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The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were compared with refusals of 20 native speakers of English (ENS) and 20 native speakers of Arabic (ANS). Data were collected using a Written Discourse...

Background and Aims: The oral hygiene status of individuals may be a strong indication of the extent of their dental awareness. The level of awareness can make a great difference in the quality of oral health care that can be rendered to patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the oral hygiene status and dental awareness of non-dental health professionals in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano State, Nigeria. Methodology: A total of 425 participants selected by multistage sampling...

Background: Social media anxiety has been on the rise globally. There is sparse literature on the association between social media and anxiety. Most of the available data originate from high-income countries. This is the first attempt to assess social media anxiety among undergraduate students in an African country. Materials and Methods: We employed a cross-sectional and descriptive method for this study. The Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users was the data collection tool used to...

The purpose of this study was to identify factors responsible for the poor academic performance of pupils in Wamfie Circuit Junior High Schools.Descriptive design was used.Population for the was made up of two-hundred and five (205) pupils, twentyfive (25) teachers and four (4) schools in Wamfie circuit Junior High Schools.Simple random and purposive samplings were used to select pupils, teachers and Junior High Schools for the study.The main instrument for the study was questionnaire.Data...

Spatio-temporal variation in rainfall-runoff erosivity resulting from changes in rainfall characteristics due to climate change has implications for soil and water conservation in developing countries. Understanding past and future variations in rainfall-runoff erosivity and its implication, in tropical areas where there are limited continuous daily rainfall records, is important. The present study attempted to (i) quantify the nature of spatiotemporal variability of erosivity from rainfall...

ObjectiveTo determine the level of knowledge and awareness of type 2 diabetes among undergraduate students and to investigate demographic and lifestyle variables associated with students’ level of knowledge and awareness.DesignStudents from the University of Ghana (n = 726) were administered questionnaires to assess their knowledge and awareness in specific aspects of type 2 diabetes, namely, symptoms, treatment and complications of the illness.Main Outcome MeasuresLevel of type 2 diabetes...

The purpose of this article is to show the interest of craft as a sociological paradigm in the development of a sporting career of a handicap Tunisian athlete.Meeting the demands of a sporting career, the athlete goes through different stages of representation of disability.The representation is made from stage such as (shaped, composed, performed) through his or her sporting career.We analyzed the life story of "W" and "H", two Tunisian Paralympic champions and their Sports career.This...

This article is an introspective perspective of the place of the right to education in Anglophone Cameroon in the current Anglophone crisis. The article is written specifically in mind to cover the gaps, the missing link of educational services and the right to education currently being violated in English Cameroon. It discusses some of the particular cases of educational right violations. The right to education in Cameroon is clearly and completely statutorily. This has also been enunciated...

Background: Drug addiction is a major public health and socioeconomic problem worldwide that annoys the Egyptian government, as it deals with youth within the age of productivity.Aim of the Work: To determine the prevalence of drug abuse among Zagazig University students.Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted on 750 students in Zagazig University from the beginning of November 2015 to the end of November 2016, after an informed verbal consent.Data were collected through a...

In Asia, which has a rapidly aging population, dementia is the most prominent disease. This article presents an application of Latent Growth Mixture Model (LGMM) to identify classes of individual Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other dementias Years Lived with Disability (YLD) rates for Asian and North African countries based on the unobserved heterogeneity. The AD and other dementias YLD data for both sexes and age-standardized groups reported by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a vector-borne hemorrhagic disease caused by a primarily zoonotic virus infecting a wide range of domestic and wild animals. The main implicated vectors are Hyalomma spp. ticks. Transmission of the virus to humans occurs through tick bites, crushing of infected ticks, contact with blood, body fluids, and tissue of patients with CCHF during the acute phase of illness; and contact with blood or tissue of viremic livestock. Afghanistan health officials...

The study investigates education-job mismatch in the graduate segment of the nation’s labour market, which has had to contend with increasing graduate unemployment in an environment that is inundated with frequent adverts for vacancies across graduate disciplines. Variance of relative unemployment and proportional index of unemployed and employed are used to explain the mismatch from 2012 to 2016. Mismatch is found to be low but increasing in the entire labour market. Aggregate unemployment...

Teachers are at the forefront of kids' educational experiences, to provide children with the guidance and technical skills they need to succeed in their connected future.This study therefore examined the perception of teachers' training on use of technology and integrating technology in instructional delivery.Questionnaire were developed and administered to 40 selected teachers, the data collected was analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).The research findings...

Aims: Globally, cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused 17.5 million deaths accounting for 46.2% of non-communicable disease deaths. Risk factors among secondary school students in Ghana have reached epidemic levels. Unfortunately, many people have no knowledge of CVD and its risk factors and because of this the disease burden keeps on rising. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention guided by the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills to reduce...

The study sought to investigate perceived effect of BECE, as a high-stakes test on curriculum implementation in Ghana.Twenty (20) Junior High Schools were selected from the total of fifty (50) Junior High Schools within Kwahu South District, Eastern Region of Ghana, for the study.A descriptive crosssectional survey design was used.Proportionate stratified sampling procedure was used to select one hundred and twenty (120) teachers.However, the response rate was 91% representing 109...

Background: This article provides an overview of deaf education efforts in Ghana over the past 60 years (1957–2018). It describes the field’s pioneering history from a global perspective to the local content (in Ghana) after national independence in 1957 led by the efforts of Dr Andrew Foster between the 1950s and the 1960s. It also provides an overview of the significant issues that negatively impact deaf education in Ghana, such as political turnover, limited political will, funding...