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e from grade 10. There were 627 (63.9%) females. The mean BMI for all the students was 20.0 ± 3.4 kg/m2. Most of the students (n = 672; 68.5 %) had normal body weight, but 226 (23%), 76 (7.7 %) and 7 (0.7%) of them were underweight, overweight and obese respectively. There was a significantly higher number of female students who were overweight (n = 64, 10.2%) than their male counterparts (χ2 = 72.336, p less then 0.001). buy Cy7 DiC18 The frequency of drinking sugar added juices and full cream milk, eating fish, shrimps, oysters, lobsters, and snacks such as cakes and biscuits were significantly associated with overweight and obesity among the participants (p less then 0.05). In conclusion, the problem of under-nutrition and over-nutrition co-existed among the students which were associated with poor eating habits.Anther indehiscence in certain wide crosses combines male sterility with stigma exertion, a phenomenon that is desirable for hybrid rice seed production. This study sought to identify chromosomal region(s) that combine anther indehiscence with exerted stigmas. A mapping population consisting of 189 BC1F1 plants was derived from a cross between CRI-48 and Jasmine 85 and backcrossing the resulting F1 to Jasmine 85. Contrary to the three complementary genes mode of inheritance reported earlier, a single locus (AI6-1) was mapped on chromosome 6 at 27.4 cM for anther indehiscence with exerted stigmas through a mixed model-based composite interval mapping (MCIM). This locus was flanked by two single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers, K_ID6002884 and K_ID6003341 within a range of 23.1-28.9 cM. The allele at the locus was contributed by the CRI-48 parent which has Oryza glaberrima ancestry. This locus is suggested to control anther indehiscence and stigma exertion through pleiotropic gene action or cluster of genes.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequent malignancies and the fourth-leading cancer-related death worldwide. Most patients with HCC are diagnosed at a late stage in which curable therapies are limited. Thus, identifying biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis of HCC is essential for improving the treatment effectiveness in patients with HCC. In this paper, the SLC10A1 expression levels in the cells and the tissues and their correlation with HCC were analyzed using bioinformatics tools. Clinical information data and gene expression profiles were retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus and The Cancer Genome Atlas. Chi-square tests, log-rank tests, and Kaplan-Meier curves were performed using R packages. In all statistical analyses, a p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. We found that SLC10A1 primarily expresses in the liver, especially on the plasma membrane. The expression levels of SLC10A1 in tumors were consistently lower than that in normal tissue. Down-regulation of SLC10A1 was correlated with a poor survival outcome [p = 4.50e-05] and recurrence-free survival [p = 8.0e-04] in patients with HCC. In addition, multivariate analysis indicated that the expression of SLC10A1 was an independent predictor for survival outcome [p = 2.17e-05] and recurrence-free survival [p = 1.63e-04]. We concluded that SLC10A1 is a potential biomarker for the early diagnosis and prognosis of HCC in the era of personalized medicine.Time, money, and quality are the three basic criteria for measuring construction project efficiency. The Ethiopian construction sector in general and public work projects, in particular, are believed to suffer from inefficiencies despite their quantitative growth in recent years. Previous researches have made attempts to explore factors determining the efficiency of the sector such as the low capacity of contractors (both financial and equipment, shortage of skilled human resource on technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills, etc…), the poor performances of the supply chain, inflation in the economy and so on. However, process and system-based challenges of the sector resulting from the existing legal frameworks governing the sector such as the modes of delivery of projects (modes of contracting) have not been a subject of extensive study. In this study, doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research methods are employed to explore project delivery system(s) recognized in Ethiopia's public work contract laws and appraise their efficiency in terms of ensuring prompt completion of public construction projects. The doctrinal aspect of the research exposed that, despite an implied recognition of Design-Build (DB) and its variant forms of project delivery system, the country's public work contract laws set up Design-Bid-Build (DBB) as a default mode of contracting. Besides, the result from a survey questionnaire of 158 respondents which was computed by using Research Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to generate the Relative Importance Index (RII) of each mode of contracting corroborated by primary data derived from the completion and status report of 40 road and 9 building projects, shows that even though construction project time overrun (delay) often happens in both routes of contracting, the magnitude of such inefficiency is greater in public projects of DBB than DB delivery mode.This article explores the anthropogenic menaces affecting Me'ee Bokko and Daraartu sacred shrines among Guji Oromo, in Adoolaa Reeddee and Annaa Sorraa districts, Southern Ethiopia. This study employed qualitative approach, ethnographic research design, and methods of data production like in-depth interview; transect walk, and focus group discussions. The findings indicate that the expansion and teaching of Abrahamic religions (particularly Christianity and Islam), the implementation of unsustainable infrastructural project, modern educational system, waning of people's loyalty to customary laws of Gadaa system and encroachment of sacred land were anthropogenic menaces affecting the sacred shrines. Even though these threatening factors are formidable in their very nature and affecting the sustainability of sacred shrines, Guji people have century long indigenous mechanisms to maintain and preserve those sites. These mechanisms include the replacement of destructed sacred tree by ordaining another tree, occasional supervision on the status of sacred shrine by insisting local people to protect the sites, demarcating the sites, and enforcing customary punishment to sustain the sacred shrines.