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Policymakers in many developing countries have been preoccupied with the task of ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper examine the drivers’ factors that influence the perception of climate change in southwest Nigeria. A well structural questionnaire was used to obtain information from 180 farming households in the study area. Descriptive statistics and interaction probit...

This paper describes a snapshot of the recursive stages and ongoing, evolutionary development of St. Monica's School of Basic Learning for Women in Gulu, Uganda.The purpose of this paper is to describe the collaborative efforts between Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe and the faculty at St. Monica's School of Basic Learning for Women along with faculty and students at the university.This description highlights the theories underlying the servicelearning partnership, including postcolonial theory and...

Introduction: Maternal mortality remains high in Papua New Guinea where most of the population lives in rural and remote areas, health worker training is poor and continuous reproductive health training is all but non-existent. A Reproductive Health Training Unit (RHTU) established in 2012 through a partnership between National Department of Health, Oil Search Foundation and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia provides continuing professional development for health workers of...

This article is a reflection on a violent incident that occurred in one secondary school in Mbeya. There was a clip circulated showing student-teachers physically beating and manhandling a secondary school student. The article uses the episode to highlight conditions that leads to teacher violence in Tanzania. A critical analysis method is used in making reflections based on some psychological aspects and author’s experiences as a teacher. Issues that raise concerns in the clip and other...

The paper discusses behaviour modification techniques as a mean of addressing the negative behaviour exhibited by pupils in primary schools. In an attempt to discuss the techniques; the paper discuss the meaning of behaviour and its types; effective teaching, teacher’s effectiveness and efficiency, factors influential to teacher’s effectiveness and effective learning were discussed. Finally, the paper recommended that authorities should be organizing seminars, workshops and conferences for...

In Zambia, essential hypertension is one of the commonest and prevalent non-communicable diseases. In the current medical literature it is not clear on the serum selenium levels among essential hypertensive patients in Zambia despite evidence in literature of its role in development of hypertension.
 The present study investigated serum selenium levels in essential hypertensive adults. We hypothesized that serum selenium levels were significantly lower in this population and was a risk...

Abstract This article explores the mechanisms through which social learning mediates technology diffusion. We exploit an experiment on the dissemination of biochar, a soil amendment that can improve fertility on weathered and/or degraded soils. We find that social networks transmit information about the average benefits of adoption, but also its risk, and that observed variability inhibits uptake to a greater degree than positive average results engender it. Paradoxically, this relationship...

Background: Knowledge of stroke, especially the risk factors and warning signs is important in the control of the disease.This knowledge vary between patients and are difficult to interpret, especially for non-health professionals.The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge of stroke risk factors and warning signs among teachers in the private primary schools in Moro Community, Ife North Local Government, Osun State, Nigeria.Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study design...

Persons with Disabilities (PWD’s) in Nigeria are faced with tons of daily challenges. These challenges range from stigmatization, discrimination, rejection and ostracization from family and friends; socialization problems, infrastructural deficit issues, exclusion and welfare needs from the society and government and also; dejection, depression, mood swing and pity from self. All these pose demeaning tendencies to their psycho-socio-cultural wellbeing. This paper seeks to advocate the...

Background: There are many misconceptions or wrong belief about stroke.These wrong beliefs are held by non-health care professionals due to their little understanding and awareness about stroke.The aim of this study is to assess the level of right beliefs about stroke and its associated factors among private primary school teachers from Faith Standard Primary School, Ile Ife, Nigeria.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design using 27-item, self-administered questionnaires to...

Academic underachievement has become a syndrome especially among high ability learners in Mathematics. This is due to some identified factors which include self-esteem and peer influence of the high ability learners. This study therefore investigated how self-esteem and peer influence can predict the learning outcomes in Mathematics of high ability learners in Ibadan, Oyo State. The survey design of the ex-post facto type was employed in this study. Purposive sampling technique was used to...

In numerous developing countries, the pollution, connected to a massive population growth and to inadequate infrastructures of purification and waste treatment, establishes a threat for the public health, the wild sorts as well as for sources of income. In an era of unprecedented urbanization, the pressure of the population and the industrial growth are of seriousness today threaten for the management of the water in Senegal. The water pollution by the drainings untreated, the industrial...

Asthma is a serious global health problem that affects people of all backgrounds and ages with morbidity and mortality higher among older school-age children and early adolescents which causes have been attributed to inadequate knowledge and the wrong perceptions about asthma.The study assessed the level of knowledge and perceptions of asthma; investigated the association of certain demographic characteristics with the level of asthma knowledge and perceptions and determined the correlation...

Needs analysis is considered as an effective tool to design a course of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) that best fits the students’ needs. Thus, the present paper responds to a main research question focuses on what the Algerian Manufacturing and Engineering Master’s students need English for. It aims at investigating the students’ language needs and identifying the stakeholders’ perceptions of the ESP course. For this purpose, this research is based on a case study design through which...

The present progressive is one of the structures that create immense problems to foreign learners of English in general and Moroccan ones in particular. These learners fail to use this aspect appropriately in discourse due to a difficulty in internalising its real meaning. Our survey shows that these English as a foreign language (EFL) learners associate the present progressive with only one context of use- the one referring to actions/ events happening around NOW or at the moment of...