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In Nigeria, in spite of the undeniable and impressive changes in educational attainment, large proportions of females continue to marry in adolescence.For example, in the year 2005, about half of all the women aged 15-19 were married by age 18 in the country.Despite this situation, research studies in Nigeria tend to focus disproportionately on the unmarried and on premarital sexual activities.Indeed, married adolescents and young women have received very little attention as a vulnerable...
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In Nigeria, in spite of the undeniable and impressive changes in educational attainment, large proportions of females continue to marry in adolescence.For example, in the year 2005, about half of all the women aged 15-19 were married by age 18 in the country.Despite this situation, research studies in Nigeria tend to focus disproportionately on the unmarried and on premarital sexual activities.Indeed, married adolescents and young women have received very little attention as a vulnerable...
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The value and importance of indigenous knowledge are now being increasingly acknowledged all over the world.For this reason, the aims of this study is not only to identify the medicinal plants used for Therapeutic Turkish Baths by local people of various areas in Turkey, but also to draw attention to the traditional knowledge that is in danger of being lost.In this study, a total of 105 people from twenty-one provinces (N=5) were interviewed.Information was gathered through scientifically...
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In Nigeria, in spite of the undeniable and impressive changes in educational attainment, large proportions of females continue to marry in adolescence.For example, in the year 2005, about half of all the women aged 15-19 were married by age 18 in the country.Despite this situation, research studies in Nigeria tend to focus disproportionately on the unmarried and on premarital sexual activities.Indeed, married adolescents and young women have received very little attention as a vulnerable...
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The Advisory Group on International Agricultural Research (BEAF) at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) within the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) for funding the project ALUCCSA (Adaptation of Landuse to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, project number 07.7860.5-001.00).
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A severe drought in the Horn of Africa delayed the spring arrival in Europe of two migratory species.
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The Advisory Group on International Agricultural Research (BEAF) at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) within the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) for funding the project ALUCCSA (Adaptation of Landuse to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, project number 07.7860.5-001.00).
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The study investigated the effects of self-instructional learning strategy on students‟ achievement in solving Mathematical word problems. The research determined whether self-instructional learning strategy has significant effects on the learning achievement of senior secondary school students. Three research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study utilized the non-randomized control group pre-test post-test experimental design. The sample consisted of 131...
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An extant national expectation in present day Nigeria, is the projection by way of "Vision 20: 2020" that come the year 2020, Nigeria would have so transformed and developed economically that it would rank among the first twenty top economies in the world.Based on the resources of the Country, both human and material, this target would ordinarily be attainable.Unfortunately however, the present developmental indicators in the Country, including, poor infrastructural base, epileptic power...
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Background. This article reports on the introduction of an innovative ‘blended learning’ approach in the Paediatric Dentistry Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa. This intervention was the first of its kind to be introduced at UWC’s dentistry faculty. Methods. Educational resources were placed online to supplement didactic and clinical teaching and thus compensate for the lack of chair-side teaching. An online learning platform was therefore...
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Abstract The body of research aimed at explaining the science teaching and learning of African Americans has identified myriad factors that correlate with African American's science career choices and science performance generally. It has not, however, offered any satisfactory explanations as to why those factors are disproportionately racially determined. This article argues that the sociocultural construction of race, which has roots in antebellum Western society, has endured to the...
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This study investigated the poor performance of students in Chemistry.The widespread poor performance and the negative attitudes towards chemistry of secondary school students have been largely ascribed to teaching problems.A random sample of 109 students from St Pius X College Bodo City was used.The research instrument was a reliable and validated 20 items likert type questionnaire which was administered on 109 secondary school students to obtain responses on the factors that are...