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Natural 226Ra, 232Th and 40K radio nuclides concentration in beach Sediments along Safaga coast of Red sea, Egypt has been carried out using a NaI (Tl) gamma ray spectrometric technique. The total average concentrations of radionuclides ± uncertainty of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K were 22.2 ± 1.7, 19.2 ± 2.5, and 477.6 ± 27.6 Bqkg-1, respectively. The total average absorbed dose rate is found to be 41.4 nGyh-1, whereas the annual effective dose rate has an average value of 54 μSvy-1. The total...

This study establishes one important fact about the learning of French language in Nigeria which is an Anglophone environment. It indicates that in the Nigerian context, a careful combination of the deductive and inductive methods delivered in a bilingual mode (French & English) will yield higher achievement by students than using the monolingual mode (French only) to teach French as a foreign language. Also, the study showed that student achievement was not significantly affected by the...

The teaching of English language in Nigeria can be a very daunting task. This paper examines some of the challenges the teacher faces in the classroom ranging from decline in reading culture, lack of adequate attention in the classrooms, cultural and psychological background of the learners, poor motivation of the teachers,lack of exposure to modern teaching methods and teachers inadequacy to teach effectively. Some suggestions are proposed to deal with the situation and they include:...

<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if guided simulation practice could enhance practical skills of student nurses in management of childhood illnesses, based on the Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) approach.</p><p>The objective was to determine the level at which guided classroom simulation practice enhances the skills of student nurses regarding assessment and classification of sick children aged two months to five years for...

The work reviews the ongoing controversy over work and play within the framework of a constructivist early childhood curriculum. Educators and parents with narrow perception of play view it as mere physical actions of walking, clapping and singing outside class work. However, educators who hold a constructivist epistemological view of child play see play as educative, and possessing ingredients for stimulation that foster an all-round development of children. The paper examines various...

The study was set to investigate the availability of physical facilities in Nigerian colleges of Education.The study was limited to public and private colleges of Education in South East Nigeria.Researcher-developed instrument titled 'Checklist on Availability of Physical Facilities' (CAPF) was used for data collection.The instrument was validated by two experts and also tested for reliability using spearman rho and cronbach alpha which yielded high index of 0.95.Population of the study...

Risky sexual practices are rampant among adolescents in Kenya.The sexual practices include having multiple sexual partners and unprotected sexual intercourse.Consequences of risky sexual behaviour include early and unwanted pregnancies, abortions, school dropout, poor performance in school, infection with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.Secondary school students are in the category of adolescents because they are between the ages of 14-19 years.This study sought to assess the...

This study sought to investigate and compare bacterial contamination levels at six different sites along the Diep and Plankenburg river systems in the Western Cape, South Africa. Surface water and sediment samples were collected monthly from the six selected sampling sites along both river courses between January 2014 and December 2014 and were evaluated for bacterial contaminants. Microbial isolation, characterisation and identification were done using conventional techniques (serial...

This paper explores the results of a Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS)-based questionnaire administered to 28 university student participants. The study is carried out in a post-colonial multilingual context, Mozambique. The main aims of the paper are to assess the degree of purported use and awareness of participants own use of reading comprehension skills and strategies in a foreign language (English). The participants were tested for their reading text comprehension using an IELTS...

Purpose: This study aims to provide a better understanding of the life experiences of educated disabled women in Ethiopia. The research focuses on opportunities resulting from their disabilities, as well as the role that obstacles play in the lives of successful disabled women. Method: Qualitative, in-depth, and semi-structured interviews along with personal observations were used to explore the full experiences of participants from their own points of view, as told in their own words....

Abstract This mixed‐methods research investigated teachers' perceptions of intrinsic factors (personal attributes of the teacher) and extrinsic factors (environmental) influencing the implementation of inquiry‐based science learning at township (underdeveloped urban area) high schools in South Africa. Quantitative data were collected by means of an adapted version of the Science Curriculum Implementation Questionnaire (SCIQ) (Lewthwaite, 2001). The adapted version was renamed the Scientific...

espanolEl objetivo de este documento es comprender la actitud de los profesores de segundo grado en fisica en la parte oriental de Etiopia. Este estudio adopta un enfoque cualitativo. Los cuestionarios escritos para respuestas abiertas se administraron a una muestra de 100 maestros de escuela secundaria. El analisis de contenido se utilizo para interpretar diversas respuestas relativas a los docentes que desean continuar su educacion en su primer contexto. Se usaron metodos descriptivos y...

Currently information is the base for every activity throughout the Universe. The information technology provides advantage of data storage and retrieval. Geoportal is one part of the information systems which can help in disseminating spatial and non-spatial information. Disasters risk monitoring, and specifically drought risk monitoring, is one of the area that is in need of information in order to reduce their potential negative effects. The drought-prone region of Ethiopia is currently...

This graduation project involved the development of a three-day training for social business development for Kenyan entrepreneurs. The project is carried out for ProPortion, a creative agency based in Amsterdam that realizes social business. Social businesses are a companies that aim to solve social challenges through a for-profit approach and ProPortion focusses on social challenges in effect people in developing countries. The project came forth out of an opportunity identified by...