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Introduction Motivation energizes people to overcome setbacks. Study motivation helps students to stay focused and psychologically empowered to overcome obstacles and difficulties during study. Motivation drives students to achieve goals. Postgraduate students should be interested in the area of study and full of enthusiasm that should not wane as the study advances and as problems are confronted. One theory of motivation is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow identified lower needs that...

Prolonged weather changes often have deleterious effects on crops, animals and soils. An investigation was conducted to determine the coping strategies adopted by students and teachers of High Schools in Shiselweni Region of Swaziland, to mitigate or eliminate the adverse effects of weather changes. The study tested the hypothesis that there was no significant difference in gender of students, school residential status, science subject combination taken, people with whom students lived,...

Previous articleNext article No AccessSchool Attendance in Nigeria: Understanding the Impact and Intersection of Gender, Urban‐Rural Residence, and Socioeconomic StatusAramidé Kazeem, Leif Jensen, and C. Shannon StokesAramidé Kazeem Search for more articles by this author , Leif Jensen Search for more articles by this author , and C. Shannon Stokes Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull TextSupplemental Material Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack...

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Education of Kampala International University

To determine how specific job attributes influenced fourth year medical students' stated preference for hypothetical rural job postings in Ghana.Based on discussions with medical student focus groups and physicians in practice and in the Ministry of Health, we created a discrete choice experiment (DCE) that assessed how students' stated preference for certain rural postings was influenced by various job attributes: a higher salary, free superior housing, an educational allowance for...

PURPOSE: Hamstring muscle and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries make up a large percentage of the injuries sustained in sport. Hamstring muscle weakness and knee flexor-extensor imbalances are two of the possible confounding risk factors for both of these injuries. The aim was to investigate the knee flexion-extension ratios between rugby, soccer and university students in South Africa. METHODS: Forty six male rugby players, 26 male soccer players and 17 male university students took...

In this paper, the frequencies of droughty and wet weather patterns are investigated. For this reason, a multi objective fuzzy rule based classification method has been applied. This classification conditions daily rainfall time series to large-scale atmospheric weather patterns. First, weather patterns within the sector 40◦W10◦S to 30◦E60◦N, which are significantly linked to past (19611990) droughty and wet weather situation of 5 different regions within the Volta basin, are identified....

AbstractBackground: The rehabilitation of physically disabled people has been explored from the perspectives of patients, health professionals, rehabilitation agencies, etc. However, no study has linked disability types, training programmes and career prospects. In this study, we therefore evaluated the professional integration of trained disabled people.Methods: This retrospective survey included all physically disabled people admitted to two rehabilitation centres in Congo between 1996 and...

♦ Background Despite the well-known advantages of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), it continues to be grossly underutilized in many developing countries. However, some developing countries, such as Mexico, use the modality very effectively. In view of this, we started the first CAPD program in Egypt. ♦ Methods Since its start in 1997, our program has treated 33 patients. Straight double-cuffed Tenckhoff catheters were surgically placed in all patients. Twin-bag systems were...

School-based programmes to combat the spread of HIV have been demonstrated to be effective over the short-term (i.e. 6–24 months), but few studies have addressed the sustainability of such interventions. Primary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) is an intervention delivered in upper primary-school grades in Kenya using regular classroom subjects and co-curricular activities. This paper reports results of an evaluation to assess the sustainability of PSABH and its impacts three years...

(1) UCAM & CDRT, Biology LHEA, Marrakech, Morocco (messouli@gmail.com, +212 524437412), (2) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Biopsheric Sciences Branch Code 614.4, USA (lahouari.Bounoua@nasa.gov ), (3) National Meteorology Authority (DMN) Casablanca Morocco (babqiqi@gmail.com), (4) UCAM, Biology LHEA, Marrakech, Morocco (bensalem@gmail.com), (5) UCAM, Biology LHEA, Marrakech, Morocco (yacoubi@ucam.ac.ma)

Climate change is likely to harm developing economies that generate major portion of their GDP from climate sensitive sectors. This paper computes economy-wide impact of climate change and its distributional consequence with the help of a sector wise disaggregated general equilibrium model using Ethiopia as a case. The projected climate shock reduces output in the sector with the strongest forward and backward linkage to the rest of the economy and redistributes income by changing the...

Malawi was the first country after the Jomtien conference to offer free primary education. Despite this policy, universal education has remained elusive. Many children do enroll in school, but not at the official/recommended age and drop out before completing school. Understanding these transition points – entry and completion – is critical to the achievement of universal education. This paper focuses on one of these transition points – entry. Since households determine the timing and...

This study examined the relationship between pre-primary educational policy and actual practice in Tanzania. Policy relevant to pre-primary education was analyzed and 15 pre-primary lessons from two urban and two rural schools were videotaped. Although the national educational policy specifies the same standards for pre-primary education regardless of location, there were considerable differences across schools. Compared to urban classes, rural ones had considerably less space, larger group...

AbstractThe focus of this study was to analyze the rate of dropout among secondary school students in Delta State between 1999-2005. Its objective was to establish the magnitude of occurrence. It was a survey study based on an ex-post facto design. Two research questions were raised and answered. The population of the study consisted of all the students enrolled into the 260 public secondary schools in Delta State who could not complete their course of study before leaving school. The sample...

Purpose. To examine the influence of an environmental intervention to prevent excess weight gain in African-American children. Design. Single-group repeated measures. Setting. The intervention was delivered to a school composed of African-American children. Participants. Approximately 45% (N = 77) of enrolled second through sixth grade students. Intervention. The 18-month intervention was designed to alter the school environment to prevent excess weight gain by making healthier eating...