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The African-American Alzheimer’s Caregiver Training and Support Project 2 (ACTS 2) is a faith-integrated, skills-training and support program for distressed African American family caregivers of persons living with dementia across Florida. Caregivers participate in a 12-week, telephone-based, skills-building and support program led by faith community workers (i.e., lay pastoral care facilitators) who provide volunteer services to their denominations. In this case study, we examined...

In Benin, to support the promotion of sexual health education, the government has made the improvement of sexual and gender health conditions in schools one of its priorities. The introduction of technological tools, Internet access (ADSL/Wifi) and the growing importance of the use of digital social networks by many school children in Benin constitute a challenge for the entire educational community. In order to respond to the lack of digital educational materials to improve knowledge and...

Background: Pharmacy education in Africa continually faces challenges that influence students learning experiences making pharmacy students overwhelmed and anxious about life both in school and after school. Objectives: To explore recent pharmacy graduates’ experiences and expectations from university about the workplace. Methods: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted via a Google survey form that contained open ended questions. Recent Bachelor of Pharmacy...

Globally, climate change partly stems from anthropogenic activities during the pursuit of a livelihood, disrupting the natural ecosystem. Thus, threats posed by climate change have attracted empirical searchlights. Although consensus exists on the physical impacts of climate change and necessity for mitigation, there is a dearth of knowledge regarding indigenous strategies of mitigation. This chapter contributes to existing scholarly literature by analytically exploring how indigenous...

The present work analyzed the contribution of Cameroon's public contracts and territorial planning policies toward the reduction of classroom disparities across the country.Many localities in Cameroon suffer due to misallocation of classrooms on one hand and inefficient public contracting-execution system on the other hand.This paper uses a hypothetico-deductive method to understand the nexus of public contracting-territorial planning within the educational sector in Cameroon.To do this we...

Parental involvement is increasingly becoming an integral part of children's education globally. This article presents parents’ beliefs and strategies to contextualize relevant discourse in social and emotional learning (SEL) in Malawi. I interviewed 21 parents of primary school-aged children discussing (a) issues affecting children socially and emotionally, (b) parents’ role in supporting SEL, and (c) strategies used in the process. This revealed various parental knowledge and strategies of...

Institutions wishing to introduce e-learning into their educational system need to consider the necessary resources and evaluate the levels of technological literacy of their teaching staff. The teachers’ preparation in the field of digital skills is essential to help students to profit their learning period. This requires previous training to allow teachers to achieve an appropriate level in terms of digital competence. This need is especially emphasized in a developing country like Kenya,...

Participation in school management, which ensures the cultural relevance of the teaching and learning process, promotes a wider acceptance of the educational process. Community involvement in school activities has been shown to increase accountability for both learning outcomes and school resources. Additionally, community involvement encourages the willing provision of local resources (human, material, and financial) for educational purposes. This study aimed at investigating the...

For centuries, indigenous knowledge systems have ensured local sustainable development and access to food for rural communities. The introduction of privatised seeds designed by multinational corporations within capitalist political economies and introduced into African agricultural systems, has disregarded indigenous farming systems potentially leading to food insecurity. Traditionally, a portion of seeds were preserved and harvested for the subsequent year, and the cycle repeated. In...

Background: Nurses are important frontline health workers that promote and support optimum breastfeeding.They are, therefore, expected to have basic breastfeeding knowledge and favaourable attitude for better clinical experience as students and intention to breastfeed as potential parents.This study aimed to assess the breastfeeding knowledge, attitude, and intention of nursing students in Nigeria.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 142 nursing students.A validated tool...

This article reports on the findings of a research study of three Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Lesotho on the communication strategies they use to engage with internal and external stakeholders to implement their institutional strategies. A mixed-method research approach was followed, and a sample of three HEIs and their internal and external stakeholders was identified through a multidimensional sampling strategy. Triangulation included a survey among stakeholders, interviews with...

Time-related cognitive function refers to the capacity of the brain to store, extract, and process specific information. Previous studies demonstrated that the cerebellar cortex participates in advanced cognitive functions, but the role of the cerebellar cortex in cognitive functions is unclear. We established a behavioral model using classical eyeblink conditioning to study the role of the cerebellar cortex in associative learning and memory and the underlying mechanisms. We performed an...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of salary satisfaction on turnover intentions among the teaching staff in public Universities in Kenya.The study employed ex post facto research design to test the statistical relationships between the variables.Simple random sampling was used to select 376 teaching staff members.Data was collected using a structured questionnaire (likert type scale 1-5).Data was analyzed using correlation and simple linear regression analysis.The...

Pediatric stroke is uncommon. A traumatic cause of pediatric ischemic stroke is even rarer. Ischemic stroke due to intraluminal thrombus can be acutely treated with thrombolysis but various factors in sub-Saharan Africa make this unfeasible. We present a case of an eight-year-old Tanzanian boy who sustained penetrating trauma to his palate developing an ischemic stroke of his right middle cerebral artery territory.

This study employed PM10 source parameters and pre-processed topographical and meteorological data as input into the AERMOD atmospheric dispersion model to demarcate pollution-prone areas around the Manyoni Uranium Project. Knowing these areas before mining is an important step toward establishing efficient and effective environmental baseline data. This is because resources for collecting the data will be concentrated in areas with higher contamination potential. In this regard, AERMOD...

This study assesses the level of consideration accessibility during construction and renovation of buildings open to the public in Yaoundé city (the political capital of Cameroon).Despite the collection of textual data, this research required a field observation, on the edifices of departments concerned with this study.The study was carried out by reasoned choice.Two hundred houses have been sampled, that is one hundred and forty-two public constructions and fifty-eight private services open...