Prevention is now considered as a way to spread curiosity and commitment and has to do with the creation of communities where it is believed that "good things happen" and that people are part of them. Promoting people positive development, that is, promoting competence, motivati...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/43287
Availability of extension workers is very vital in economic, social and psychological empowerment of Self-help groups (SHG) members. This paper discusses the moderating effect of gender in the relationship between extension worker availability and SHG members’ economic, social an...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42070
The study examined the effects of Cooperative learning and Individualized instruction on students’ achievement in Chemistry in Awka south LGA of Anambra State. Three hypotheses were tested. The quasi-experimental design was used, specifically the pre-test posttest non-equivalent...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42873
Aim: The present study analyses the unique case of the Jewish Italian community in Tunis ('Grana'), during the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing its close political ties with its country of origin (Tuscany and subsequently Italy). Unlike other communities of Jewish Sephardic o...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42227
Two experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which interventions focused on children with, or at risk for, emotional or behavioural disorders (E/BD) could be considered as evidence-based practices. Experiment one examined the extent to which meta-analytic and systema...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42940
Motorists are communicated to in the road traffic environment by graphics, the level of clarity of which elicits correlating responses. The study observed motorist behaviour at a selected location, Briscol Y-junction in Kumasi, Ghana, which is typical of a visibility phenomenon....
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41503
The aim of the study was, to find out the effect of counselling on conflict resolution skills among young adults pre and post counselling. The current article presents the mean differences of conflict resolution skills among young adults before and after counselling. To conduct t...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42230
Aim: This research work was conceived and executed to investigate the impact of University lecturers’ attitude inside and outside the lecture rooms on the students’ decision on whether or not to attend their lectures. Study Design: Questionnaires were randomly distributed to stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/34609
Effective teaching of science brings about meaningful learning of science and unless concepts in science are learnt meaningfully, they cannot be applied to solve real- life-problems. In the quest to solve these real life-problems, scientific knowledge should be effectively utiliz...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41378
The major purpose of the study was to assess the contribution of the short-term training provided to educational leaders, teachers and supervisors in the region to enhance the quality of education. To this end, the study used a concurrent mixed methodology study design. The study...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/37936
This study aimed at investigating the problems students face in understanding the concepts of angular momentum in classical and quantum mechanics, finding an effective way of improving understanding and learning the concepts of angular momentum in quantum mechanics, lastly docume...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/40980
Aims: The study explores the social and health challenges faced by the lower caste `Dalits` living in Terai area (southern part of Nepal). The research highlights the present situation of the Dalit women who are ranked at the bottom of Nepalese social and gender hierarchy and exp...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41074
The main focus of the present study is to address the impact of note taking in higher education on the academic success of the bilingual students whose native language is not English. Although note-taking is frequently described as an important skill for university student succes...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/42091
Background: The first aim of this study was to analyse the structure of coping and to develop a measuring instrument to be used in future work. A second aim was to examine associations between coping scores and negative outcomes (anxiety, depression, fatigue, cognitive difficulti...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41894
It is very vital for students in BTI to grasp the critical thinking ability, but how to cultivate this ability in the fundamental courses is a big problem to be solved. This study is to employ the teamwork, such as group discussion and group representation, and reflection log in...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41620