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Background: Despite stroke is a major cause of disability, the predictors of the disability among stroke survivors has not been sufficiently delineated. Objective: To assess post-stroke disability and determine its predictors among Nigerian stroke survivors. Methods: This study involved 121 consecutive stroke survivors with at least 3 months of stroke from two tertiary health institutions in South-Western Nigeria. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule was used to...
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The study investigated the relationship between meta-cognitive learning skills and academic performance among orphaned secondary school students of Kenya. The research was informed by Social Cognitive Theory. This study adopted an ex-post-facto research design with which a saturation sampling technique was employed. The study population constituted 300 secondary school going orphans and 23 principals. The sample of the study comprised 300 secondary school going orphans and 7 principals...
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The study investigated the relationship between time management and academic performance among orphaned secondary school students of Kenya. This study adopted an ex-post-facto research design with which a saturation sampling technique was employed. The study population constituted 300 secondary school going orphans and 23 principals. The sample of the study comprised 300 secondary school going orphans and 7 principals picked out through saturated and simple random sampling respectively. The...
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Objective: To describe the clinical, epidemiological and biological profile of polycythemia vera.Patients and methods: This is a descriptive study done from May to October 2014 witch included 13 patient who had been treated since 2007 at Campus Teaching Hospital of Lomé for polycythemia vera.The research of JAK2 V617Fmutation by PCR was been done inmolecular biologylaboratory of the Henri Mondor Hospital at Creteil in France.Results: The annual prevalence of polycythemia vera is about 2.16...
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Determine cholesterol and triglyceride levels in patients with homozygous SS sickle cell during intercritical stage and study the influence of vaso-occlusive crisis on their rates.It was a case -control study during 6 month: one group of 70 homozygous SS sickle cell and a second group of 70 apparently healthy controls with normal hemoglobin AA.The average age of patients with sickle cell is 16, 22 ± 10.44 years (range 1 year and 40 years) against 28, 91 ± 15, 81 years (range 2 years and 66...
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Teacher based is the usual instructional method used by most teachers in high school. Traditionally, teachers direct the learning and students work individually and assume a receptive role in their education.Student based learning approach is an instructional use of small groups of students working together to accomplish shared goals to increase everyone’s and their own achievement. With the advert of progressive education in the 19 th century and the influence of psychologists, educators...
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This article is in line with research in the historical sociology of secularism and attempts to grasp how academic secularism today repositions itself between a Durkheimlian definition of national integration (Durkheim 1925) and a definition of an integration which respects differences. The last two decades have seen an explosion in demands for the recognition of religious differences in secular academic spaces questioning the potential of secularism as the model of national integration. On...
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Background . The understanding of obesity as a growing health problem in Africa and Tanzania in particular is hampered by lack of data as well as sociocultural beliefs in which overweight and obesity are revered. This study sought to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among primary school children aged 8–13 years in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Method . A cross-sectional analytical research design was used to study overweight and obesity in primary schools in Dar es Salaam,...
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a pivotal role in enhancing learning and teaching at all levels of education across the globe. Many developed countries appreciate that the use of ICTs has improved the quality of education. Developing countries such as Malawi have also incorporated ICTs in various curricula of programmes at all levels of education. Unfortunately, these resource constrained countries face a number of challenges in gleaning the maximum benefits of ICT in...
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Racial Socialization and African American Students’ Academic Motivation and SelfEfficacy and Likelihood Attending Graduate School by Judith Parker MS, Walden University, 2010 BA, California State University, Sacramento, 1985 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Counseling Psychology Walden University January 2017 Abstract Enrollment by African American students in U.S. colleges and universities has increased since 2009, but...
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Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations. Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change both individually and collectively. Empirical research has shown that access to capital—financial, human, physical, and social—is critical for building resilience and fostering adaptation to environmental stresses. Little attention, however, has been paid to how social capital generally might facilitate...
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Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations. Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change both individually and collectively. Empirical research has shown that access to capital—financial, human, physical, and social—is critical for building resilience and fostering adaptation to environmental stresses. Little attention, however, has been paid to how social capital generally might facilitate...