowledge about health seeking and economic burden of different health conditions, and shows the level of healthcare payments in public and private sector and their distribution across socioeconomic and geographic population groups.
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There is need for new information about the socio-economic and geographic differences in health seeking and expenditures on many health conditions, so to help to design interventions that will reduce inequity in utilisation of healthcare services and ensure universal coverage.
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Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh | 118 | 1025 | 56187 |
Peter J. Houghton | 63 | 228 | 14321 |
Alessandro Piccolo | 62 | 284 | 14332 |
R. W. Guillery | 60 | 106 | 13439 |
Ulrich Klotz | 56 | 213 | 10774 |
Nicholas H. Oberlies | 52 | 262 | 9683 |
Brian Norton | 49 | 322 | 9251 |
Adesola Ogunniyi | 47 | 272 | 11806 |
Obinna Onwujekwe | 43 | 282 | 8960 |
Sanjay Batra | 39 | 329 | 7179 |
Benjamin Uzochukwu | 38 | 163 | 9318 |
Christian N. Madu | 36 | 134 | 5378 |
Jude U. Ohaeri | 36 | 121 | 3088 |
Peter A. Akah | 33 | 164 | 3422 |
Charles E. Chidume | 33 | 153 | 3639 |