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This study examines the knowledge sharing practices of academics in Higher Education Institutions(HEI) in Ethiopia. Based on the understanding that Knowledge Sharing is a key enabler of Knowledge Management, the study analyses how individual based variables determine knowledge sharing practices. The major relevant variables are drawn from the Theory of Planned Behavior. A survey instrument that has employed the conceptual framework was developed mainly from the extant literature in order to...

In Nigeria, the curriculum of agriculture at undergraduate level was re-structured by introducing farm practical training (FPT) for students. The study examined students‘ orientation, skill acquisition, level of satisfaction and change in attitude towards farming, constraints and ways of improving FPT. Data were collected from students with structured questionnaire. Frequency distribution and mean were used to analyze data collected. Results revealed that students‘ orientation about FPT was...

The paper examined the extension service strategies in adaptation to climate change in Oyo State Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used in selecting 96 respondents. Descriptive statistics was used in analyzed the data collected for the study. Results show that impacts of climate change experienced by the respondents are shortage of water for human and live stock, Shortage of pasture for grazing animals and Reduction in household income result to high rate of school dropout. While...

A major disparity among African Americans is undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension. This exploratory study examined hypertension education and screening activities of 45 African American churches. A cross-sectional telephone survey was used to interview church representatives with knowledge of their church's health activities. Most churches (87%) offered at least 1 activity and 40% offered all 4 (i.e., screenings, materials, talks, health-fairs) within 2 years of the interview. Larger...

The survey investigated the perceptions and attitudes of Senior High School (SHS) students to polytechnic education. This is to serve as the basis for understanding their mind-set, needs and wants better to enable the polytechnics in Ghana mount programmes that better position them as tertiary institutions of choice rather than of last resort. The main objective of the study was to attempt to understand the perception, beliefs, and attitudes of the average Senior High School students to...

Individuals with hearing impairment are confronted with a lot of problems due to the condition of their disability. This has a negative impact on their social and psychological well-being with multiplying effect on their interpersonal relationship. Therefore, this study investigated the psycho-social influence of hearing impairment on interpersonal behavior of youths with hearing loss. Methodology The study adopted a survey research design. A sample consisting of 211 participants with...

Asymptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs) of bacterial and parasitic origins occur in both males and females where bacteria and/or parasites are present in the urine, with the absence of clinical signs or symptoms in the host. Using microbiological methods, mid-stream urine collected from sixty (60) Redeemer’s University students comprising apparently healthy 30 male and 30 female undergraduate students were examined. The samples were cultured on CLED and MacConkey agar. Bacteriuria was...

This paper is an excursion in political linguistics, and it tries to answer the research question: what is the role of language education in the promotion of social stability, national security and conflict prevention? The paper therefore tries to show how language education can be used for mass communication, for carrying out dialogue, for mass literacy and political mobilization. Languages, whether indigenous or foreign, are used for teaching all disciplines in the curricula of educational...

The Tunisian habituation ability to the profound changes that affect with the same way all industrialized countries depends on the skills, qualifications and openness to the world.The Practices and cultural consumption of school youth are a major asset for social and economic development of modern Tunisia.The first studies on the culture was made by Tylor in 1871, who defined culture as the knowledge beliefs, arts, laws and customs acquired by man as a member of society.The time of the...

The objective of this study is to examine the exponential increasing number of middle-Aged women in public sector organisations in Ghana. The study specifically investigates female staffs of the Ghana Commercial Bank wanting to undertake professional developing Programmes either through self-motivation or by propulsion from management of the Bank. The challenges they also experienced in the pursuit of such objectives such as improper job positioning and poorly regulated professional...

Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) have become a major public health problem due to an increase in invasive procedures and antibiotic resistance. The prevalence and some virulence factors of CoNS species isolated from clinical samples obtained from a hospital in Benin-City, Nigeria was investigated. A total of 79 clinical samples were collected from clinical specimens over a six month period in a non consecutive manner from a teaching hospital in Nigeria. Samples were cultured on...

In this study, recently developed techniques for unconditional quantile regression are employed to measure both changes in the return to education across quantiles and rural-urban inequality decomposition in consumption expenditure. These methods make use of the Re-centered Influence Function (RIF) to evaluate the impact of changes in the distribution of covariates on the quantiles of the marginal distribution of the outcome variable. The RIF-regression provides a detailed decomposition of...

In line with Federal Government of Nigeria’s directives, the curriculum for Senior Secondary Schools has been reviewed for use in Nigerian schools. Some new topics have been added to the Senior Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum. It is a well known fact that teachers form the hub of the teaching and learning processes in schools. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the difficulty levels of topics in the new Mathematics Curriculum as perceived by Federal Unity Schools...

IntroductioN -Concerns about infection with Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) among the young people have renewed interest in developing countries, where they represent a large proportion of population and are at high risk.The study examined the influence of the HIV/AIDS education on behavioural change among tertiary students in Ondo State, Nigeria.Methodology -Multistage sampling technique was used sample size of 276 students were selected.Three research questions and one hypothesis...

Loss of working hours, low productivity and the loss of human and material resources due to negligence of safety and industrial safety education programme has become an incessant problem in manufacturing industries.This research study therefore focused on the assessment of industrial safety education programmes in the manufacturing industries of Kaduna and Niger states of Nigeria.The study sought to identify the industrial safety education training needs of the industries; the potential...

This study was implemented by Boston University in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with support from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development under Project SEARCH Task Order No. GHH‐I‐00‐07‐00023‐00, beginning August 27, 2010. The content and views expressed here are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of USAID or the U.S. Government.