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Background: Footprints reveal that the human foot, its bones and its impressions can successfully be used in estimation of stature for forensic and legal examinations. The aim of the study was to find the relationship between stature and footprint dimensions, and to generate a population-specific equation. Materials and Method: In the present study, stature and bilateral footprint measurements of 200 Igbo adults (100 males and 100 females) of ages 18 to 30 years were measured. Participants’...

The study has exposed the problems of education system in Nigeria and decent qualities of education system in Japan worthy of emulation as a panacea for revamping Nigerian education system for quality manpower building. Poor education standard in Nigeria stemmed from varieties of factors that are revertible, but the authors are convinced that the adoption, implementation and monitoring of lessons from Japan have the magic wand to revive the ugly trend in Nigeria’s education system...

To determine the trends, predisposing factors, maternal and fetal outcome of cases of uterine rupture managed at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital.A retrospective review of all cases of ruptured uterus managed at the University of Abuja teaching hospital, Gwagwalada, between January 2006 and December 2010 was conducted.There were 9604 deliveries in the hospital during the period of review out of which 82 were cases ruptured uterus, giving an overall incidence of 0.85% or 1 in 117...

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of school enrolment and attainment rates in Uganda from a gender perspective.We used the DHS 2006 data set and employed maximum likelihood binary and ordered probit models in our estimation.Whereas improvements in parents' education promote the schooling outcome of both boys and girls, it is not without inclination.Fathers' education significantly favors boys' schooling and mothers' education significantly favors girls' schooling.This...

This chapter reflects on the importance of the work of Philip Altbach to higher education, with particular attention to African higher education transformation as it intersects with power dynamics in the sphere of international higher education and the conceptualization of research universities in the context of the developing world. The chapter draws inferences about how African scholars might benefit from Altbach’s work and like-minded Western scholars to contribute to the advancement of African higher education.

This study evaluates the impact of school canteen programs on the performance of rural primary schools in Senegal using a “randomized experiment”. 120 schools which had never had school canteens were selected in the four poorest regions of Senegal. They were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Students in the second (CP) and fourth (CE2) years of primary school were observed in each of the selected schools. Many tests (student, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney Levene, Chi2)...

The need to teach global perspectives in schools has heightened with the proliferation of information sharing technologies and the growing interconnectedness of world systems, hence, the suggestion that if social studies is to do better in the preparation of global citizens for the future it has to pay attention to global perspectives.The purpose of this study was to interrogate the social studies teachers' views and experiences in teaching about the world in upper classes in primary schools...

The study sought to identify family-related socio-ecological determinants of bullying among Gweru urban High school adolescents.A survey design, premised on the qualitative and quantitative paradigms, was used.From the 13 High schools, 2 day-and 2 day-boarding schools were selected using stratified random sampling.Each school had 1 purposively sampled class giving a total of 4 classes comprised of 149 students, from whom 16 bullies were identified.Four class teachers, 1 from each school were...

Since the industrial revolution, human activities have continuously been releasing greenhouse gases which substantially modify the chemical composition of the atmosphere. The consequential build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere is regarded with a lot of apprehension because of the anticipated possible human-induced climate change. A vision of extreme events such as floods, storms or severe droughts is often used to illustrate the possible outcome of this climate change. Although...

Residency programs are geared towards in-depth training in a particular specialty. Several academic programs are carried out to achieve this and a prerequisite in some departments for accreditation for training of residents.Review of literature on various residency training continuous medical education on clinical meeting also known as grand rounds in some hospitals/departments, anaesthetic risk assessment, journal club and case reviews.New findings are always made in medicine and thus the need for updates.

Socio-economic and demographic variables can have a deep impact of the demand for food. The objective of this work is to analyze how these variables can affect the demand for meat and fish for Tunisian consumers. This study covers two important aspects: the nonimposition of, a priori, a functional form and the use of cross-section data including demographic and socioeconomic variables. Relations among meat and fish through cross price elasticities can be substitutions or complementary. The...

This anthropological study describes how disabled activist and politicians transcend race segregation, exclusions, discrimination and make disability and ability in disability real in the eyes of the nation. Based upon interviews with 15 parliamentarians with disability (MP) and participations observation in the National Parliament, between 2005 and 2006, this article disentangle inclusion/ exclusion in a particular historical context and situate the role disabled politicians in building a...

This study is a syntactic analysis of text messages in English language used by University of Zimbabwe students. The study specifically focuses on sentences where there are omissions of pronouns, auxiliary verbs and where contractions occur. The study also analyzes the impact of sociolinguistic variables on the sentence structure of English language in text messages. The fifty respondents’ forwarded two messages each from their sent items on their cell phones to the researcher and to...

Adherence to treatment instructions with antiretroviral therapy (ART) is very crucial for successful treatment outcome. However, sticking to treatment instructions pose-great challenges to HIV/AIDS patients. This cross-sectional study was on HIV infected adults attending ART clinic in Nigeria to explore nonadherence factors in relation to their socioeconomic characteristics. Validated structured questionnaire was administered to 221 participants. Results showed a high nonadherence rate of...

The purpose of this study is to compare the physical activity (PA), exercise time and Body Composition, Body Mass Index (BMI), % Body fat (%BF) and aerobic fitness (VO 2max ) among students in the Faculty of Education UKM Malaysia and Faculty of Education Sabha University Libya (SUL).Respondents drawn from both faculties of education of the two institutions were of average age between 18-25 years.Four-site skinfold thicknesses and Queen's College Step Test (QCT) were used to determine the...

Abstract In this article, literacy, which is conceived of as a set of cognitive skills, is juxtaposed with a sociocultural orientation that sees literacy as a set of social practices for the production of meaning. Cognitive, skills-based pedagogies treat literacy as universal, autonomous, and independent of context, whereas sociocultural literacy pedagogies focus on the production of socially situated meanings that are inclusive of diversity. I argue that current policy formulations of...

To explore the perceptions of educators from the Western Cape Province about the feasibility of implementing South African food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) in the national curriculum of primary schools.Combined quantitative and qualitative methods. We report on the quantitative component.Twelve public primary schools of different socio-economic status in three education districts of the Western Cape: Metro Central, Metro East and Cape Winelands.Educators (n 256) participated in the...