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Climate change is an existential threat to all of humanity. Its impact on the children of Somalia provides insights into the severity of risks posed by climate change to current and future generations. Globally, there has been a continuous increase in mean annual temperatures since 1991 and scientists anticipate an increase of up to 4.3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Concomitantly, Somalia has experienced a decrease in annual rainfall, resulting in recurrent droughts. According...

The production and exportation of petroleum plays a dominant role in Nigeria’s economy. A drastic fall in the quantity of crude oil produced is fatal to the Nigerian economy since Nigeria depends heavily on the oil sector. Different classical statistical methods have been used to model the crude oil production but the application of machine learning models on crude oil production has been grossly understudied. In this study, we identified a high-performance model between a classical...

Attrition of teachers from public schools in Ghana is on the ascendency. The study aimed at examining the effect motivation has on teacher retention in public Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Bekwai Municipality of Ghana. The study adopted the explanatory research design using a quantitative approach. The quota and simple random sampling procedures were employed to select 370 respondents. Data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. The results...

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. The article duplicates significant parts of several papers by some of the same authors, particularly one which has already appeared in Land Use Policy, 99, 104858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104858. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for...

Background: Excess weight gain and poor dietary intake pose adverse effects on health and productivity of women of reproductive age.Objective: The study assessed association between nutritional status, dietary diversity and fertility.Methods: Study design was cross sectional, carried out among 210 fertility-impaired women who attended gynaecological clinics of University College Hospital and Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. A semi-structured interviewer administered...

Most of the South African learners are caught-up in the eye of a poor reading storm. The results from Progress in International Reading Literacy Studies (PIRLS) confirm that South African learners lack the ability to read with understanding. To put it differently, it is a challenge for South African learners to extract meaning from text when they read, yet reading to learn is a requisite in their later years of schooling. To shed light on learners’ possible reading challenges, this study...

The experimental survey study focused on: (1) To examine the mean difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the educational management university-teachers exposed to sustainable skills training and those who were not exposed to it in the selected Nigerian Federal universities. (2) To examine the mean difference between the performance scores of educational management teachers exposed to sustainable skills training and those who were not exposed to the training in the selected...

Information about the paper titled "EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SKILLS THERAPY ON DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR MANIFESTATION AMONG UPPER BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS’ IN CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE-NIGERIA" at IATED Digital Library

Information about the paper titled "PROMOTING SELF-EFFICACY AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS OF TERTIARY EDUCATION STUDENTS IN NIGERIA: OPTIMIZING 'STUDENTS INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME' (SIWES)" at IATED Digital Library

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of disability among Syrian refugees living in Sultanbeyli district, Istanbul and compare people with and without disabilities in terms of demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Methods Using the municipality refugee database as the sampling frame, 80 clusters of 50 people (aged 2+ years) were selected using probability proportionate to size sampling of clusters and random selection of households within clusters. Disability assessment included:...

An integrated, competency-based curriculum that fosters social accountability including cultural sensitivity among graduates is an educational strategy towards producing practice-ready professionals. This study aimed to evaluate pharmacy graduates' perceptions of competency, integration, and social accountability in the undergraduate curriculum of Nigerian schools of pharmacy. A cross-sectional online survey consisting of a 42-item questionnaire was administered to 467 purposively selected...

In this article, we pursue the automatic detection of fake news reporting on the Syrian war using machine learning and meta-learning. The proposed approach 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; and its consistency with other news articles from the same "media camp". To train our models, we use FA-KES, a fake news dataset about the Syrian war. A suite of...

In 2004, Mali implemented mass drug administration (MDA) aimed at controlling schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. Despite several rounds of MDA, the health district of Bankass reported low coverage (64.8%) for praziquantel and albendazole in 2017, meaning that this district was still facing challenges in accomplishing the targeted 75% coverage. This study aimed to explore the barriers and gaps that hindered MDA implementation in Bankass.A cross-sectional study was performed....

Abstract Climate‐smart practices that have added benefits of improving agricultural productivity are an imperative for improving smallholder farming. However, there are few insights into how smallholder climate‐smart adaptation practices influence their technical (in)efficiency. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of smallholders’ climate‐smart adaptation practices on their crop production technical efficiency (TE) in the Lemo district of southern Ethiopia. We used...

Background: Choledochal cysts are rare congenital malformations characterized by cystic dilatations of the biliary tree. They are more prevalent in East Asian populations, but uncommon in western countries, and scarcely reported in African nations. They are classically diagnosed in children, and only 20– 30% of cases are diagnosed in adulthood. Giant choledochal cysts are those with sizes exceeding 10cm, and are extremely rare with a few reported in the literature, thus the need for this...

This study investigated the psychosocial effect of motivational incentives on Senior Secondary Schools teachers’ work effectiveness in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The population of this study consisted of 162 school administrators and 74 teachers selected from 58 Government owned Senior Secondary Schools in Adamawa State, from a which a sample of 40 respondents were selected using purposive sampling technique. Motivational Incentives and Teachers’...