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An increasing prevalence of paediatric infections have been associated with poor levels of hygienic practices. This study aimed at investigating the level of hygiene practices among 200 school children aged 6–10 years. Their hands were swabbed and the bacteria were identified by Gram staining and conventional biochemical tests. Of the 200 samples, 91.0% (182) showed bacterial growth. Coagulase negative Staphylococcus was the most common bacterium isolated from 76.9% (140) of the samples...

Background: The global prevalence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is estimated between 15.6 and 30 million based on population-based data, including 1 million sub-Saharan African school-aged children. A paucity of data from sub-Saharan Africa likely contributes to a significant underestimate of the true global burden of RHD. The 2012 World Heart Federation (WHF) echocardiographic guidelines allow for standardized assessment of RHD prevalence. We provide an updated estimate of RHD prevalence...

Compared to American Whites, African Americans have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), experiencing poorer metabolic control and greater risks for complications and death. Patient-level factors, such as diabetes knowledge, self-management skills, empowerment, and perceived control, account for >90% of the variance observed in outcomes between these racial groups. There is strong evidence that self-management interventions that include telephone-delivered diabetes...

Published as Volume 6 in the series ‘Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education: Research Dialogues’, O’Hern and Nozaki’s book fulfils the series’ mandate to inspire dialogue around ...

In Nigeria, the majority of families who have children with intellectual and developmental disabilities do not have access to professional services.  Acute shortage of special educators, coupled with social, economic and cultural problems, negatively impact the development of specialized services. In this article, the authors document the evidences and information gathered from a focus group of parents at the Open Doors for Special Learners, Jos, Nigeria. Comments and discussions revealed,...

The teacher has become the focus of attention in modern world because of his unique roles in the society. It is daily becoming increasingly clear that no nation can rise or develop without the right caliber of teachers. Curriculum is an indispensable instrument in any educational programme. It has often been contended that its fundamental nature derives from the fact that it is the very foundation for any education system. There is a strong desire for climate change issues to be taught as...

SUMMARY Drought tolerance mechanisms of three taro landraces (Dumbe Lomfula (DL), KwaNgwanase (KW) and Umbumbulu (UM)) were evaluated under field conditions Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, over two summer seasons. Taro was slow to emerge (~ 49 days) and showed significant differences between landraces with respect to final emergence with DL never achieving a good crop stand. Growth (plant height, leaf number and LAI), VGI, SC and CCI were significantly lower under rainfed (RF) than irrigated...

This article studies the key factors underpinning the success of e-Learning on corporate intranet.Indeed, theoretically, e-Learning has many avantages such as time and location flexibility for learners and teachers, the possibility to personnalize the learning process, the potential for establishment of a community of collaboration between learners and facilities for assessing and monitoring them.However in practice, e-Learning projects post rather mixed outcomes and record very high dropout...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a worldwide problem, with 68% of infected people residing in sub-Saharan Africa. Antiretroviral therapy is used as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent infection in cases of occupational exposure, and use has recently been expanded to nonoccupational exposure. Studies have demonstrated a lack of awareness of non-occupational PEP (NOPEP) in the general population.The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge and attitudes towards...

This paper attempts to provide more realistic and reliable way of placing Nigerian students seeking admission into Nigerian University system using Discriminant Analysis and also providing quantitative analysis of a Discriminant Analysis approach to prediction of student’s admission scores into a university system. The paper utilizes secondary data sourced from the Admission and Public Relation Department of Cross Rivers University of Technology Calabar, the conditions for predictive and...

Submission is a thesis submitted to the graduate nursing faculty of the University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing.

This paper examines the perspective of Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria, the objectives of the program, and its challenges considering the unemployment rate, which is on the increase. In 1895, Reverend Hope Wandell from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland founded the first training institute (technical college) in Calabar, Nigeria. As at then, programs developed were tailoring, carpentry, and some commercial subjects in secretarial studies which initially gave room for job...

It is obvious that Vocational guidance plays an integral part in the choice of a career among youths. This is so because a period of proper counseling in the choice of Vocational and Technical Education programs for our youth will make them a better individual to know and accept their personality and interest, as they select a vocation of their choice where they can develop a self-reliant life in future without seeking for a white collar job or be floating in the labor market. To this...

The aim of this prospective case study was to determine the relationship between M.Ed. students’ syllogistic reasoning ability and their performance in an educational psychology course. Subjects in the study comprised all the 159 Master’s degree students in education who wrote the 2011/2012 Psychology of learning (EDU 612) examination. Two instruments—the semester examination for EDU 612 and a test on syllogistic reasoning downloaded from the internet—were used to obtain data and three...

Survey method was adopted in this work. Usable data were collected from 200 students and lecturers of University of Benin and Benson Idahosa University through randomly administered questionnaires. Data that relates to the research questions were analyzed using frequency count and percentage, while the Null hypothesis was tested using chi square test. The results showed a strong relationship between the use of ICT tools and enhancement in teaching and learning. Recommendations for more...

Record keeping is a strong instrument for keeping an organization alive and healthy. It is the only veritable tool for keeping the government and the nation informed as to the need or otherwise of further investment in education and other subsectors of economy, the direction as well as the dimension of such investment. One of the major reasons educations has not been utilized adequately to achieve national transformation and reconstruction of the third world nations is due to poor record...