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The term marriagecreated by Nigerians themselves, refers to Nigerian student marriages overseas. Data for this paper were collected in 1974 via in-depth interviews of 30 Nigerian student couples, several single students as well as reports and documents from Nigerian newspapers. This paper reports on changing values and attitudes toward marriage and family overseas and patterns of creative innovations and improvisations of these student couples in the face of cultural conflict and...

Being at Home collects thirteen new scholarly essays that examine the institutional culture of South African universities and outline how it needs to change. This book will inevitably be read against the backdrop of 2015's protests over decolonisation and fees, but it was published last February and the essays were written the year before that. So the collection bears witness to the fact that many of the issues raised by student protesters had been causing anguish - and receiving serious...

ABSTRACT Objectives: The primary objective was to determine awareness, attitude, and practice of undergraduate nursing students towards prevention and treatment of cervical cancer. The Secondary objective was to ensure their participation in raising awareness, screening, management of precancel conditions, and invasive cervical cancer, as well as palliative care.Materials, Methods: A descriptive - cross sectional study was carried out in the nursing colleges at Khartoum state universities....

ZEP : Zeitschrift fur internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspadagogik 39 (2016) 3, S. 22-27 Padagogische Teildisziplin: Behindertenpadagogik; Bildungsorganisation, Bildungsplanung und Bildungsrecht; als elektronischer Volltext verfugbar

THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF POVERTY, DISABILITY, AND GENDER AS A FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICA MEGAN HUMPHREY Impoverished women who have disabilities make up some of the most isolated and overlooked people in the world. Often, they are excluded from women’s movements due to their disability, disability movements due to their gender, and One-Third World contexts due to their poverty. Gender, socioeconomic status, and disability...

Drought is one of the most complex naturally occurring disasters that results in serious human life, environmental, social and economic costs around the world. In order to monitor agricultural drought risk, GIS and remote sensing have a significant role. This research was conducted in East Shewa Zone of Oromia Region of Ethiopia with the objective of mapping agricultural drought risk using GIS and remote sensing. Ten years decadal SPOT NDVI datasets were downloaded from VITO website. In...

The everyday health information literacy (EHIL) of students with different cultural backgrounds is compared. The data were collected with a self-assessment based EHIL screening tool from Namibian university students (n = 271) and Finnish upper secondary school students (n = 217). The tool corresponds to the definition of health information literacy (HIL) by the Medical Library Association. The groups were compared with cross-tabulations with Fisher’s exact tests and the group means of an...

A follow-up study was performed evaluating oral hygiene education and daily tooth brushing combined with radical dental treatment in children between 6-14 years of age at two schools (Gad M’brama, ...

The interactions between climate and non-climate factors are of vital importance in shaping human vulnerability to global warming. In this chapter, this is illustrated for an important health risk induced by climate change, namely highland malaria in Africa. Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, the anticipated future impacts on disease risk are still surrounded by uncertainty, partly due to the fact that the relationship between vector-borne...

Samples collected from different runoffs; AR, GMR, TR, ASR, and DR for aluminum roof, galvanized metal roof, thatch roof, asbestos roof and ambient rainfall respectively were analyzed for pH, conductivity, turbidity, TDS, TSS, NO 3 - , PO 4 3- , Cd, Cu, Fe, Zn and Pb. The result indicates that the mean concentration of the parameters analyzed ranged from 5.8± 0.39 –7.10±0.70, 22.25±11.70-79.99± 3.40μScm -1 , 1.47±0.43 - 46.53±1.60mg/l, 11.90±0.93 - 59.83±1.62NTU,15.53±0.70 - 204.53±5.08mg/l,...

As the world braces up for the continuous threats of Climate change related floods, a review of the possible influence of the global challenges of Climate change related floods on  the  composition, diversity and abundance of Ornamental fish fauna of the Upper New Calabar River , a tributary of the Niger Delta Basin (Ibim and Gogo, 2013) was undertaken. This work was aimed at creating urgent awareness towards the status of the Ornamental fish stocks of the New Calabar River, the possible...

This study examines the impact of relationship marketing on customer satisfaction, using undergraduate students in a private university, Oyo State Nigeria as a case study. The objectives are: to determine the impact of relationship marketing on customer satisfaction, to examine the rate at which trust affect customer satisfaction, and to investigate the effect of competence and long term relationship on customer satisfaction. Primary and secondary sources were used. The use of questionnaire...

The 2015-2030 strategic vision innovates the Moroccan educational system. Unlike previous reforms, this vision addresses problems that have long been ignored. Among these problems is the quality of education. Although educational quality may have been included in previous reform programs, it is considered as one of the priorities in this new vision. The purpose of this Policy Brief is to assess the status of learning achievement, which is an integral part of educational quality, of students...

The study evaluated the commercial vehicle drivers' perception of the effectiveness of Federal Road Safety Commission road safety education programme on their driving experience, age and behaviour toward safety signs on the roads and highways. It also investigated the influence of drivers' educational background, duration of learning road safety, behaviour and knowledge on their attitude to road safety education programme. These were with the view to improving the quality of road safety...

The role of leaders toward the development of entrepreneurship has been fully acknowledged.However, Leaders' characteristics such as strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial selfefficacy were mainly examined in the private sector.Hence, it is imperative to extend empirical studies to public sector organizations.The present study, therefore, proposed and validated a model linking leaders' strategic improvisation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy to corporate entrepreneurship in Nigerian...

Background Several studies have suggested that cortisol level influences the development and functioning of the brain in children and that it is implicated in a variety of processes including memory and attention. Objective This study was conducted to investigate the relation between cortisol level in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their cognitive function profile. Methods The participants of the study, held in Suez Canal University Hospital in Ismailia,...