The study investigated the influence of Personality factors on Bullying among secondary school students in South western Nigeria. Participants consisted of 450 secondary school students and 150 teachers selected from 15 secondary schools across 10 Local government areas in south western Nigeria and 150 students 15 secondary schools across 10 local government area in Southwestern Nigeria in the second phase of the study. The study was guided by three research questions. The findings was analysed statisticall

Chemotherapy used as drugs alone or a combination plays a major role in the treatment of cancer. The objectives of the study were to develop, implement and evaluate the outcome of a chemotherapy counselling module among oncology patients by pharmacists based on their nausea and vomiting. Methodology: A randomized, single blind, placebo controlled study design was used in this study. A total of 162 patients were randomly selected and allocated into intervention and control groups using a single blind method. Intervention: Counselling module Managing Patients on Chemotherapy along with repetitive counseling for oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy. Outcome: Effectiveness of counseling module Managing Patients on Chemotherapy Pharmacists during baseline, first follow-up post-intervention, second follow-up and third follow-up. Results: Physical effects showed large effect size for nausea (p = 0.001, partial Ƞ2 = 0.434), and vomiting (p = 0.001, partial Ƞ2 = 0.337). Conclusion: In conclusion, the Managing Patients on Chemotherapy by Pharmacists counselling module has been shown to be effective in improving nausea and vomiting side effects among oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy

The study examines the state of Nigeria forests; it identifies deforestation as a major threat to sustainable forest management. It also highlights the environmental roles of forest as well as the resources found there. It further examines how some of these ecological functions of forest resources can be harnessed and utilized to bring about improved economy. The study examines ecotourism as a means of boosting the economy of the nation and also suggest some conservation strategies like biodiversity protect

The topic of this article is connected with my field work in Indonesia within the context of Medical Anthropology. The aim of this article is to illustrate dialectical connection between concept of “self” and particular medical discourse and its treatment, while it reflects the importance of socio-cultural context which determine both this relation on its own and the form and content of the subjects of this relation. In addition it analyzes changes within one`s self which is influenced by assigned disea

This paper explores the community capital (CC) of participatory maps and discusses their potential to stimulate community engagement, particularly for the conservation of cultural heritage. Surveys were conducted regarding cognitive, landscape and story maps created through the participatory mapping of Bali’s subak landscape by undergraduate student teachers. Based on a content analysis, seven types of CC were found in the story maps (natural capital, built capital, cultural capital, financial capital, hu

Education intertwines with social class and religion to make a complex pattern of human peaceful co-existence. This paper examined the functional role of education in conflict resolution in the Boko Haram- plagued regions in Nigeria. Functional education selects concrete and usable knowledge rather than the theoretical and abstract. Usable economic knowledge will economically engage youths, and thus provide alternative endeavors to terrorism. To carry out this study, structured interview was used to elici

Servant-hood is the splendor of leadership as clearly seen in the case of Ifon Orolu and Ifon Omima both in Osun and Ondo states respectively, it is desirable to look at the examples given by their central authorities in peaceful resolution of conflicts that had lingered for thousands of years and had been settled for over a decade whereby the towns are thriving on politically, economically and socially. In view of this, this work will serve as an eye- opener to leaders that dialogue with peaceful resolutio

Parental Mediation Model was initially formed to regulate children’s attitudes regarding the media usage by strategies including active mediation, rule-making or restrictions, and co-viewing. Application of Parental Mediation Model was initiated with television usage, continued with video games and turned out to be more challenging by the emergence of new media which is more focused on the Internet. In Malaysia however, children spend a considerable portion of their waking time on surfing online material

The rate technological advances since late 20th century has been so high that the world does not look like real. Human Faced with this occurs remains in mystery. Technology services in various sectors has created positive change, But it has created problems for some countries. Social and technical experts have a lot of questions in these countries, “What is technology?”, and “how technology is changing society”. At the same time, a variety of transfer modes and its effects, have many problems partic

Youth as the back born of any national development will play a very paramount role in educational development. The paper will make an evaluation of youth participation in educational development in Nigeria with particular reference to Jigawa State. The main objective of the paper is to develop a strong research in innovation of youth participation in educational structure of the state. However, the paper will make recommended that, youth involvement in educational development in Jigawa state in particular a

Background: Postpartum depression (PND) is considered as a significant health problem and gained special attention due to women’s vulnerability during childbearing years, highly associated with suicide and its negative impacts on women, child, family and society. Despite these concerns, PND has still remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in the clinical practice. Previous studies suggest that sociocultural context of motherhood have a link with PND and that treatment of PND should be culturally appropri

The aim of this paper is to provide an Optimality Theoretic analysis of CV metathesis in one variety of Libyan Arabic. Output forms in which adjacent segments swap places violate the faithfulness constraint LINEARITY. It will, however, be shown that the dialect under scrutiny resorts to metathesis in order to avoid a marked syllable type. The paper will also prove that metathesis is inapplicable to forms in which the stem includes either a long vowel or a geminate consonant.

Data were collected from 385 students of Form 1 and Form 4 from Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor to explore the difference in their social networking sites (SNSs) usage in terms of time spent and login frequency. In particular, this study examined the associations between adolescents usage of SNSs and their face to face interaction with siblings and whether age did moderated this relationships. Hierarchical multiple regressions and simple slope analyses indicated that younger adolescents face to face interaction with siblings decreased the more time they spent on SNSs during school days and non school days. In addition, face to face interaction of younger adolescents with their siblings decreased the more frequent they logged on SNSs on non school days. These results suggested that age did moderated the relationships of adolescents SNSs usage to face to face interaction with siblings.

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn wrote, Successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science. Kuhns idea was itself revolutionary in its time, as it caused a major change in the way that academics talk about science. Thus, it could be argued that it caused or was itself part of a paradigm shift in the history and sociology of science. However, Kuhn would not recognize such a paradigm shift. Being in the social sciences, people can still use earlier ideas to discuss the history of science. Philosophers and historians of science, including Kuhn himself, ultimately accepted a modified version of Kuhns model, which synthesizes his original view with the gradualist model that preceded it. Kuhns original model is now generally seen as too limited. Society has experience change in all its facets, social issues are changing continually, while the people battle to adapt and absorb, there are still more and many more questions left unanswered. Kuhn was able to notice the social change that was going on and gave a pragmatic approach to it. In conclusion paradigm shift is applicable to sociology, on the basis that all aspects of sociology are experiencing a shift from what used to be to what is obtainable.

Online versions of scholarly publications in a database (online databases) have proliferated at a massive rate with the novel technological advancement over the past years. Their impact on academic libraries and scholars is noteworthy as well as unprecedented. However, it is questionable whether both these parties have embraced online databases. Librarians are struggling to renew the subscriptions of these scholarly databases in order to maintain the continuous access to their users while the prices are increasing annually. Hence the librarians are under pressure due to the fact that rate of diffusion is low with electronic databases. At the users end, they have brought into attention online databases potential pleasure and tendency towards content and context together with acquiring essential skills and abilities needed to use them. Under this circumstance, current study is an attempt made to primarily investigate the affect of the predictors, relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, triability and observability proposed by Rogers’s (2003) on university faculty members adoption and diffusion on online databases in order to motivate them to make full use of online resources in their academic careers. A structured questionnaire was electronically distributed among a random sample under the survey strategy to collect data during September October 2014. Results revealed that the faculty members in the USJP were mostly knowledgeable about the online database innovation and approximately 72% of the diffusion variance of online databases explained by relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, triability and observability. Findings also revealed that relative advantage and observability are the key factors for diffusion of this innovation with higher positive correlations. While compatibility and the complexity have negative correlations with individuals adoption rates, triability has a positive correlation. Recommendations were made to improve the infrastructure facilities within faculties and make possible programs to facilitate faculty members adoption and the understanding of online databases.

Seasonal variations of selected physico chemical parameters were investigated for three seasons of the year to determine the drinking water quality of Watari reservoir, Kano state, Nigeria, between the months of November February (cold season) March June (dry season) and July September (rainy season). Five stations were chosen on the reservoir at intersect of the adjourning rivers. Treated water was collected from the treatment plant and potable water from the consumer end. pH, temperature, TDS, conductivity, turbidity, total hardness, suspended solids, DO, BOD, Cl, NO2, NO3, COD and PO43 were analyzed using standard procedures. The mean values of these parameters indicate the effectiveness of the treatment process on turbidity, color, suspended solids and NO3.The high values for nitrates observed may be as a result of the use of nitrous based fertilizer in the localities. There is significant variation (P<0.05) between the values of temperature, suspended solids, conductivity, color, nitrate and phosphates observed for the three seasons. The overall quality of Watari reservoir was found to be within the WHO recommended value for drinking water. However, denitrification and nutrient control need to be ensured to halt the impending threat on the reservoir.

Ground water is the most valuable natural water resource to the people in Bachok for the dependence on this source. This paper discusses to what extent the differences of the ground water quality in the research area with the National Drinking Water Quality standard guidelines 1983. For three years the data of the ground water quality were used to observe the differences occurred that is in 1990, 1999 and 2011. The parameters for Chloride (Cl), Nitrate (NO3), Ammonia (NH4), Ferum (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), Calcium and Magnesium (Mg) are used to compare with the standard that has been set by the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) in the chart form. The results of this study found that almost all the ground water parameters in the well in Bachok exceed the national drinking water standard, such as Chloride (Cl), Ammonia (NH4), Ferum (Fe), Manganese (Mn) and Potassium (K). Three more parameters which are Sodium (Na), Nitrate (NO3) and Magnesium (Mg) were found that only in some wells exceed the drinking water standard 1990. Although there are still wells that exceed the standard, the most recent data in 2011 showed a decline compared to 1990 and 1999. Monitoring action and drastic measures must be taken to ensure the quality of the drinking water in Bachok is safe to be used.