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Under-nutrition of under five children remains a serious challenge to human development in Senegal. To address this challenge with respect to achieving by 2030 the Sustainable Development Goals requires the identification of the under-nutrition risk factors at individual and contextual levels. This study uses data obtained from the 2015 Senegal Demographic and Health Survey (SDHS). Our sample includes 4740 children aged 0-59 months in 214 districts. We apply multilevel logistic regression in...

The crisis intervention team (CIT) model was developed in the United States to align law enforcement goals with those of mental health advocates and service users. Liberia is the first low-income country where CIT has been implemented. After preliminary training of law enforcement officers and mental health clinicians by U.S. CIT experts, the program is now entirely implemented by Liberian personnel. In this column, the authors describe topics addressed in the 5-day training-of-trainers...

Spatial planning plays a significant role in enhancing climate change adaptation especially within urban areas by improving their resilience. Despite all this, cities especially in developing countries still experience the effects of climate change. This paper adopted a mixed method approach to examine township spatial planning and climate change adaptation in identifying potentialities for an integrated approach. Mdantsane case study as one of the largest townships in South Africa was...

Traditional cooking is today's largest global environmental health risk. Over 640 million people in Africa are expected to rely on biomass for cooking by 2040. In Kenya, cooking inefficiently with wood and charcoal persists as a cause of deforestation and household air pollution. This research analyses the effects of four biomass cookstove strategies on reducing air pollutant emissions in Kisumu County between 2015 and 2035 using the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning system. The...

This paper is based on a study that was conducted at a university based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The research aimed to explore and describe challenges that are likely to limit the success of postgraduate research students, mostly focusing on the relationship between students and supervisors. The study adopted a case study design with qualitative data. A self-constructed interview guide with open-ended questions was utilised as the main data collection tool from a sample of 34...

Sedimentological, geochemical and petrographic studies were carried out on carbonate-bearingargillites outcropping at the southeastern flank of Mount Cameroon (Likomba) to determine thelithofacies and their associations, major element geochemistry and mineralogy. This was in an attempt to establish their relationship with the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL), determine their provenance and propose the environment of deposition.. Outcrops and rock samples were carefully observed and described in...

Urban planning is commonly blamed for its failure to exert a positive influence on managing climate change impacts in urban Africa; yet little is known about planning agencies' perspectives on climate change-urban planning conundrum, and corresponding policy responses. It is in response to this gap, this paper explores agency perspectives and policy responses on the possibility and procedure for harnessing urban planning as a tool for managing climate change impacts in a Ghanaian city of...

Vertically Integrated Project: STEM Education & Public Engagement (International) The Vertically Integrated Project: STEM Education & Public Engagement was created in 2015 by Robert Collins of the School of Education, Faculty of HaSS at the University of Strathclyde. The project’s ongoing aims resonate with a fostering of both interdisciplinary approach to learning and the development of enhanced communities of inquiry in the field of STEM Education. Within the project students are involved...

“The limited number of health professionals in many low- and middle-income countries are not distributed evenly across the population. In general, deploying doctors, nurses, and other professionals to remote rural areas is difficult and care givers tend to be concentrated in major urban areas.”1 This statement rings very true in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where the proportion of the population living in rural areas is 86%, the second highest in the world.2 The health challenges facing rural...

Abstract Although the deep, wide basins of the Western rift, Africa, have served as analogues for the evolution of half‐graben basins, the geometry and kinematics of the border, intrabasinal, and transfer fault systems have been weakly constrained. Despite the >100‐km‐long fault systems bounding basins, little was known of seismicity patterns or the potential for M > 7.5 earthquakes. Using our new local earthquake database from the 2013‐2015 Study of Extension and maGmatism in Malawi...

Scabies is a neglected tropical disease affecting more than 200 million people worldwide every year. Scabies in school adolescents and young adults could affect their school performance. The current study investigates the factors associated with an outbreak of scabies at primary schools in southern Ethiopia.A team of health professionals investigated an outbreak of scabies that occurred in primary schools from May 1 to 30, 2018. An unmatched case-control study was employed to assess factors...

Background: Medical education is considered one of the toughest college degrees to acquire. Exploring the factors that determine good academic performance in medical school will help in the planning of curriculum and assist students to navigate through medical school more effectively. Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive study enrolled 145 second year clinical students (500 level) of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology in south-east Nigeria using purposive and...

This study investigated stress as correlate to academic performance of student midwives in School of Midwifery, St. Philomena Catholic Hospital, Benin City, Edo State. Stress is a general experience in the lives of every individual irrespective of race or cultural affinity. Student midwives are prone to stress because of their different responsibilities: Although a lot of researches have been carried out on the variables that determine the academic proficiency of student midwives but it...

This study examined action research with a view to identifying the importance of using it in teacher education research.The study could be helpful to teacher educators in identifying the student teachers' difficulties in microteaching.It will also assist in finding out student teachers' attitudes towards teacher's corrective feedback.In other to involve learners in the construction of their learning, this study outline will assist teacher education researchers in finding out from student...