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Preventive measures are key to reducing COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Our primary aim was to assess factors associated with practice of COVID-19 preventive measures among senior high school students in the Bawku Municipality, Ghana. A cross-sectional study was conducted, and data on 624 students were analyzed using multivariable logistic regression. An estimated 31.5% (95% CI: 27.8, 35.1) of the students wore a face mask often or always. Students who reported that COVID-19 can be...

Technical and vocational education in colonial Namibia was intricately linked with the growing need for labour in the colonial economy, especially the mining sector. The colonial administration, through the provision of technical education to indigenous Namibians, intended to train able yet docile hands who would provide cheap, unskilled labour to the colonial economy. The inherent flaw in the confinement of the majority of the population to the unskilled labour category unravelled in the...

Abstract Persons with disabilities face substantial barriers that impede their integration and participation in social and economic activities. Households with disabled members may be vulnerable to poverty due to the extra cost of living with a disability. However, there exists a knowledge gap in the magnitude of the extra cost of disabilities in sub Saharan Africa. Using data from a nationally representative household survey, this paper estimates the extra cost of disabilities in Ghana. The...

Abstract Reliance on deep learning techniques has become an important trend in several science domains including biological science, due to its proven efficiency in manipulating big data that are often characterized by their non-linear processes and complicated relationships. In this study, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has been recruited, as one of the deep learning techniques, to be used in classifying and predicting the biological activities of the essential oil-producing plant/s...

There are significant challenges and prospects of e-learning in Nigerian polytechnic education. The process and applications of e-learning technologies include computer-based learning, web-based learning, virtual learning, network learning, tele-learning, blended learning, hybrid models, internet learning, computer-assisted learning, online classroom and digital collaborations where contents is delivered via the internet/extranet, audio, video, tapes, satellite TV and CD ROM. In Nigerian...

Climate change is a global reality and a major concern of many countries of the world. Its average impacts are the same globally but with some regional peculiarities. This paper reviewed the global events of climate change and its reality in Nigeria. It observed that the world’s climatic elements have been undergoing changing pattern for a long period. Its reality in Nigeria was seen in changing rain pattern, relative humidity, atmospheric temperature, rising sea level, coastal flooding,...

Education leadership literature indicates that relatively little attention has been given to the specific duties and responsibilities of South African deputy principals in comparison with other leadership and management positions in schools. As a result, their roles and responsibilities remain vague. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to explore the roles of deputy principals in selected well-resourced fee-paying primary schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the...

To elicit the importance of caring with awareness in order to facilitate student nurses' caring toward patients.There is a positive relationship between student nurses acting with awareness and caring.A quantitative, descriptive, correlational, and contextual research design with a purposive sampling method was used in the study. Respondents (n = 56) were student nurses in their third- and fourth-year level of study. Data were collected by use of a self-administered questionnaire.There was a...

Abstract Background: Academic motivation is most important as a key determinant of competent and motivated nurses who are often considered as frontline healthcare providers who devote most of their time taking care of clients and patients. However, most of them demonstrate remarkable differences in their academic performances during their schooling that might be due to the differences in their academic motivation and achievement motivation. There appears a growing concern to rethink the...

AbstractIn this chapter, Samson Nashon and his coauthors focus on Contextualizing science learning and teaching for African learners so it could accord them meaningfulness and relevance which could have the greatest potential on sustaining long-term engagement with science education. They write that with Individuals exercising their agency to change their context via their historically and culturally developed resources, it becomes possible for them to affect their immediate settings. This...

Following the high rate at which many drinking water sources are polluted globally, an adequate evaluation of the potential hazards posed by polluted water systems is essential. In Nnewi urban (southeastern Nigeria), inhabitants indiscriminately dispose municipal solid wastes into streams and rivers, thereby exposing the surface water quality to deterioration. The aim of this study was to assess the pollution status, ecological risks, and probabilistic health risks of surface waters in this...

The aim of this research is to identify the problems experienced by the classroom teachers who have Syrian students in their classes. This research was designed according to the survey model. The population of the research consisted of classroom teachers working in Nizip district of Gaziantep within 2019-2020 academic year. Criterion sampling, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used to determine the sampling. The sampling of the study consisted of 361 classroom teachers working in...

Abstract While climate change is recognized as a major future threat to biodiversity, most species are currently threatened by extensive human‐induced habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation. Tropical high‐altitude alpine and montane forest ecosystems and their biodiversity are particularly sensitive to temperature increases under climate change, but they are also subject to accelerated pressures from land conversion and degradation due to a growing human population. We studied the...

Early warning systems (EWSs) have been developed to trigger timely action to disasters, yet persistent humanitarian crises resulting from hazards such as drought indicate that these systems need improvements. We focus our research on the county of Turkana in Kenya, where drought repeatedly results in humanitarian crises, especially with regard to food insecurity. Focusing on the key elements of the Kenyan EWS, we ask two questions: firstly, what indicators, especially meteorological drought...

Health information shared on the Internet has the potential to improve people’s quality of life. However, the level of health information literacy and informational skills determines the individuals’ ability to obtain credible health information useful for them. This study investigates the Egyptian LIS undergraduates’ health information behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study has adopted a quantitative approach using a questionnaire to explore library and information science...

AbstractIn this chapter, Edward Shizha and his co-authors relay how rates of international migration have reached unprecedented levels in Canada, which grants immigration status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants annually. Indeed, close to quarter of Canada’s population was foreign-born including African young men who came or reunited with their parents. With these realities, they continue, immigrant youth experience resettlement challenges that include language difficulties, prejudice,...

Liberal trade regimes could help improve food productivity if environmental concerns such as adverse weather conditions that affect agriculture are addressed. This issue has not received adequate empirical scrutiny as linear models dominate extant literature. In this article, we check whether accounting for trade and climate change asymmetries is important in explaining food productivity in Nigeria. Using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the existence of asymmetry was...