It is widely accepted that a safe and healthy workplace is key to ensure employee engagement. As manufacturing organizations are more prone to industrial accidents, the study focuses on the different employee health and safety initiatives taken by several garment factories of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study uses both primary and secondary data. A complete questionnaire was set for personal interview. OHS manual, audit reports, websites, journals, Labor Act 2006, text books, gov’t publications etc. are among secondary source used. Finding of the study does not portray something very good. Existence of short and poor quality policy, unfurnished medical room, same happens with the first aid boxes, problems with temperature, ventilation, noise and lighting etc. are most common complications. Although the government has taken several actions along with international bodies, effectiveness of those activities is questioned. A unique guideline for safety improvement, training arrangement for employees, close monitoring of safety and health issues can prove very effective. There is urgent need for consorted action in the sector that envisions a decent work environment.

As a new source of natural antioxidants, there is now an expansion of interest in phytochemicals to be used in foods and pharmaceutical preparations to substitute synthetic antioxidants, which are being restricted due to their potential health risks and toxicity. The present investigation deals with the in vitro antioxidant activity of different solvent extracts of whole plant of Naregamia alata using various antioxidants model systems viz., DPPH, Hydroxyl, superoxide and ABTS+ radical cation scavenging activities. The ethanol extract of N. alata whole plant showed strong superoxide radical scavenging activity. The reducing power of the extracts were determined and compared with standard ascorbic acid. The reducing power increased with increase in concentration. Among the solvent tested, methanol extract of N. alata possessed strong reducing activity. The antioxidants that are present in the whole plant of N. alata studied in this investigation could be used to inhibit or prevent the harmful consequences of oxidative stress. The antioxidant effect could be related to the free radical scavengers like flavonoids and phenolic compounds.

Bangladeshi shipbuilding is a growing industry. The last decade and half of shipbuilding in Bangladesh have experienced a good growth, and the next two decades promise even greater growth as 50% of the world's seafaring ships are more than 20 years old. Additionally, the fact that older shipbuilding countries such as Japan, China, South Korea, and European countries are only interested in building commercial ships above 25, 000 DWT means that countries such as Bangladesh have a greater scope for increasing market share. Bangladesh has ample manpower, however, lacks skilled shipbuilding technicians and machinists, as well as advanced shipbuilding designing technology and personnel. The industry is working hard to address these challenges to their businesses through increasing training and development programmes. Employee turnover, however, threatens to lead to loss of knowledge and financial loss from losing trained employees. The study has presented statistical results from experience survey of industry experts to reveal that HRM malpractice, in areas such as compensation, worker safety, and job security is a potential contributor to employee turnover in the Bangladeshi shipbuilding industry.

Rheumatoid Arthritis is an autoimmune disease which consists Joint pain, inflammation, synovial proliferation and damage of articular cartilage. Morning stiffness along with joints pain is a primary diagnosis. If not treated it can lead deformity of the wrist, fingers, toes. NSAIDs are the first line treatment. Now a days DMARDs are frequently used as soon as RA is confirmed along with some corticosteroids. The present study reveals that use of prednisolone has a miraculous pain relieving effect over deflazacort even for short term regime.

Citizen Participation is one of the national values and is also a principle of public service. Moreover, quality of participation in financial matters both at the national and county levels is necessary to inform decision making and resource allocation. This study examined the factors affecting public participation in budgeting process in the County Government of Nandi. The study was guided by the following specific objectives: to determine whether public participation forums affect budgeting process; to determine whether stakeholders’ involvement affects the budgeting process and to establish whether socio-cultural factors affect public participation in the budgeting process in the County Government of Nandi. The study was guided by agency theory, games theory and public choice theory. The study adopted a descriptive survey design targeting 75 Community Based Organizations (CBOs) members who are residents of County Government of Nandi, 5 CBO officials and 5 officials from the Treasury and Economic Planning department in the County Government of Nandi. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select members of the stratus of the identified Community Based Organizations who were administered with structured questionnaires, while key informants CBO officials and officials from the Treasury and Economic Planning department were chosen through purposive sampling.

In order to evaluate the impact of plant population on stressed soybean clycine max (L.), a field experiment with 3 different plant populations (at three different irrigation regimes was carried out. Plants were grown under frequent irrigation (W1), moderate and severe drought stress (W2 and W3). The different plant population designated as D1, D2 and D3, corresponding to spacing between plants of 5, 10 and 15 cm. Seed yield components(number of fruiting branches, pods, seeds weight per plant , seed yield per unit area and measured related characters decreased from normal irrigation regime to water deficit stress in both seasons. Also, the same trend was observed due to increasing spacing between plants particularly under stress conditions. Based on results, soybean yield and yield components decreased when that drought stress occurred. Withholding irrigation reduced seed yield by more than 50% in stressed soybean plants compared with normal irrigated plants.

The purpose of the study is to identify the characteristics of the Zimbabwean tour operators with a view of ascertaining how these characteristics impacted on their adoption of information communication technologies. Quantitative method was used to gather data for the study utilizing self administered structured questionnaires. The study showed that the majority of the tour operators were small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) most of whom were family owned. It was concluded that the size and ownership characteristics of the tour operators precluded them from prioritizing adoption of information communication technologies. The study recommended that tour operators need to be empowered through ICT awareness training programmes.

This study had the objective of evaluating the effect of water deficit on the Physiological Parameters and Water Use Efficiency on soybean plants under different planting densities. It was conducted during winter and summer seasons of 2014-2015. The different plant densities designated as D1, D2 and D3 (5, 10 and 15 cm between plants) under three watering regimes (W1,W2 and W3) irrigation every 7,14 and 21 days. The experimental design was a complete randomized blocks design in split trail with three replications. All physiological parameters (LAD, RGR,CGR, NAR) and relative water content of soybean plants tended to decrease with prolonged watering interval (W3) or in high planting density (D1).Water use efficiency for dry mater (WUEdm) was higher in moderate watering interval (W2) as compared to frequent and pronged watering regimes (W1 ,W3). An interaction treatment (W1D3) increased RGR,CGR, NAR while the highest WUEdm was recorded in (W2D3).the result revealed that, the improvement in water availability with low planting density stimulated plant growth and caused increase in dry matter accumulation and longer leaf area might explain the higher CGR, NAR. In conclusion, sowing soybean in wider spacing under frequent irrigation can increase most of the physiological characters measured in this investigation.

The study is on the rate of Unemployment in Nigeria as a result of the failure of Public Enterprises. The objective of the study therefore is to identify the impact Public Enterprises failure had on Unemployment rate in Nigeria. This was achieved through the analysis of secondary sources of data and other documentary evidences on the issues. The study discovered that the failure of Public Enterprises in Nigeria had contributed immensely to the Unemployment rate. Conclusively, the Privatization of Public Enterprises in Nigeria had led to massive loss of jobs due to lack of stable trade unions that will negotiate workers disengagement or exit in accordance with the law. The study therefore recommended that in order to provide employment to the unemployed in Nigeria, Public Enterprises should be revamped and managed in the spirits of State Capitalism or purely on full commercialization basis.

The main objective of this study is to contribute to the knowledge of plants with antifungal and antibacterial potentials. Ethnobotanical surveys on the uses of plants cited in the traditional pharmacopoeia against vaginal infections are conducted in the markets and districts of four Cameroonian cities. The botanical data collected was recorded in the Excel 2010 version spreadsheet and processed statistically. A dendrogram showing the similarity of use of anti vaginitis plants by city and by respondents was established using the Jaccard similarity coefficient using the XlStat software. A total of 73 respondents were interviewed. The analysis of the dendrogram of similarity between the uses of plants in the four cities reveals a comparison between the knowledge of the respondents of the cities of the Center region and the dissimilarity between those of the Littoral. Thirty-four (34) plant species belonging to twenty-eight (28) plant families have been identified and the first is Asteraceae. The Guineo-Congolese phytogeographic type (12 citations) predominates. Fourteen (14) diseases and/or symptoms related to the female plant were obtained; Vaginal infections (33 citations) the first. Traditional medicines prepared are mostly preserved at room temperature (41%). Sexual intercourse comes first (37%), as a prohibition that can damage the treatment. Given the upsurge in vaginal infections in Africa, it is essential to develop a strategy to find effective means of control and especially at a lower cost to propose an alternative to conventional therapy.

The purpose of this study examines the impact of transformational leadership, personality, job involvement to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) structural officials directorate general of teachers and education personnel of the ministry of education and culture. The research used quantitative method with survey approach. Research sample of 123 structural officials of echelon 4 are taken at random. Collecting data using questionnaires and data analyzed using path analysis. The results showed: transformational leadership had a direct positive and significant effect on OCB; personality had a direct positive and significant on OCB; And job involvement has a direct positive and significant effect on OCB; Transformational leadership has a direct positive and significant impact on job involvement; Personality has a direct positive and significant effect on job involvement; Transformational leadership has a direct positive and significant effect on the personality. Thus, in order to increase OCB to structural officials in the directorate general of teachers and education personnel environment, transformational leadership, personality, and job involvement need to be improved.

In this work concentrations of ten different minerals were evaluated in commercial white cheese, pigtail cheese and triangles cheese. Minerals were analyzed by an Inductively Coupled plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES). Respective mean mineral concentration (ppm) of white cheese, pigtail cheese and cheese triangles were: Al 94.125, 73.75, 64.0; Cr 0, 0, 0 ; Mn 1.40, 1.2875, 0.6875; Fe 13.075, 16.45, 6.675; Ni 8.6125, 8.8, 6.925; Cu 0, 0, 0; Zn 22.4125, 22.9125, 14.7875; Cd 1.2, 0.6625, 0.4375; Ba 0, 0, 0; Pb 16.375, 4.9, 4.6125. These results show that there is some minerals (Cr, Cu and Ba) were not exist and other found with high concentration in comparison with the standard specification.

Myasthenia gravis is a rare disorder of autoimmune origin, caused by dysfunction of neuromuscular transmission. Clinically it manifested by a muscular weakness accentuated to the effort. We report the results of a retrospective study of 18 cases of myasthenia gravis in the department of neurology of the military hospital Moulay Ismail of Meknes during a period of 10 years. The sex ratio for our patients was 3.5. 67% of them were between 20 and 40 years old. The average deadline to diagnosis was two years. A personal history of Graves’ disease was present in 11% of our patients and type 1 diabete in siblings in 11% of cases. The inaugural symptoms were progressive in 50 % of the cases, affecting mainly the eye (94 %), the pharyngo-laryngeal region (67 %) the jaw (44 %), the roots of the members (33 %), the infringement of the respiratory muscles (22 % of the cases) and the fall of the head (6 %). The generalized form of the disease predominated at the time of diagnosis (67%), and the search for anti-acetylcholine receptor (anti-RAch) antibodies was positive in 89% of the cases. Thoracic imaging revealed thymoma in 33% of cases and thymic hyperplasia in 17% of cases. All patients received an acetyl cholinesterase inibitor. 33% of the patients in our series required a background treatment, consisting of corticosteroids alone (22%) or corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents (11%). Thymectomy was performed in 56% of our patients

This work aimed to study the effect of laser irradiation on bee honey (Seder) physical and chemical properties. Four honey samples were used in this study with 250 g of each; three of them were irradiated by He-Ne laser with output powers 1 mW, 1.5 mW and 2 mW for 5 minutes for each sample. Analysis included measuring of some honey physical and chemical properties for the irradiated and no irradiated samples particularly electrical conductivity, refractive index, density, viscosity, moisture, Ashes, wax, monocular sugars, total sugars, glucose, fructose, maltose, sucrose and acidity, it also included estimation of some elements like Na, Ca, K, Fe, Mg. The results show that irradiation by He-Ne lead to upward effect for some physical and chemical properties like electrical conductivity, monocular sugars and density, and it lead to downward effect for ashes, wax, sucrose and density, while it lead to no significant differences (P>0.05) on refractive index, viscosity.

Saudi banks under the guidance of SAMA, had expanded their branch network, introduced stronger management methods and new technologies, raised new capital, improved their profitability and set aside large provisions for doubtful accounts. The aim of this paper is to analyze the capital adequacy ratio and its impact on Saudi Arabian Banking Sector. We compared the Capital Adequacy Ratio of Islamic and Conventional banks listed in Tadawul Stock. After analyzing the financial statements of the banks for five years (2013-2017) the present study concluded that. Alinma Bank had the highest mean among the Islamic Banks while Samba Bank had the highest mean among the Conventional Banks. The present study also studied the BASEL III norms of banks in Saudi Arabia. The two-way ANOVA test was applied to evaluate the financial performance of Islamic and Conventional Banks. Our results also indicate that there was no significant difference between the Capital Adequacy Ratio of the Islamic and selected Saudi Conventional Banks.