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We assessed the higher education (HE) record data including mission and vision statements from 2000 to 2015 to discuss emerging trends of expansion and women enrolments in Mozambique. Theoretical literature survey, Government decrees, laws, and strategic plans of higher education (SPHE) system between 2000–2010 and 2012–2020 supported the discussion. The SPHE impact on the HE expansion was tested using t-test, different variances, by comparing women's and men's enrolments, news admissions,...

This paper examined the impact of climate adaptation strategies employed by Underutilised Indigenous Vegetables (UIVs) farmers on UIVs' net revenue of adopters and non-adopters of adaptation strategy in Southwest Nigeria. This was with a view to determine the factors that determined UIVs net revenue in the study area. Both quantitative and qualitative primary household data from 191 UIVs producers, with secondary climate data from Nigeria Meteorological agency were used. An efficient...

The goal of this study was to establish the most efficient boosting method in predicting neonatal low Apgar scores following labor induction intervention and to assess whether resampling strategies would improve the predictive performance of the selected boosting algorithms.A total of 7716 singleton births delivered from 2000 to 2015 were analyzed. Cesarean deliveries following labor induction, deliveries with abnormal presentation, and deliveries with missing Apgar score or delivery mode...

Bulbine abyssinica, Bulbine frutescens and Bulbine natalensis of the Asphodelaceae family have been used for many years, traditionally for the treatment of skin related conditions such as wounds, scars, burns ad rashes.To date, these plants have been studied for various medicinal properties, including antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic and even anti-platelet activity.This review article aims to discuss the ethnobotanical uses and medicinal activity from the...

Persons with disabilities experience significant barriers to accessing health care. These barriers may be more serious in countries such as Ethiopia. In this study, we aimed to assess the prevalence of accessibility and associated factors among physically disabled people visiting physical disability associations in Hawassa.A cross-sectional study was conducted among 345 randomly selected physically disabled people who visited disability associations in Hawassa. Data were collected from...

Adaptive capacity is seen in the light of the capabilities of livelihood practitioners to adjust livelihood plans in the face of threats or risks. Since external alteration such as oil pollution causes decline in resources in the Niger Delta region as a result of threats to traditional livelihoods, rural households adopt certain strategies to adapt. The study was conducted in four communities in Bayelsa and Rivers states. They are Oruma and Aguobiri in Bayelsa state; Bille and Bodo in Rivers...

This work focuses on the influence of the media on the education of young people in Mali. The emphasis is on the out-of-school pedagogy and informal education lessons that emerge. The objective is to emphasize the educational interests linked to the media in the education of the youth in Mali. To do this, we used the qualitative method through semi-structured interviews and documentary research. It results from the investigations that the media cannot act as educators because of their...

The objective of the study was to assess adolescent’s attitudes towards premarital sex in Senior and Junior High Schools in the New Juaben Municipality in Ghana. A descriptive survey design was chosen for the study. The population of the study consisted of five thousand, one hundred forty-one (5,141) in-school adolescents in Junior and Senior High Schools in New Juaben Municipality. Convenient and random sampling techniques were used to select the study area, schools and respondents for the...

Abstract Decision makers need accurate information to address climate variability and change and accelerate transformation to sustainability. A stakeholder-driven, science-based multi-model approach has been developed and used by the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) to generate actionable information for adaptation planning processes. For a range of mid-century climate projections—likely to be hotter, drier, and more variable—contrasting future...

Describe and replicate the design of a global classroom to train our future food and nutrition leaders on a global scale. In a volatile and complex global environment, food and health systems are evolving and require nutrition services tailored to meet challenges. Thus cross-cultural, virtual, multi-disciplinary, and project-based coursework is essential to train our future food and nutrition leaders on a global scale. Our course “Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems in Ghana,” which aligns with...

Amid increasing students’ enrollment in Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) vocational technical education (VTE) programmes in colleges of education (COEs), there is shortage of vocational technical teachers in basic education schools across Nigeria. Understanding the occupational preference of students, their career destination, and reasons for the preference could assist in addressing the shortage of vocational teachers, including how to support students’ transition from school to work....

The performances of students in final year examinations in recent times have been very low and this may have been as a result of teacher effect. The study is an evaluation of effect of teachers' factor on students' performance in final examinations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), a case study of Secondary Schools in Abuja Municipal Area Council to determine teachers' influence on students. The Literature review provided a framework for the study and focused on effect of teachers on...

Adolescents at secondary schools are susceptible to engaging in risky sexual behavior (RSB) due to their teenage stage and the new environment they face. Limited researches in district towns have evaluated the RSB among adolescents with various findings. This study aimed to assess the RSB and associated factors among sexually experienced secondary school students. School-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Guduru district from March 4–8, 2019. A total of 1236 secondary school...

Neonatal sepsis is the gravest problem in neonates, ending in significant morbidity and mortality. World wide 6.9 million neonates were spotted with potentially severe bacterial infections needing treatment and 2.6 million of them occurred in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Sepsis is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and is perhaps answerable for about 30-50% of the total neonatal deaths per year in emerging countries.This study aims to assess the treatment outcome and associated factors of...

Abstract Around the world, policymakers have found it difficult to sustain fee‐free education policies. This article shows how politicians can significantly undermine national fee‐free education policies by redirecting resources to subnational administrations, where funds can be used to shore up political support. To do so it examines changes to political support towards Papua New Guinea’s longest running fee‐free education policy. The Tuition Fee Free (TFF) policy was introduced in 2012...

Abstract The Salpeterkop volcano forms part of what has been referred to as the Upper Cretaceous Sutherland Suite of alkaline rocks, an igneous province composed of olivine melilitites, carbonatites, trachytes and ultramafic lamprophyres. Salpeterkop is a remnant of the summit tuff ring structure that surrounds a crater which is almost 1 km in diameter and is filled with epiclastic strata. Five pieces of silicified wood were collected from the crater filled sediments, sectioned and...

The use of mercury in small-scale gold mining is globally the largest anthropogenic source of mercury in the environment. In countries like Ghana, where small-scale gold mining is a highly important economic sector, the activity is also expected to cause local pollution. This study is based on a hypothesis that the mining activity in Ghana is causing more widespread soil pollution also outside active mining sites, and that the main part of regional differences in soil concentrations of...

Climate extreme events have significant impacts on the livelihoods of smallholder women farmers. The aim of the present study is to investigate the coping and adaptation measures that women farmers use to respond to specific climate extreme events. The data for the study comes from 187 smallholder women farmers from Upper West region of Ghana. The study employed the Bivariate Probit model in the empirical analysis. The results revealed that membership of farmer-based organizations and the...

Abstract Background Epidemiologic surveillance of substances use is necessary for its prevention policy. Objective To monitor the extent of substances use among the high school pupils of Sousse, Tunisia between 2018 and 2019. Methods Two successive cross sectional studies were led in 2018 and 2019 among 1399 et 1342 high school students respectively. In 2018 and 2019, the same probability sampling procedure served to recruit participants and the same pretested survey was self administered to...