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Climate change has imposed significant changes in the structure and natural dynamics of coastal ecosystems, compromising their resilience capabilities. The socio-environmental vulnerability in many coastal areas is aggravated by the inadequate articulation of an integrated territorial management and policies and plans to adapt to climate change. This work was carried out in the municipality of Luanda where erosion, floods and mass movements are an increasingly worrying reality. The research...

Premenstrual Dysphonic Disorder (PMDD) is a severe form of PMS where psychological and behavioral symptoms of labile and depressed mood, anger, irritability and internal tension are prominent. It has been widely studied in many countries only limited studies have been conducted in Ethiopia. To assess the prevalence and magnitude of premenstrual syndrome and its coping mechanisms among female student of Guder High School and preparatory School. A systematic study was conducted over a period...

Atoll island communities are naturally vulnerable to flooding hazards such as king tides, storm surges and overtopping, among others. Climate change can be expected to catalyse the susceptibility to flooding through extreme weather events, sea level rise (SLR) and other climate related pressures. Further, population growth in coastal proximity can exacerbate vulnerabilities by degrading ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs that island communities tend to rely on for protection. The...

Subsistence agriculture/fisher reliant island communities of the Louisiades, Milne Bay Province, PNG are seeing changes in their environment and in their ability to support themselves from its natural resources and services. Change is seen as the cumulative impacts upon these resources rather than disaggregating the individual causes. The lack of productivity and depletion of resources is seen as resulting from a combination of over-utilisation/over-harvesting by a growing population for...

Recurrence of El Nino events has always been associated with losses in agricultural production through widespread crop failure and livestock deaths, resulting in food insecurity and erosion of rural livelihoods. In the whole of southern Africa, food deficits have been recorded during such events, causing acute hunger, undernutrition, malnutrition and nutrient deficiency in most rural communities of Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Using the case study of Zimbabwe,...

In most medical schools, graduate students, sometimes referred to as graduate teaching assistants, often participate in the training of undergraduate students. In developing countries like Uganda, are typically involved in undergraduate training. However, prior to this study there were no standard guidelines for this involvement. At the same time, the views and experiences of the graduate students in their role as educators had not been documented. Therefore, the aim of this study was to...

Background: In certain developing countries neonatal mortality rates still showed a slower decline. Many factors were attributed to neonatal mortality that varies from one country to another. This study investigated factors attributed to neonatal mortality in Sudan.Methods: Data was collected from 72 neonatal deaths records at Albuluk pediatrics' teaching hospital, and then it was analyzed using a modified three delays model to determine contributing delays.Results: 31.9% of neonatal...

The aim of this project was to strengthen rehabilitation technician education and physiotherapy practice at the Kachere Rehabilitation Centre in the less-resourced country of Malawi by enlarging and reinforcing the skills of faculty, administrators, and adjunct clinicians, and fostering their continuing professional development.The project was developed through a partnership with the Kachere Rehabilitation Centre (KRC), the Medical Rehabilitation College (MRC), and a US-trained physical...

This study, which covered all the ten provinces of Zambia, aimed at assessing the Iodine Deficiency prevalence, and access to adequately iodised salt in the country.It was carried out in 2011 and entailed determining the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) among 1, 283 school children from 30 selected schools and the amount of iodine in 875 salt samples collected from the households of the children.The iodine concentration was also determined in salt samples collected from 365 salt traders...

With the demise of apartheid and the ushering in of a new political dispensation, many changes have taken place in South Africa. The field of education, which was one of the most volatile areas of concern for the apartheid regime and has been described by some academics at the University of Natal as being a miasmic morass marked by systemic crisis, has been quick to purge itself of some of its apartheid legacies (see Barasa & Mattson, 1998). For instance, to offset the harmful effects of the...

The coasts of Morocco, both on Mediterranean and Atlantic sides, are affected by a high rate of pressure and are exposed to risks, namely in the context of Climate change and marine level rise. This paper shows how the GIS approach can contribute to improve the knowledge of coastal risk and its prevention, following an integrated and spatial approach. The main results presented here come from a recent research program leaded by the Department of management, involving various fields, and...

There exists disparity between the level of demand for mental health nursing services and the number of psychiatric nurses available. Few students enroll in the psychiatric nursing specialty in Kenya. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics of nursing students and their attitudes towards psychiatric nursing. The study was carried out at three universities and five colleges of nursing in Western Kenya among students pursuing...

This study analyses college students’ locational knowledge of environmental events, based on empirical evidence from Ethiopia and the USA – countries that occupy opposite margins on the socioeconomic, cultural and technological spectrum. Based on geo‐referenced data generated through a map‐embedded questionnaire survey from 200 students in higher learning institution, we employed multiple ring buffer analyses and standard distance functions of Arc GIS 10.3 and produced the spatial distance...

Forty percent of Syrian refugees are younger than 12, and many have not attended school for up to five years, disadvantaging them academically, emotionally, and psychosocially. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights dictates "the right to freedom of opinion and expression…and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas…)". Resettled refugee children face the challenge of integration into majority-English school systems with limited ability to express themselves or...

Investigating the effect of successive annual deworming rounds on the spatiotemporal distribution of infection prevalence and numbers at risk for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) can help identify communities nearing elimination and those needing further interventions. In this study, we aim to quantify the impact of an 8-year mass drug administration (MDA) programme (from 2007 to 2014) on the spatiotemporal distribution of prevalence of STH infections and to estimate the number of...

Introduction. The purpose of this study is double. First, to evaluate the factorial structure of Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) as a measure of approaches to learning with bilingual Egyptian higher education students by testing the plausibility of reproducing its intended three-factor structure. Second, the study aimed at testing the predictive validity of ASSIST.Method. The sample of the study consisted of (n=516) college students from one international...