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The study of economic growth across countries has been of utmost interest to economists explaining the various factors that contribute to the growth and development of countries. Thus, in recent times “human resources have been recognized to constitute the ultimate basis for the wealth of nations. In other words, while capital and natural resources are passive factors of production, human being are the active agents who accumulate capital, exploit natural resources, build social, economic...

This is a multi-phased study that addresses the issue of tertiary institution based programme for awareness creation in order to integrate HIV/AIDS issues and concerns into social relationships. The purpose of the study was to develop simple communication tool combinations and ascertain through sensitization the potency of the tools to increase HIV/AIDS pandemic awareness among students in Nigerian tertiary institutions of learning. Ten tools were administered and later categorized for same...

The broad objective of the study was to determine various mechanisms applied in resolving conflicts within public secondary schools in Nairobi province. This study used descriptive and exploratory research design. A sample comprising of principals, representatives of Boards of Governors (BoG's), class teachers, students and education officers was used to investigate the understanding, perceptions and impacts of conflict resolution mechanisms in their respective schools. The research...

Secondary school education is very critical in any education system because of the crucial role, it plays in catalyzing national development. Consequently, maintaining a high student enrolment at this level should be a priority for all countries. The Constituency Bursary Fund (CBF) was established by the government of Kenya through an act of parliament in 2003 to ensure that the needy students have access to secondary education. This fund provides for the involvement of community members in...

In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women’s and men’s experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local to global economic transformations, family,...

We established a medical education website to deliver real-time, clinical case-based education to sites in Somaliland from the UK. The website was based on a web 2.0 social networking concept in order to recreate, as nearly as possible, the clinical bedside teaching experience. A survey showed that medical students in Somaliland had sufficient computer access to exploit the website. Teaching began in December 2008 and the teaching programme has developed into a regular weekly teaching...

Hypertension, and the effect of graded exercise on Blood pressure (BP), in 60 obese nonathletic young medical students (40 females and 20 males) with Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30 were studied.The subjects were in the age range of 18-22 years with mean age of 20.301.32 years.Twenty percent of the males and 7 percent of the females were found to be hypertensives (P<0.05) and the severity of the hypertension significantly (P< 0.05) increased linearly with increase in BMI (r =0.6).Our...

Cloth dyeing has been confirmed to be a major cause of pollution because the dyes used contain some substances which are injurious to humans and their environment.This paper examined cloth dyeing activities in some selected art institutions in Nigeria.The study made use of 50 systematically selected students from the three levels of tertiary institutions in Nigeria.All the institutions surveyed lack adequate studio spaces, ventilation, personal protective equipment, and dye waste drainage...

Background-In many patients presenting with an acute surgical abdomen, the outcome of management is determined by the promptness of the appropriate surgical intervention.The average interval the patient has to spent waiting for treatment at first presentation to hospital with an acute abdominal emergency is unknown in our center.This study was designed to evaluate the waiting time between hospital presentation and operation,to highlight causes of the delay and outcome of treatment among...

In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, achieving extensive thematic as well as geographical coverage. This benchmark volume presents women’s and men’s experiences of gendered poverty with respect to a vast spectrum of intersecting issues including local to global economic transformations, family,...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the short-term background to the fifty-year long conflict between Northern and Sudan. It scrutinizes specific political, educational and ideological processes unfolding in the last decade of Condominium rule (1946-1956), highlighting the interconnectedness of British colonial disengagement, Sudanization trends, and politics of linguistic homogenization. On the one hand, I shall analyze representations of Sudan in several history textbooks produced in...

This brief case study provides a pithy introduction to Uganda and outlines key factors that affect the implementation of distance education in the nation: poor infrastructure, the high cost of an education, an outdated curriculum, inadequate expertise in distance education, and poor attitudes towards distance learning. These factors are also evident in other African countries.

Radioisotopes are used in diagnosing primary and metastatic bone tumours because of the high sensitivity. Diagnosing bone tumours using technetium methylene diphosphonate (Tc-99m MDP) on 9 randomly selected whole-body bone scans have been demonstrated by clinical studies of patients for illustrative review. Upon sati-sfactory testing of the e.cam® Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography at the Nuclear Medicine Depart-ment (Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital), scans of patients provided essential...

The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber's and Durkheim's approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religions—in Bellah's (1964, forthcoming) or Eisenstadt's (1986) terms (going back to Karl Jaspers 1953),...

to break her hymen using a candle, but the object could not be removed. The woman consulted a gynecologist the next day complaining of acute onset of urinary retention and intense pelvic pain; no lacerations or defects of the vaginal wall were found on examination. However, pelvic ultrasound showed the foreign body, which was thought to be in the bladder. Thepatientwas referred to theurologic emergencydepartment where urine was drained by suprapubic catheter. Cystoscopy under general...