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Menstrual disorders are physical or emotional problems that affect the normal menstrual cycle and bring about pain, unusually heavy or light bleeding and missed periods. They are one of the most occurring gynaecologic issues that affect women of child bearing age with a global prevalence of 30-70% and one of the frequent reasons women consult physicians worldwide.This study investigated the knowledge, prevalence of menstrual disorders, pattern of health seeking behaviours, association...

Africa has the swiftest rate of urbanisation in the world and with it varying possibilities of improved quality of life or the entrenchment of poverty and inequality in the cities of the continent. In this paper an instrument that measures and compares African urban development from the perspective of inclusive urbanisation is specified, tested and refined. The theoretical model for the instrument is generated from the literature on inclusive urbanisation and developed to assess the...

Schools, depending on their access to and quality of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and the implementation of healthy behaviours, can be critical for the control and spread of many infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Schools provide opportunities for pupils to learn about the importance of hygiene and WASH-related practice, and build healthy habits and skills, with beneficial medium- and long-term consequences particularly in low- and middle-income countries: reducing pupils'...

Nigerian public secondary schools are still grappling with the challenge of poor professional teacher performance.While a growing body of research has identified several factors that explain this poor performance, it has not paid much attention to analyzing whether educational leadership is one of the causes and whether it can provide a solution to this challenge.The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the leadership behavior of the school principal and the...

At a time when the Nigerian schools are on a temporary closure following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper looked inwards and reflected on the nature of the education system and revealed its myriads of problems. The COVID-19 pandemic indeed had a huge impact on the educational system in Nigeria. It brought about the cessation of all learning activities in Nigeria except for private universities and secondary schools that swiftly switched to virtual learning platforms. It also...

The industrial revolution in the field of gas and oil treatment that has known the Oran region-Algeria-has participated in the production and propagation of noise pollution and loud noises on the environment and around the places residential, for this, a multitude of noises are now part of our daily life. This contribution concerns the propagation of noise pollution in the industrial environment and the effects caused by atmospheric pollution which has a great influence on the phenomenon of...

Aims To determine the relationship between bullying victimization and PTSD among students attending public Junior Secondary Schools in Abeokuta. The Prevalence of Bullying victimization and PTSD as well as some socio-demographic correlates were also assessed. Method About 411 junior students from five randomly selected public secondary schools were approached for the study and given consent forms to take home to their parents/guardians. Those who subsequently returned signed consent forms...

This trend persists despite the availability of regulatory agencies and professional bodies in engineering for theregulation of engineering education and training in these institutions. In order to establish the cause(s) of poor quality of engineering education, the various areas of monitoring the training which includes curriculum delivery, facilities and the faculty, stakeholders and industrial partnership must be examined. This paper, therefore, looks at the internal mechanism adopted by...

This article focuses on the transferor–transferee relationship in the context of technology transfer collaborative projects between developed and developing countries. The case of the Algerian satellite industry, which utilized three small satellite collaborative projects with foreign companies over twenty years in order to acquire technology from abroad, has been used as an empirical study. The study evaluates transferor–transferee relationships when small satellite collaborative projects...

Secondary level of education has been reviewed as a fundamental stage for education progression where learners acquire basic skills in their future areas of specialization.At this level, students participate in educational activities that pertain to secondary school education.However, in Baringo County there is high prevalence of teenage pregnancies due to high poverty levels, high illiteracy rates among parents and retrogressive cultural beliefs that may have influenced the educational...

Stroke remains a major factor causing death and disabilities such as cognitive impairment. There is conflicting evidence on the role and dynamics of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), an acute phase pro-inflammatory protein, in post-stroke cognitive impairment. This study evaluated cognitive impairment and examined its relationship with serum hsCRP in the first three months following stroke. Cognition was assessed using Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, while serum hsCRP...

Abstract Agenda 2030 on sustainable development promotes a holistic approach to development and emphasizes the need to leave no one behind. Regarding the rule of law, sustainable development goal (SDG) 16.3 focuses on (promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all by 2030) and the related goals and targets on justice. Changing economic conditions in recent decades have caused stagnating wages and widening economic gaps among...

In Ghana, despite increasing enrolment, majority of children do not have access to quality early childhood education. The lack of a context-specific and culturally relevant definition of quality in early childhood education is one of the challenges stakeholders face in promoting quality standards in Ghana. In this paper, we use data collected through qualitative semistructured interviews to explore stakeholder definition of quality in early childhood education, the implications of quality,...

Globally, people with disabilities face a heightened risk of poverty. Drivers of poverty include exclusion from work and other livelihood activities (indirect costs) and disability-related direct costs – such as for rehabilitation, personal assistance and assistive devices – that are required for participation and functioning. This research explores sources of direct and indirect costs, their impact and mitigation strategies using 42 in-depth interviews with working-aged people with...

Despite the attention paid to food safety research, few empirical works have used a non-reductionist perspective to understand how international consumers cognitively respond to local food safety conditions. Using the tri-component theorisation and the two-step clustering approach with the Kruskal Wallis test on a sample of 109 international students in Ghana, this study provides a non-reductionist cognitive segment of international students towards local food safety conditions in Ghana. The...

The field of education has witnessed a set of developments at the level of educational programs and means that are in line with the rapid changes in the field of knowledge‚ as it was necessary to update these educational curricula and make them more effective. Teaching the Arabic language‚ like other languages‚ its activities are closely related‚ and we cannot study any activity in isolation‚ especially the activity of texts and the rubrics that follow‚ and this is called the textual...

Nearly three billion people continue to use woodfuels for their daily cooking. The global policy discourse increasingly emphasizes clean fuels, notably gas and electricity, but these are expensive, and their supply chains typically interrupted, especially in rural areas. As an alternative, this paper shows that fuel-efficient biomass stoves could contribute climate mitigation potentials in Sub-Saharan Africa that today exceed the total CO2-equivalent emissions of a medium-sized European...

The threat of plastic waste pollution in African countries is increasing exponentially since the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus infection as a pandemic. Fundamental to this growing threat are multiple factors, including the increased public consumption for single-use plastics, limited or non-existence of adequate plastic waste management infrastructures, and urbanisation. Plastics-based personal protective equipment including millions of surgical masks, medical gowns,...