The negative effect of child labour on academic performance of secondary school students in central senatorial district of Cross River State-Nigeria

The desire to provide research information about the prevalence of child labour, its effects and educational factors was the focus of this research. The focus of this study is on child labour as an aspect of child abuse and neglect. The goal of the research on child abuse and academic performance of children who participate in it as a routine scholars and people have defined child labour in several ways. In a nutshell it is the exploitation of children, premature assumption of adult roles on the part of children; working long hours for low wages in the central senatorial district in Cross River State of Nigeria, the study has two main purposes: To determine the factors, which influence students involvement in child labour and lastly, to compare the relationship between child labour and academic performance of those who are engaged in the activities with those who do not. The data used in testing the hypothesis were gotten from the post-test scores of all the subjects. Hypotheses were tested at .0.5 level of significance. Based on the results of the hypotheses, the following recommendations were made. Thus, it is time that the Federal, State and Local Governments embark on mass enlightenment campaigns to expose the bad side of driving children into child labour. This could be done through the use of mass media, schools and social welfare establishments to educate parents/guardians over the dangers of exposing their children to child labour as an act of child abuse. Government should stop mass retrenchments and unemployment of parents to ease poverty.Keywords: Child labour, Abuse, Academic performance and Effec

Psycho-social correlates of students’ involvement in secret cults and counselling role in tertiary institutions in southern senatorial district of Cross River State – Nigeria

The study focuses on the premise of incessant havoc being perpetrated by adherents of secret cults in the country’s institution of higher learning. These cult groups terrorize fellow students, intimidate members of campus communities in various ways and are often involved in crimes like rape, burglary, thuggery, stealing, attacking with daggers, axes, acid and other forms of sophisticated weapons as well as constituting general threat to peace in institutions of higher learning. (Fawole, 1994). Has two purposes, to examine the extent at which parental socio-economic status influence students’ involvement in secret cults, and to investigate if peer group do influence students involvement in secret cults. The data used in testing the hypothesis were gotten from the post-test scores of all the subjects Hypotheses were tested at .0.5 level of significance. Based on the results of the hypotheses recommendations were made.Keywords: Students, secret cult, peer group and parental effec

Enhancing passenger safety and security in Ghana: Appraising public transport operators’ recent interventions

There are increasing calls for regular monitoring and evaluation of safety and security strategies of public transport (PT) operators, especially in developing countries where PT safety and security concerns abound. In respect of this, this study examined the passenger safety and security interventions of PT operators in Ghana. Both the accident-incident theory and routine activities theory served as the theoretical framework within which the study was rooted. Guided by the convergent parallel mixed methods design, data were drawn from in-depth interviews with six major intercity PT operators as well as questionnaires administered to 273 intercity PT passengers. The field data were analysed using both thematic (qualitative data) and correlational (quantitative data) analyses in line with the study design. Varied perspectives on the state of PT passenger safety and security in the country were expressed, and operators’ interventions in this regard were appraised. The study emphasised the need for periodic review of the regulatory framework establishing public transport undertaking by the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to reflect changing safety and security circumstances.Keywords: Public transport operators; passenger safety; security; interventions; Ghan

A lightweight forwarding strategy for Named Data Networking in low-end IoT

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Integrative Approach to Effective Performance Management in the Public Sector: Linking Public Service Motivation and Transformational Leadership for Future Research

The purpose of the conceptual framework is to demonstrate how an integrative approach can help explain effective performance management in the public sector using the mediating role of public service motivation and transformational leadership. To help achieve the objective of the paper, a systematic review of the literature on both organisational and environmental factors which are perceived as drivers of an effective performance management was selectively done. The analysis of these variables led to the development of the conceptual framework. The results of the review indicate that an effective performance management in the public sector depends on how public service motivation and transformational leadership mediate the relationship between organisational and environmental factors. The integrative approach to effective performance management explored non-rational variables that can improve performance management policies. Keywords: Effective Performance Management; Environmental Factors; Individual-Level Factors; Integrative Approach; Organisational Factor

A down-to-earth integration of Named Data Networking in the real-world IoT

International audienceThe IEEE802.15.4 wireless technology is one of the enablers of the Internet of Things. It allows constrained devices to communicate with a satisfactory data rate, payload size and distance range, all with reduced energy consumption. To provide IoT devices with a global Internet identity, 6LoWPAN defines the IPv6 adaptation to communicate over IEEE802.15.4. However, this integration still needs additional protocols to support other IoT requirements, which makes the IP stack in IoT devices more complex and therefore shows the limitations of the IP model to support the needs of future Internet. Named Data Networking represents an alternative that can natively support IoT constraints including mobility, security and human readable data names. This paper is a synthesis of an ongoing work that investigates the integration of NDN with IEEE802.15.4 for constrained IoT devices. The proposed design has been implemented in a real-world smart agriculture scenario, and evaluated by simulation focusing on energy consumption and network overhead in comparison to IP-based protocols

La question de la technique dans Les Vigiles De Tahar Djaout La socio-présence mise en texte

 Il est connu des communautés lectorales que les romans de Tahar Djaout, dont Les Vigiles, renvoient à la vie collective des Algériens. Justement, ce roman, dont la trame est centrée sur les errements d’un inventeur, nous a poussé à nous interroger sur le rapport des dogmes officiels à la production technique, qui est le point culminant de la réflexion.Dans l’article, le questionnement sur la technique se fait par le texte, mais aussi par l’examen des idéologies ambiantes qui ont abouti à l’ère néolibérale. D’où le dépassement du clivage paralysant instauré par des penseurs, dont la grille ne semble pas intéresser les masses universitaires.   

Long thoracic nerve release for scapular winging: Clinical study of a continuous series of eight patients

SummaryScapular winging secondary to serratus anterior muscle palsy is a rare pathology. It is usually due to a lesion in the thoracic part of the long thoracic nerve following violent upper-limb stretching with compression on the nerve by the anterior branch of thoracodorsal artery at the “crow's foot landmark” where the artery crosses in front of the nerve. Scapular winging causes upper-limb pain, fatigability or impotence. Diagnosis is clinical and management initially conservative. When functional treatment by physiotherapy fails to bring recovery within 6months and electromyography (EMG) shows increased distal latencies, neurolysis may be suggested. Muscle transfer and scapula-thoracic arthrodesis are considered as palliative treatments. We report a single-surgeon experience of nine open neurolyses of the thoracic part of the long thoracic nerve in eight patients. At 6months’ follow-up, no patients showed continuing signs of winged scapula. Control EMG showed significant reduction in distal latency; Constant scores showed improvement, and VAS-assessed pain was considerably reduced. Neurolysis would thus seem to be the first-line surgical attitude of choice in case of compression confirmed on EMG. The present results would need to be confirmed in larger studies with longer follow-up, but this is made difficult by the rarity of this pathology.Level of evidenceIII

Lecture critique d’un article de Christiane Achour Oser un questionnement !

We want to take a look at the writings of Algerian academics concerning criticism and reflections on literature; we focused our attention on an article by Christiane Achour, on the classification of literature according to two modalities. The first being operated by gender (sex), the second being based on History (diachrony). We believe that these modalities do not respond to the ethics as developed by Barthes, who opts for the foundation of a community of writers whose classification is made by purely textual elements. The birth of the text signifies the birth of writing models that would make it possible to overcome reductive identities and promote writing to the extent that subjectivity should be converted to articulations of statements whose matrix does not belong to any socio psyche. -history confiscated by bio-civil status

Bus Passenger Movement in Ghana: A Case of Intercity State Transport Corporation (ISTC) Coaches Ltd.

The Intercity State Transport Company is one of the two state funded transport companies in Ghana competing with a range of other service providers mainly from the private sector in the industry. Once well respected and described as the pride of intercity travels in Ghana, it is currently a mere shadow of its former glory with rapid decline in passenger movements over the past years. This study sought to analyse passenger movements over the past five years and also explored challenges that have led to the steady decline of ISTC over the years. Secondary data was provided by the company and this was complemented with in-depth interviews with management. Findings of the study revealed that the service suffered a 60% decline in passenger movement between 2007 and 2011; however there was a high utilization of its services in January 2010 and December 2011. Finally, there was no statistically significant difference in the volume of passengers between 2010 and 2011. Keywords: intercity, intercity bus, passenger movement, ISTC