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The purpose of the study was to estimate the relationship between academic achievement in college, as defined by first-year grade point average (GPA), and self-authorship among African American first-year students at an HBCU (N = 140), using hierarchical linear regression techniques. A single research question guided this investigation: What is the relationship between measures of self-authorship and the academic achievement of African American collegians at HBCUs, controlling for...
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In this paper, we examine how communities in Zanzibar cope with and adapt to multiple-stressors including climate change, and how these responses affect long-term adaptation, mitigation and development (AMD) goals. In particular, we identify the multiple-stressors that affect natural-resource dependent communities in Zanzibar. We then explore how community responses affect long-term development and mitigation goals before we examine the barriers to maximising AMD synergies in community...
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The Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria (MSSN) is arguably the country's largest Islamic organization, in terms of numbers.The mother body for all Muslim students at all levels of education in Nigeria; it has the largest membership base in the country.Established in 1954, to serve as a common front for Muslim students, MSSN is unaffiliated in terms of ideology as it draws membership from all sects, ideologies and movements associated with Islam in Nigeria.At the top of the society's...
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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) is arguably the country’s largest Islamic organization, in terms of numbers. The mother body for all Muslim students at all levels of education in Nigeria; it has the largest membership base in the country. Established in 1954, to serve as a common front for Muslim students, MSSN is unaffiliated in terms of ideology as it draws membership from all sects, ideologies and movements associated with Islam in Nigeria. At the top of the society’s...
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BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health concern despite the decline in its mortality rate.There is a dearth of study on HRQOL among patients with tuberculosis in Nigeria. This study aimed to evaluate the HRQOL in pulmonary tuberculosis patients at a Nigerian university teaching hospital. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted from December 2010 to April 2011 in the Tuberculosis (TB) clinic of the Department of Family Medicine University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital...
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The objective of this research is to assess the implementation of Universal basic Education Programme in Nigeria from 1999-2009 on availability of infrastructural and instructional facilities was assumed to limit or render the successful implantation of the programme incapacitated. The descriptive and survey method was adopted for the investigations, through random sampling technique, two (2) States each were selected from the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria in which three local government...
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The United Nations General Assembly declared the period from 2005 to 2014 as the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The reason for the decade is a growing concern for future generations and their ability to deal with the very real and adverse consequences of decades of environmentally ‘unconscious’ decisions made by their predecessors. When curricula are not focused on sustainable development, what role do teachers have in educating students to make ecologically...
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Geophysical and hydrochemical investigations have been used to map pollution in the area around a dumpsite in Ilara-Mokin, southwestern Nigeria. Three (3) Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic (VLF-EM) profiling, dipoledipole 2-D electrical imaging and fourteen (14) Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES) were carried out in the study area. Four (4) water samples from hand dug wells and two (2) surface water samples were collected around the dumpsite for physical and chemical analyses. The inverted...
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The paper discusses the place of language and literature pedagogy in Nigeria for national security and crime prevention. Employing a
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The Karoo Basin in South Africa contains the world’s best exposed sub-volcanic part of a Large Igneous ProvinceLarge Igneous Province . Dolerite sills and dikes crop out across the 630,000 km2 large basin, from base to top of the stratigraphy. We present data from a compilation of 32 boreholes drilled since the 1960’s, showing that the sillSill cumulative volume percentage in the stratigraphy for individual boreholes varies from 0 to 54 %. Borehole depth is the key factor determining the...