Muslim women's role in reproductive health decision making and their vulnerability to STIs and HIV & AIDS in Ankpa LGA of Kogi State Nigeria

The United Nations (UN) named year 2000 as the year in which gender equality, development and peace shall be guaranteed women for the twenty first century. The UN emphasized that gendered issues surrounding the reproductive life of women be paid serious consideration in promoting the Reproductive Health Decision-Making (RDHM) process. This study explored spousal communication between couples in Ankpa LGA where gender dictates the life of people. The presenting problem also implied how vulnerable married women were to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) due to their lack of contribution to RHDM. The studies objectives were to: (a) analyze women’s role in the RHDM process; (b) explain the key factors influencing women’s participation in RHDM; (c) determine the impacts of women’s involvement in RDHM; (d) analyze the challenges faced by women in contributing to the RHDM and; (e) develop a communication model that facilitates participation RHDM. Through a qualitative research purposive sampling was employed to select twenty married women as informants and two focus group discussions (FGDs). The in-depth interviews were used for data collection. Findings were analyzed using thematic content analysis and showed that objective (1) the analysis of women’s role RHDM showed lack of knowledge of RH and reproductive rights, (2) the key factors impeding women’s participation in RHDM were explained in the findings of the study (3) for the third objective it was also agreed that married women do not contribute to RHDM due to the challenges faces as shown in the second objective and (4), and finally the fourth objective showed that women are vulnerable to STIs and HIV&AIDS, and finally (5) the study was able to design a communication model that can enhance women’s communication ability and facilitate participation on RHDM

DINAMIKA MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI DALAM MEMUTUS PERKARA JUDICIAL REVIEW

Mahkamah Konstitusi sebagai lembaga pengawal konstitusi (the guardian of the constitution) dalam memutus perkara judicial review berperan sebagai negatif legislator untuk membatalkan norma yang dianggap bertentangan dengan Undang-undang Dasar  Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945. Namun seiring perkembangan waktu, Mahkamah Konstitusi tidak hanya membatalkan norma, tetapi juga berperan sebagai positif legislator dengan mengubah frasa dalam undang-undang. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji dampak dari putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi yang positif legislator serta bagaimana pandangan hukum Islam terkait permasalahan tersebut. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yuridis normatif, dengan pendekatan konseptual dan perundang-undangan (conceptual and statute approach). Sumber data yang digunakan adalah data primer dan data sekunder, data yang terkumpul kemudian dianalisis dengan teknik deskriptif-analitis kemudian disimpulkan. Hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa, Mahkamah Konstitusi dalam memutus perkara judicial review dimaksudkan untuk memberikan rasa keadilan, sehingga dituntut tidak hanya memosisikan diri sebagai negatif legislator, tetapi juga sebagai positif legislator. Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi yang bersifat positif legislator tidak menimbulkan kerugian bagi pembuat undang-undang, sepanjang tujuan dari putusan yang bersifat positif legislator adalah untuk mengisi kekosongan hukum. Kedepan, diharapkan adanya penguatan kelembagaan dan kewenangan Mahkamah Konstitusi dalam menerapkan positif legislator, sehingga akan lebih berkepastian hukum sekaligus menghindari polemik ditengah-tengah masyarakat. Kata Kunci: Judicial Review; Mahkamah Konstitusi; Positif Legislato

Effect of educational intervention on knowledge about hypertension and factors predicting adherence to drug therapy

The present study was aimed at identifying the degree of knowledge of people with hypertension about the disease, identifying the factors predicting adherence to therapy and administering intervention. It was a quasi-experimental study involving 600 patients selected by multistage sampling technique. Adherence status was assessed using Morisky medication adherence scale8. Knowledge was measured using an eight-item instrument. Educational intervention in form of group discussions was administered. Values of p ≤ 0.05 were considered statistically significant. BP control was significantly higher in those that adhered to antihypertensive medication compared with non-adhering patients (χ2 = 14.526; df = 1; p-value = < 0.001). Comorbidity and number of antihypertensive drugs the patients were taking were found to be the predictors of adherence. After intervention, the percentage of respondents with good adherence increased from 41.3% to 48.3% (p = 0.369) in the intervention group. Furthermore educational intervention had a positive effect on knowledge of the respondents [from 64% to 66.3% (p= 0.623)] in the intervention group. The results revealed that the educational intervention had positive impact of knowledge of hypertension and its treatment. Additionally, Comorbidity and number of antihypertensive prescribed were found to be the predictors of adherence to medications.&nbsp

Examination of the AAOIFI pronouncement on Sukuk Issuance and its implication on the Future Sukuk structure in the islamic capital market in Malaysia.

The Shariah compliant bond defined as "sukuk" has become one of the most dynamic tools for capital mobilization in both the Islamic and conventional capital markets. ItseQ' rapid growth and development has proved it to be a viable tool for raising capital in the international capital markets through Islamically acceptable structures. By the end of2007, the total issues value was estimated at USS35 billion. However, the recent AAOIFI pronouncement on sukuk has created some fear among the investment sectors as well as the sukuk industry. The AAOIFI preannouncement has resulted in the existence of additional standards that have to be observed by the issuers in order to comply with the Shariah rules and regulations. This has somehow slowed down the growth of the instrument in the first quarter of the year 20 II. Although the pronouncement has some impacts and implications on the sukuk industry. there is still an optimism of things gelling better as it moved further. According to some of the statistics, sukuk issuance in the GCC region has increased by 17%, last year to US$I7 billion, which is 30% more than conventional paper debt. In this context, the paper is trying to examine the AAOIFI pronouncement on the shariah compliance issues ofsukuk structuring, its impacts and implications on the future issue

The Determinants of Intellectual Capital Disclosure on Firm Value: The Evidence on the Financial Companies in Indonesia

Objectives: Firm value is the price of the firm that can be sold with a price agreement that will be paid by the buyer. A high stock price will increase the value of the company and increase the prosperity of the investors. Therefore, to attract the attention of buyers of company shares, companies must provide the best and most detailed financial information possible. As for information that can be disclosed in financial reports, namely intellectual capital. The presence of PSAK No. 19 concerning intangible assets marked the beginning of the phenomenon of intellectual capital in Indonesia. It turns out that although Intellectual Capital Disclosure has started to grow in Indonesia, the growth is still very small. Companies in Indonesia should be required to disclose their intellectual property, particularly in the financial industry. This is because the financial services sector which is highly dependent on information uses more intellectual capital in its operations than the industrial sector which relies more on tangible assets. As it is known, the disclosure of intellectual capital can provide an attraction for investors to increase the value of the company. This study aims to find out how factors such as firm age, leverage, profitability, and independent commissioners affect firm value through the disclosure of intellectual capital.Methodology: This study uses a sample of financial sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2020-2021 with a total population of 105 companies and a total sample of 83 companies. This research uses panel data.Finding: According to the findings of this study, business size, profitability, age, independent commissioners, and disclosure of intellectual capital have a beneficial impact on firm value of about 43%. However, leverage does not affect firm value. Furthermore, the mediation test results show that disclosure of intellectual capital is not able to mediate the relationship between the effect of firm size, leverage, profitability, and firm age on firm value. Only the influence of independent commissioners mediates firm value.Conclusion: For future researchers, it is expected to increase the research period and add other factors that influence the disclosure of intellectual capital

Comparative study on energy consumption in dynamic window secured implicit geographic forwarding routing protocol

An Ideal WSNs should operate with the least possible energy required in order to increase the lifetime of the sensor nodes and at the same time, ensure network connectivity. But the Inherent power limitation makes power-awareness a critical requirement for WSN, this calls for the need to manage energy in sensor nodes. Also In order to ensure successful transmission of data from sensor node source to destination, it becomes necessary to maintain network availability. The network must be resilient to individual node failure which can happen due to zero power posses by the node and due to security attacks posed on the node and the network. Dynamic Window Secured Implicit Geographic Forwarding (DWSIGF) routing protocol has proven to be robust, efficient and resistant to some security attack which causes failure in network availability. However the extent to which energy is consumed in sensor nodes which deploys DWSIGF as its routing protocol has never been mentioned. In this research, we performed a comparative study on energy consumption in DWSIGF routing protocol. Using the first order radio model, we determined the energy consumed in a network. The protocol (DWSIGF) is matched up against its counterpart SIGF as the traffic is increased. Observation shows that DWSIGF due to the variable timing assigned to the CTS collection window, CTS signal fails to reach destination as collection window time expires, thus the need for retransmission. This in turn consumes more energy than the counterpart SIGF which has a fixed CTS collection time. The simulation work was done using Matlab 7.0. Energy consumed in the random variant of both protocols (DWSIGF and SIGF) was also observed to be higher than the priority variant of the protocols

Deteksi Malicious Code JavaScript Pada Browser Internet

In a common web page web site in which there is the JavaScript code contained a variety of functions from that script. It can not be denied that the JavaScript code is more flexible and attractive. But in Java Script, there are codes of good to beautify the view, so convenient web interface, good, interesting things to see and there are also bad code (Malicious Code) which is used for evil to steal a small example of useful data on the web visitors Malicious code is inserted. Besides that, it is no less importance is the still low level of public awareness of the security of sensitive data they have. This is what is often exploited by cyber criminals to do the hacking. This was not only often befall the ordinary user (non-IT), but also often occurs in IT community. Based on the background of problems above, we want to build an application that functions as a detector of a web of Malicious Code, so that with the help of the application helps the user to determine the existence of Malicious Code at the web application user This Final Project expected able to give added value for media medium to get a accurate information. optimal Ambulatory but a mobile device

The Gbagyi Bayekpe (Education) and Imperialism in Minna, 1928 – 1960

This article discussed the Gbagyi Bayekpe (education) and imperialism in Minna, 1928-1960. The contact of the Gbagyi in Minna with imperialism dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. The Bayekpe (education) of the Gbagyi which was a process of preparing the children and every individual for happy and useful living and to prepare the Gbagyi individual who will be honest, responsible, skilled, cooperative and conform to the social order of the day as a result of the encounter of the Gbagyi with the imperial power was supplanted with a new system of knowledge This new order which was explicitly designed to restructure the social pattern of the Gbagyi and his society began in 1928 and by 1960 had replaced the Gbagyi Bayekpe (education). This development, the paper explained marked the starting point of the dependency syndrome which characterized the Gbagyi modernity and remains an obstacle to the growth of Gbagyi and his Minna society. The paper exposed the effect of this alien knowledge system on the Gbagyi in Minna and made a case for the redefinition of the Gbagyi knowledge system different from western tradition of education which holistically emphasizes dominance as a measure of education attainment

FEASIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY OF MY ELECTRONIC PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD MONITOR (MY-EPHRM)

Objectives: Smartphones could be used as a novel approach to improve medication adherence and patient's behaviour; due to constant accessibility, and the provision of a repository for health and medication information. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the use of My Electronic Personal Health Record Monitor (My-ePHRM), a newly-developed application (software) for personal health record monitoring as well as the factors that predict its acceptability.Methods: A cross-sectional study using structured questionnaire was conducted on 363 potential users. Statistical analyses were performed usingSPSS version 20.0. Description statistics and multiple logistic regression analysis were employed.Results: Majority of the participants were females (69.7%) with the mean age of 22 y (SD±1.7). Of the total number of the participants, 63.9% agreed that My-ePHRM was easy to operate and 50.7% thought that the language used was simple and easy to understand. Most of the participants found the features of My-ePHRM attractive (61.7%) and 52.1% would like to own it in the future. The majority agreed that My-ePHRM could increase health knowledge (57.0%), increase drug knowledge (54.0%) and could improve drug adherence (56.5%). Overall, (52.6%) believed that it was a good programme and (54.3%) would recommend it to others. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that ethnicity, gender and programme of the study participants did not predict My-ePHRM acceptance.Conclusion: My-ePHRM has been shown to be acceptable, simple and practical by its target users creating a huge potential in patients participation in documenting health-related activities.Â