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Through learning, everyone becomes educated but learners should have a style to learn and possess a habit that match how they study. These two variables are vital as guide for educators or mentors to come up with such methodology or strategy in promoting quality and effective teaching-learning environment. With this, it is the purpose of this study to investigate the learning style and study habit of students in the Faculty of Nursing, Al Jabal Al Gharbi University, Gharyan, Libya according...

<p><strong>Objective</strong>: Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) includes benchmarks for diabetes management. The objective of our study was to describe diabetes management among African American women, a patient group that carries a disproportionate diabetes burden.</p><p><strong>Design:</strong> Cross-sectional survey study.</p><p><strong>Participants:</strong> African American women with type 2 diabetes enrolled in dietary and...

This chapter provides an overview of how low-onset (e.g. temperature rise) and rapid weather events (e.g. floods and heavy rain) affect the spread of vector-borne (such as malaria, dengue) and water-borne (such as typhoid, cholera) diseases. In particular, it examines the nature of these impacts on the urban poor living in low-income settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, addressing the glaring knowledge gap on health, climate change and urban poverty.

Free Secondary Education policy was introduced in Kenya in 2008 ostensibly to make secondary school education affordable so as to enhance access, transition and student academic performance.Studies in USA, USSR, Japan, Sub -Saharan Africa and some parts of Kenya like Kangundo sub county have revealed that subsidized fees at all levels of education and particularly at primary and secondary school education levels enhance access, transition and academic performance.This seemed not to be the...

The study was carried out to establish the obligation which School Development Committees (SDCs) could play in school development to achieve sustainable teacher retention in their schools.The research design used in this study is a mixed research design; it incorporated both the quantitative and qualitative approaches.The population consisted of twenty five heads, fifty SDC members and seventy five senior teachers making a total of one hundred and fifty respondents that were used for the...

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.

In 2006, the Kenyan Ministry of Education (MoE) developed an early childhood development education (ECDE) service standard guidelines to guide the ECDE stakeholders in provision of early childhood education (ECE) programmes. The study sought to investigate the implementation of the ECDE service standard guidelines on provision of physical facilities in ECE centres in Kakamega County. A descriptive survey design was adopted. Head teachers and ECE teacher were the study subjects. Structured...

This chapter focuses on the relations between the local state and its citizens in Durban, South Africa in the arena of water and climate governance. Three vignettes that reflect the relationships between the abstract spaces of the state and the everyday lived worlds of ordinary people are presented in the chapter. The first vignette showed how knowledge and discourses from international networks, research within Durban and social engagement at the local scale led to the formation of a...

To assist Swaziland in enhancing its technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems so as to provide the technical skills needed for the country to develop, the project will provide medium to advanced level ICT training, and advanced traini

<p>The relationship between education and public policy is two way: (1) economic development of a nation depends on the human capital produced by the education system of that nation and (2) public spending and management of the education system is crucial to the welfare of the nation. Changes in this relationship generate public concerns about university governance and its implications to national development. Therefore, this study explores the questions: (1) Have the role and purpose...

The shortage of healthcare workers and doctors in the developing world compared with the developed world is problematic, and will continue to be so owing to the ongoing migration of qualified professionals and the inability of the state to remedy the shortfalls. This will seriously hamper the government's National Health Insurance plan and the sustainability of South Africa (SA)'s healthcare sector. Furthermore, it is well known that the duration of medical training in SA is exceptionally...

In African American culture competing value systems shape the definition and value of smartness. This article will explore African American ‘sayins’ as a tool to transmit the counter-hegemonic cultural value of smartness. ‘Sayins’, a facet of the African American oral tradition, are drawn from the deep structures of African American culture. Like proverbs and parables ‘sayins’ are linguistic tools which function to transmit cultural knowledge and govern modes of behavior. African American...

The national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination roll-out in South Africa provides two doses of Cervarix to all female Grade 4 learners in state schools. This study estimated the costs of vaccinating all learners in KwaZulu-Natal Province (females or males and females) using either the two- or three-dose strategies for both the bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines.To determine costs of the HPV vaccination programme in KwaZulu-Natal.Costs were determined adapting World Health Organization...

Climate change, water and poverty are intimately intertwined in the developing world because climate change will manifest itself primarily through variation in the availability of water. Lack of clean, fresh water is one of the primary reasons for adverse health outcomes. Water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera, increase infant and child mortality as well as morbidity and mortality among the adults. Lack of water also impairs general hygiene and contributes to spreading...

Like the whole sub-Sahara Africa, rainfall in Fina reserve is subject of strong inter-annual variability. This paper assesses farmers’ perception on land use utilised in the Fina biosphere reserve and their adaptation measures to climate variability. The statistical methods (descriptive and inferential analysis) are used in this study to determine farmers’ perceptions and the adaptation measures in the Fina reserve. Results reveal that 75.5% of the farmers noticed an increase in temperature...

Within the framework of the fight against tobacco among young people, we conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study in 2013 to estimate the prevalence of smoking and to identify associated factors among students in Sousse. A questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of 556 students in 5 academic institutions in Sousse randomly drawn. The age of the participants was between 17 and 35 years. The prevalence of tobacco consumption in the past 12 months was 22.1% and...

In this study, a 3-step bias correction method is introduced to address, in a simultaneous way, three global climate model (GCM) deficiencies including underestimation of extremes, poor seasonal simulation, and high-frequency wet day error relative to observations.The introduced method depends on determining a regional pattern of climate variability through multi-model selection.The performance of the method is assessed for various climatic zones based on four catchments from Sri Lanka,...