The sale of foods on the street is a common aspect of lifestyle in many countries and very prominent in Ghana. The street food trade has evolved into a large food sector that provides a means of income for the vendors and reasonably priced food to millions of people from all walks of life. However, the hygienic aspects of vending operations are a major source of concern for food control officers. As a result of this, there is the need to determine the food safety knowledge and practices of these street vendors so that the safety of such food can be guaranteed. This research was therefore carried out to assess the food safety knowledge and practices of street food vendors in Takoradi. The respondents were 10% male and 90% female. The result indicated that the street food vendors had fair knowledge of food safety practices but a large portion (70%) of them had no medical clearance certificate. The health and personal hygiene knowledge in this survey showed that majority of the vendors do not have any knowledge on health and personal hygiene. It is therefore recommended that a policy should be put in place to periodically educate food handlers especially vendors because food safety education should not only be triggered by evidences of visible dirt or unpleasant body odour.

The present investigation highlights the free radical scavenging activity of Melochia corchorifolia, Sida acuta and Saccharum officinarum leaf extracts and their Phenolic contents by determining DPPH, Nitric oxide, Hydroxyl and Hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity. The shade dried leaves were coarsely powdered and subjected to fractional extraction by using chloroform and ethanol. The extracts were subjected to in-vitro antioxidant activity by various antioxidant assays. The antioxidant activities were compared with that of standard Gallic acid from the results obtained, it was suggested that the Phenolic contents of these leaves exhibit strong free radical scavenging activity in all the tested methods and shows maximum scavenging of DPPH, Nitric oxide, hydroxyl and hydrogen peroxide at 100µg/ml concentration compared to chloroform and ethanol extract of leaves. The phytochemical screening of Melochia corchorifolia, Sida acuta and Saccharum officinarum leaf extracts constitutes flavonoids and tannins and the antioxidant activities may be due to the presence of these phenolic compounds

Periodontal disease results in attachment loss and damage to the supporting alveolar bone leading to tooth mobility. In majority of cases, the mandibular incisors are the teeth showing the first signs of mobility. The clinical management of periodontally involved teeth remains a challenge to the clinician. Splinting may be indicated for individual mobile tooth as well as for the entire dentition. The main objectives of splinting include decreasing patient discomfort, increasing occlusal and masticatory function, enhancing esthetics and improving the periodontal prognosis of mobile teeth. Fiber-reinforced composites provide one of the better alternatives for splinting of teeth. This clinical report describes a technique of splinting of periodontally involved mandibular anterior teeth using glass fiber-reinforced composite resin with a follow-up period of five years.

Tiatr, which has a history of more than 100 years, is a type of musical theatre popular in the state of Goa on the West coast of India as well as in Mumbai and with expatriate communities in the Middle East, London and other cities where Konkani speakers have a considerable presence. The dramas are performed mainly in the Roman Konkani dialects and include music, dancing and singing. Tiatr today revolves around social, religious and political themes. It is considered to be a mirror of Goan culture. The first original tiatr script was written and directed by JoãoAgostinhoFernandes, entitled “Belle de Cavel” or “SundoriCavelchi” in 1895 in Bombay and for all his consistent devotion and encouragement over fifty years, he was conferred the title “PaiTiatrist” (Father Tiatrist).Tiatr as a form of entrepreneurship has created direct as well as indirect employment for many artists as well as back stage support staff. Some families are fully dependent on this form of entrepreneurship for their livelihood. The economy of the state to a large extent is supported by this form of entertainment. Realizing its importance in the Goan economy, the government of Goa has devised various schemes financial as well as non-financial for the development of tiatr. However, it still needs the attention of policy makers as it has bright prospects, Goa being a tourist destination. The article tried to find out over a period of time how this form of entertainment evolved based on secondary data and through personal interaction with the producers of Tiatr.

When assessing the outcomes of dental treatment, it is important to consider the clinicians as well as the patients’ point of view. The dentist must attempt to restore, most often elderly patient with mental/physical and/or financial difficulties, to an acceptable level of esthetics and function. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the development of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in patients with modified complete dentures and the association between OHRQoL and overall patient satisfaction.The study population consisted of 30 patients with severely resorbed ridges, who wore modified complete dentures fabricated within a span of 1-3 years and were recalled for follow-up.The modifications were done in the impression techniques, jaw relations, teeth arrangement, fabrication of the complete dentures; according to the clinical condition of the patients.Patients were requested to complete a questionnaire that was designed to show a semi quantitative degree of satisfaction with their dentures(subjective evaluation).The oral condition and denture quality was assessed clinically by an experienced clinician (objective evaluation). After evaluating the questionnaires, the improvement in the quality of life of the patients, including mastication, esthetics etc; from the patients’ perspective as well as the clinician’s perspective was judged.Statistical analyses were carried out and correlations assessed using the Pearson chi-square test. A significant impact was noted on chewing , fit and comfort of the mandibular denture(p<0.01) as well as patient’s overall satisfaction with the modified dentures (p<0.05). However, no significant results were found while analysing the fit and comfort of the maxillary denture, speech and esthetics of the dentures (p>0.05). The analyses of these results provide evidence for improved quality of life of patients with modified complete dentures.Significant improvements were recorded in almost all domains.

Insurance sector globally has tremendous opportunities for growth due to improved awareness and literacy among masses and it occupies an important place in the complex modern world. To cover the risk factor life insurance sector is the biggest in the world with about 360 million policies which are expected to increase at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12-15 per cent over the next five years. The insurance industry plans to hike penetration levels to five per cent by 2020.. The present paper is an attempt to analyse the growth of insurance sector in India and initiatives taken by IRDA for promoting consumer education.

The world-wide explosion of overweight people has been called an epidemic. In this climate of concern over the increasing prevalence of overweight conditions in our society, we focus on the possible role of oral bacteria as a potential direct contributor to obesity and this study designed for comparison of Enterococcus faecalis pollution amount in saliva of people with obesity and normal weight. In this study saliva of 90 patient was collected with body mass index between 18.5 and 25 for normal weight people and over 30 for obesity people, and were measured bacterial populations of their saliva. The data were analyzed by descriptive-statistically and chi-square test. In this study, 59 people of 90 investigated people had obesity and 31 people were in normal weight. The number of enterococci in the saliva of people with normal weight and obesity were mostly low. Analysis of data suggests that the composition of salivary bacteria changes in people with normal and overweight overweight people but this change is not significant statistically. Finally, we can conclude.

This article aimed to study the performance of rice production in a case study of Y Yen district, Namdinh province in the Red river delta and suggest some recommendation to improve the performance of rice production in the study site. The paper is based on the semi-structure, standard questionnaires and PRA methods to collect data from 48 representative rice producers. The results showed that average land area of rice production was low at 0.27 ha per household, but rice productivity was rather high as 5.34 tons per ha in Spring crop. The average revenue was 34.79 million VND, value added was 17.5 million VND. The production cost was too high, at 29.06 million VND, occupied 83.5% total revenue, which led to the low net income of the household at only 5.7 million VND per ha, accounted for only 16.5% of revenue. Counted on a hectare, hired labor cost took part 29% of total cost, proportion for the material equipment was 26.7%. Fertilizers and pesticide cost accounted for 28.7%, of which, 20% belonged to NPK. Some suggestion to improve the benefit for farmers were: reducing the production cost by using optimal fertilizers, pesticide; good material and equipment management; and applying technology and machine in rice production.

Abstract: In this paper, an interior point algorithm for linear optimization problem based on a kernel function which has trigonometric function in its barrier term is proposed. By means of some simple analysis tools, we show that our algorithm in large neighborhood of the central path has the best known iteration complexity bound.

Gnetum africanum, a common soup vegetable in Nigeria is also been used in the treatment of enlarged spleen, sore throats, deduction of pains of child-birth, antidotes to some forms of poison and snake bite. This study is to ascertain phytochemicals and minerals present in the leaves of Gnetum africanum in addition to in vitro antioxidant activities using standard procedures. The result of the phytochemicals present revealed the presence of flavonoids, saponins, tannins, alkaloids while the minerals present in mg/100g includes: calcium (423.20), magnesium (112.81), phosphate (83.44), zinc (2.53), sodium (37.82), potassium (86.10), copper (1.00), Iron (11.67) and chromium (0.52). In vitro antioxidant activities using reducing power activity and DPPH radical scavenging assays showed that as concentration of Gnetum africanum increases from 0.2mg/ml to 1.0mg/ml, reducing power ability and radical scavenging activity also increases. In conclusion, the presence of bioactive agents such as flavonoids as well as radical scavenging ability of Gnetum africanum gives credence to its usage in herbal medicine for treatment of various ailments.

Abstract: In this paper, pattern search method for unconstrained optimization problems proposed with a new strategy of non-monotonic technique. Also the convergence of this algorithm will be analyzed, theoretically. This analysis shows the global convergence of this algorithm.

Irritant contact dermatitis due to synthetic undercast padding is rare complication of plaster cast treatment which is underreported in orthopedic literature. Pruritis was the main symptom a few days following the application of the cast in our patient. However, the symptoms were underestimated by the treating physician. Severe irritant contact dermatitis can occur against the polyester undercast padding and should be kept in mind in patients whom complaining of pruritis under the treatment of casting

The vaccination system is divided into two categories in China. The first is mandatory vaccination, mostly free and using domestic vaccines under the National Immunization Program. The second is alternative vaccination, which patents must pay for. In March 2016 Shandong Province in China, a vaccine scandal occurred, which is known as the Shandong problematic vaccines incident. The incident involved 24 provinces and regions in China, The vaccine safety affects hundreds of millions of people. And all the problematic vaccines involved are second category vaccines. It exposed a variety of existing problems for the Chinese second category vaccines supervision system. Based on the analysis perspective of supervision elements, this paper makes a case study by analyzing the five supervision elements, which include: the subject and objects of supervision, supervision institutions, supervision resources and supervision environment. And it focuses on the problems of the Chinese second category vaccines supervision system exposed in the case, including: the administration level and the team scale of supervision subject-as not match with its duty; the interestoriented awareness of supervision objects being insufficient; the vaccine tracking institution not being complete; the professional supervision of human resources being insufficient; the participation of social supervision being insufficient.

Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) is a major urological condition characterized by impedance of urine outflow from the bladder into the urethra. The causes are numerous and commoner in aging males. The result is renal impairment if not addressed promptly. The aim of this study was to highlight the pattern of serum creatinine and urea in our patients population during the period under study and to define any association between the causes of BOO, age of patients and their renal status. One hundred and three (103) case notes were retrieved, twenty (20) did not contain complete investigation results needed for the study and were excluded. Eighty-three (83) patients entered the study with requisite results. Age ranged from 19-93 years with a mean of 61.70 + 11.139 years. Data on clinical history, physical examination, diagnostic and treatment modalities were collected and analysed. Serum creatinine was abnormal in 42.2% and urea in 24.1% of patients. There was neither statistical significant association between the renal status of respondents and causes of BOO nor their renal status and age at diagnosis

Due to their hard nature, the oxvandium (iv/v) ions have a good affinity towards O,N, donor ligands. The interaction of UO2+ with hydroxy carboxylic acid is also important because of their varied geometries. The vanadium atoms in the complexes are hex-coordinated and the coordination sphere is of the type [vo(oo) (NN)] where o-atoms are of oxo, carboxylic and phenolic type and N-atoms are of pyridine type. The sixth coordination position site is occupied by phenolic oxygen of neigh-bouring molecule forming a bridge, the (V=O) confirms, the hexa coordination. All the complexes have dxy' type axial EPR spectra and they exhibit two Ligand field transition at 740 and 440 mm