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Worldwide, the field of language teaching has in the last decade been going through a revolution with the quest to come up with methodological approaches that can be regarded as efficient to effectively facilitate the language instructional process. This has borne an on-going debate regarding which is the most effective method and in which direction should language educators go with regard to enhancing the language learning process. From this perspective, an examination of language teaching...

Abstract The aim of this study was to detect 35delG and 167delT mutations in the connexin 26 gene among Egyptian patients with nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss, allowing accurate diagnosis, proper genetic counseling, and carrier detection. Fifty-one patients were subjected to 35delG and 167delT mutations detection using PCR-based techniques. Seven patients had the 35delG mutation. Four patients were homozygous and four patients were heterozygous for this deletion. Two homozygotes were...

The study compared mathematics teachers' attitudes towards mixed sex and gender streamed (boys' and girls' only) classes all organized in public coeducational secondary schools of Nakuru, Uasingishu, Kericho and Baringo Counties of Kenya.An ex post facto causal comparative research design was used.Purposive and stratified random sampling techniques were used to select 20 co-educational secondary schools each from two school categories (county and sub-county) and types (those with mixed sex...

The authors of this paper investigated the level of information communication technologyrelated (ICT) information literacy (IL) skills of librarians in Nigerian Colleges of Education (COE) in order to discover the challenges they face in acquiring these skills.A descriptive survey method was adopted using a questionnaire.Study participants included professionals and para-professional librarians in federal, state and private COE libraries in the South-South and South-East geo-political zones...

Parasitic infections pose a significant health risk in developing nations and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the Republic of Tanzania, the CDC estimates that 51.5% of the population is infected with one or more intestinal parasites. If diagnosed early, the consequences of chronic parasitic infection can potentially be avoided.Six first-year medical students were recruited to enroll patients in the study. They underwent ten hours of formal, hands-on, ultrasound...

Malawi faces a severe lack of health workers. Despite initiatives to address this problem, a critical shortage of health care staff remains. This lack challenges the education and training of junior medical staff, especially medical interns in their final and crucial training year before they independently work as medical doctors.We have introduced an e-learning platform in the medical department of the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Malawi. With the support of computer-assisted...

In today’s world, schooling has been used to represent the engine of economic, individual growth, and global competitiveness. Specifically, schooling has been linked to national security, international donor agencies, and policy makers as a means to secure political domination. We are now in the age of globalization; however, globalization has been regarded as a phenomenon that carries implications, which are a threat to all communities. Contemporary intellectuals went as far and described...

This study addressed the identities and practices of faculty managers (FM) in a higher education institution (HEI) in South Africa. There is limited research on faculty managers in South African HEIs, specifically in relation to their self-formed ethically related identities and practices. My aim in this study was to fill this gap. Ethics as self-formation is related to how people construct themselves. As a result of changes in the managerial discourse in HEIs in South Africa, the new social...

Among the difficulties that plague the flight of African companies are listed excessive centralization combining with loss of control of decentralized units, systematic interference by the holder of the share capital in the operational management of the company and preferential recruitment of staff based on a certain proximity to the founder leader.Based on a case study in the Senegalese private sector (private institutions of higher education), the author shows that the tools and methods of...

Malaria is an important public health issue in pregnancy association with poor fetal and maternal outcome, especially in malaria endemic area like Nigeria.The objective was to determine the prevalence of placental malaria in asymptomatic women in labor and to compare the fetal and maternal outcome between affected and unaffected women.A prospective cross-sectional study of 210 women who delivered at a tertiary health facility in Nigeria. Participants' peripheral venous blood, cord blood, and...

Metals accumulation was determined in moss specie funaria hygrometrica collected from industrial and neighbouring residential areas of Kano municipality, using atomic absorption spectrometry with air acetylene flame. The areas under study have been modified by increasing industrial activities and extension of road network. The mean concentration of these elements in the areas, ranged between 0.39- 3.06 μgg -1 for cadmium, 0.64-4.97 μgg -1 for manganese and 7.36-38.51 μgg -1 for zinc. The...

Using results from the application of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) to a sample from the Sudan general education system (N= 4109), the mean IQ for children age 9 to19 in Sudan is calculated to be 84±15.5 according to the 1979 British norms. The results of this study are compared with those of an earlier Sudanese study performed with a similar sample in 1999 (Khaleefa et al., 2008). This comparison shows IQ gains (“Flynn effects”) for many of the younger, but not the oldest age...

The research examines underperforming secondary schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Using a representative sample of underperforming schools, the researchers collected data from principals, teachers, school management teams (SMTs), learners and school governing bodies (SGB). The research findings indicate that underperforming secondary schools are not a homogenous group since they can be divided into three distinct categories. These three typologies of underperforming...

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Within the last half century, several communities in Boki Land have engaged in violent conflicts as a result of disputes over portions of land that have claimed many lives, and left many more injured. The Boki people, like most rural African peoples, depend largely on the land for their livelihood and economic development. Thus, any encroachment on their land space provokes outrage and resistance. The frequent occurrence of violent conflicts in Boki Land, and many Nigerian/African...

Introduction:West Africa is experiencing the largest ever reported Ebola outbreak.Over 20,000 people have been infected of which about 9000 have died.It is possible that lack of community understanding of the epidemic and lack of institutional memory and inexperienced health workers could have led to the rapid spread of the disease.In this paper, we share Uganda's experiences on how the capacity of health workers and other multidisciplinary teams can be improved in preparing and responding...