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AI is the science of making machines does things that require intelligence. It involves building computer programs that aim at performing tasks that require some intelligence. The objective of AI therefore is to make life easier by handling complex and repetitive daily tasks. AI is consequently changing society by reshaping the way things are done. The development of the rural areas of Ghana has been left behind in terms of education. This is attributed to lack of basic ...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria led to a national lockdown that resulted in the suspension of academic activities. Objective: To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 national lockdown on pharmacy students’ productivity and their coping strategies. Methods: This study involved the cross-sectional collection of responses from undergraduate students of six Nigerian schools of pharmacy. Data was collected using a structured, validated questionnaire in the form of Google form. The...

The Syrian crisis has entered its ninth year with many being affected by the war. This is the largest-scale study that aims to evaluate the psychological profile of secondary school students in Syria.This is a cross-sectional study in schools in Damascus, Syria. The surveys assessed working habits, smoking, war exposure, grades, socioeconomic status (SES), social support, health-related quality of life (HRQL), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), problematic anger, and other...

ABSTRACT The definitive aim of this study was to bring to fore the evidence of the importance of tenure considerations in the designing, development, and implementation of climate change programs. This was done by analyzing how land tenure affects the use of adaptation strategies in Malawi. Using secondary data from the Integrated Household Survey (IHS4), a multinomial logit model was fitted to analyze determinants of adoption of climate change adaptation strategies. Land tenure has shown to...

Serious Games use immersive and interactive virtual learning worlds to support and enhance the transfer of knowledge, raising interest in cultural heritage across various subjects. We present a Serious Game designed to enhance the language acquisition of the Middle Egyptian language. Therefore, using an immersive background of cultural heritage, we bring life to one of the oldest stories recorded, The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor . The players learn basics and advanced topics of...

University students are particularly vulnerable to mood disorders. This vulnerability may be increasing, with recent investigations reporting sharp rises in the prevalence of depression and other psychiatric disorders. Moreover, previous studies indicate that first-year undergraduates tend to show more depression and suicidal ideation than students in subsequent years. However, most studies in the extant literature emerge from high-income countries in the global north; relatively few focus...

Planning and establishment of urban forests/trees for bio-physical benefits is not new in Nigeria; however, development and management of urban forests/trees for social and cultural values is relatively recent.This study is a diagnostic assessment of all trees/shrubs within University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin-City, Nigeria, including the newly introduced indigenous tree species.Ecological analysis was used to describe the relic tree population while ANOVA was used to compare growth...

Abstract Background : Preventive chemotherapy (PC), is the main elimination strategy against Soil-Tansmitted Helmenthiasis (STH) and Schistosomiasis (SCH) recommended by the world health organization (WHO), should be strengthened through identification of the remaining SCH transmission foci and evaluating its impact to get lesson. This study was aimed to assess the prevalence of STH/SCH infections, intensity of infections and associated factors among School Age Children (SAC) in two...

This study focused on identifying factors that affect classroom management in English classes and tried to give suggestions for the identified problems. The data were collected from Gore High School grade nine students, and English teachers who teach grade nine. The sample consisted of 213 students, and four English teachers. Then the data were collected and interpreted using qualitative and quantitative data analysis method. Especially, observation, questionnaires/open-ended and...

Moroccan craftsmanship has been booming in recent years. The decorations mark refined traces of patterns and forms rich in colors. Despite recent studies, the machine still finds problems recognizing patterns and shapes. In this paper, we propose a new method of classifying decor patterns based on the analysis of the texture and color of the images. Texture information describes the cross section of the pattern while color describes the distribution of colors in the image. In the majority of...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of childhood physical disability globally. This study describes the spectrum of ocular morbidity and visual impairment in a community-based (recruited by key informants) sample of children with CP in Cross River State, Nigeria.A paediatric neurologist clinically confirmed CP and assessed systemic comorbidity. Ophthalmological assessment included developmental age appropriate acuity tests, objective refraction and objective and subjective tests of...

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived unannounced and every facet of humankind was forced to align. In South Africa, all aspects of pharmacy education were impacted. Higher education institutions had to adopt emergency remote teaching strategies and skills to ensure pharmacy students had remote access to learning content to ensure that the academic year could be salvaged. For pharmacist interns, the writing of the pre-registration exam was delayed for most of the year. Pharmacists were subjected to...

Abstract Background Visual impairment (VI) and determinants of poor cardiovascular health are very common in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, we do not know whether these determinants are associated with VI among older adults in this region. This study aimed at investigating the association between the determinants of poor cardiovascular health and near VI among older adults living in Congo. Methods Participants were Congolese adults aged 65 or older included in Epidemiology of Dementia in...

To select new rainfed upland rice genotypes, adapted to the West, Centre-West, and Centre regions of Côte d'Ivoire, a study was conducted in research stations. Six genotypes (ART15-11-8-5-2-B-1, WAB891-SG12, WAB1092-B-40AB.1, ARCC3Fa3L10P1-1-B-1, and ART15-16-12 -3-1-B-1-B-3-1) including the control IDSA 10, widely cultivated across the country, were evaluated on three research stations of the National Center of Agricultural Research (CNRA), during the wet seasons of the year 2016 and 2017....

Since the beginning of the state of health emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic, and with the closure of schools and universities, Morocco has relied on distance education to ensure the continuity of the educational program. The latter therefore continue to follow their courses thanks in particular to the distance learning system commissioned by the Ministry of Education. Morocco can thus rely on a second mean of education and teaching even after the end of the pandemic for the many...