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Health services represent a cornerstone to ensure well-being and human rights, particularly in deprived areas. The resource cost and appropriate use for the implementation of a top-quality hospital in Sudan are here investigated. An emerging approach such as systems-based Emergy Accounting is applied to assess its sustainability and resilience, also relying on Life-Cycle Assessment data to calculate some new unit emergy values. Very few similar studies have addressed civil works so far, even...

The aim of this paper is to study the prevalence and discuss the need for inculcating comprehensive sexual education in secondary school curriculums in Africa.A double blinded cross-sectional study was conducted using a validated data tool or questionnaires to obtain the data for this study.Signed consent was given after detailed written explanation on each questionnaire.In the study, delegates were asked to choose a score from between 1 to 10 on how well they were taught CSE while in...

Chronic seasonal crop and livestock loss due to heat stress and rainfall shortages can pose a serious threat to human health, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where subsistence and small-scale farming dominate. Young children are particularly susceptible to undernutrition when households experience food insecurity because nutritional deficiencies affect their growth and development. The increase in the frequency of extreme climate events, including droughts, can potentially pose serious...

This study explores attitudes and motivations towards volunteering in nursing students in Ghana compared with nursing students in the United Kingdom (UK). Ghana traditionally follows a western model of nurse education, with students studying programmes commensurate in theory and practice, making Ghana a suitable location for a comparative study. We explored similarities and differences in attitudes and motivation towards volunteering to challenge and inform our common place practice towards...

Background: Good oral health is a vital component of general health. Maintaining good oral hygiene via personal and specialized care is the best prevention for dental health problems. This study aimed to compare the oral health status and oral hygiene among Egyptian and Malaysian medical students studying at Tanta University, Egypt. Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among Egyptian and Malaysian students at Tanta faculty of medicine using WHO self-administered...

Levrier Bay is an important fishing area which is under growing anthropogenic pressures seriously threatening this treasure. Among these pressures Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon are of great environmental concern. Therefore, 16 EPA-PAHs were analyzed using GC–MS in Perna perna species and sediment. Comparison with Dakar (Senegal) and Moroccan coasts shows that PAHs levels are strikingly lower than that of heavily polluted Dakar coast (2474 μg/kg); nevertheless, comparable to Moroccan...

The Tibesti Volcanic Province (TVP) in northwest Chad represents the second largest of the five Gharyan–Tibesti volcanic provinces and covers an area around 29,000 km2. The other four provinces are in Libya, but all five provinces are from late Miocene to Quaternary and may have a common mantle source. The TVP, however, differs from the other four as regards volcano-tectonic processes, eruption style, and production of volcanic materials. The volcanic products of the TVP were erupted from...

A Global climate change has raised serious concerns about food security and the sustainability of agriculture, particularly in developing regions of the world. In response to these concerns, attention should be called to the global importance of conservation of some neglected and underutilized crops, such as Lathyrus species, which are nutrient-rich and already adapted to harsh environments and low-input agriculture. L. cicera L., known in Morocco as ‘ikiker’, ‘kiker’...

The integration of local perceptions and scientific evidence is important for developing comprehensive understandings of the complexities of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the literature on climate change and variability (CCV) trends for the region has largely focused on either local or scientific knowledge with less insight into their integration. Responding to this lacuna, a mixed-method approach with an integral theoretical lens was applied to understand farmers’...

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have become a modern concept in education and new meaningful learning environment for technology-enhanced learning, where huge numbers of users worldwide access free, online-based, open content generated by world-renowned institutions.To provide successful MOOC environments requires recognizing the learners' motivations to utilize MOOCs programs.Because of the scarcity of research on MOOCs' use for teacher's professional development, it makes use of...

It is undisputed that education is instrumental both for socio-economic development and the enjoyment of other fundamental human rights. In particular, a tertiary education is very critical for less developed countries (LDCs) such as Ethiopia where education is considered a vital tool for sustainable development. Nonetheless, a quality tertiary education depends, inter alia, upon sufficient access to most copyrighted learning materials through a balanced copyright system with adequate room...

Introduction Summative clinical assessments and feedback, conducted at clinical training sites, are vital for successfully preparing undergraduate diagnostic radiography students to become competent, skilled diagnostic radiographers. However, providing appropriate feedback in a clinical context is a complex matter, as studies show that students often feel intimidated by feedback and may only accept feedback selectively, so as to pass their assessment or course. This article reports on the...

This paper examines whether school characteristics moderate the association between grit and reading achievement in a sample of Grade 6 learners in high-poverty contexts. The analysis makes use of data from 2383 learners distributed across 60 township and rural schools in three provinces of South Africa. Indicators of school functionality are used to split the sample of schools into three groups (low, medium, and high functionality) and separate models of reading achievement are estimated...

Since teacher morale in South Africa appears to be at an all-time low, it is important to research the factors affecting teacher morale. Thus, this research focused on a sample of teachers in the Greater Benoni Area, in the Gauteng Province, to examine the relationship between the factors contributing to the morale and the current level of morale among the teachers. The study aimed to ascertain the teachers’ perceptions of the morale and the relevance/ importance of the factors contributing...