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Abstract The study was a descriptive, cross-sectional survey to investigate the factors which influence the self- medication practices of 400 students of Abadina College, Ibadan, a co-educational secondary school. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents about their demographic characteristics, general information about the availability of medication in the home, their recent illness experiences and the decisions taken during the illness. Results...
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Studies in the area of ability at the college level have tended to focus on undergraduate students. The few investigations conducted on graduate students have focused either exclusively or at least primarily on White graduate students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the comprehension performance of African American graduate students. Findings revealed that the African American sample attained statistically significantly higher levels of comprehension than did a normative...
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Abstract Literacy was introduced into Uganda as part of the Christian missionaries' work. Since then, several methods have been used to teach adult literacy in Uganda. At present, two approaches, namely Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) and Regenerated Freirean Literacy Through Empowering Community Technique (REFLECT), are competing for recognition. This has generated a lot of debate between literacy practitioners using the two approaches. Motivated by these debates, a number of studies have...
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The general dissatisfaction with the educational process especially Higher education in Nigeria has given rise to several efforts to find more effective approaches to the education of the young. The influenced expansion in our university system may be an answer to the insatiable demand for university education, but we seem to have taken an action which may infact compound the problem that we are supposed to solve. This paper therefore recommends among others that Nigeria tertiary...
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Six lessons on integrated pest management (IPM) for smallholders are reviewed from recent Project experience in the Blantyre Shire Highlands, southern Malawi. (1) Crop losses from pests were a lower priority for farmers than low soil fertility and high fertiliser prices. (2) Limited pesticide use on staple food crops reduced potential cost-savings from IPM, which must be linked to wider efforts to raise productivity and cash incomes. (3) Pest damage was variable and site-specific. (4) There...
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Aims: To determine if free eye screening can improve clinic attendance, bed occupancy and detect previously unrecognized diseases in tertiary hospitals. Methods: A free eye screening programme was conducted at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital over 5 days. The demographic data of the subjects were obtained, their eyes were examined and the findings recorded. The number of patients attending clinic and bed occupancy at one week, one month and three months after screening were...
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A new genus and species of Nanaloricidae (Loricifera), Phoeniciloricus simplidigitatus, is described inhabiting fine sand covered by a layer of volcanic ash at a water depth of 1,813 m in the New Ireland Basin near the Kilinailau Trench (north of Papua New Guinea). The described specimen is a postlarva enclosed in a larval exuvium. This is the first report of a species belonging to the Nanaloricidae from the deep sea. This occurrence is surprising, because Nanaloricidae are typical...
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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), a vine vegetable crop, was investigated under four training management practice: freely trailing on the soil, trained on a trellis, trained on a platform and trained on a pyramidal structure. Only kraal manure was used to fertilizer the crop in simulation of a common situation that a farmer had access to kraal manure but no money to purchase fertilizers. The objective of the investigation was to evaluate the effects of these training management practices on...
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Adult education encompasses diverse educational programmes to accommodate the diverse interest of the diverse clientele. The need-meeting nature of the programmes demands that adult education enterprise should be viewed from different perspectives. In this paper a framework sketching out programmes and offering agencies of adult education has been presented. The programs include: literacy, continuing education, extension education, women education, family education, business...
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Kenya has a long history of lending to students; but in the 1980s, the program was criticized for its poor administration, high costs, and low recovery rates. The establishment of the Higher Education Loans Board in 1995 ushered in reforms that have broadened the program beyond the public universities to other postsecondary institutions and to some students in Kenya’s growing private sector and improved loan recoveries. This article describes these efforts to improve recoveries and makes a...
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This study was carried out among teachers of 10 secondary schools in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in order to contribute to the development and implementation of a tobacco control programme in the school setting. The study had the following objectives: 1) to determine the extent of teachers’ smoking addiction in the secondary schools in the city of Ouagadougou, 2) to describe the perceptions, attitudes and behaviour of teachers in the secondary school setting when confronted with smoking in...
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This study describes a project that tested the feasibility and effectiveness of replicating the village empowerment program (VEP) developed by the Senegalese NGO, TOSTAN, in Burkina Faso. Although originally developed for empowering women, the program implemented in Burkina Faso also involved men because of their key role in such decisions. Frontiers in Reproductive Health, with funding from USAID and the GTZ Supra Regional Project for the Elimination of FGC, supported the adaptation,...
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This inquiry seeks an understanding of the experiential meanings of primary school children's encounters with ancient Egyptian objects by using a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology. To demonstrate how this methodology is practised, adult experiences of an exhibition of ancient Egyptian sculpture and contemporary art are analyzed and interpreted. A survey of ideas from theoretical and phenomenological literature follows, focusing on the visual, tactile and verbal dimensions of...