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This chapter summarizes research within Young Lives into early childhood transitions,2 looking at children’s experiences within early childhood and primary education in three of the four Young Lives study countries. Numerous lines of research have converged to produce a compelling case for prioritizing early childhood care and education (ECCE) services. Research demonstrates that the earliest years of a child’s life are a crucial period of biological, neurological, psychological, social, and...

Abstract Background: The larger fraction of infant mortality is that of neonatal; and early neonatal death is the most significant contributor of neonatal mortality as a whole. There are various factors which may be associated with early neonatal mortality and they have been the reasons for the wide variation in mortality rates among the health facilities reporting. Objective: This study was made to assess the independent predictors of early neonatal mortality. Methods: From 2001 through...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of academic achievement with adolescents’ personal value of education, educational intentions, and daily education-related behavior. In a sample of 126 urban, minority, male and female, ninth grade students from a midwestern area of USA statistically significant relationships were found between educational intentions and actual education related behavior, as well as between educational intentions and students’ personal value of...

Contents: Handel K. Wright/Ali A. Abdi: Introducing the Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses: Appropriation, Ambivalence, and Alternatives - Ali A. Abdi: Eurocentric Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Counter-Hegemonic Analyses and Responses - Dalene Swanson: Ubuntu, African Epistemology and Development: Contributions, Contradictions, Tensions, and Possibilities - Nombuso Dlamini: Inkumbulo as Remembering, Communing, and Praxis: Retelling...

Ethiopia is one of the least developed countries in eastern Africa, although it has been showing economic progress in recent years. One consequence of this poorly developed economy is the poor health conditions of its people. Ethiopians experience many health problems, particularly infectious diseases, because of substandard sanitary conditions, nutritional deficiencies, harmful health practices, and so forth (Ministry of Health, 2003). The Government of Ethiopia recognizes that common...

The Microbial analysis were determined within the wastewater treatment Plant to ascertained quantitatively the total Coli-form count and E. Coli, which ranged between 2.5×103 to 2.8×103 MPN/100ml and 2.5×103 to 2.7×103 MPN/100ml respectively. Wastewater and food samples (Cocoyam, Cassava and Tomatoes) were collected from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital wastewater Treatment Plant and from farmland within the vicinity of the research area. Samples were collected between the period of...

African higher education systems are considered as the most internationalized but the most marginalized ones in the world.The internationalization of African higher education suffers a far-reaching impact from colonialism,shows such characteristics as organizational regionalization and globalization,qualitative dependence and sharp conflict in relationship with indigenization.Such internationalization is mainly not the result of active pursuit of Africa itself,but the result of being...

Introduction: The global burden of rheumatic heart disease continues to be extremely high, with the main brunt being borne by developing countries. However, the prevalence and disease characteristics vary widely in different populations. Egypt hosts 80 million individuals and is known to be endemic for rheumatic heart disease. Methods: Cross sectional screening of a cohort of randomly selected 3062 school children between the ages of 5 and 15 years in Aswan, a "neglected "part of Egypt. The...

Both academic and policy documents indicate that poor school management and decision-making at local level are major challenges in creating equitable access to good-quality education in Ethiopia. In principle, educational provision can be improved through better management practices, transparency in the use of resources and accountability to all stakeholders (community, parents, students, teachers, etc.). This study focuses on school management and decision-making in government schools and...

The value of statistical life is an essential parameter used in ascribing monetary values to the mortality costs of air pollution in health risk analyses. However, this willingness to pay estimate is virtually non-existent for most developing countries. In the absence of local estimates, two major benefit transfer approaches lend themselves to the estimation of the value of statistical life: the value transfer method and the meta-regression analysis. Using Nigeria as a sample country, we...

The study was conducted to study the contributions of Leventis Foundation Agricultural Training School (LFATS) Dogon Dawa to the advancement of agricultural development in Kaduna State of Nigeria.  Participants and non-participants of the school were selected using multistage sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools were used to analyze data. Farming in the study area was found to be gender specific. However, the participants were more educated, with less farming...

Air is doubtlessly a basic necessity without which no living being can survive. The sole function of the breathing mechanism in human beings is the taking in of needed air (oxygen) and pushing out unneeded air (carbon dioxide). The need for clean and unpolluted air should therefore not be over-emphasized. With the debut of modern technology, man-made air pollution is gradually becoming a dominant trend. Human-induced carbon monoxide emission is posing a chronic threat to the well-being of,...

Background: Pregnant women infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) can transmit the infection to their fetuses and newborns. Neonates who contract the HBV have about 90% risk of developing chronic HBsAg carriage (HBsAg: hepatitis B surface antigen) and chronic liver disease. Neonatal immunization interrupts this vertical and perinatal transmission. Objectives: To determine the seroprevalence of HBsAg among pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and...

international journal of arts and sciences(IJAS) conference for academic disciplines,France(16-19 april 2012)

With an analysis of the definition of cross-cultural adaptation as well as the internal and external factors which influence cross-cultural adaptation,this paper discuses the existing difficulties of adaptation of Chinese teachers working in South Africa and their dissatisfaction,the individual differences in quality and ability as well as the shortage of help from the related organizations.The paper also analyzes some psychological problems of cross-cultural adaptation of the Chinese...