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Purpose This study aims to investigate attitudes toward cheating among business students at a private university in Kenya and examine if a significant difference exists in cheating perceptions among students who have completed one or two ethics courses, and those who have done none. Design/methodology/approach A total of 554 undergraduate business students participated in this research. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the one-way ANOVA. Findings The results found that...

Background . Young people in Sub-Saharan Africa are affected by HIV pandemic to a greater extent than elsewhere. Transactional sex among adolescent school girls with older men commonly called “sugar daddies” is one of the major factors fueling the spread of the infection due to the extended sexual network. Thus, this study aimed to assess the magnitude and factors associated with transactional sex among adolescent girls and “sugar daddies” in relation to HIV/AIDS. Methods . Mixed method...

Climate change is a difficult fact to deny; because agriculture is a biological industry that is particularly sensitive to any climatic changes, as crops are geographically, thermally and humid, which is expected to have a negative effect on production and therefore a greater difficulty in self-sufficiency and food gap than crops, Which are particularly sensitive to climate change such as tomato crop and food gap crops such as bean crop. The economic impacts of climate change on study crops...

The purpose of the study is to ascertain if school variable (peer group pressure) and home variables (family history of alcohol consumption, socio-economic status of the family, attitude of parent towards alcohol drinking and cultural norms/festivity) lead to alcohol consumption among adolescents and proffer solution to the social menace of alcohol consumption among secondary school children. The study was a descriptive research design with mixed methods of data collection involving...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> A case control was carried out to study the prevalence, the pattern and associated factors of hearing loss among Ugandan children with sickle cell anaemia.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> One hundred and thirty-two children known sickle cell and one hundred thirty aged matched non-SCA controls were recruited after medical ethics committee approval and informed consent. Two obtain...

Climate and land use/cover changes are potential drivers of change in hydrology and water use. Incidences of these factors on Bandama hydrological basin and Kossou hydropower generation (1981–2016) in West Africa are assessed in this present work. Using Landsat products of United Stated Geological Survey, results show that water bodies areas and land use have increased by 1.89%/year and 11.56%/year respectively, whereas herbaceous savanna, savanna, forest and evergreen forest coverage have...

This article explores the intervention strategy used by the staff and school management team of a South African township school to ensure that final-year learners exposed to an environment of multiple deprivation are adequately prepared for the year-end standardised examination. Analysis of the interview data confirms literature findings on the debilitating effect of multiple deprivation, in the form of absolute poverty, on learners’ chances of learning successfully. Research findings reveal...

Maternal and child health workers (MCHWs) are often the first point of contact with pregnant women, children, and caregivers. Therefore, they can play a significant role in early detection of causes of childhood blindness, facilitate prompt referral to specialized centers and provide health education to caregivers for preventive eye care. This is a pre-test, post-test, single group, quasi-experimental study to evaluate the outcome of training MCHWs on common blinding childhood diseases. All...

The study aimed at identifying the level and sources of foreign language reading anxiety among Yemeni students in Malaysian universities. Besides, it aimed at finding out whether there are statistically significant differences in the means of responses of Yemeni students in Malaysian universities according to the variable ‘Level of study’ (Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD). The study is quantitative as it used Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS)...

Abstract Background Sexual violence against adolescents is prevalent worldwide and results in significant physical and mental injuries as well as loss of economic and personal potential. Urban informal settlements such as those around Nairobi, Kenya have been shown to have especially high incidences of violence. Research has shown that empowerment interventions for female adolescents can reduce sexual assault. However, these interventions have had limited testing in urban informal...

A multidisciplinary approach was applied to unravel temporal and spatial constraints of volcanism, inferred magmatic processes and sources, as well as the relative role of tectonic deformation over time on an axial segment of a magma-assisted continental rift. The Boset-Bericha Volcanic Complex (BBVC), located in the northern Main Ethiopian Rift is the perfect location to study the influence of magmatism on rifting due to evidence for subsurface melt and the faulted stratovolcano on the...

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an important public health problem in developing countries. Community-based studies using portable echocardiography have enhanced detection of RHD for early intervention. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of RHD among school children in Port Harcourt, the pattern of valvular involvement (s), the relationship of RHD with certain risk factors (such as overcrowding and socioeconomic status) and to ascertain the sensitivity, specificity and...

Physics is one of the science subject taught in Nigerian secondary schools. Due to its application in science and technology, it is being considered as the basic subject of science, technical and engineering courses. Literature has revealed a lot of challenges facing the implementation of senior secondary school physics curriculum in private and public schools in Nigeria. In the light of these, this paper focused on Concept of Physics Curriculum, Nature and Objectives of Physics Curriculum,...

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is of paramount importance in second or foreign language, in this case English, learning. Thus, it is necessary to figure out how a learner acquires English language in non-English speaking countries. This study was aimed at investigating how a female Syirian student living in Indonesia acquires English as her third language and how she enriches English vocabularies. This research was presented in qualitative approach. The participants were a Syrian female...