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The study was carried out between March and August 2017.The purpose of the study was to determine factors associated with choice of nursing profession among first Year students at Consolata Nkubu School of Nursing, Meru County, Kenya.The study adopted a cross-sectional design.The target population consisted of October 2016 and April 2017 classes.The total population during the year was 263 students.Census as a sampling method was used owing to the small sample population which was only 77...

Despite the evidence from multilingual education research that states the pedagogical benefits accrued when a child is taught in the mother language, obstacles to the acceptance of its use and implementation in education in Africa are enormous. Although Kenya’s language in education policy states that mother language is to be used as a medium of instruction in the early grade years, most teachers use English in introducing children to formal learning. Is it that the teachers do not...

An earthquake has occurred at 10:22:33 UT on 5 August 2014 in the Klerksdorp district, the North West province of South Africa. Its hypocenter is located beneath an Orkney town, where more than 10 gold mines exist. The Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa reported that the magnitude and depth was ML5.5 and 4.7 km, respectively. CGS has been operating 17 surface seismic acceleration stations with 10 km interval in average, and obtained continuous acceleration seismograms through the...

Special education was introduced in Tanzania Mainland in 1950 by the Church Missionary Society.Despite its long history in the country, not many policies have clearly stipulated the need for special and inclusive education.This paper succinctly and systematically evaluates various educational reforms and policies in Tanzania, and points out some successes and embedded challenges in the development of special needs and inclusive education in Tanzania.To analyze clearly the current situation...

The Algerian legislator has taken into account environment protection and has enacted texts of penal law that criminalize different infringements of environmental rights to secure an efficient penal protection against different pollution forms. Criminal sanctions have been imposed as a repressive impact to guarantee commitment to legal texts preventing environment from environmental pollution crimes. These sanctions could be death penalties, custodial penalties, and financial penalties....

Abstract. Long-range transport (LRT) plays an important role in the Amazon rain forest by bringing in different primary and secondary aerosol particles from distant sources. The atmospheric oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), emitted from marine plankton, is considered an important sulfate source over the Amazon rain forest, with a lesser contribution from terrestrial soil and vegetation sulfur emissions. Volcanic sulfur emissions from Africa could be a source of particulate sulfate to the...

Standard precautions guidelines are the effective cornerstone W.H.O and CDCC measures of infection control and management used to reduce healthcare associated infections among healthcare workers and patients.However, healthcare workers especially students do not always adhere to them.The purpose of this study was to assess attitudes of student nurses and midwives towards adhering to standard precautions.A quantitative, exploratory study using a self-report questionnaire was carried out on 53...

Breast cancer is the second common cancer after cancer of the cervix in women in Zambia.Although screening methods for breast cancer such as mammography has been shown to reduce mortality from breast cancer in developing countries where it is commonly used, the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not recommend it for use in developing countries because of it has cost implications.Instead, WHO recommends an alternative screening method called Breast Self-Examination for all women in the...

Due to climate change, changes in the weather conditions of the three northern regions of Ghana has led to a decline in food production and worsening of the already precarious situation of these regions there by exacerbating the susceptibility of the already marginalised rural people who in most cases are women and children. Alternative means are therefore sorted for as a means of livelihood and the most reliable and available for women in this area of study is Shea butter production and for...

Inclusive education is embedded in South African policy with the expectation that teacher education will equip pre-service teachers to teach inclusively. As a result, courses in inclusive education are offered in most Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes and research interest in teacher education for inclusion has grown. This paper contributes to this body of knowledge by using Legitimation Code Theory to engage critically with concepts and assessment tasks from three inclusive...

This paper is an attempt at highlighting the relevance of Open and Distance Learning in the education of girls and women in a country like Nigeria. Girls’ and women’s participation in education in Nigeria has been slowed down as a result of some barriers. Barriers to girls’ and women’s access to education are multifaceted. However, the ODL system has a philosophy that aims at removing barriers to education and allowing learners to study what they want, when they want and where they want. ODL...

This paper examines the effects of economic recession on education especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. The paper x-rays the causes of recession to include: war, high banking interest rate poor fiscal powers, rising in oil price and bursting of housing. It goes further to look at some of the effects of economic recession to include: unemployment, lower wage, high taxation, budget deficit, rising bond yields and untold hardship on the people. The paper concludes by making...

The present progressive is one of the structures that create immense problems to foreign learners of English in general and Moroccan ones in particular.These learners fail to use this aspect appropriately in discourse due to a difficulty in internalising its real meaning.Our survey shows that these English as a foreign language (EFL) learners associate the present progressive with only one context of use-the one referring to actions/ events happening around NOW or at the moment of...

In Canada, the world's top exporter of high-protein durum, varietal development over its nearly six-decade history has been driven by a quest for yield improvement without compromise on grain protein content and other quality aspects. Pelissier, a landrace selection from Algeria that was introduced into North America more than a century ago and the variety Strongfield that was released in 2004 are notable. Pelissier, known to elaborate more roots and considered as drought tolerant, has been...