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The success of an educational innovation depends on the extent to which players embrace and implement it in the classroom.The study adopted the Concerns Based Adoption Model to assess the stages of concerns of pre-tertiary school teachers in the New Juaben North Municipality on the standards-based curriculum's adoption in Ghana.Framed in the transformative philosophical paradigm, the study draws on survey design with quantitative approaches.The stages of concerns questionnaire of the CBAM...

Alcohol use is considerably rampant among teachers and has impacted negatively on teaching and learning especially in public schools where productivity of teachers is extremely low, giving rise to a worrying trend. This study sought to establish demographic correlates of alcohol use among male teachers in Muranga County in Kenya. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The target population was 2642 male teachers employed by the Teacher Service Commission in secondary schools with...

Urban settings many a time seem to disadvantage the indigenous and vulnerable people. Owerri is not left out in this problem. Owerri ‘Nchi-Ise’ is an ancient historic community that served as old Owerri provincial colonial headquarters and in 1976 became the Imo State Capital. With the indigenous people, it has historically heritage buildings, features, and sites, some of which have been decimated and defaced. These are ‘Ugwuekwema’ ancestral site, ‘Otamiri’ and ‘Nworie’ rivers, community...

Effects of Pictorial Integrated Technology and Cooperative Learning Strategies on Pupils’ Academic Performance in Social Studies in Katsina State, Nigeria. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of Pictorial integrated technology and cooperative learning strategies on pupil’s academic performance in Social Studies. Methods: Five hypotheses were raised for the study. The study adopted pretest and posttest quasi experimental design with one hundred and twenty...

Although School Bus Transportation Services (SBTS) enhance safe and supervised travel that impacts educational outcomes, there is a growing service decline in some private schools in Ghana. Given the dearth of research on SBTS satisfaction in Africa's private schools, policymakers and education administrators are unable to find managerial solutions. This study investigates the determinants of school bus service satisfaction in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana, using a survey of 403...

Morocco is located in the “SEISMIC BELT”; the most seismically active region where the majority of the world’s earthquakes occur. More precisely, the region is known as the Ibero-Maghreb Mediterranean Region, which includes high-risk locations due to seismic instability. It should be mentioned that the National Institute of Geophysics’ seismic monitoring stations record hundreds of earthquakes of varying magnitudes each year. The objective of this article is to examine the effects of...

The research aims to improve some of the physical and hydro-physical properties of some Vertisols in the southern region (part of the eastern Houran Plateau) in Sweda Governorate at the south of Syria. Using different quantities of volcanic ash, soil samples were collected from the Al-Thahallah village from a depth of (0-30) cm, The experiment was designed according to the complete random design with one factor that represents the ash quantity (1.25, 2.5, 5) %, with three replicates for each...

This study examined the socio-economic determinants of arable crop farmers’ adaptation to climate change in Edo State, Nigeria. Primary data for the study were collected using structured questionnaire administered to 192 respondents randomly sampled from the study area. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics, multiple regression and information from Likerttype scale. Results of the study showed that the climate change adaptation practices highly employed by the farmers include...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019, otherwise known as COVID-19, emerged in December of 2019. COVID-19 spreads through an airborne transmission route. Preventive measures were described to help decrease the spread of COVID-19 worldwide. There were a number of preventive measures that were globally adopted: social distance of at least 1 meter, mask wearing, washing hands for 20 seconds, and covering the mouth and nose if the person sneezes or coughs. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional...

Background: Otitis media (OM) is a group of inflammatory diseases of the middle ear.OM is a prevailing problem among children in Hargeisa.The antibiotic susceptibility of etiologic bacteria is not investigated in Somaliland which hinders the effective treatment of OM cases in children.Objective: This study aimed at determining the etiologic bacteria and its antibiotic susceptibilities in children presenting with OM to a pediatric referral hospital in Hargeisa for the period March 2013-May...

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria, followed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake, caused over 50 000 deaths and over 100 000 injuries. The immediate physical injuries were severe, but the health repercussions, including the strain on healthcare services and the possibility of disease outbreaks, were equally concerning. Infections due to multidrug resistant microbes were also a matter of concern. Earthquake has caused not only loss of property and physical damage but also has a great...

Wetlands constitute a natural buffer for rainwater buffers and the places where most urbanization occurs. In Tunisia, these ecosystems suffer from malfunction and significant degradation. This is the case of the “Sebkha of Sousse” which represents the green lung of the industrial area of “Sidi Abd Elhamid” located in the center of Tunisia. This study seeks to analyze the impact of climate change and human activities on the seasonal and pluriannual behavior of this Sebkha by using...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is in the grip of an education lethargy. Academic freedom and excellent delivery have never been more challenging than witnessed during the pandemic. The low budget and inadequate infrastructural development, especially for the education sector, particularly higher education (HE), become more obvious with devastating effects on all the stakeholders. This chapter will examine extant literature on the extent of the digital divide that became more...

This research aims to strengthen the resilience of populations living along the Agoua and Toui-Kilibo protected forests. Its main aim is to analyze the adaptation measures used by the riparian populations and propose actions to strengthen their resilience. Data were collected from semi-structured individual interviews with each head of household or his/her sponsor in his/her household or field or plantation within and/or around the CF. Focus group interviews with key informants (between 05...

This study aims to address the void left by earlier researchers by establishing how full-time doctoral students’ views can be employed to improve doctoral studies. By employing habitus, field, social and cultural capital, and agency as a theoretical framework for this article, open-ended questions in a qualitative study were designed and executed purposively among sampled doctoral candidates at two faculties of education in South African universities. This approach was hinged on the thought...

This study examined management variables as factors for grassroots sports development among public secondary schools students in Oyo Federal Constituency, Oyo state, Nigeria. Multistage(Purposive, stratified, quota, proportional and simple random) sampling techniques were used in selecting 1600 participants from public secondary schools in Oyo Federal Constituency of Oyo state. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study while a validated self developed questionnaire...