This study investigated the practice of Integrated Functional Adult Literacy in Benishangul Gumuz region particularly in Metekel Zone. The purpose of this study was to investigate on the practice of the current status of learners in acquiring numeric and literacy skill based on integrated functional skillsframework. Subsequently, it looked at students’ knowledge of numeracy and literacy skill in accordance with ESDP IV (Education Sector Development Program) and MoE (Ministry of Education)2008 integrated functional adult education conceptual framework. To select target population for the study, cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used. Stratified sampling technique was also employed in order to select target population proportionally from clustered Woredas (Politically marked areas under Zone). To answer the research questions qualitative and quantitative data were employed. Questionnaire, interviews and testing were used to collect data. Questionnaire and testing were used to answer research question 1, 2 and 3. Additionally, research question 1 and 2 demands quantitative data whereas research question 3 needs qualitative data. According to the data obtained from teacher there is variation in responding to items for all Woredas. The data indicated that learners are good at numeric and literacy skill. However, they were not used numbers and texts for daily functions. The result obtained from testing also contradicted with opinion obtained from teachers. Teachers believe that learners attend their learning based on the IFAL (Integrated Functional Adult Literacy) conceptual frame work. Students, however, were not properly able to answer questions prepared to test different skills. Data obtained through interview confirmed that the variability was attributed to teachers’ personal feeling about using numbers and texts for daily life. Concerning teachers knowledge of the conceptual understanding how IFAL need to be taught there is still variability of r

Health care services is one of the most important domains in the world. One of most important goals of healthcare services is the need of make accurate healthcare decisions in the right time. Retrieving useful historical health records of patients in real-time is necessary to provide accurate healthcare decisions. Traditional health record systems like paper-based system require time and efforts to collect, manage, and retrieve patients’ records. Electronic health record systems were adopted to allow health staff to retrieve useful health records in real-time and consequently improve and speed up healthcare services. EHR is effective to serve patients in their local countries. Although EHR is effective for local healthcare services (i.e. hospitals within patient country), the implementations of EHR for global purposes is still an issue. EHR is not applicable for the persons who travel to other countries. One of the most important travelling purposes for Muslims is the pilgrimage journey. Each year millions of Muslims travel to KSA to complete pilgrimage rites. Pilgrims may need healthcare services and these services should be accomplished accurately in real-time which requires historical health records based electronic approaches. This study aims to investigate the importance and viability of IoT implementations to support EHR retrieving of pilgrims using electronic tags. A questionnaire with 60 academic staff and interview with five experts from KSA were conducted to address the main aim of this study. The significance of the results show that EHR supporting tags reading is a promising solution to enhance healthcare services and avoid the challenges of EHR implementations in pilgrimage.

In this study, we employed three missingness mechanisms - MCAR, MAR and MNAR to investigate the effects of proportion of Missing data on descriptive and analytic statistics: Mean (Ӯ), Variance (𝝈𝝈𝟐𝟐𝒚𝒚), correlation coefficient (𝝆𝝆𝒚𝒚𝒙𝒙𝟏𝟏𝒙𝒙𝟐𝟐), coefficient of variation (cv), skewness (sk) and Kurtosis (K) which are likely situation a researcher may encounter in the field when dealing with household surveys. This study reveals that sometimes, missing data introduce systematic distortion in survey estimates and bias flows from missing data when the causes of the missing data are linked to the survey statistic measured.

This paper presents the hazard rate functions of Weibull and Exponential Distributions. Estimates of the hazard rates were obtained using simulated HIV/AIDs data, it was found that for exponential distribution the hazard rate is constant while that of the Weibull distribution increases as the time of infection increases.

Organic farming is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic compounded fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators and livestock feed additives. This study was conducted purposively in Bhanjanagar and Jagannathprasad blocks of Ganjam district due to maximum number of trained farmers in organic farming. The total 120 trained farmers were selected for the study. Only 7.50 per cent of the respondents had high knowledge in organic farming before participation in training and after the participation in training this figure increased up to the 26.67 per cent. All the selected attributes of the trained farmers, except age, caste and size of family were found having significant relationship with their knowledge level on organic farming. High cost of inputs & difficult methods for preparation were major constraints experienced by the farmers.

The economic transformation of Mauritius has impacted on its labour market with the implementation of the Export Processing Zones in the 1970’s whereby the primary objectives were to reduce unemployment. A shift in the skills was noted from low-skilled jobs to cope with the expansion of the EPZ to high-skilled job sover time. This resulted into the rise of unemployment among low-wage workers in the 1990’s with the closure and delocalisation of many enterprises in the Clothing and Textile Industry (C&T) to cheaper countries. Many articles have demonstrated that the local workers have been snubbing jobs in the C&T industry at the expense of newly developed sectors such as the Tourism, ICT and Services sectors. Our study reveals the reasons for the unwillingness of local workers to join this industry and provides an insight of the current labour market situation that will be useful for policy decisions.

The researchers used a cross-sectional descriptive study design. This study attempted to establish the correlation that exists among the general weighted averages, mental ability test scores and the battery test scores of all the first year teacher education students at the Bulacan State University Bustos Campus. . The researchers relied heavily on questionnaire as the major instruments in gathering information from the respondents. In order to gauge the mental ability of the respondents, the MD5 Mental Ability Test which is a quick and easy test of mental ability which involves finding missing letters, numbers or words was used. Furthermore, the faculty of instruction of the College of Education of the Bulacan State University Bustos Campus A.Y. 2015-2016 came up with a 100-item questionnaire that consists of questions ranging from general education subjects and this was utilized as the battery test. The general weighted average scores were collated from the Certificate of Grades that was issued by the university registrar to each bona fide teacher education student in the university. It was established in this study that the general weighted averages and the battery test scores are negatively correlated (p value = -0.6002). This means that if the scores in the battery test go high, the scores in the mental ability test will go low, or vise-versa. Likewise, the general weighted averages of the respondents and their scores in the mental test are negatively correlated (p value = -0.3967). This means that if the scores in the general weighted average go up, the scores in the mental ability test will be poor or vise-versa. This means further that if the academic performance of the teacher education student is remarkable, his score in the mental ability test will not be as such. It was also established that there is a low positive correlation that exists between the battery test scores and the mental ability test scores of the respondents (p value = 0.3977). This means

The quantitative and qualitative food loses and feed commodities is mainly done by insect pests which are prolific in nature and causes development of hot spots as a result of metabolic heat by developing insect populations, thereby create favorable conditions to various pathogens. Thus they cause two way spoilage of food commodities resulting into economic loss as well as loss to public health. Tribolium castaneum and Callasobruchus maculates are important pests on household material like wheat flour and Indian chick pea respectively . The essential oil of Rosemary Rosemarinus officinalis L. (Lamiales: Lamiaceae) has been investigated on toxicity of these pests under controlled conditions. The major compounds of the oil were analyzed by GC were as 1, 8 Cineol (20.021%), Borneol (7.17%), Camphor (6.541%), Geraniol (6.281%), Camphene (5.623%), Linalool (4.993%) Alpha fenchyl acetate (4.222%) and Verbenone (4.147%).Efficiency of Rosemary Oil was evaluated by various toxicity assays like Fumigant, Repellency, Contact and Ovicidal on both the pests simultaneously. The oil marked different activity against both of them.

Connections in steel structures have an important impact on the behavior of the entire structure. One of them existed in the connection of column to base plate. The appropriate understanding of structural connections behavior and the awareness of how transmission of power occurred by their connections and more accurate understanding of their behavior is essential for modeling and structural analysis. In the following study, at first, the connection of the column to base palte was studied under the monotonic loading in laboratory. Then, the finite element method and criteria are used for designing the moment-rotation curve. The results of the study indicated that the moment-rotation curve of in experimental sample and the analytical methods are reasonably close to each other. Therefore, the finite element methods and criteria can be used with reasonable accuracy in the behavior evaluation of this type of connection.

Prosthetic rehabilitation of patients who have undergone total maxillectomy has always been a challenging task for the Prosthodontist. Such a patient presents with unique combination of multiple problems.1 In addition to the debilitation associated with surgery the patient has to continue nasogastric feeding till the maxillary defect is obturated prosthetically or by surgical reconstruction.2 It is challenging for the treating prosthodontist to combine and achieve all the characteristics a maxillofacial prosthesis such as, light weight, retention, stability, and esthetics and being functionally adequate, in a compromised clinical situation as that of a total maxillectomy.3 In the clinical situation described, clinician has used his ingenuinity in fabricating a light weight, 2-piece obturator with magnetic attachments. The final prosthesis was considerably retentive, stable and proved to be functionally efficient for the patient.