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One crucial component of education is developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). The aim of this study is to analyze mathematics as determinant of students’ HOTS among HND electrical and electronic engineering student in Ghana. The test format tool used had two indicators, critical and creative thinking, and the subjects for the research were 488 electrical and electronic engineering students from 4 randomly selected Technical Universities in Ghana. The Cronbach Alpha reliability test...

Background: Heavy backpacks may be associated with neck and back pain. Objective: To determine the prevalence of heavy backpack use and its perceived effects among selected primary school pupils in Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional design that employed a multistage sampling technique was adopted. A semi-structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was administered to 416 respondents. A standard weighing scale was used to measure pupils’ body weight and weight of the...

INTRODUCTION: Consumption of alcohol among the youth could be attributable to socio-demographic characteristics. This paper anchors on the socio-ecological model to expound on the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of alcohol consumption among adolescents in public secondary schools. Specifically, the model was used to explore gender, religious affiliation, form or class of study, social media use, friendships, and involvement in places of entertainment as possible predictors of...

Summary Phenology — the timing of recurring life history events—is strongly linked to climate. Shifts in phenology have important implications for trophic interactions, ecosystem functioning and community ecology. However, data on plant phenology can be time consuming to collect and current records are biased across space and taxonomy. Here, we explore the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for classifying flowering phenology on a very large and taxonomically diverse dataset...

Dentists possess clinical experience garnered within supervised clinical settings, primarily aimed at diagnosing, treating and preventing oral cavity related diseases.1 Undergraduate dentistry training mostly focuses on the scientific underpinnings of this discipline and building clinical experience, not allowing adequate time for additional coursework.1 According to Haslach et al.2, dentists choose dental careers because they want to help and work with people, as well as desire job and...

There are a number of barriers and obstacles to the political participation of persons with disabilities (PwD) in Sudan. This Report aims to analyse the status of their political participation during the transitional period and during the previous general elections by exploring and examining the laws and legislation in force and their impact on the political participation of PwD, and exploring the extent to which PwD are aware of the rights that fall under the umbrella of political...

Inclusive entrepreneurship refers to the participation of marginalized groups in entrepreneurship to help them overcome social and economic challenges, which plays a very important role in poverty reduction. This study proposes that the main solution to this problem is to promote inclusive entrepreneurship through the production of inclusive and innovative services and goods. Among unconventional and marginalized entrepreneurs: women ex-prisoners. Planned Behavior Theory is used to predict...

Pilgrimages are an important part of our intangible heritage. These long journeys, often on foot, can be sensitive to weather, so this study sees pilgrimages as providing an opportunity to look at the way in which changes in climate affect intangible heritage. It examines two important Ethiopian pilgrimages that involve hundreds of thousands who travel each year to Dirre Sheikh Hussein, seen as the country’s Mecca, and Lalibela, its Jerusalem. These journeys in the cold season...

The unsustainable level of consumption globally is one of the major causes of the environmental challenges that the world currently faces. The purchase of green products is one of the ways to promote environmental sustainability globally. The study examines the determinants of green purchase behaviour of university students in South Africa. The study merges the Value-Attitude-Behaviour (VAB) theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to develop a new theoretical model to predict GPB....

Abstract A phytoplankton bloom during the passage of Tropical Storm (TS) Chedza was observed at the southern tip of Madagascar on January 28, 2015. The mechanisms of the chlorophyll bloom were researched with satellite remote sensing data, reanalysis data and Argo buoy data. The results show that there was horizontal transport of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) with the western coastal current of Madagascar and the South East Madagascar Current (SEMC). At the southern tip of Madagascar, there was a...

This study assessed the responsiveness of the online learning techno-pedagogical materials to the students’ cultural and socio-economic conditions at Abomey-Calavi University through a student-centered lens. The study used the multi-stage sampling procedure to select 360 students from four professional training programs that have rich experience in online learning/teaching. Descriptive statistics and a logit model were deployed to analyze collected data. The results displayed that though...

This study aims to indentify the daily life skills (self-skills, house activities, and community skills) as one of adaptive behavior demontions for learning ability (educable)with intellectual disability EID, and its relations to some demographic variables which are: gender, number of family members, order in family in terms of birth, the parents’ educational level, relationship of family communication with school) in Schools and special education centers in Gezira state, Central Sudan. The...

Traditional teaching and learning approaches were disrupted by COVID-19, which led to a considerable movement towards online and remote education, with public universities having to adapt to new remote learning methods and a delayed academic calendar. While these changes allowed for continued learning during the pandemic, they also came with challenges and had implications on student performance and well-being. This transition brought to light the necessity for effective pedagogical...

Background. Climate change and environmental degradation have severe public health impacts. Education about planetary health (PH) and sustainable healthcare (SH), or the interdependence of health and healthcare and planetary ecosystems, is developing globally to enable health professionals to protect public health from these threats, and to build sustainable healthcare systems. Objective. To assess the status of PH and SH in health professions education in South African (SA) faculties of...

Abstract Water-related issues such as scarcity and pollution have become increasingly pressing in sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria, highlighting the need for an effective environmental education (EE) programme. The relationship between EE and water pollution prevention and conservation in Nigeria remains an open question. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the role of EE in water pollution prevention and conservation in Nigeria. A simple random sampling was used to select 766...

In response to COVID-19 lockdowns, universities in Africa and BRICS nations swiftly transitioned from contact to online learning to maintain academic progress. This article explores critical questions these institutions must address to develop effective long-term online learning policies, rooted in Swartz’s (2022) Navigational Capacities framework. It highlights the risk of deepening digital inequalities if the limitations of emergency remote learning are overlooked. Focusing on the...

This study examined secondary school learners' academic achievement in Physics in Wakiso district, Uganda. A cross-sectional correlational design was used with 217 participants. This comprised of 121 males and 96 females of the learners from two government-aided secondary schools in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district. Data were collected using a Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) and analysed using descriptive statistics such as percentages and mean scores. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)...