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The present study aims to explore the competency of Yemeni English as foreign language (EFL, henceforth) university learners in the construction of well-organised and well-formed paragraphs in which the basic components: the topic sentence, the bridge sentence, the supporting ideas for the topic sentence and the restatement sentence (conclusion) are included in their paragraphs. The study recruited 37 EFL learners who were enrolled in l­­evel two in the B. Ed. programme in the Department of...

Abstract Background: Adolescent reproductive health problems are a great threat to adolescent’s warfare and such problems are associated with inadequate knowledge. In Eritrea, as adolescent reproductive health is not given much attention the knowledge is expected to be poor, which could lead adolescents to become victims of adolescence related reproductive health problems and limit their opportunity to build a better future. Therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of investigating...

This article summarises a recent virtual meeting organised by the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam on the topic of climate change and health, bringing local partners, faculty and external collaborators together from across the Wellcome and Oxford networks. Attendees included invited local and global climate scientists, clinicians, modelers, epidemiologists and community engagement practitioners, with a view to setting priorities, identifying synergies and fostering...

Abstract Gas viscosity is an important physical property that controls and influences the flow of gas through porous media and pipe networks. An accurate gas viscosity model is essential for use with reservoir and process simulators. The objective of this study is to assess the predictability of gas viscosity of Yemeni gas fields using machine learning techniques. Performance of some machine learning techniques in the prediction of gas viscosity investigated in this work. The techniques...

In the enhancement of environmental performance, institutions need to provide students with specific, greenrelated skills as either a course or curricular activity and getting their dedication towards reducing greenhouse gases in the school environment.As a result, this study enriches the rising literature on green training in perspectives.Firstly, it involves viewing green training as been connected to eco-civic engagement in students' pro-environmental behaviour; evidence indicates a clear...

Abstract The benefits of free and open‐source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to open‐source software, such as cost benefits, customizability, improved reliability, quality and security. In the first paper from this study, it was found that habit, followed by facilitating conditions, price value and social influence, had the...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, around 80% of residential energy demand is for cooking, with over 760 million people without access to clean cooking fuels and stoves. Particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) is a significant pollutant from biomass burning and is linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes. Energy poverty further reinforces gender disparities, keeps children from schools, causes environmental degradation, and interferes with...

Abstract Background Undernutrition among adolescents is a major public health problem in developing nations including Ethiopia. Adolescents need to have good-quantity and good-quality nutrients to cope with this rapid growth and other health risks which increase nutritional demand. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of stunting and thinness among school adolescents in Finote Selam Town, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods A school-based cross-sectional study among...

As Canadian global health researchers who conducted a qualitative study with adults with and without disabilities in Uganda, we obtained ethics approval from four institutional research ethics boards (two in Canada and two in Uganda). In Canada, research ethics boards and researchers follow the research ethics norms of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS2), and the National Guidelines for Research Involving Humans as Research Participants of...

Higher education in the Gaza Strip has been subjected to four wars and over a decade of blockade. University staff and students have been killed whilst campus infrastructure has been attacked, rebuilt, and destroyed again. This paper examines opportunities for, and limits to, protecting higher education from attack in Gaza. It presents a framework for categorising protection measures and empirically explores the effectiveness of measures to protect higher education from attack in Gaza since...

Facebook is recognized as a place of interaction between people seeking pleasure and professionals. In this regard, in order to investigate the attitude of users when exploring the blue environment, an online survey distributed to 89 students from the University of Algiers 3 in Algeria was carried out.

Bullying has long been a serious problem in schools across the globe, including in South Africa. The traditional methods of dealing with disciplinary problems, such as bullying in schools, have had limited success in terms of stemming the rise of this phenomenon. Out of concern about the growing problem of bullying in schools, some countries have turned to restorative justice as a solution. International research shows promising results of restorative justice approaches in terms of their...

Employers often complain about a lack of certain capabilities and experience amongst graduates who are entering the job market.This paper examines ways in which students' workplace reflections enable social learning as well as equipping them with strategies for future careers.The aim was to enable students to link theory and practice and reflect on social learning experiences.A purposive sample of 30 students at the selected University of Technology and 15 employers were used as participants...

The purpose of the study was to explore the strategies teachers use in teaching reading to 5 pupils with reading difficulties in the Awutu Senya East Municipality, Central Region, Ghana.It followed a mixed method approach.A sample size of 50 teachers was used for the study.To obtain a representative sample of the population of the teachers, the simple random and purposive samplings were used in selecting teachers from three basic schools in the Awutu Senya East Municipality.Data were...

Background: Temperature and air pollution are often treated as separate risk factors and very few studies have investigated effect modification by temperature on air pollution, and the impact of this interaction on human health in Africa. This study therefore investigated the modifying effects of temperature on the association between air pollution and Respiratory disease (RD) hospital admission in South Africa.
 Methods: RD admission data (ICD10 J00-J99) were obtained from two...

HIV infection and in utero exposure, common in Sub-Saharan Africa, are associated with pediatric neurocognitive impairment. Cognitive screening can identify impairments, but it is rarely used in this setting. The Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery (PennCNB), an evidence-based cognitive screening tool, was adapted for use in Botswana. To facilitate future implementation, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted to elicit key stakeholders’ perspectives on factors likely to be related...

Despite the global public health importance of dental caries, it is greatly understudied. This study investigates the incidence and prevalent bacteria species in dental carries among patients attending dental clinic in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria. Patients presenting with signs, symptoms and suspected cases of dental caries attending dental clinic in the hospital between May and July 2017 were recruited. Following standard laboratory procedures, swabs were obtained,...

Physical education (PE) is one of the few subjects in the curriculum, which is characterised by childhood features such as playfulness and spontaneity. The primary beneficiaries of PE programmes in schools are learners. Therefore, understanding learners’ views on PE can result in pedagogic shifts that lean towards learner-centred approaches in PE delivery. The aim of this study was to explore learners’ views on the implementation of PE in selected rural primary schools in the Limpopo...

Evaluation of school sports activities is crucial in determining specific strengths and challenges of the programme. This study was designed to evaluate the adequacy of school sports organisation in five-factor categories: sports supplies; teacher-coaches work situation; teacher-coaches development opportunities; organisation of school sports programme and support from national sports associations. A mixed-methods design was used. A Likert type questionnaire was used to collect data from 73...

Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers’ work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic research in Zomba, Malawi, we show how teachers and mother groups used NGO-sponsored activities to surveil and regulate girls. We argue that, as they...