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Background: Severe burns in children are common and their mortality is very high, particularly in developing countries. Objective: This study aims to investigate the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of severe burns admitted to the CHUD-B intensive care unit. Patients and methods: It was a case-control study with descriptive and analytical purpose carried out in the CHUD-B from January 1st, 2010 to December 31, 2014. The study involved patients under 15 years of age with...

Sexual education is a social responsibility and is a part of the coherent strategy referred to the introduction in schools in Angola.It was made of a prospective, descriptive and longitudinal study that has been characterized the knowledge of sexual education of students in general education in three schools and the Council of Christian Churches in Huambo-Angola in July 2015.The sample consisted of 386 students chosen randomly; there are no sexual education programs in the education system,...

This study on “Managerial skills and Head teachers’ job success in selected nine years basic education of Huye District-Rwanda” was conducted to describe the extent to which possession of managerial skill can determine or explain the level of job success among 9YBE Head teachers. The study design used was of descriptive survey and particularly a descriptive correlation design because the investigator was looking the relationship between two variables: managerial skills and job success of...

The study aimed at establishing the professional qualifications of teachers educating pupils with disabilities, investigating whether teachers in regular public primary schools are able to identify and assess pupils with disabilities, and identifying teaching-learning strategies and materials used by teachers when educating pupils with disabilities. The study adopted a descriptive design. The study embarked on interviews for head teachers by use of structural interview schedule,...

Background: The high prevalence of hypertension in developing countries has stimulated a lot of research, one of which is tracking of childhood blood pressure (BP). To the authors' knowledge, the point prevalence of elevated BP among primary school children in Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria has not been documented.Objective: To determine the BP levels and the point prevalence of elevated BP among primary school children in Kano Metropolis, Nigeria.Materials and Methods: A multistage...

There is a low financial credit take among youth in Uganda because potential beneficiaries perceive the associated risk as high. This study assesses the determinants of entrepreneurial risk tolerance among Ugandan youth using experimental data from a randomised control trial and a real-life investment risk experiment. The intervention consists of credit-counselling and sector-specific business training for young men and women aged 18-35 years who own a business to inform them about the...

A survey research was conducted to find out if reported improvements in access to education in Ghana are reflected in comparable improvements in delivery of quality education. The study examined theoretical constructs on adequacy and quality assurance in education to ascertain the state of quality provision in education, and whether there is a significant difference in existing quality provisions in education and what the quality provisions should be as perceived by the study respondents....

This paper examined the gender differences in attitude towards mathematics in Nigerian secondary schools. A descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select twenty secondary schools in Makurdi Metropolis of Benue State. Three hundred and seventy-five SS11 students were sampled. A questionnaire on the attitude of students towards mathematics was administered. The instrument was subjected to pilot testing of reliability and found the...

Paris in December 2015, the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) organised a scientific conference on environmental and climatic changes in the horn of Africa, with a decisive financial support of the Institut français (Fonds d'Alembert), Paris.The conference was part of a larger event, called "the Road to Paris" and organised by the French Embassy to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N), Addis Ababa University, in HoA-REC&N headquarters at

Positive perception about menstruation and good menstrual hygiene practice safeguards the health of postpubescent females by reducing their vulnerability to reproductive and urinary tract infections. Using a questionnaire, a cross-sectional study involving 293 randomly selected female undergraduate students in northern Ghana assessed the relationship between knowledge on menstruation and the practice of safe menstrual hygiene. Data collected was analyzed using GraphPad 5.01. This study found...

Our research carries out three tasks. The first is to examine the trends of poverty and inequality across the rural and urban areas in Togo between 2006 and 2011. The second task is to look for the drivers of these changes. The last is to inspect the evidence of inclusive growth. Using data from Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey (QUIBB) for 2006 and 2011 and the ADePT Poverty and Inequality Module, we explore poverty and inequality indices. We found that: 1) fifty percent of the...

As forestry transitions from hierarchical steering by governments to more multi-actor forms of governance, it has become necessary to understand key challenges to improve forest governance and its implications for educating forestry professionals. This paper therefore investigates these challenges and explores capabilities forestry professionals require to overcome them. We employed mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions...

This study examined socio-cultural factors influencing female participation in sports in Tertiary institution in Kano State in Nigeria. The need jar the study arose in order to stern the tide of low female participation in sports in Tertiary institution in Kano State. The population of the study was all female students in six tertiary institutions in Kano in 2012/2013 academic session. Records of enrolment showed that seven thousand five hundred and fifteen (7,515). The sample comprises of...

The aim of the current study was to examine religion’s effect on youth political engagement using data from a sample of undergraduate students at the North-West University in South Africa. The logit regression model analysis showed that contrary to what the participation literature would expect, socioeconomic factors such as parental education, age, and gender were not significant predictor of youth political engagement. However, consistent with the study’s conceptualization of political...