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- A Comprehensive Review of Pharmaceutical Care in Type 2 Diabetes Patients; Keeping Developing Countries in View
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Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care, Vol 9, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 41-49Abstract
Pharmaceutical Care (PC) represents a frontier in disease state management. It is a departure from the traditional drug dispensing of the past to comprehensive and holistic focus on patient disease management and outcomes of pharmacotherapy while systematically and actively identifying potential and actual problems in pharmacotherapy. This narrative review assessed the benefits of pharmaceutical care in promoting patient care and disease management. The study utilized synthesis of materials obtained retrospectively from officially reorganized databases. Some of the articles were obtained from officially reorganized documents. PC is patient oriented and empowers patients to actively participate in their treatment process. Pharmacist's device means of monitoring pharmacotherapy outcomes and systematically track problems of pharmacotherapy while taking responsibility for their actions. PC improves patients' outcomes, reduce cost, and promote patients quality of life.Keywords
Patient Care, Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Care, PharmacotherapyFull Text
- Dynamics of Child Health Services in Nigeria:A Review
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1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, NG
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, NG
3 Pharmacy Department, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Enugu, NG
1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, NG
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, NG
3 Pharmacy Department, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Enugu, NG
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Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care, Vol 9, No 3 (2017), Pagination: 124-130Abstract
Childcare has been identified as an integral aspect of integrated maternal and child health services and is aimed at child health promotion for childhood psychosocial and physical development. This study assessed the dynamics of child health services in Nigeria. This was in relation to Nigeria’s poor child health indices with the view to encouraging standard practices neglected over the years. It targets preventive health services to stem diseases and disability among children while promoting early diagnosis of diseases and prompt treatment. These services encompass the provision of childhood immunization, probing for and identification of handicapped children for early rehabilitation, child health education, and nutrition, promotion of environmental sanitation, and monitoring of developmental milestone through proper feeding. Other child health services include sickle cell prevention services, education of caregivers on the importance and use of oral rehydration therapy, and use of antimalarial treatment, and rehabilitation of already affected children. This is invaluable, especially in regions with developing countries where more than 50% of children die before their fifth birthday.Keywords
Childcare, Childhood, Healthcare, Immunization, Mortality, Nigeria, Nutrition, Policy.Full Text
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- Design of Fuzzy Logic Load Intelligent Frequency Controller for Interconnected Power System Network
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1 University of Port Harcourt, NG
2 Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI), Enugu, NG
3 Department of Computer Engineering, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, NG
1 University of Port Harcourt, NG
2 Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI), Enugu, NG
3 Department of Computer Engineering, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, NG
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Fuzzy Systems, Vol 10, No 10 (2018), Pagination: 230-236Abstract
The problem of controlling the frequency of a system under load has been an issue in electrical power systems. Considering the inter-connected network arrangement, a change in load causes variations on the line frequency together with tie line power as well. This work is aimed at bringing to minimum the frequency variations and the power of the tie line and also make sure that the errors due to the steady state of the network are brought to nearly zero. This investigation attempted to design a fuzzy logic load frequency intelligent controller for inter-connected power system that will achieve the above aim. Simulations of this design was carried out in MATLAB Simulink environment. The best result from simulations was analyzed based on inclusion of all the components required. The results showed that the fuzzy logic intelligent controller exhibited the best frequency settling time of 3.5s.
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Area Control Error, Fuzzy Logic Controllers, Load Frequency Control, Inter-connected Power System, Tie Line Power.
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- A Pricing Model for the Nigerian Electricity Transmission Using Artificial Neural Network
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1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, NG
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, NG
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Artificial Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning, Vol 11, No 12 (2019), Pagination: 225-233Abstract
For the restructuring of Nigeria’s power sector to be effective, efforts must be made to evolve an excellent pricing methodology that will economically be able to accommodate disintegrated units like generating, transmitting and distributing/retailing units. This work is aimed at developing an improved electricity transmission pricing scheme for the Nigerian Network using Artificial Neural Network. A model based on artificial neural network for improved electricity transmission pricing for the Nigerian Network was developed in order to forecast the transmission price for a longer period of time. The performance of the neural network model was evaluated by applying the actual transmission pricing data from Transmission Company of Nigeria to predict the prices. Raw data was collected from Transmission Company of Nigeria, Port-Harcourt district. The data was trained, tested and validated on the MATLAB/Simulink environment. Forecast results revealed that the model performed very well with a mean absolute percentage error of 0.09%, an average mean error of 0.5 and a regression value of 0.99. It was concluded that the improved and modified transmission use of system pricing is the best pricing method which will be acceptable to consumers and also ensure recovery of transmission cost in Nigeria. It was recommended that Artificial Intelligent-based techniques (ANN) in particular, must be implemented for long-term improved electricity transmission pricing forecast for the Transmission Company of Nigeria.