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Lack of proficiency in using languages (except sign languages) among people with hearing impairment poses difficulties for them to comprehend health-related information and thus, having low health literacy. To bridge this gap, health care providers adopt various communication practices to reach people with hearing impairment (HI), some of which prove success while others prove failure. Consequently, reflection on health literacy communications becomes paramount for the sustainability of...

In a context of global climate change, the study of regional climate and its evolution appears essential to understand the threats to regional biodiversity. Any climatic study is based on data collection, to carry out this work we studied the climatic parameters (precipitation and temperature) of the station of Sidi Slimane, we studied the climatological data coming from the national meteorological direction of Casablanca. The climatological characterization of the Sidi Slimane region during...

In this manuscript, we pursue the automatic detection of fake news reporting on the Syrian war using machine learning and meta-learning. Our model is based on a suite of features that include a given article's linguistic style, its level of subjectivity, sensationalism and sectarianism, the strength of its attribution, as well as its consistency with other news articles from the same ``media camp'' and reporting on the same single large-scale event detected from a timeline of the Syrian war....

This study investigated Pre-Service Teachers' mastery level, achievements differences, and correlation of their procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge of rational numbers.The population of the study was four hundred and twenty-nine (429) level 100 Pre-Service Teachers of Evangelical Presbyterian College of Education, Bimbilla.Descriptive research design was used, where both convenient and purposive sampling techniques were employed to select a sample of 75.Out of the sample, 11 were...

Aim/Purpose: To utilize Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984, 1986) concepts of capitals, habitus, and field to explore and critically analyze doctoral students’ learning experiences with a new doctoral curriculum introduced by a Ghanaian university. Background: Global competition and labor market reforms have ignited the need for higher education institutions to reimagine their doctoral programs, develop and align them with labor market demands and national priorities. Methodology: The research was...

Background: Anemia is a global public health problem affecting the majority of the population of the world in both developed and developing countries with major consequences on human health as well as social and economic development.It is the world's second leading cause of disability of the whole global disease burden.It affects 1.62 billion (24.8%) of the population, among them, it is affecting 305 million (25.4%) school-age children (SAC).Objectives: The main objective of this study was...

The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and several studies suggest that climate change is expected to increase food insecurity and poverty in many parts of the world. In this paper, we adopt a microeconometric approach to empirically estimate the impact of climate change-induced hikes in cereal prices on household welfare in Swaziland (also Kingdom of Eswatini). We do so first by econometrically estimating expenditure and price elasticities of five food...

COVID 19 pandemic has strategically overwhelmed all the global sectors of human endeavours since its first appearance in December 2019. The Virus shattered and paralysed all socioeconomic activities for several months. One of the areas that is seriously affected globally is the education sector. Nigeria is most affected just like other world countries economically and socio-culturally. The Nigerian Policy on Education has been widely criticised for its failure to make adequate provisions for...

Malnutrition among under-5 children has been linked to inadequate complementary feeding practices.Children living without permanent parents have also been proven to have a higher risk of malnutrition, which puts their growth and development in danger.In this study, an impact evaluation of nutrition education was carried out on the knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among caregivers in orphanages.This quasi-experimental study was conducted in selected orphanage homes located...

Mauritius bears the hallmarks of being complementarily a country of eastern and western worldviews, ethnically, linguistically, and religiously borrowing traditions from its diverse heritages. It is a country of both Asian and African cultural, political, historical, and institutional connections. Developments in its educational landscape have thus been shaped by and resonate with historical and current experiences within the Southeast Asian region. Drawing on available (2018) official...

With the popularization of digital tools in Black Africa, the observation of the problematic use of Facebook raises questions about the emergence of new forms of behavioral addiction in a socio-cultural space that seemed to be spared from it until now. In conducting this descriptive cross-sectional study of 1000 black students at the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, our objective was to investigate behavioral addiction to Facebook among black African users of this digital social...

Liberia has a severe shortage in the health workforce, which is amplified in rural areas. Many talented Liberians leave the country for post-graduate education; those physicians who do stay are concentrated in Monrovia.We initiated a family medicine specialty training program (FMSTP) to increase the number of well-trained physicians who have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to meet the health needs of the Liberian people.The Liberian College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) family...

The language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in schools, and more specifically, the language used in the teaching of mathematics, is the focus of academic and public debate because language is political. Constrained by the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement’s (CAPS) interpretation of the Language in Education Policy (LiEP), the South African school system can be seen as a system of multiple monolingualism rather than a truly multilingual system. It can be argued that this is the...

This chapter draws from an ethnographic study of Syrian displaced young adults living in México, who are commencing their university studies. Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, many of these young adults spent several years in refugee camps or in cities under siege before arriving in México through special arrangements made by a non-governmental organization (NGO). Using an ethnographic and discourse analytic approach (Rymes B, Classroom discourse analysis: a tool for...