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A research thesis submitted to the school of humanities and social sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of master of arts of Kenyatta University. October, 2016

Abstract This study aimed to assess cognitive function and associated factors among school age children in Goba Town, South-Eastern Ethiopia. School based cross-sectional study was employed on 131 school children age 8–11 years. Cognitive function was assessed by Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC-II) and Ravens colored progressive matrices (Raven’s CPM) test. Descriptive statistics, independent t test, one way ANOVA and logistic regression were used in statistical analysis. The...

Adolescent pregnancy among the students has become a growing concern for the communities and a life orientation was instituted by the Department of Education as a preventive measure. The aim of the study was to explore the relation between life orientation and adolescent pregnancies in the selected secondary schools in the Blue Crane Route Municipality. Qualitative data was obtained through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions conducted with the students, social workers and...

Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is associated with poor maternal and foetal outcomes. There is little information on UTI in pregnancy in South Africa. Objectives: To evaluate the frequency of UTI admissions of pregnant women admitted to a public health facility; and, to describe the outcomes of pregnancies complicated by UTI in our study population. Methods: A retrospective chart review of pregnant women admitted with the diagnosis of UTI during the period of 1 January 2012 to 31...

This paper, through a systematic review of literature debates the underpinnings of xenophobia and xenophobic attitudes in institutions of Higher learning. Findings reveal the following underpinning...

Given the challenges facing African agriculture resulting from climate-induced stresses, building resilience is a priority. Seed systems are important for enhancing such resilience as seed security has direct links to food security, and resilient livelihoods in general. Using data from a case study in West Nile region in Uganda, we studied practices in farmer seed systems and decisions, particularly in response to climate-induced stress. Results helped to generate recommendations for...

Trace elements (TEs) uptake from water and sediments to 10 aquatic macrophytes in the Ethiopia Rift Valley lakes Koka, Ziway and Awassa was investigated to evaluate pollution of these lakes. Concentrations of Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Cd, Pb and Mn have been determined in leaves of macrophytes, water and sediment, using ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry). Principal component analysis showed an existing variation in TEs concentration in leaves of aquatic macrophytes. High...

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA

South Africa has recently seen escalating student protests at universities, involving calls for the thorough ?decolonization? of university curricula and the related dismantling of ?white privilege.? Yet, what has emerged on the ground is that these protests ? increasingly characterized by intimidation, violence, and the destruction of university property ? represent the concerns of a relatively small segment of the student body. Furthermore, while the student protesters employ many of the...

With the underlying hypothesis that the quality of a teachers’ training is directly proportional to the quality of education pupils eventually receive, this essay explores and critiques the basic education teacher training process in Cameroon, using two notable educational theories to assess the possibility of quality education resulting from Cameroonian government-trained basic education teachers. It was found that there is dire need to improve the quality of teachers we train to ensure...

We explored the risk factors for glaucoma blindness among adults aged 40 years and above with primary glaucoma in Nigeria.A total of 13,591 participants aged 40 years and above were examined in the Nigeria Blindness Survey; 682 (5.02%; 95 CI, 4.60%-5.47%) had glaucoma by ISGEO's criteria. This was a case-control study (n=890 eyes of 629 persons): glaucoma blind persons were cases and glaucoma not-blind were controls. Education and occupation were used to determine socioeconomic status...

Accurate stock price forecasting is important for investors and traders to make informed trading decision. However, prices have a complex behavior due to their nonlinearity and nonstationarity. In this paper three Machine learning techniques are implemented to predict a very short term (10 minutes ahead) variations of the Moroccan stock market: Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosted Trees (GBT) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). A selection of technical indicators was used as inputs variables...

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) causes premature death and illness in non-smokers. We examined SHS exposure at home and in public places, as well as susceptibility to initiate cigarette smoking among never cigarette smokers. We used 2006–2011 Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data from 29 African countries (56,967 students). GYTS is a nationally representative, self-administered school-based survey, conducted among students aged 13–15 years. Prevalence ratio, estimates and 95% confidence...

ABSTRACTABSTRACTAccording to psychological developmental theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is a critical psychosocial development task for young adults. They are also socialised to believe that such a relationship is the ultimate pathway to love and psychological intimacy and they may therefore experience general and romantic loneliness in its absence. However, people in romantic relationships can also experience romantic loneliness, while single people may be...

Disparities between boys and girls in academic performances, especially reading and mathematics achievement, have been a concern among educators for several decades (Guiso, Monte, Sapeinza & Zingales, 2008; Center on Education Policy, 2010). However, the number of mathematics and science learning subjects taken by female high school learners has increased and now the mean and standard deviation in performance on mathematics test scores are only slightly larger for males than for females...

Kelley M. Duke Bryant’s primary purpose in Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914 is to document the specific grassroots-level political responses of Africans to the imposition of Western-style schooling by the French colonial state in a part of West Africa that France gradually came to colonize, present-day Senegal. As her work ably demonstrates, the responses of the different African constituencies (teachers at Quranic schools, chiefs,...

This paper introduces the background of South Africa from two aspects of health care, medical education, and analyzes the characteristics of continuing medical education in South Africa: The legislative guarantee for continuing medical education; Special continuing medical education organization; Continuing medical education to carry out the credit system; The types of continuing education activities of grading; The continuing medical education activities and the organizer; The Medical...