The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of distributed leadership practice on initiating and sustaining a successful and effective organizational change process within a small-sized higher education unit. The study was designed as an action research and followed a 16-we...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22337
Introduction: The objectives of the School Feeding Services are to reduce hunger among school children. It will also increase school enrolment, attendance, retention and completion rates particularly among children in poor rural communities and urban neighbourhoods. This study wa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22072
This original research paper examined the causes and effects of the problem of male dropout of schools in Anambra State, located at the Southeast area of Nigeria. Multistage and simple random techniques were combined to select 180 respondents for the quantitative data while purpo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21735
The universal Message of the Holy Quran is a matter of great deal that could not be successfully communicated in the whole world through English translations. This taxing task has been treated lightly. The present study tries a blending of linguistics and the Quranic translations...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/20752
Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the socio-economic impact of the EXXON MOBIL and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) joint venture assistance projects in education within communities in oil producing areas of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Study Design: The study i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21464
Scope: Everybody lies. Plagiarism is pervasive because people are used to lying to succeed. While bringing up someone else’s ideas may be an inadvertent case of cryptomnesia, or unintentional plagiarism, academic plagiarism is hardly ever that case. Building on the existing liter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/20535
This study examines individual goal orientation and learning strategies used in achieving academic success among Community Health Students in Primary Health Care Examinations. The study suggests that teachers do influence the n goals students pursue through instructional practice...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22043
The aim of this study was to understand the characteristics of mental health care for cancer patients, their families, and nurses in China. We searched for relevant studies published in English since 2004 using PubMed, PsycINFO, and Cinahl, finding 14 studies that examined mental...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/21647
Background: There are more opportunities for research in Africa now than ever however several factors still militate against research among academics. We identified the major barriers to research and the factors that enhance research at the University of Ghana Medical School in o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/19133
Background: Although previous research that considered a variety of chronic diseases have shown that quality of provider-patient relationship is related to health outcomes, key issues defining HIV care provider-patient relationship has not been well studied in Belgium. It is impo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/20582