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In Ghana, many professional teachers have been leaving teaching to seek employment in jobs that they think hold promise of better pay and prestige. This article critically examines the key factors that compel teachers to leave the teaching profession for other jobs. Thirty professionally trained teachers who had taught at pretertiary institutions for a minimum of 5 years before abandoning teaching participated in the study. The snowball sampling technique was used in selecting the...
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Following the change in malaria policy in the year 2005, the safety profile of ArtemetherLumefantrine was assessed among children below ten years that presented with uncomplicated malaria in the University of Benin Teaching Hospita l, Benin City, Nigeria, between January and December 2007. Designed questionnaire were systemat ically distributed among one thousand five hundred children that were recruited for the s tudy. The children were aged 4.8±3.14years, body weight 21±4.12kg. At...
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The environmental impact of gas flaring on the oil bearing enclave of the Niger Delta, Nigeria, was examined with a view to evaluating the abatement measures put in place by the Federal government of Nigeria and the oil producing companies. Primary and secondary information and data were analyzed during the study. We found that the ecological costs of gas flaring on the inhabitants of the oil bearing region of the Niger Delta in particular and the nation in general are searing. There were...
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Language, an important possession by man, is intricately woven with human thinking. Music theory, practice and performance are strongly linked to language and linguistic expressions. This bond forms the basis of meaningful communication between the musician and his audience. This paper analytically surveys the fundamental kinship between music and language globally. It however pays particular attention to the primacy of language in African music with special focus on the following core areas...
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The variation in environmental quality of Ondo coast between seasons and sites were evaluated using principal component analysis (PCA). Seventeen metals were analysed in water and sediments with five anionic components further evaluated in water samples. The dry season concentrations of parameter and their degree of variation are higher than that of wet season. PCA of sediments revealed four parameter clusters and five clusters for water based on related sources of input, biogeochemical...
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Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among females in Yemen and world-wide, Yemeni women are still facing an increasing threat to it in recent years and optimal chances for survival from BC in women can be achieved by detecting it early by Breast self examination (BSE).To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of breast cancer and breast self examination among female university students in Al-Mukalla city-2009.a cross sectional descriptive study was carried out among 425 female...
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This study employed the Ricardian approach to test the relative importance of climate normals (average long-term temperature and precipitation) in explaining net revenue from Nigerian rice agriculture under irrigation and dry land conditions. A survey was done by interviewing 1200 rice farmers from 20 rice producing states in Nigeria. The states covered all the six geopolitical zones in the country. The results showed that increase in temperature will reduce net revenue for dry land rice...
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This paper examines Engineering Education (EE) in Nigeria as a suitable vehicle towards sustainable development of the socio-economic infrastructures necessary for the growth of enterprise, and for the maximization of social welfare. The state of EE in Nigerian Universities was examined using data derived from the database of the regulatory bodies. A data register was employed to capture the needed data and these were analyzed using statistical analysis. Results of the 1999/2000...
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Population trends in developing countries show an increasing population of older adults (OAs), especially in rural areas. The purpose of this study was to explore the geriatrics continuing education needs of health care providers (HCPs) working in rural Uganda. The study employed a descriptive design to collect data from HCPs working in Apac district, a rural district in northern Uganda. The 240 HCPs (mean age 33.8±10.5 years) from whom data were collected were nurses (52%), physician...
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The study investigated the effectiveness of sexuality education on the improvement of health status of university undergraduates. A pretest-post test experimental design was adopted for the study. The subjects were 40 undergraduates’ students who were sexually active. A 2 x 2 factoral design was used for the study. 20 students were randomly assigned to each of the two groups, the control and the experimental groups. An instrument named the sexuality adjustment scale and validated by...
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In various studies globally, the prevalence of anemia in persons with HIV infection range from 10 to 20% at initial presentation, and anemia is diagnosed in 70 to 80% of these patients over the course of HIV disease. The etiology of anemia in this group of patients has not been fully established, thus a need to evaluate the role of plasma folate as a possible etiological factor.This study was set to determine plasma folate levels in newly diagnosed, treatment naïve, HIV-positive patients,...
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Organisations worldwide have acknowledged the connection between corporate learning, development and business sustainability. Emphasis is being laid on creating and designing a learning organisation "that is skilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring and retaining knowledge" [Garvin, (2000), p.32]. Extensive literature exists about the successful implementation of the learning organisation design by numerous companies globally. However, the appropriateness of the ideology of...