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Training Needs Assessment (TNA) is a triangular term; training (any activities to gain knowledge, skills or change attitude), needs (the gap between current and desired or required) and assessment (process for identifying needs and placing them in priority order).Investment in training of Academic Teaching Staff (ATS) can achieve better performance.TNA is the right step to design an appropriate, cost-effective training programme with clear priorities setting to achieve specific knowledge,...
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Background: Article 25 of the UNCRPD stipulates the right of people with disabilities to the highest attainable standard of health, and the timely uptake of appropriate health and rehabilitation services. This study seeks to explore the factors which influence access to health care among adults with disabilities in Cameroon and India. Methods: A total of 61 semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of adults with vision, hearing or musculoskeletal impairments, using...
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Speaking fluently is characterized not only by the speed of oral delivery but also by the absence of non-fluent pauses. This paper aims at investigating the pausing phenomena in the speech of the Yemeni learners of English. It investigated three aspects of silent pauses, the frequency, the placement and the length. The data were collected from 20 level four students enrolled in the Department English Language, Faculty of Education, Taiz University. The participants were recorded narrating...
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The purpose of this study is to describe the adaptive and the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies used by nurse’s student having experienced the death of a patient in a clinical setting. The study was conducted in the Institute of Nursing and Technical Health of Rabat in Morocco. To carry out this study, 64 nurses student from license cycle have recruited (56,2% female, 43,8% male). 37,5% nurses student are from semester two and 62,5% are from the final semester (S6). The...
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Parasitological investigations on Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus infesta tions were carried out in 541 school children from Lolodorf health district, South Region of Cameroon. Their stools were analyzed using the Kato-Katz technique and the faecal culture of hookworm eggs. Among the 541 children investigated, 4 were infested with A. duodenale (0.7%), 13 with N. americanus (2.4%) and 11 were co-infested with both nematodes species (2.3%), giving a global prevalence of 5.17%. No...
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The study sought to find out the academic challenges facing distance education learners at Jackson College of Education in the Brong Ahafo Region. The study employed descriptive survey design employed and stratified sampling technique in selecting a total sample size of 335. Questionnaire was the main instrument used for this research. The study found out that academic challenges facing the respondents included residential facilities, classroom facilities, communication/feedback, learning...
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Awris traditional dance Tigray regional state on health related physical fitness traits among high school students. To achieve the purpose of this study, 40 high school students were selected randomly. And their age ranged between 15 and 17 years. The selected participants were categorized into experimental and control group with twenty (n=20) subjects in each. The experimental group performed traditional dances for a period of 16 weeks...
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Social media has been attributed as beneficial by aiding fast and reliable communication which cuts across time and geographical boundaries. In South Africa, reports indicate that most people have access to social media. Such attributes can be harnessed by municipalities to educate about water conservation, especially considering the drought and water crisis that was experienced in Eastern Cape, South Africa. This paper focused on local municipalities in Amathole District in the Eastern Cape...
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Education for sustainable development (ESD) which started in 1972 in Rio and was introduced in Kenya in 2010 after signing an MOU between Israel and Kenya as pilot model using a few schools as demonstration centers. It is being debatable if 8-4-4 should be transformed to ESD. Key questions to be addressed; why, how when and whom are our children direction for future? ESD model provides hope for our children and the realization of vision 2030. The 8-4-4 system of education is more skewed...
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This paper explores cultural shock experiences encountered by African students studying in Indonesian Universities. The study used qualitative approach to collect data through in-depth face-to-face interviews with African students and participant observation. The findings of the study reveal that many African students had experienced unfamiliar situation that are different from those of their home countries in the course of study in Indonesia. Such situation leads to what is called “culture...
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeView retraction statement:Statement of Retraction: Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Colored South African women Additional informationFundingThis work is based on the research study supported in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant numbers 93445 and 112559). The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are that of the authors.
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Models of stock price prediction have customarily utilized technical indicators alone to produce trading signals. In this paper, we construct trading techniques by applying machine-learning methods to technical analysis indicators and stock market returns data. The resulting prediction models can be utilized as an artificial trader used to trade on any given stock trade. Here the issue of stock trading decision prediction is enunciated as a classification problem with two class values...
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Background: In South Africa, and in many other African countries, official language-in-education policy supports the use of learners’ primary language(s) in early schooling. In reality, texts in the language(s) of the former colonial power are dominant, with high-interest texts in languages familiar to young learners in short supply or non-existent. Where government education departments have begun to address this shortage, it is mainly by producing graded readers in the ‘standard’ variety...