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Prevalence and pattern of paediatric neurological disorders managed in outpatient physiotherapy clinics in Kano
Neurological disorders are among the major causes of physical disability in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and pattern of Paediatric Neurological Disorders (PNDs) managed in outpatient Physiotherapy clinics in Kano. The 10-year retrospective descriptive study collected relevant data on PNDs from case files of the children who have been managed in Physiotherapy clinics of the 5 major referral hospitals in Kano using a data capture form. The population of children in Kano State based on the 2006 Census and the projected population for 2017 was obtained from the National Population Commission, Kano State office. The data obtained was analysed with descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage. Dataanalysis was done using Microsoft excel and SPSS version 20. Results showed that 1927paediatric cases were analysed out of which PNDs accounted for 1618 (83.96%). The mean age of the children at the time of their first treatment visit was 3.13 years ± 3.04years (range =33days-12years). Most of the children with PNDs are males 1101(57.1%), with male to female ratio of 1.3:1. The Prevalence of PNDs in Kano was 0.257/1000 (i.e.25.7/100,000). The most common PND that was managed by physiotherapists in KanoState was cerebral palsy which has a prevalence of 0.106/1000 (i.e.10.6/100,000),(proportion = 41.16%). It was concluded that PNDs are the most common paediatric cases managed by physiotherapists in Kano State with cerebral palsy having higherprevalenc
Radiative corrections to low energy neutrino reactions
We show that the radiative corrections to charged current (CC) nuclear
reactions with an electron(positron) in the final state are described by a
universal function. The consistency of our treatment of the radiative
corrections with the procedure used to extract the value of the axial coupling
constant is discussed. To illustrate we apply our results to
(anti)neutrino deuterium disintegration and to fusion in the sun. The
limit of vanishing electron mass is considered, and a simple formula valid for
E_{obs}\gsim 1 MeV is obtained. The size of the nuclear structure-dependent
effects is also discussed. Finally, we consider CC transitions with an
electron(positron) in the initial state and discuss some applications to
electron capture reactions.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
Islamic economy as an alternative solution to managing economic crisis: Some fashionable case studies of Iran, Malaysia Saudi Arabia
This review paper examined some economies derives from Islamic value premise in nations such as Iran, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia as alternative solutions to economic crisis emanating from conventional economies. In today’s world of investment and finance, many proponents of Islamic finance (a related branch of Islamic Economics) believe that Islamic finance is a more stable institution as it was virtually unaffected by the financial crisis of 2008 and to some extend enjoys a recent success in the financial market that has awakened the interest of investors both inside and outside of the Islamic community
Suitable MLP Network Activation Functions For Breast Cancer And Thyroid Disease Detection.
This paper presents a comparison study of various MLP activation functions for detection and classification
problems
On geometric moment invariants
In this paper we study the geometric moments invariants. We describe an image in terms of features which are invariant to some sort of transformations i.e mentioned translation, rotation and scaling change in exposure, brightness etc. Our aim is to check the performance of components for feature vectors
Enhanced T-odd P-odd Electromagnetic Moments in Reflection Asymmetric Nuclei
Collective P- and T- odd moments produced by parity and time invariance
violating forces in reflection asymmetric nuclei are considered. The enhanced
collective Schiff, electric dipole and octupole moments appear due to the
mixing of rotational levels of opposite parity. These moments can exceed
single-particle moments by more than two orders of magnitude. The enhancement
is due to the collective nature of the intrinsic moments and the small energy
separation between members of parity doublets. In turn these nuclear moments
induce enhanced T- and P- odd effects in atoms and molecules. First a simple
estimate is given and then a detailed theoretical treatment of the collective
T-, P- odd electric moments in reflection asymmetric, odd-mass nuclei is
presented and various corrections evaluated. Calculations are performed for
octupole deformed long-lived odd-mass isotopes of Rn, Fr, Ra, Ac and Pa and the
corresponding atoms. Experiments with such atoms may improve substantially the
limits on time reversal violation.Comment: 28 pages, Revte
Evaluation of Fenoxaprop-P-Ethyl Resistant Littleseed Canarygrass (Phalaris minor) in Pakistan
Anisotropic flow of charged hadrons, pions and (anti-)protons measured at high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
The elliptic, , triangular, , and quadrangular, , azimuthal
anisotropic flow coefficients are measured for unidentified charged particles,
pions and (anti-)protons in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Results obtained with the
event plane and four-particle cumulant methods are reported for the
pseudo-rapidity range at different collision centralities and as a
function of transverse momentum, , out to GeV/.
The observed non-zero elliptic and triangular flow depends only weakly on
transverse momentum for GeV/. The small dependence
of the difference between elliptic flow results obtained from the event plane
and four-particle cumulant methods suggests a common origin of flow
fluctuations up to GeV/. The magnitude of the (anti-)proton
elliptic and triangular flow is larger than that of pions out to at least
GeV/ indicating that the particle type dependence persists out
to high .Comment: 16 pages, 5 captioned figures, authors from page 11, published
version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/186
Centrality dependence of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
The inclusive transverse momentum () distributions of primary
charged particles are measured in the pseudo-rapidity range as a
function of event centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at
TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The data are presented in the range
GeV/ for nine centrality intervals from 70-80% to 0-5%.
The Pb-Pb spectra are presented in terms of the nuclear modification factor
using a pp reference spectrum measured at the same collision
energy. We observe that the suppression of high- particles strongly
depends on event centrality. In central collisions (0-5%) the yield is most
suppressed with at -7 GeV/. Above
GeV/, there is a significant rise in the nuclear modification
factor, which reaches for GeV/. In
peripheral collisions (70-80%), the suppression is weaker with almost independently of . The measured nuclear
modification factors are compared to other measurements and model calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/284
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