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Previous studies have identified Oral Communication Apprehension (OCA) or anxiety of communicating as a major issue which impedes an individual's willingness to communicate and his/her capacity to improve effective communication skills. While numerous studies have measured the OCA of learners, very few qualitative studies have investigated this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to establish the effects of socio-cultural settings on OCA among EFL learners at the Alzytouna University....

The study aims to identify the impact of creativity management in fighting the educational crisis in secondary schools in Palestine from the viewpoint of headmasters, researcher worked to follow the descriptive analytical method and also resorted to statistical methods, has developed a questionnaire included several paragraphs about the school crisis and creativity administrative, in order to test the hypotheses of the study, she has distributed 120  questionnaire to headmaster of  secondary...

With the announcement of the new sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in March 2016, many countries start to adopt a new development strategies focus on what is called Inclusive Green Growth. This term was first used in the UN Rio+20 conferences, in attempt to merge the interest of the world in green growth as well as in inclusive growth. The World Bank defines Inclusive Green Growth as “the economics of Sustainable Development”. Ethiopia is one of the first countries in Africa to develop a...

Background: Children in developing countries are ten times more likely to die before the age of five when compared with children in developed countries. Sudan is one of the countries were children are at greater risk of dying. The aim of this study was to determine the association between the basic human needs like; water supply, sanitation, poor household, and distance of living, and child mortality.Methods: A cross sectional, descriptive, hospital based study. Structured questionnaire were...

Background: Infant and child mortality constitute the highest rate in the developing world, compared to the mortality of other age groups. Sudan is one of the countries were infant and children are under risk. This study was done in Wad-Madani Pediatric Teaching Hospital, to determine the association between the socio-economic factors and basic life services differences and high level of infant and under- five mortality.Methods: The study utilized cross sectional, hospital based study. The...

Background. Bacterial sepsis is a major cause of illness in human immunodeficiency virus infected patients. There is scarce evidence about sepsis among HIV patients in Ethiopia. This study aimed to determine the etiologic agents of bacterial sepsis and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns among HIV infected patients. Methods. A cross-sectional study was carried out from March 1 to May 2, 2013. One hundred patients infected with HIV and suspected of having sepsis were included....

This study investigates vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change and variability in three districts (Basona Werana, Efratana Gidim and Menz Gera Meder) located in different agroecological zones (AEZs) in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Household level data about livelihood capitals and climate related variables were used to develop vulnerability indices and determine vulnerability patterns across the study area. Our results identify Basona Werana as the most vulnerable in...

Impacts of landuse/landcover changes coupled with climate variability are well felt in areas of pristine environments like the dominantly high rainforest covered Baro-Akobo river basin of Ethiopia that form the Sobbat River system. Recharge is one of the hydrologic components to be influenced by induced anthropogenic changes. Quantifying and understanding changes in recharge and related hydrologic parameters help to properly manage the water resources and protect such vulnerable...

This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the distance measured from the distal outer of the eye to the parting line of the lips and the occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) measured by two methods.One hundred and fourteen dental students (76 males and 38 females) were recruited for this study with mean age (22.34 ± 1.83) years. The distance from distal canthus of the eye to rima oris (eye-RO) was compared with two different measurements of the OVD (nasal [N] to gnathion...

1 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: aljack123@yahoo.com Tracheostomy is an operative procedure that creates a surgical airway in the trachea to bypass an upper airway obstruction and remains a very important life saving procedure worldwide. The present study was conducted to determine the indications and complications...

The purpose of this paper was to know the sustainable development goal 4 and find out the quality of education in Zambia. The quality of education was measured by the number of primary and secondary schools, enrolment of students, dropout rate, the equity indicators – gender parity index and student-teacher ratio and quality indicators like exam pass rate and infrastructure. The study concluded that the growth rate of schools under private/church/community was higher than the Government...

The practice in most Muslim societies is to introduce children to memorization of the Qur'an at the early stage of their lives. In Nigeria and Malaysia, both formal and informal schools function in order to impact this important treasurer to children. The alMajiri system of Qur'anic education is used as the traditional informal school system in Nigeria for the purpose of memorization of the Qur'an, unfortunately, due to lack of proper management and planning, this system of education has...

The ongoing Syrian Civil War is so destructive and threatening that an overwhelming majority of Syrian dwellers have fled to Turkey and Lebanon. Today, these countries comprise the highest Syrian populations, respectively. The majority of Syrian population, children, requires special attention to their access to education since most are out of schooling in the host countries. Syrian children are in need of certain skills, abilities, and knowledge, so as to reconstruct the largely damaged...

Love Thy Neighbor: Current and Potential Responses to Young, Male, Syrian, Refugee Students in the European Union Higher Education Sector Kristen Allen Abstract Since the start of the Syrian civil war, the media has been flooded with images of Syrian refugees fleeing their war torn nation. All over the world, receiving countries and their higher education sectors have responded in a variety of ways. Via a quantitative, website analysis, this report investigates whether and how institutes of...

The current study aims at investigating the apology strategies employed by Algerian university students of English relative to the factors of social power, distance and severity of the offense. The data for analysis in this study were collected through a Discourse Completion Questionnaire and interviews. The findings revealed that the respondents preferred giving direct expressions of apology and taking on responsibility more than the other strategies. The informants also resorted to new...