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ABSTRACT The damage caused by earthquake occurrences in different localities all over the world necessitates the evaluation of the underground and/or sub‐soil structure for strategic projects. The case study is the proposed area for a new factory construction that lies 3 km west of Suez Cement factory, in the area between Kottamiya and Ain Sokhna. The shallow seismic refraction survey was carried out through 10 major lines (grid lines), comprising 30 seismic profiles. The microtremor...

How to ensure Nigerians have access to Universal Basic Education has often attracted the attention of some States and Federal Government of Nigeria since 1955.Several factors, bordering on supply of teachers, facilities, finance have constrained implementation of well fashioned policies.Demand and supply of teachers for primary schools have serious consequences on the implementation of primary school education in Nigeria.This paper explores the demand and supply of teachers for primary...

To investigate the attitudes towards suicide among Grade II secondary school pupils among three cultural groups in South Africa.Cross sectional study.Grade II Secondary school pupils chosen at random from three urban schools in Pietersburg.The sample included 366 pupils, 150 (41%) males and 216 (59%) females, the mean age was 19.3 years (SD = 2.6), with a range from 17 to 24 years. The three cultural groups were 142 blacks, 112 whites and 112 Asians.Socioeconomic and family background (14...

Objective: To bring into focus the existence of respiratory hazards due to air pollution as a result of industrialisation, tobacco smoking (personal pollution), domestic pollution and vehicular fuel combustion on the African continent; and to stimulate health workers, and the various governments in Africa, to devote more attention to the subject of air pollution by engaging in and encouraging multidisciplinary research so that appropriate and effective control measures can be put in...

* 1. Introduction * 2. Global Climate Change and Africa * 3. Water * 4. Food * 5. Forests * 6. Cities * 7. Climate Change and Conflict * 8. Africa and the Low-Carbon Economy * 9. Looking Forward * Notes * Index

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of some demographic variables to the experience of stress among trainee secretaries. Additionally, the prevalence and sources of stress among trainee secretaries were studied. Four hypotheses and two research questions were formulated for investigation. The study was a descriptive survey and employed the Student Stress Inventory developed by the researchers to garner the relevant data. A total of 100 participants (35 males and 65...

Objective. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal related factors and the dental health status of pre‐school children in Lagos State, Nigeria. Methods. A cross‐sectional study of 404 pairs of mothers and their pre‐school children was conducted at two selected primary health centres in Lagos State Nigeria. An interviewer administered questionnaire recorded the mother’s socio‐demographic characteristics and assessed her perception of her child’s dental needs,...

Objective. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal related factors and the dental health status of pre‐school children in Lagos State, Nigeria. Methods. A cross‐sectional study of 404 pairs of mothers and their pre‐school children was conducted at two selected primary health centres in Lagos State Nigeria. An interviewer administered questionnaire recorded the mother’s socio‐demographic characteristics and assessed her perception of her child’s dental needs,...

This paper examines the current status of teachers and the teaching sector in Tanzania. It draws on experiences of teachers, parents, and students in Dar es Salaam, Iringa and Mbeya regions. Informed by the qualitative inquiry, the paper is largely empirical in character. Data was sought through interviews and document search. Findings indicate that,first, teachers and the teaching profession have low status today than during the colonial days and up to a few years after independence....

BackgroundThis cohort of "late middle-aged" African Americans has an excess of disability. We aimed to determine associations of circulating cytokine receptors (sTNFR1, sTNFR2, and sIL-6R) and C-reactive protein (CRP) with disability, physical function, and body composition.

Survey data collected from 2,000 Senior Secondary Two (SS II) Students in Cross River State, Nigeria were analysed to determine the influence of child abuse on later emotional stability of the individual.Four dimensions of child abuse namely: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and child neglect were considered in the study.One Way Analysis of Variance was used in testing the hypothesis at 0.05 Alpha levels.The result obtained showed a significant influence of child abuse on the individual later emotional stability.

This article is based on a study to assess and evaluate the benefits of the University of Botswana Business Clinic to students, and the outcome of its community outreach to the prospective and new enterprise owners. The business education programme at theUniversity of Botswana incorporates a business clinic, through which students undertake a range of activities, where they are able to acquire skills while providing support to aspiring and new enterprise owners. As in other business...

A serious problem in Botswana is the large number of girls and young women who drop out of school. Just over half of the female population attends secondary schools, and the percentage of school-enrolled females has fallen in recent years. Few researchers have studied the dropout problem in Botswana. Twenty-four individuals selected for this study were associated with a junior secondary school (grades 8–10) and a nongovernmental agency located in a section of Gaborone, the capital city that...

The Universal Basic Education (UBE) programmeme was launched by the Federal Government of Nigeria to ensure that each child of school going age compulsorily and freely attends school continuously for 9 years.Specifically, it is aimed at inculcating literacy, numeracy and life skills for entrepreneurship and national development.Also language teaching and learning is one of the core components for achieving the UBE goals.Although the National Policy on Education stipulates the learning of at...

I attempt in this paper to answer the question “What kind of literature is needed for ethical education in Africa, especially in this era of globalization?” I proceed to examine three identifiable kinds of literature in Africa: Oral literature in local African and modern European languages, written literature in local African languages and written literature in European languages—to determine what role each is playing in our contemporary educational system. I then advance the view that, in...

assurance benchmark by the School.This result suggests that a large proportion of teaching staff could benefit from teacher education.Four hundred and four questionnaires were completed and returned out of the 426 that had been distributed, yielding a response rate of 94.8 %.The Cronbach's alpha for reliability test was 0.62 -0.70 on the teaching skills sub-scale and 0.76 -0.78 on the Educational skills sub-scale.The majority, over 85%, acknowledged they lacked expertise in educational...

The University of Zambia School of Medicine was opened in 1966.Since inception, over 1200 undergraduate students have graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.The postgraduate Master of Medicine (M.Med)programme was started in 1982 2 with the intention of providing district specialists in the rural and semi urban communities of Zambia.Additional hope was to stem the brain drain to other countries.This is a study to describe the deployment of graduates of the M.Med training...

Jackson developed a hybrid model of learning in personality, known as the Learning Styles Profiler (LSP), which seeks to explain personality in terms of biological, socio‐cognitive and experiential processes. The hybrid model argues that functional learning outcomes can be understood in terms of how cognitions and experiences re‐express sensation seeking as functional learning. In two studies from Uganda and Australia (n = 136 and n = 290 respectively), grade point average (GPA) of students...