BACKGROUND In many different health care educational models, shadowing, or observational experience, is accepted as integral to introducing students to the specifics of medical specialties. STUDY OBJECTIVES We investigated whether emergency department (ED) observational experiences (EDOs) affect medical students' (MSs') interest in emergency medicine (EM). Additionally, we examined how the su...

Historical maps are precious materials, which show spatial distribution of land use, streets and so on at the time the maps were produced. However, the imprecision, in the geometrical sense, of the historical maps makes the task of comparison very difficult. This drawback brings us to the idea of incorporating the historical maps into GIS after rubber-sheet transformation, i.e. geometric correc...

In this paper we introduce the database design tool EDO: an Evolutionary Database Op-timizer. The termèvolutionary' refers to a basic feature of the tool. After generating an initial pool of preliminary internal representations for a given conceptual data model, EDO allows a database designer to activate evolution strategies, modifying the preliminary internal representations into more desirabl...

This study investigated rehabilitation services in Nigerian prisons in Edo State of Nigeria. The study was aimed at determining the status of rehabilitation services in Nigerian prisons in Edo State. To address the problem of study, two research questions were raised. The researcher adopted a survey research design. The participants were 147 prison inmates drawn from the six Nigerian prisons of...

Optimization in dynamic environments is a challenging but important task since many real-world optimization problems are changing over time. Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence are good tools to address optimization problems in dynamic environments due to their inspiration from natural self-organized systems and biological evolution, which have always been subject to changing enviro...

In this paper, we analyze a certain process of Verb to Infl raising in the Edo language of Nigeria. Verb raising has not been recognized in previous work on Edoid languages, such as Agheyisi 1990. From a theoretical perspective, its primary interest comes from the fact that it takes place only in one tense. As a result, it is easy to form minimal pairs with and without verb raising in the same ...

A study to determine the prevalence of loaisis was carried out in Edo State, Nigeria for a period of one year beginning from February 1999 to January 2000. A total of thirteen thousand, two hundred samples were examined. Nine samples (0.07%) were positive for Loa loa. The parasite had limited distribution in Edo State. It was observed in only six local government areas namely Uhunmwode, Ikpoba ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects ejaculatory duct obstruction (EDO) on contractile efficacy, smooth muscle ultrastructure, and α1A M3 receptors rat seminal vesicles (SVs). A total 48 male rats, aged 14-15 weeks, were randomly divided into three groups, namely, control, complete EDO, partial EDO. SV tissues collected at 4 8 weeks postoperatively for further experiments. R...

Pilot survey of oral health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study of adults in Benin City,Edo Title: State Nigeria