THE year 1898 is worth remembering for China’ s women. It was that year that a large group of women who advocated social change established the Women’s Association for Progress, the Women’s School of China and star...THE year 1898 is worth remembering for China’ s women. It was that year that a large group of women who advocated social change established the Women’s Association for Progress, the Women’s School of China and started the first women’s newspaper, "Chinese Girl’s Progress" in Guishuli, Shanghai, with the support and participation of the reformers during the latter part of the Qing Dynasty. The article "On Equality展开更多
Objective:To assess the association between urine pH and specific gravity(SG)and occurrence of urinary tract pathogens involved in urinary tract infection(UTI)in school pupils.Methods:Laboratory culture techniques and...Objective:To assess the association between urine pH and specific gravity(SG)and occurrence of urinary tract pathogens involved in urinary tract infection(UTI)in school pupils.Methods:Laboratory culture techniques and biochemical tests were carried out to identify the UTI-associated bacteria in school pupils’urine of United Nursery and Primary School,Ilara-Remo,in Ikenne Local Government area,Ogun State,Nigeria.Urine dip-stick tests were carried out on the samples to take pH and SG measurements.Results:The prevalence of urinary tract pathogens in the study population was 82.4%.This prevalence was not gender and age dependent(P>0.05).Escherichia coli(E.coli)(37.0%)and Klebsiella(0.9%)were the highest and least prevalent uropathogens.There was significant increase in proportion of subjects diagnosed with E.coli(37.5%),Staphylococcus aureus(32.0%),Klebsiella(57.1%)in pH 9,pH 6 and pH 8,respectively(P<0.05).However,an increase in proportion of individuals diagnosed with Proteus occurred in pH 6 and 9(31.3%each);these proportions were not significant compared with results in other pH categories(P>0.05).There were significant increase in proportion of subjects diagnosed with E.coli(50.0%),Proteus(56.3%),Staphylococcus aureus(44.0%),Klebsiella(71.4%)in SG 1.010,1.015,1.015 and 1.010,respectively(P<0.05).Conclusion:Therefore,the urine pH 9 and SG 1.010-1.015 are the best diagnostic indicators of UTI-associated uropathogens in school children.展开更多
In 1907,military leader Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts Association in England as the British colonial government officers instituted Tamale village as the administrative centre of the Northern Territories ...In 1907,military leader Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts Association in England as the British colonial government officers instituted Tamale village as the administrative centre of the Northern Territories Protectorate.Sam Yarney worked with Frank Collyer the European bank cashier and scoutmaster who started the Boy Scouts in the Gold Coast Colony in 1914,the year the First World War started.In 1922,Governor Gordon Guggisberg,who was brigadier general during the war was the chief scout.He reorganized the Local Boy Scouts Association in the Tamale Government School that received select boys from various schools in the Northern Territories Protectorate.The schoolboys excelled in the Standard VII and Civil Service Examinations to work with the government institutions and train as teachers and telegraphists.Arthur James Philbrick the chief scout commissioner of the Northern Territories employed Yarney as the assistant scout commissioner in the Southern Province to take on the staff of the reorganized Tamale Local Boy Scouts Association and register the 1st Tamale Troop.The scout officers subscribed to a Scout Fund to buy kit,for the schoolboys who passed the Tenderfoot Tests to buy uniforms and perform at events.展开更多
文摘THE year 1898 is worth remembering for China’ s women. It was that year that a large group of women who advocated social change established the Women’s Association for Progress, the Women’s School of China and started the first women’s newspaper, "Chinese Girl’s Progress" in Guishuli, Shanghai, with the support and participation of the reformers during the latter part of the Qing Dynasty. The article "On Equality
文摘Objective:To assess the association between urine pH and specific gravity(SG)and occurrence of urinary tract pathogens involved in urinary tract infection(UTI)in school pupils.Methods:Laboratory culture techniques and biochemical tests were carried out to identify the UTI-associated bacteria in school pupils’urine of United Nursery and Primary School,Ilara-Remo,in Ikenne Local Government area,Ogun State,Nigeria.Urine dip-stick tests were carried out on the samples to take pH and SG measurements.Results:The prevalence of urinary tract pathogens in the study population was 82.4%.This prevalence was not gender and age dependent(P>0.05).Escherichia coli(E.coli)(37.0%)and Klebsiella(0.9%)were the highest and least prevalent uropathogens.There was significant increase in proportion of subjects diagnosed with E.coli(37.5%),Staphylococcus aureus(32.0%),Klebsiella(57.1%)in pH 9,pH 6 and pH 8,respectively(P<0.05).However,an increase in proportion of individuals diagnosed with Proteus occurred in pH 6 and 9(31.3%each);these proportions were not significant compared with results in other pH categories(P>0.05).There were significant increase in proportion of subjects diagnosed with E.coli(50.0%),Proteus(56.3%),Staphylococcus aureus(44.0%),Klebsiella(71.4%)in SG 1.010,1.015,1.015 and 1.010,respectively(P<0.05).Conclusion:Therefore,the urine pH 9 and SG 1.010-1.015 are the best diagnostic indicators of UTI-associated uropathogens in school children.
文摘In 1907,military leader Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts Association in England as the British colonial government officers instituted Tamale village as the administrative centre of the Northern Territories Protectorate.Sam Yarney worked with Frank Collyer the European bank cashier and scoutmaster who started the Boy Scouts in the Gold Coast Colony in 1914,the year the First World War started.In 1922,Governor Gordon Guggisberg,who was brigadier general during the war was the chief scout.He reorganized the Local Boy Scouts Association in the Tamale Government School that received select boys from various schools in the Northern Territories Protectorate.The schoolboys excelled in the Standard VII and Civil Service Examinations to work with the government institutions and train as teachers and telegraphists.Arthur James Philbrick the chief scout commissioner of the Northern Territories employed Yarney as the assistant scout commissioner in the Southern Province to take on the staff of the reorganized Tamale Local Boy Scouts Association and register the 1st Tamale Troop.The scout officers subscribed to a Scout Fund to buy kit,for the schoolboys who passed the Tenderfoot Tests to buy uniforms and perform at events.
