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Deep learning provide successful applications in many fields. Recently, machines learning are involved for oceans remote sensing applications. In this study, we use and compare about eight (8) deep learning estimators for retrieval of a mainly pigment of phytoplankton. Depending on the water case and the multiple instruments simultaneouslyobserving the earth on a variety of platforms, several algorithm are used to estimate the chlolophyll-a from marine reflectance. By using a long-term...

Inculcation and practice of values are indispensable for social coherence and development in any human society.As guiding principles for accepted behavior in the society, values are highly informed and influenced by cultural and social contexts.Virtually every nation counts on education as a veritable instrument for the inculcation of values.Every nation has its own set of values which it considers to be catalytic to its development if well inculcated through education.Nigeria, as a nation,...

Drought is expected to have significant impacts in most of the climate sensitive sectors in Kenya.In the ASALs, for example, frequent droughts are associated with the deterioration of livestock conditions, increased incidences of diseases, and livestock deaths, altered herd structure, and a collapse of livestock markets (Speranza, 2010).Extreme drought conditions have serious negative effects on the livelihood security of most pastoralists in Turkana central sub county.This is compounded by...

IntroductionPPI has been part of the Kenya primary school curriculum since introduction of formal education.The Ominde commission (1964) recommended PPI in schools to equip learners with good values for moral uprightness in schools.Pastoral care is concerned with a total wellbeing of students and the development of the whole person.PPI is central to the ethos and identity of the sponsor schools.The role of schools as an educational institution is to encourage excellence, the pursuit of...

15Nov 2019 CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MAURITIUS - A PILOT STUDY T. Ibrahim and S. Peerally General practitioner, MBBS, Mauritius

This study “ease and level of use of smartphone for learning amongst pre-service teachers colleges of education in North-West, Nigeria” was guided by two objectives, two research questions. The researchers used descriptive survey research design in the study. The researchers used mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) for data collection. The population of the study was 113,030. Random sampling technique was employed to select the sample. The total population of the sample is 32,300....

Introduction:The efforts towards elimination of malaria in Nigeria is being anchored based on a policy document -the National Antimalarial Treatment Policy (NATP).This study is to assess awareness of the NATP and the level of practice of malaria self-care among medical students and the University staffs working in the Medical college/Teaching hospital.Material and Method: A descriptive study that took place at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar involving medical students...

Neoliberalism has adjusted society’s role allocations related to who is responsible for looking after the welfare of whom. Based on the assumption of advancing human well-being, the neoliberal narrative renders the individual free, autonomous, and self-sufficient, but also with the obligation to assume responsibility for their own welfare. This duty is also shared with non-state agents such as employers. This article analyses the well-being discourse evident in two reports of the South...

The students have difficulties in identifying language and textual elements and the purposes for reading, which include the examination of literary experience and the ability to acquire and use information appropriately. Thus, students lack reading skills that function as key barrier to academic achievement, which has resulted to poor performance, and even drop out in their overall academic undertaking. There are many other factors that constitute this causality such as:  socio-economic...

In the current South African society, characterised by typical neo-liberal market-driven priorities also forced upon the education sector, the search for quality education needs careful consideration. This search has taken a prominent focus in robust academic, public, political, and school governance debates in South Africa for the past 2 decades. Officials of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) admit that, despite noteworthy efforts, it fails in providing quality education for all...

Job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers plays a key role in how they perform their functions.The study sought to determine the influence of work environment on job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers.The study was guided by Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory.The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and carried out in Nakuru West Sub County, Nakuru County, Kenya.The study targeted 326 teachers from 9 public secondary school teachers in Nakuru West Sub...

The study has examined the Influence of strategic planning in improving academics in public Diploma Teachers Colleges in Tanzania.The study used mixed research methods, under concurrent triangulation design.The purpose of using this design was to bring together the differing strengths and non-overlapping weaknesses of quantitative methods with those of qualitative methods.The sample sizes of 10 colleges out of 35 public teachers Colleges with 140 respondents out of the entire population were...

Quality education of primary and secondary schools is dependent on quality teachers who depend on quality teachers training colleges.Despite that, colleges are service-oriented; the Government requires them to make a strategic plan to help succeed in their college activities (Medium Term Strategic Planning and Budgeting Manual, 2005).A strategic plan in teachers colleges helps the academic achievement and income-generating projects and minimizes dependency of subsidy from the Central Government.It also helps to plan for the

IntroductionInformation literacy is a necessary skill that is potential in every aspect of a person's life today.For students, information literacy skills lead to independent and student-centric learning, rather than reliance on the lecturers to provide answers to questions, problems and challenges that they come across.This in turn creates a greater responsibility towards their own learning, which helps them become active learners and thinkers who are creative and investigative (Adeyemi,...

In this study, we interrogate the Learning Cultures of Peace Leadership and Conflict Resolution Postgraduate learners in their quest for higher education within the University of Zambia using the Learning Management System. The thrust of the study is on learning cultures of digital immigrants in technologically mediated postgraduate distance learning mode to inform the development of learner responsive services. The study rides on Hermeneutics Phenomenology approach to elicit lived...

This study investigates the use of literary texts for intercultural learning using a Master course of English as a foreign language in Algeria as an empirical example. We first define essential concepts that guided this course - ‘culture’, ‘language-culture nexus’ and ‘intercultural competence’ - before we explain the socio-linguistic and socio-cultural context in Algeria, as it is the foundation of the choice of literary texts. The empirical study was an action research project that took...

Authors: Emeka Chima Ogoko, Kelle Henrietta Ijeoma & Enete Uchenna Oliver Received 18 November 2019/Accepted 29 December 2019 Physicochemical parameters and heavy metal ions in soils within the vicinity of some mechanic workshops in Owerri metropolitan in Imo State were investigated. Soil samples were taken from mechanic workshops around Aba road, Orji and Avu. AOAC methods were used in the analysis of soil physicochemical parameters while heavy metals ions determination was performed...

The study looked at some social challenges confronting the education of the girl-child as perceived by female academics in the tertiary institutions in Edo State.To guide this study, seven research questions were raised and one hypothesis was formulated.The population was made up of all the female academics in all the tertiary institutions in Edo State, Nigeria.Three hundred and fifty females made up the sample of study through the purposive sampling technique.The instrument used to collect...