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Background: This facility-based retrospective cross sectional design study examined the prevalence, risk factors and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City Materials and Methods: A stratified proportionate sampling technique were adopted to review a total of 358 secondary data of patients who were managed for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from June 2015 – June 2020 in the...

Purpose The perceptions of disability conditions held by parents and immediate family members directly determine the types of treatments that are likely to opt for persons with disabilities whenever they are ill. Family level drivers of access to healthcare among persons with disabilities in the Bosomtwe district of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study was conducted in which data were collected from 60 participants selected purposively. Face-to-face interviews were...

In these times of Covid-19 pandemic, many Moroccan students access websites for their school support needs. The objective of this study is to carry out an evaluation of some Moroccan free school support websites and to verify their effectiveness for learners, from a socio-constructivist perspective. This evaluation is conducted out by various teachers, using an evaluation grid developed by the authors following a review of literature that identified a number of elements considered as...

An increasing number of studies are examining the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. This relationship is controversial, especially for developing countries. Recent improvements in economic growth have led to a focus on growth inclusiveness, which spreads economic opportunities throughout a society. However, studies that focus on the role of entrepreneurship in inclusive growth remain scarce. To fill that gap, this study investigates the dynamic relationship between economic...

Abstract The main objective of this study is to assess the practice of indigenous education for students with disabilities in Ethiopian indigenous schools. Therefore, 20 Orthodox Church schools were purposefully selected in order to make them representatives of South Gondar Administrative towns. The result of the study showed that there was no ability difference between students with disabilities and students without disabilities in the different levels of the church schools(X 2 =0.62 and...

Project work is used in several educational settings, including foreign and second language teaching contexts. In the Moroccan English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, the Moroccan Ministry of Education recommended implementing project work, and it is a common component of the Moroccan textbooks of English. Yet, there is a scarcity of studies conducted on the use of project work in Moroccan EFL classrooms. The main aim of the study is to investigate students’ and teachers’ attitudes...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Learners bring prior knowledge to their learning environments. This prior knowledge is said to have an effect on how they encode and later retrieve new information learned. This research aimed at exploring ‘A’ level mathematics learners’ understanding of the determinant concept of 3×3 matrices. A problem-solving approach was used to determine learners' conceptions and errors made in calculating the determinant. To identify the conceptions; a paper and...

<p style="text-align: justify;">The emotional lives of teaching at the universities have remained under research. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate the emotional lives of lecturers teaching at two selected universities. This study sought to identify, understand and interpret the emotional lives of teaching with interpretive phenomenology research design. In purposefully selected two universities, 12 lecturers participated in the study. Semi-structured individual...

L’enseignement à distance est une problématique actuelle dans l’enseignement supérieur au Gabon. Dans le contexte de la crise sanitaire mondiale, le Département des Etudes ibériques et Latino- Américaines, (D.E.I.L.A), de l’Université Omar Bongo n’est pas exempté de l’arrimage à cette pratique pédagogique innovante. Cette contribution aborde la dimension contextuelle de la faisabilité de la mise en place de ce nouveau système dans un département de langue et culture hispanophones. Il fonde...

The present descriptive study investigated the challenges experienced and the coping strategies used by Egyptian university educators from different institution types while teaching online during the pandemic. The cross-sectional study drew participants (N = 222) from three different academic institution types, private universities, public universities, and adult education institutions, who responded to a survey that examined the technical, professional, administrative, social, and...

This study investigated the influence of principal and parental relationships on teacher’s job performance in senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Three research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted an ex post facto research design. The population of the study was 5,458 school personnel in the senior secondary schools in Adamawa state, which were made up of 337 principals and 5,121 teaching staff as...

Worldwide, children with disabilities are a vulnerable population and at high risk for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. There is little information on the impact that COVID-19 had on children with disabilities and their families, particularly in low-income settings. This assessment describes the extent to which the pandemic impacted seven indicators of well-being in three low-income communities in Lusaka, Zambia.Interviews were conducted with a random selection of families participating in...

<em>The study attempts to investigate native speakers’ and non-native speakers’ perceptions of writing quality. Thirty-seven American freshmen students and forty Moroccan semester two students participated in the study. An email interview was used to explore the similarities and differences between the students’ views on what makes good academic writing. Both American and Moroccan Students were asked about the different features of academic writing that can contribute to its quality....

Globally, it is estimated that close to 140 million learners are out of school and among them are those with disabilities as a result of physical, mental and sensory impairments. Out of that number, it is further estimated that 70% of learners with disabilities can attend and benefit from regular education programs as long as effective institutional changes that are guided by sound inclusive policies are done. So, this study examined institutional inclusive policies on curriculum adaptation,...

The value of teaching aids in the process of teaching sciences cannot be overstated. The capacity of finalist university pre-service science teachers to incorporate teaching aids into their science classrooms to open up the potential of bringing about the critical features of an intended object into realisation is evaluated in this study. Observations and document reviews were used as data collecting techniques in this descriptive study, and they were used to investigate only 25...

Objective Ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors (bPI) in people living with HIV (PLWH) have been associated with renal impairment. Limited data are available from rural sub-Saharan Africa. Methods Using data from the Kilombero and Ulanga Antiretroviral Cohort Study (KIULARCO) in rural Tanzania from 2005-01/2020, we assessed the prevalence of renal impairment (estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min/1.73m2) at the time of switch from first-line antiretroviral treatment (ART) to...