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There is growing interest in the effectiveness of task shifting as a strategy for addressing expanding health care challenges. To examine the perception of stakeholders about the adequacy of the training, supervision and support offered to community mental health workers in Ghana. We administered three separate self-administered semi-structured questionnaires to 11 psychiatrists and 29 health policy coordinators and 164 Community Mental Health Workers (CMHWs), across Ghana including, 71...

This study aimed to identify the reality of applying administrative entrepreneurship in public secondary schools in Egypt and its constraints from the view point of the administrators and teachers. It aimed also to identify the impact of these variables: job, experience and gender. To identify the problem, the study utilized the descriptive design. Sample of the study were 227 participants, of which 52 administrators and 175 teachers in the school year of 2013/2014. Questionnaire was...

This study aimed to identify the reality of applying administrative entrepreneurship in public secondary schools in Egypt and its constraints from the view point of the administrators and teachers. It aimed also to identify the impact of these variables: job, experience and gender. To identify the problem, the study utilized the descriptive design. Sample of the study were 227 participants, of which 52 administrators and 175 teachers in the school year of 2013/2014. Questionnaire was...

In Nigeria, the droughts in 1972 – 1975 and floods since 1988 marked the incidence of climate change. This study evaluates the linkages between drought-desertification causative climatic variables over time, the consequent migration caused by the climatic variations and socio-ecological conflicts in Nigeria. Climate data was obtained from the Nigeria Meteorological Agency and analyzed with the correlation and regression models. The data on conflicts was obtained from the National Emergency...

The study of students’ motivation and attitude towards the usage of second language (L2) has recently become an important concept across the disciplines of second language acquisition and communication. This paper highlights the result of the survey questionnaire adopted from Gardner’s (2009) attitude motivation test battery that was administered among 288 Arabic students from six universities in Nigeria. Principal component analysis was carried out to determine the validity of the items in...

For children living in the context of political violence, school is often conceptualized as a safe physical place with education representing hope for the future. Yet school can also be a place of violence for some children, especially as they encounter the Israeli military and settlers on their journeys to and from school. Framed by Relph's (1976) theory of place as physical setting, activity, and meaning, this paper uses examples from research with 18 Palestinian families to better...

The purpose of this study was to assess the oral health status and treatment needs of children with disabilities attending special schools in Sana'a, Yemen.This cross-sectional study involved 401 children with different disabilities aged between 6 and 14 years. Dental caries was evaluated using DMFT/dmft indices in accordance with WHO criteria. The plaque index (PI) and the gingival index (GI) were used to assess oral hygiene and gingival health, respectively.The mean dmft and DMFT scores of...

Introduction There is a strong and increased worldwide interest on the aspects of prevention of oral disease and oral health promotion in dental education. However, some studies imply that dental students are not knowledgeable enough in this issue. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of, attitude towards and practice on preventive dentistry among senior dental students in Yemen. Methods Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among senior dental students in six dental...

This study investigates the existence and use of Tense Aspect and Voice (TAV) in Modern standard Arabic (MSA) and Libyan Dialects (LD) and the effect of these language systems, particularly ‘Libyan dialects (LD)’on the acquisition and use of the English (TAV) by Libyan university students. This study is conducted in two stages. The first stage investigates the existence and use of (TAV) in both MSA and LD, and then it compares these grammatical structures in MSA to those of LD in terms of...

Recent dust storms have caused crises in western Iran, which necessitate the prediction of these storms a few days before their occurrence. This is the first study of its type that analyzes the effect of temperature differences between the Mediterranean Sea surface and Syrian deserts (creation zone of the dusts storms) on the formation of dust storms in the west of Iran. The study also seeks to identify any changes in the atmospheric temperature created by the extreme dust storm of July 5,...

Childhood obesity is considered to be major concern that puts children at increased risk of poor cognitive functions, physical health and later in life they may develop many chronic diseases.The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of obesity on children's developmental trajectories of cognitive functions (sustained attention, memory, logical thinking and executive functions) of the obese and normal Egyptian school-age children and to investigate if the BMI can be used as a...

Abstract This case study investigates the special and inclusive education in Ghana. The authors first delineate the wider human well-being and historical contexts. Applying a descriptive design based on measurable pre-established indicators, drawn from Anastasiou and Keller's (2011) typological framework, the authors provide a systematic description of the 2008 status of special and inclusive education in Ghana. Furthermore, the produced outcomes compared to pre-established observable goals...

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The purpose of this study was to assess the determinants of HIV infection amongst learners in Malelane Sub-district, of Ehlanzeni Region, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. This descriptive study involved 350 grade 10 learners who were selected using simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire containing closed and open ended questions was used for data collection. Almost half of the learners reported being afraid to get treated for sexually transmitted infection (STI) or go for...

A multi-scale participatory process was used to extend the classical approach of indicator development for risk assessment in West Africa. The approach followed a step-wise procedure to develop Indicator Reference Sheet based on conceptual risk assessment framework and combined with knowledge of local experts iteratively selected through snowball approach. Existing risk assessment frameworks being modified to account for multiple hazards were merged into a coherent framework to categorize...

the present work was carried out to study the effect of climate change on the population density of the parlatoria date scale, P. blanchardii on date palm trees during the current (2009 to 2013) years and climate change conditions (2050 and 2100 years) at Esna district, Luxor Governorate. In order to compare the population density of pest under current data (average from 2009 to 2013 years) and future conditions, collected data was used to generate climate data under climatic changes...