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Oral mucositis is one of the most common complaints of patients who had chemotherapy. Different of mouthwashes have been used to alleviate the symptoms but none of these agents help in wound healing. This study evaluates the effectiveness of phenytoin mouthwash on these ulcers. In this cross sectional study oral mucosa of 40 patients undergoing chemotherapy due to blood malignancy, was examined. All patient with oral mucositis grade 2 and 3(NCI scale) during 2 weeks after chemotherapy were assessed for severity and duration of lesions at three intervals (0, 3, 14 days) by using serial photographs and clinical observation. Oral pain severity was recorded daily by a visual analogue scale (VAS). Patient rinsed 10 ml of PHT syrup in their mouth for one minute, three or four times a day and then expectorated. To describe the qualitative data, simple frequency, means, standard deviations was used. The study population consisted of 17 female (42.5%). and 23 male (57.5%) with mean age of 29 years old .The most common affected area was buccal mucosa. During two weeks after treatment, oral ulcers disappeared totally and pain relief was seen in all subjects gradually. There is no any side effect after using of topical phenytoin in this period. Phenytoin mouthwash accelerated healing of oral ulcers due to mucositis and decreased pain.

This study was performed to evaluation of Water Stress and Organic matter simultaneously on some morphological characteristics of German chamomile under two mineral and biological N fertilizer treatments. Experiment done as RCBD Experimental design in split split design with 3 factors and 3 replications. First factor included organic fertilizer (application and no application), second factor was biologic nitrogen (application and no application) and third factor included drought stress (80%FC and 50%FC). At the end of study some properties were evaluated such as: Height, Stem diameter, Branch stem number, Flower number, Dry yield of flower and Essential oil%. Using organic matter led to increasing 22, 25, 28, 18, 4 and 9 percent of Height, Stem diameter, Branch stem number, Flower number, Dry yield of flower and Essential oil% respectively. Application of biologic fertilizer had significant on all characteristics, significant reductions were observed by application of drought stress, So Height, Stem diameter, Branch stem number, Flower number, Dry yield of flower and Essential oil% were decreased 22, 23, 35, 50, 60 and 4% in compare to control.

Lack of social and emotional skills is perhaps the most undermining problem that students with hearing impairments confront; by taking that into consideration, the goal of the present study is to appraise the effectiveness of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) on the emotions management of students with hearing loss studying in normal schools. This study is based on an experimental method and a pre-test and post-test design has been applied to the control group. To that end, 30 male and female hearing-impaired students from junior and senior high schools covered by Tehran’s Department of Exceptional Children Education were handpicked through multistage sampling and those who met the research criteria were randomly placed in two control and experimental groups and after a pretest, the social-emotional learning program was taught to the experimental group in 12 sessions. To measure the emotions management, Schutte Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire was used. The findings of the present research display a significant difference (p< 0/0001) between the control and experimental groups with regard to emotions management. The conclusion can be drawn that the Social-Emotional Learning program is efficient in the emotions management of students with hearing impairments in regular schools.

This study investigated relationship between Emotional intelligence and willingness to communication in speaking ability. To this end, three types of instruments were applied to collect research data, i.e., Mccrosky’s (1992) Willingness to Communicate Scale, Bar-On’s (1997) Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) as well as a final achievement exam administered at the end of the term to gather students English speaking grades. For the analysis of the data correlation and independent samples t- test to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance were used. The findings indicated that there was a relationship between speaking ability and emotional intelligence. Also, there was a positive relationship between speaking ability and willingness to communication. On the other hand, there was not a significant difference between females and males on the speaking task, emotional intelligence and willingness to communicate.

Self-Organizing Map (SOM) can be used to quickly create a qualitative overview of the data. It maps nonlinear statistical relationships among different variables of a high dimensional input data on a low dimensional network, preserving most of the topographic relationships from the input space. Hence, for dealing the complex problem of separation of incipient faults of highly overlapping nature, an epistemological decision making approach using SOM is proposed in this paper.

There is the necessity to preserve the water resources which gets polluted everyday due the development of urbanization. We should acquire the knowledge of nature and level of pollution for choosing the effective remediation techniques. In the present study, the water quality and nutritional characteristics in two freshwater ecosystems, Manjakkudi and Pakkam lakes were investigated simultaneously every month over a two-year period (March 2013 - February 2015). The physicochemical characterization results revealed that there is a strong correlation between the seasonal variation and the physicochemical variations. There is a monthly fluctuation in the physicochemical parameters of both the lakes which was reflected by the variation in the supply of nutrients. In conclusion, the observations of the present investigations enunciate that the seasonal variations and human activities, both plays a great role in the water quality in Manjakkudi and Pakkam lakes.

This research evaluates the effectiveness of the process of the employee performance management and development system at a public hospital in Kwa- Zulu Natal, so as to identify the limitations and recommend appropriate remedial measures. A qualitative research method was used for this study. Respondents were interviewed using a standard set of questions that were compiled in the form of a questionnaire. Using purposive sampling, 15 participants were selected and interviewed from a target population of 1200 employees from the Hospital. Findings from this study indicated that the employee performance management and development system has impacted positively on the overall performance of the Hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN), however, it was noted that these benefits are being marred by certain limitations, which include dissatisfaction of employees, lack of genuine commitment, inducement of conflicts, and poor improvements in performance. On this basis, it was recommended that the management of the Hospital should consider using measures that train and develop their evaluators on the key concepts in performance management and development, ensure the defining of appropriate goals and objectives during the planning process, fairness and equity during evaluation and rating of the employees’ performance, communication, the allocation of sufficient funds for accomplishing activities related to performance management and development, and constant review of how evaluators conduct evaluations.

The formation of graphene oxide–polyaniline was studied experimentally and theoretically. Both methods reveal that there is an existence of graphene oxide–polyaniline due to the interaction between oxygen functional groups of graphene oxide and polyaniline. The intercalation of polyaniline into layers of graphene oxide expands the space distance of layers in graphene oxide. The presence of polyaniline in composites can be proved by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and cyclic voltammograms of obtained composites. The formation of graphene oxide – polyaniline was also proved by theoretical calculation of adsorption energy when polyaniline interacts with graphene oxide

Facebook use are much in vogue these days. Taking into concern the exponential growth in membership on this social networking site, this study was therefore planned. The purpose of this research was to find out the relationship between facebook usage and its influence on peer relationships. A random sample for the same was collected from the tricity area i.e. Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. A group of 60 subjects in the age group of 19-21years were administered a questionnaire on facebook usage. Correlation and descriptive analysis ( mean, S.D and t-ratio) were applied. Results revealed non significant relationship between SNS usage and interpersonal relationships with friends.

Public procurement is crucial to government service delivery. For decades procurement performance has been attracting great attention from practitioners, academicians and researchers due to poor levels of performance. Despite Government efforts for improvement, it is still marred by shoddy works, poor quality goods and services. Stakeholders complain about poor service delivery. Benefits deriving from improved procurement performance at Coast General Hospital (CGH) are dependent on systems and staff. The general objective of this study was to assess factors affecting procurement performance in public hospitals in Kenya with specific focus on the CGH. This study analyzed the factors affecting procurement performance in the public hospitals in Kenya. The research aimed to establish how procurement staff training, procurement information communication technology, supplier management and procurement ethical practices affect procurement performance of the public hospitals in Kenya. The literature review introduced theoretical literature, conceptual framework, empirical literature, critique of existing literature, summary and research gap. Various theories like Principal-Agency theory, Technology Acceptance Model, Transaction Cost Economics Theory, and Technology Diffusion Theory have been incorporated to enhance theoretical understanding of this study. Descriptive research design was used and a stratified random sampling method was used to pick a sample of the respondents who were provided with the questionnaires. The target population comprised of 74 employees from the CGH. In collecting the data, open-ended and closed-ended questions were used. A sample of 62 respondents from within each group in proportions that each group bear to the population as whole was taken using Slovin’s formula: n=N/ (1+Ne²). The data collected was analyzed by use of descriptive and inferential statistics. The quantitative data generated was keyed in and analyzed by use of Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) that generated information which was presented using tables, frequencies and percentages. The multiple regression model was used to show the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables. The regression analysis showed that supplier management was the most related factor affecting procurement performance in public hospitals in Kenya with the strongest positive (Pearson correlation coefficient=.834) effect on procurement performance of public hospitals. In addition, staff training, ethical practices, and information communication technology were positively correlated to procurement performance of public hospitals with Pearson correlation coefficient of .761, .717 and .685 with p-values of .002<0.05, .003<0.05 and .060<0.05 respectively. However, the study established that information communication technology was the least related factor affecting procurement performance. The study recommends that the management of public hospitals in Kenya should therefore adopt supplier management, procurement staff, ethical practices and information communication technology thus ensuring value for money, improved quality service, reduced delivery time and effective procurement performance.