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Abstract Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts to poverty reduction. The main objective of the current study is to examine the extent to which gender, education, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016/17...

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a nurse’s/physician’s clinical tool for assessing patients’ level of consciousness. Evidence suggests that nurses’ show poor integration of GCS knowledge into clinical practice. GCS knowledge and use among nurses in Nigeria has been under studied. This study assessed the knowledge, skills, and learning needs of clinical nurses in using the GCS for neurological patients’ assessment. A convergent parallel mixed methods design was adopted. Quantitatively, 212...

This study presents qualitative findings from an assessment conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute and Cultural Practice, LLC of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) Agricultural Technical Vocational Education and Training program for women (ATVET4Women) in Benin, supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fA¼r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). ATVET4Women in Benin targets women working in value chains for four...

The study investigated the Special Educators’ Assessment of Impacts of Themes of International Day of Persons with Disabilities(IDOPWD) in Nigeria The study adopted descriptive research design and specifically used descriptive statistics to analyze the data. In a bid to arrive at the sample, purposive sampling technique was used draw 30 Special Educators who had participated in the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and or among the senior ones from University of Jos,...

All children have the right to a safe environment and the right to access quality education. A safe environment is the platform for all children to strive toward success to achieve fundamental milestones for their development. This environment must be inviting, be conducive to teaching and learning, and accommodate the principles of inclusivity. The Nigerian National Early Childhood Education Curriculum articulates these basic needs for all children irrespective of their socioeconomic...

The debt and economic growth debate remain topical in Nigeria given the controversies that often trail the government’s plan to always borrow to fund the annual budget deficits. This study provides an empirical contribution to the national discourse by assessing the impact of foreign debt on the Nigerian economy. Applying a dynamic variant of the auto-regressive distributed lag model, the main result from this study is that in the long run, external debt accumulation and the associated...

This study examined the influence of student-related variables like peer influence, parental income and self-esteem on the academic outcome of Social Science Education Students in the Department of Social Science Education in University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study; while the purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 150 undergraduate students for the study. A 20-item Student-Related Variables Questionnaire (SRVQ) and a 60-item...

This study examined the influence of student-related variables like peer influence, parental income and self-esteem on the academic outcome of Social Science Education Students in the Department of Social Science Education in University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study; while the purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 150 undergraduate students for the study. A 20-item Student-Related Variables Questionnaire (SRVQ) and a 60-item...

Ocean is considered as the most important source of food for billions of people and the marine ecosystem affords millions of jobs for humans and the blue economy represents a great percent of the global GDP. The aggressive increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases accelerated the climate change and its consequences on the marine environment including significant reduction in ice extent, rising sea levels, increased vertical stratification, alteration of wind and precipitation...

Background: Patient-centered care has been considered the foundation of healthcare quality and the core competency of the doctor-patient relationship.Aims: To assess the attitudes of medical students toward a patient-centered approach and identify the predictors of patient-centeredness scores.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Fayoum Medical School/Egypt using a validated Arabic version of the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS).Results: The total PPOS score showed...

Background: Patient-centered care has been considered the foundation of healthcare quality and the core competency of the doctor-patient relationship.Aims: To assess the attitudes of medical students toward a patient-centered approach and identify the predictors of patient-centeredness scores.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Fayoum Medical School/Egypt using a validated Arabic version of the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS).Results: The total PPOS score showed...

In Morocco, the high consumption of dietary sodium increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and predisposes to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and hypertension. This study aims to assess the dietary sodium and potassium intake in a random sample of Moroccan adult students as a benchmark informing a national strategy for reducing salt intake. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 103 adults aged 18 to 25 years recruited in Casablanca. The 24-hour urinary excretion was...

Much research has been done in the realization of apology and request speech act but very few have explored this in the context of Arabic language. We perform a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) process in this paper to gather and analyze studies to identify the diverse apology and request strategies preferred by Arabic learners of English and the influence of culture and social distance on them. Following a predefined review procedure, we identified 15 literature papers within the years...

The issue of preparing teachers has been a forcing concern for a lot of educators in Egypt especially at the age of rapid technological changes. So, certain rules should be issued to guarantee choosing the best teachers; the thing which cannot be achieved without professionalizing education by issuing licenses for working as teachers. The license of professionalizing the job of teachers is considered an acknowledgement of the teacher's ability to teach. In addition, this license encourages...