Coping with type II diabetic patients is increasingly posing large financial burdens, sorely felt especially by growing economies. Self-management has been found to be an effective approach towards maintaining good control in diabetics. However, although efforts at implementing self-management have had initial success, there has been a lack of sustainability. This review examines the different ...

Despite predictable outbreaks of concern in the popular media and the professional literature, youth suicide is often viewed as a troubling, yet irrefutable aspect of our world rather than a public health disaster. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults, behind only accidents and homicide, yet our societal investment in addressing youth suicide as a major pu...

Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative going poorly, a lukewarm performance review, a daunting new assignment. HBS professor Hill and executive Lineback have long studied the question of how manager grow and advance. Their experience brings them to a simple but troubling observation: Most boss...

Many real-world optimization problems involve objectives, constraints, and parameters which constantly change with time. However, to avoid complications, such problems are usually treated as static optimization problems demanding the knowledge of the pattern of change a priori. If the problem is optimized in its totality for the entire duration of application, the procedure can be computational...

This paper discusses the value and scope of geographical information systems (GIS) in tourism planning. The discussion focuses on the functionality and application of GIS in tourism development projects (TDPs) before moving on to assess the level of current interest and adoption of the technology through studies of tourism and GIS consultants. The paper argues that GIS can bring significant add...

The rapid growth of mobile technologies and devices makes it possible for the customers of banking services to conduct banking at any place and at any time. Today, most of the banks in the world provide mobile access to its customers for banking as mobile banking systems improve their efficiency and reduce transaction costs. Banks invested heavily in the mobile banking system hoping that its cu...

Interstellar complex organic molecules were first identified in the hot inner regions of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs), but have more recently been found in many colder sources, indicating that complex molecules can form at a range of temperatures. However, individually these observations provide limited constraints on how complex molecules form, and whether the same formation pathways ...

Background: The sudden onset of COVID-19 began in late 2019 caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-COV2) and on 11th March, WHO declared it to have developed pandemic status. There is still no specific treatment vaccine available for COVID-19; causing wide spread health problem concern the globe. Povidone iodine (PVP-I) an antiseptic that has been used over 150 years. It already proved different c...

Abstract The African Union (AU) has developed an elaborate gender governance architecture, including machineries and women’s desks, policy frameworks, path-breaking rights laws, ongoing campaigns on rights–related issues. At the same time, member states’ engagement with this architecture is at best lukewarm, a lack of domestication, compliance, accountability. This paradox addressed in article ...

Purpose This study aims to examine the role of Islamic social finance (ISF) instruments such as Zakah, Sadaqah and Waqf in provision services by faith-based organizations (IFBOs) Southwest Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach adopts exploratory approach based on field interviews conducted with leaders IFBOs, whereas purposive sampling technique was used select three case organizations. Data col...