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Effective and sustainable control of Schistosomamansoni infection requires identifying subpopulations that are at risk of infection.A cross-sectional epidemiological survey was conducted in children of four primary schools in Raya Alamata District of Ethiopia to determine the prevalence and intensity of infection, and index of potential contamination of intestinal schistosomiasis.Fecal samples of 500 (266 males and 234 females) subjects aged 6-19 years were processed using Kato Katz thick...

The development of crops adapted to the semi-arid and arid regions would enhance food security in Africa. As part of research towards ensuring food security, field trials were carried out to evaluate the performance of sixteen hybrids of drought tolerant Quantitative trait loci (QTL) introgression lines of pearl millet in a Guinea-Savannah zone of Ghana, where the crop is one of the cereals popularly cultivated by farmers as a staple. The hybrids were obtained from ICRISAT in India and the...

Climate change introduces numerous uncertainties in the livelihoods of farming communities that depend heavily on the weather and climate. Technologies have been developed to help smallholder farmers better adapt to the changing climatic conditions. This study seeks to determine the factors that influence the adoption of climate related technologies introduced by research institutions. A Multinomial Logit Model was estimated using data from 320 households in Northern Ghana. The empirical...

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of undergraduates of library schools in Delta and Edo states towards educational usage of the internet. The instrument used in collecting data was the questionnaire. 238 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the sample size which consists of undergraduates of library and information science departments in Delta and Edo states. The questionnaire contained 8 items that have been structured to elicit information representing the...

This paper analyzes some pronunciation challenges of English learners newly admitted into the B.A English programme at the National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos. It was discovered that factors leading to these problems are interference of the students’ mother tongue, their ages, attitudes and their insufficient knowledge of sounds and the sound system of English. From this study, we could reiterate that having a clear understanding of the distinctions between phonetics as the general...

This article presents a case study of the adoption and use of open textbooks by three high school teachers in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The textbooks, collaboratively authored and distributed through the South African-initiative, Siyavula, are available online and are openly licensed, allowing teachers to freely use, modify, print, and share them with peers. Building on prior research conducted on the Siyavula project, the study consisted of interviews with teachers in...

This article addresses a model for creating a short-term global service-learning program. The Global Standards for the Initial Education of Professional Nurses and Midwives guided the development of a collaborative program involving a school of nursing in the Midwestern United States and one in Tanzania.Evaluation of the school of nursing and subsequent collaborative planning led to development and implementation of a 3-week global service-learning experience for nursing...

There has been incessant low academic performance in Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) subjects especially among girls at form four level in Kitui Central District over the years. The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of girls’ performance in SMT subjects in public secondary schools. Using ex-post-facto survey research design, the study population covered all the six girls’ secondary schools in the district which also represented sample schools from which data was...

To examine associations between ambient air pollutants and respiratory outcomes among schoolchildren in Durban, South Africa.Primary schools from within each of seven communities in two regions of Durban (the highly industrialised south compared with the non-industrial north) were selected. Children from randomly selected grade 4 classrooms were invited to participate. Standardised interviews, spirometry, methacholine challenge testing and skin-prick testing were conducted. Particulate...

The study investigated the use and patterns of use of the Internet among secondary school students in Ibadan, a Nigerian municipality, with a view to determining how widespread Internet use was and to examine the activities the students adopt the Internet for. It also aimed at determining possible misuse with a view to proffering solutions. A survey research design was adopted. Questionnaire was the instrument for data collection and analysis was done using descriptive statistics. Findings...

Economic and domestic activities have been causing a profound deterioration of air quality in developed and developing countries. The health problems arising from air pollution have become apparent which result in welfare losses in society such as increased workdays lost and high health cost. This study shows the mitigating cost and workdays lost as a result air pollution related illness and the factors influencing these economic parameters (mitigating cost and workdays lost). Our results...

Fluoride was extracted from Alcornea cordifolia plant using sohxlet extractor.The fluoride content was determined by using a fluoride ion selective electrode.The fluoride content was found to be about 10% of that present in commercial toothpastes.The hard stem of the plant contained a higher amount of fluoride than the tender stem.Hence, the hard stem is a cheap source of fluoride when compared to commercial toothpastes.

Academic achievements, like any attainable goal in life, do not come by chance. Men, money and materials (resources) must be combined in an ideal manner to ensure its success. A total number of thirty (30) pupils; eighteen (18) boys and twelve (12) girls, with an average age of 12 years, sampled from the Junior High School two class of Amoakrom, Nyame-bekyere and Ningo basic schools, and eight (8) teachers from Basofi-Ningo circuit in the Assin North Municipality were used for the study....

The Ghana-Canada Global Community Service Learning Project (GCP, for short) is a multi-layered, international, crossdisciplinary, collaborative, mixed mode teaching and learning, and praxis-oriented undertaking, which uses simple technology, internship and field research to provide opportunity for students and scholars in Ghana and Canada to learn the skills of global citizenship while engaging, inspring

The various selected physicochemical and biological condition of freshwater bodies which receive varying number of outfalls of industrial and domestic effluents containing heavy metals of River Owo, Agbara Industrial Estate, a boundary town between Lagos and Ogun state, along Badagry Expressway in Nigeria, was assessed for five consecutive months. Four sampling points were chosen from the water body to reflect the effect of industrial effluent, domestic effluent and lotic habitats....