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Malaria and intestinal helminths co-infection are major public health problems particularly among school age children in Nigeria. However the magnitude and possible interactions of these infections remain poorly understood. This study determined the prevalence, impact and possible interaction of Plasmodium falciparum and intestinal helminths co-infection among school children in rural communities of Kwara State, Nigeria.Blood, urine and stool samples were collected from 1017 primary school...
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Drought is one of the major climatic hazards impacting on the various sectors including crop and livestock in the West African Sahel. Pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the region are regularly affected by drought, with vulnerability differing with gender, age, wealth status (access to cropland and livestock endowment), geographic location, social networks, and previous exposure to drought. Effective interventions require regular monitoring of vulnerability to drought, for which...
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It has now become a reality that the climate of the earth is changing, especially due to human activities and these changes has been predicted by many studies to have adverse impacts on both the natural and the built environments. While developed worlds are fast developing strategies from decades to combat theses challenges, developing countries like Nigeria and other African nations are not equally proactive. Thus, developing countries will be disproportionally affected by the adverse...
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The Government of Kenya launched Free Primary Education (FPE) program in 2003 to relieve parents the burden of provision of learning resources in public primary schools. Nevertheless, FPE Funds given by the government have been rendered inadequate due to ever increasing enrolment and challenges facing its implementation. To ensure smooth learning in schools, parents are called upon to cater for the inadequacies. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. The target population...
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High disease burden and scarcity of healthcare resources present complex ethical dilemmas for nurses working in developing countries. We assessed nurses' knowledge in ethics and their perceptions about Continuous Nurses' Ethics Education (CNEE) for in-service nurses.Using an anonymous, pre-tested self-administered questionnaire, we assessed nurses' knowledge in basic ethics concepts at three regional hospitals in Uganda. Adequate knowledge was measured by a score ≥50% in the knowledge...
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This study focuses on the difficulties experienced by the instructors while teaching writing skill to Arabians from Syria, and how these difficulties could be overcome. The study group of the research includes 11 instructors working in Turkish Teaching Centers (TTCs) of Cukurova University and Adana Science and Technology University. The data collected through the use of interview forms prepared by the researcher. After the interviews, content analysis was performed on the data collected....
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To screen children with idiopathic mental retardation (MR) using a clinical Ten-Item Checklist (TIC) and to analyze high-risk fragile X syndrome (FXS) cases by cytogenetic and molecular genetic techniques. This study was conducted on 192 children with idiopathic MR enrolled from Pediatric clinics of University Hospitals and MR institutes of Alexandria, Mansoura and Benha Governorates, Nile Delta, Egypt (age range 2–14 years). Clinical scoring for patients was done using TIC according to...
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This study presents the fact that the relationship between the white colonialists and the black indigenous population threw up a myriad of socio-political cross fertilization in Africa.The way and manner the Whites related with the Black people, the levels of reactions and response of the black population to the invading socio-political values and standards during the colonial era has been the subject of interesting writings in Africa.Of significance in this class of writing in Kenya is...
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Early marriage forces girls into adulthood before they are emotionally and physically matured, leading to a range of harmful effects on their health, education, and economic and social development.For many countries, 18 is the legal age of marriage.Nigeria has undergone fierce constitutional battles to establish a minimum age for marriage.This paper examines the controversies surrounding the legality of child marriage conducted in Nigeria.The paper observed the high prevalence of child...
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Abstract We characterized tsunamis from the 29 March and 5 May 2015 Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, M w 7.5 earthquake doublet. Teleseismic body wave inversions using various rupture velocities ( V r ) showed similar source‐time functions and waveform agreements, but the spatial distributions of the slips were different. The rupture durations were ~45 and ~55 s for the March and May events, with their peaks at ~25 and at ~17 s, respectively. Tsunami simulations favored source models with V r =...