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This study aimed to provide insight into the competencies required for students to participate actively and thrive in artificial intelligence education in the K-12 context taking cognizance of ethical concerns. The problem is that AI education is new, and we have not understood the competencies required by students to understand AI effectively. Since research in this area is limited and lacking in African settings, this study focused on Nigerian K-12 students to understand the factors that...

The teaching of machine learning is now considered essential and relevant in schools globally. Despite the ongoing discourse and increased research in the emerging field, teachers' conceptions of machine learning remain under-researched. This study aims at filling the gap by describing the initial conceptions of teaching machine learning by 12 African in-service teachers. We detailed the result of a phenomenographic analysis of teachers' pre-conceptions on teaching machine learning in K-12...

Caring for children with acute illness is a challenge in limited-resource settings, especially when diagnostic imaging is limited or unavailable. We developed a training program in cardiac and lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for pediatric patients in eastern Uganda. Fourteen trainees including physicians, resident physicians and midlevels received training in cardiac and lung POCUS. Training included formal lectures, hands-on skills practice and individualized teaching sessions....

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) at institutions of higher learning are at high risk of HIV, and conventional HIV testing services may not reach them sufficiently. HIV self-testing (HIVST) scalability can be informed by identifying AGYW who have used or are interested in using HIVST. We aimed to determine factors associated with use and willingness to use HIVST among female university students.An online cross-sectional survey was conducted among 483 female students at Makerere...

Hydrological drought, a regular phenomenon that could heavily impact natural systems and human life, is aggravated by a water storage deficit. While Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite databased drought monitoring has been widely studied in East Africa (EA), drought recovery time and anthropogenic factors are still missing, which are prerequisite for drought management. Here, a water storage deficit index (WSDI) and modified WSDI are utilized for analyzing a holistic...

Reports indicate that health science students are among the frontline of self-medication practitioners. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the self-medication (SM) practice and associated factors with knowledge and attitude of undergraduate health science students at GAMBY Medical and Business College, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.An institutional-based cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire from May to July, 2022. A stratified random...

Climate change is a complex and wicked problem, which needs to be addressed through relevant climate change education. However, the preconditions for combatting climate change differ in different parts of the world, depending on physical, cultural and social circumstances. The diversity of circumstances also influences the implementation of climate change in education. Therefore, in this article we have chosen to examine climate change education (CCE) based on an interview study in two...

ABSTRACT With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), several African governments are making education free as part of their strategies to achieve universal primary education. In 2006, the Benin government adopted a Free Primary Education (FPE) policy, abolishing parent-paid tuition fees and increasing resources towards schools. In this article, the author examines whether or not this policy reduced the wealth and gender gap and...

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is key to transforming food systems to deliver food security, while responding to climate change and reducing other environmental impacts. Food production and postharvest systems differ with location, reflecting the diversity of agroecological and socio-economic environments and the drivers influencing them. The interactions between drivers and environments, practices and products influence food systems and their greenhouse gas emissions and other related...

Clinical internship is a focused and supervised practice where nursing students have opportunities to master clinical skills and better adapt to the real working environment, promoting the formation of professional practice quality. However, for African postgraduate nursing students who had an internship in China, the factors affecting their adaptation to the internship have not yet been sufficiently explored.To explore the facilitators and barriers of African postgraduate nursing students'...

The resilience of African rural livelihoods is at risk due to over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture, which increasingly suffers from climate variability. Extractive communities are exposed to changes from extractivism and climate conditions. The double exposure framework is employed to contextualise factors influencing households’ perspectives on the overlapping impacts of these change processes on livelihoods. The results affirm a general awareness that both climate variability and...

Recently, floods and drought have become common natural hydroclimatic hazards in several countries. Consequently, the identification of an appropriate drought index is now a challenging task for researchers. It is obvious that there is not a single best drought index; rather a comparison of indices will give a relative option. The objective of this study was to compare two hydrological drought indices; the modified surface water supply index (M1SWSI) and streamflow drought index (SDI) over...

No doubt that the aggressive (violent) behaviour For a student as a teenager has become a reality that exists in most of our educational institutions. And this is very interesting for all those who work in the field of education. In particular, and society in general, departments of educational institutions take a long time and have a negative impact on the educational process. The school departs from the task entrusted to it by society to transform its objectives in accordance with an...

The rising number of HPV infections is of global concern. Hence, this study helps to assess awareness, attitude, and perception regarding the HPV vaccine among young people of various fields and both genders as they are equally susceptible to the infection. These are essential to prevent complications like cervical cancer. A cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out, involving online questionnaires in English, French and Kreol Morisien languages distributed on various student...

Lefo and Santa-Mbu calderas are located on the Bamenda Mountains. They are two geological structures that accompanied the construction of the Bamenda Mountains. The geological processes that accompanied their collapse gave them a significant number of geological features. These elements, known as geodiversity components, constitute real assets for ecosystem services in these more or less populated volcanic environments. The present work aims to highlight the ecosystem services of these two...

Measured climate data are often scarce and expensive to collect through a network of measurement points. There are various reanalysis products that can be used in certain regions in studies concerned with drought monitoring. This study aimed at assessment of the adequacy of using the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (NCEP-CFSR) rainfall data and the ERA5 rainfall data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in...

Vulnerable people do not always absorb the occurring shocks instead they react to disasters employing multiple strategies. This study mainly aims to explore households' vulnerability management practices and their linkages with sustainable livelihood security in the drought-prone Gamo lowland setup. Through the multistage sampling technique, a total of 285 respondents were selected from the four sample kebeles. Primary data were collected using a survey questionnaire, key informant...

It is often taken as given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empirical data from Malawi, we investigate the extent to which CBDRR in practice really takes into account LK. This research argues that LK is underutilised in CBDRR and finds that current practice provides a limited opportunity for the inclusion of LK, due to...

Syrian citizens who took refuge in our country after years of civil war have social, cultural, and economic problems. The most problematic segments are children. Children also lack the use of their fundamental rights in addition to these compliance problems. The aim of the present study was to conduct research on the Syrian refugee students' perceptions of children's rights. In the study, explanatory sequential design was preferred among mixed method designs. The scale was applied to 178...

Reviewed by: Crafting Lutheran Pastors in Tanzania. Perceptions of Theological Education and Formation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania by Johannes Habib Feiler James B. Vigen Crafting Lutheran Pastors in Tanzania. Perceptions of Theological Education and Formation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. By Johannes Habib Feiler. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2018. 222 pp. Instead of standing on the shoulders of those who have preceded them, Christians sometimes ignore...