Financial analysis of small-scale fish farming enterprises to alleviate poverty in homestead

This paper focuses on the financial analysis involved in setting up of fish farming on a small-scale in a homestead. About 0.5 acres of land was used for the construction of pond which as a stock of Clarias spp/ Heterobranchus spp and Tilapia spp at the ratio of one to three for a period of 12 months. The land/land development cost is N26,500.00, pond construction cost, N35,700.00, equipment cost, N2,650.00 and stock/Input requirement cost N155,727.00 while the revenue from sales is N376,000.00. A cash flow analysis is also calculated for the fish farm, which is N155,423.00 for first year cash flow, and appropriate profit/mosses were calculated for five-year production cycle of N1,036,515.00 million. At the end appreciable profit is realized from the enterprises. This type of enterprises is viable for small-scale farmers to practices and adopted for financial support for their famil

A Case Study of a Charter School Seeking to Transform Toward Greater Cultural Competence for Working With Diverse Urban Students: Using Christopher Emdin’s Reality Pedagogy Approach as a Stimulus and Guide

This case study of a Bronx, New York charter school drew upon Emdin’s (2016) book on pursuing school improvement as a secondary analysis of existing data from the school. The Principal Investigator is currently a teacher at the school and was participant-observer. The overall study can be considered an integration of qualitative fieldwork and survey methods. A strong implication from the highly significant quantitative results for 18 paired t-tests for nine Behaviors pre-/post-training is that professional development and special trainings had a strong positive effect. With Bonferroni Adjustment Significance (.05/18, p=.0003) level of .003, paired t-tests showed that staff ratings (knowledge and self-efficacy ratings) for all nine Behaviors exhibited a significant increase in mean rating from pre-training to post-training; thus, the intervention of professional development and special trainings had significant impact. Quantitative data supported the conclusion that significant progress was made toward the school’s original goal of transforming toward greater cultural competence and changing school climate to better meet the needs of urban learners from varied cultural backgrounds. Independent t-tests on dichotomous groups found one (of three) comparisons to be statistically significant (t= -.392, df=41.55, p= .000; Bonferroni Adjustment Significance, .05/3, p=.016) when comparing the means for people of color staff (n=29) of 8.934 (SD=1.254) versus for White staff (n=18) of 7.63 (SD=1.023). People of color staff had a significantly higher post-training self-efficacy for performing all nine specified behaviors compared to White staff. Qualitative data from five research questions produced via coding on 64 Emergent Themes, 15 Categories, and 12 Hierarchical Emergent themes—the last effectively coalescing all data into short statements to summarize all that school staff and teachers expressed about the training using Emdin’s book and other special training activities and discussions: acknowledge many book benefits; accept less ready White peers; learn bias, empathy; incomplete training, need to continue/action; impact of expanded awareness; retain many strengths to training model; plan to address barriers to success of training model; evidence of many improvements at school; ending oppression/biased discipline; training challenge of staff in different stages; expert facilitation of difficult conversations; and action for curriculum modifications

Systems Approach to Evaluating MIH-CP (Mobile Integrated Healthcare – Community Paramedicine): A Case Study of East Baton Rouge Parish (EBRP) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Community Paramedicine Program Initiative

This study applied a holistic method of healthcare program assessment, known as systems approach, to evaluate the efficacy of the East Baton Rouge Parish (EBRP) EMS Community-integrated Health Program (CIHP). The author developed assessment metrics following the Quadruple Aim Framework: IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) Triple Aim + Provider Experience. Results showed that the CP program in this study delivers high ratings on patient experience and provided a 51% return on investment (ROI) through reduced emergency service utilization, ED visits and inpatient hospital admissions. However, findings did not demonstrate meaningful improvement in patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and self-efficacy (SE). Nevertheless, provider (specially-trained EMS paramedics) experience from the mixed-methods assessment offers suggestions to improving the program, as well as insights into the barriers to healthcare access that are often encountered by the frequent ED user population

POST COVID-19 AND DIGITALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY LECTURERS IN NIGERIA

This study investigated post covid-19 pandemic and the impact of digitalization on university lecturers in Nigeria. The study made use of the descriptive survey research design. Two research questions were raised for the study. The target population of the study comprised of all Science Education lecturers in Nigerian Universities. The sample size used comprised of 300 lecturers which comprised of 183 male and 117 female from the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The research instrument used for data collection was a 32-item structured questio - and above were deemed as agreed, accepted or positive while those below 2.50 were regarded as negative and unaccepted/disagreed responses. The findings of the study revealed the impact of digital semester on lecturers as well as the availability of digital resources in Nigerian Universities. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that lecturers and students should incline themselves in the innovative trends of digital teaching and learning respectively. Also, government and other stakeholders should support teachers/lecturers, students and communities by adequately providing digital tools for teaching and learning in the post covid-19 era

Student Teachers’ Attitude towards Teaching Practice

The study was guided by three research questions and two hypotheses. The survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 163 student teachers constituted the study. A questionnaire tagged Student Teachers Attitude Questionnaire (STAQ) was used to collect data on the attitude of student teachers while performance of student teachers were secondary data obtained from teaching practice coordinator of the Institute of Education. The data collected were analysed using weighted mean, mean and standard deviation, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test statistics. The result indicated that on the overall, student teachers had negative attitude towards teaching practice. The result also indicated a significant difference in performance of student teachers’ based on their attitude while a non-significant difference existed between male and female student teachers given their attitude. In view of this, it was recommended that the University of Uyo should ensure that all student teachers are properly groomed in all teaching and pedagogy courses before proceeding on teaching practice

Use of aerial photograph to enhance dog population census in Ilorin, Nigeria

The ground survey method for dog population census is considered to be prone to error in enumeration. As a result, use of aerial photography has been suggested as capable of enhancing ground survey methods for more accurate results. Dog population census was carried out within llorin city in October 2010 using direct street count and questionnaire survey aided by coverage precision of the 2010 aerial photograph of the city to define enumeration areas. The city was classified into three functional zones, namely residential (low, medium and high income areas) non-residential (educational, government offices, commercial and recreational areas) and transit zones (vehicle terminals for cars, buses and trucks traveling from southwestern to northern parts of Nigeria and vice versa). Five hundred questionnaires were administered to obtain primary data on socio-economic characteristics of dog owners and dog count. A total of 16,348 households were covered in the city. Dog population was estimated to be 1,258 comprising 668 (53.10%) male and 590 (46.90%) female. There were 356 (28.30%) young dogs (<6 month old) and 902 (71.70%) adult dogs (> 6 months old) in the population. Dog distribution ranged from 510 (40.54%) in non-residential areas and 480 (38.16%) in residential areas, to 268 (21.30%) in transit areas of the city. Dog population density of 1:13 dog per household was obtained. Poorly managed garbage collection points were found to be associated with and aid the distribution of roaming dogs. The census figures generated in this study are valuable for public health planning in Ilorin, Nigeria, particularly for antirabies control programme among dogs in the city

Household demand for fish in urban centres: a case of Ilorin, Kwara State of Nigeria

This paper seeks to analyse the demand for fish in Ilorin with a view to identifying the factors that affect the demand for fish in the area. The study was based on data collected from respondents in five (5) major locations in Ilorin. Both descriptive statistics and multiple regression models were used for socio-economic characteristics of fish consumers demand. The results of this study showed that fish is preferred to any other livestock protein sources and the per capital consumption of fish is 0.53kg per month. Sociological factors, health factors and the household sizes did not play major roles in determining the quality of fish demanded. However, price of a close substitute to fish, income of respondents and distances of household from the fish market were very important factors influencing the quantity of fish demanded. The average distance of fish market from households in the study area is 4.5km. It is therefore recommended that distance of fish farm market point should be established close to household to ensure proper patronage and increased consumption

Integrating the Traditional with the Contemporary in Dispute Resolution in Africa

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Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour among fisherfolks in Ajaokuta and Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria

Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and Sexual Behaviour among Fisherfolks in Ajaokuta and Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeri

Preconception Care and Sickle Cell Anemia in Pregnancy

Background: Pregnancy in women with sickle cell anemia is associated with adverse outcome for mother and child, but with improvements in medical care, the outcome has greatly improved in developed countries. Despite being the most prevalent genetic disease in Africa, sickle‑cell disease, along with its serious health problems in pregnancy, is largely neglected.Objective: To determine the effects of preconceptual care on pregnancy outcome among booked patients with homozygous sickle cell disease at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.Materials and Methods: A cohort study of the pregnancy outcome, among booked 39 pregnant women with homozygous sickle cell disease (Hbss), who had preconception care, and an equal number of booked pregnant women with homozygous sickle cell disease (Hbss), who did not have preconception care (controls), at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, between January 2000 and December 2006.Results: There was no statistically significant difference in the occurrence of complications between the two groups, but complications occurred with less frequency among the cases compared to the controls.Conclusion: This study suggest that preconception care and effective prenatal care by a multidisciplinary team, and delivery in a hospital which is accustomed to management of sickle cell disease and its complications, is associated with good pregnancy outcome in women with sickle cell anemia in pregnancy. Keywords: Multidisciplinary team management, preconception care, pregnancy outcome, sickle cell anemi