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This study assessed the attitudes of out-of-school youths towards tree planting activities in Masaka district, centralUganda. Data were collected using 104 semi-structured questionnaires. Logistic regression was used to show theinfluence of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the respondents on their attitudes towards treeplanting. Summative attitudes index varied from 320 for those who liked very much tree planting activities to 6 forthose who disliked very much tree planting...

Structured questionnaires were administered to 160 teachers from different Nursery and Primary Schools in GRA Onitsha, Nigeria to assess their knowledge, atttude and practices (KAP) on malaria, helminthiass and associated risk factors in the schools’ premises. Educational attainments of the teachers were Masters Degree (0.8 %), Bachelors Degree (39.2 %), Diploma Certcate (50.8 %), and Secondary School Certificate (9.2 %). There were more female (99.2 %) than males (0.8 %). A high percentage...

The study probed into the library and ICT facilities used in teaching of the non-regular students (part-time) of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. Data were gathered by administering 109 copies of a structured questionnaire to respondents randomly selected. These were collated and analysed. The research work revealed that majority of the respondents do not use the library resources for teaching endeavours; and they perceived the library resources as inadequate. It was also...

Library and Information Science is not a top rank choice of course by candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions in Imo State. Most of those who eventually get enrolled for the programme are not interested in practicing librarianship upon graduation. They prefer careers in other establishments even if they are to perform non – professional duties. Using athree part questionnaire, this study sought reponses on career choice from trainee librarians. Sixty (60) copies of the...

This paper examined issues concerning the need to reposition librarianship to enable university libraries in Nigeria cope with challenges that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may pose. Two hundred Librarians who attended the 2006 annual conference of the Nigerian Library Association in Abuja participated in the study. Researchers’- designed ICT Awareness Questionnaire of 22 questions was used to obtain information from the respondents. Means score and Standard Deviation...

Author’s Introduction African American interpretation and use of the Hebrew Bible have shifted as the understandings of race have adjusted in the last 30 years. Therefore, African American biblical studies cannot be appreciated with a linear presentation. A more helpful approach examines the impact of generational studies as used by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Each generation of scholars are shaped by events in the civil rights struggle that then informs the perspective they bring to the...

Using Cross’s expanded Nigrescence theory, this study examined the relation between patterns of racial identity attitudes and mental health outcomes among a sample of 317 Black American college students. Racial identity attitudes were operationalized using the Cross Racial Identity Scale, and the mental health outcomes assessed included subjective well-being, hardiness, and general psychological health. Results from a cluster analysis indicated a five-cluster solution (Low Race Salience,...

The current study used confirmatory factor analysis techniques to investigate the construct validity of the child version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale—Revised (SRAS-R) in a community sample of low socioeconomic status (SES), urban, African American, fifth and sixth graders ( n = 174). The SRAS-R is the best-researched measure of school refusal behavior in youth and typically yields four functional dimensions. Results of the investigation suggested that a modified version of the...

The HIV epidemic poses significant challenges to the low income countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA), affecting the attrition rate among health care workers, their level of motivation, and absenteeism from work. Little is known about how to deal with deterioration of human resources in the health care systems. This study aimed to predict the intention to provide surgical treatment to HIV infected patients among medical- and dental students in Tanzania and Sudan using an extended version of...

Moot Court competitions constitute an alternative model of human rights training, giving students the skills to contribute to the development of international human rights law and thus make them qualified advocates for human rights change in their home countries and abroad. By focusing on the perfection of oral as well as written skills, participants are more likely to be successful not only in cases brought before their home courts, but in front of international tribunals and other organs....

Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age in Nigeria. Most of the early treatments for fever and malaria occur through self-medication with anti-malarials bought over-the-counter (OTC) from untrained drug vendors. Self-medication through drug vendors can be ineffective, with increased risks of drug toxicity and development of drug resistance. Global malaria control initiatives highlights the potential role of drug vendors to improve...

La mondialisation de l’information et de la communication fait apparaitre un choc plus ou moins violent entre cultures et visions du monde. La reduction des distances physiques n’a fait en realite et de facon paradoxale qu’accroitre les distances culturelles. En Afrique, une angoisse terrifie : comment eduquer ses enfants ? Comment negocier la distance entre « l’enfant qui est de son temps » et les valeurs culturelles, morales, traditionnelles? Comment, en effet, s’ouvrir a la modernite,...

The globalization of information and communication leads to a relatively violent shock between domestic cultures and world visions. The reduction of physical distances has increased cultural distances. In the head of Africa, people are troubled by the questions: how to educate their children? How to negotiate the distance between the child who is of his time and traditional cultural values? How to be both to the modern world, itself a symbol of europeanisation, while preserving one’s...

Telemedicine allows health providers in remote areas to transfer information for medical consultation anywhere in the world and serves to support local health workers through discussion and access to pertinent educational materials. Many developing nations have a dire shortage of doctors and other health resources. Therefore, affordable, easy-to-use technologies are imperative for providing care and much needed educational opportunities as well as reducing the limitations imposed by scarce...

A density-dependent numerical groundwater model was applied to study the climate change impact in a shallow aquifer in the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, the Saïdia aquifer. The stresses imposed to the model were derived from the IPCC emission scenarios and included recharge variation and sea level rise. The main effect of the climate change in the Saïdia aquifer will be a decrease in renewable resources, which in the worst-case scenario may decrease to 50–60% of present-day values, due to...

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