The O-Ring Theory, Geographical Distribution Of Misery And Corruption

The approach in this paper is to explore the relationship between corruption perception index (CPI) and human development index (HDI) in order to determine whether or not poor countries resort to corrupt practices as a way of getting over their level of hopelessness.  The results show that corruption poses a problem to all countries and consequently to world economic development

Matching Testing Strategy With Student Personality In A Historically Black University

Most instructors believe that if students know the material that is taught, their knowledge will manifest by successful performance on any type of examination question that instructors devise.  The issue that is now evolving is whether or not instructors can alter teaching and testing strategies to bring about an optimal learning environment.  More particularly, this study represents an attempt to correlate students’ learning style preferences to performance on four types of examination questions. The results reported in this study shows that intuitive and thinking students do not perform well on open-ended quantitative test.  Moreover, intuitive students are not very good when it comes to multiple-choice quantitative test.  Finally, feeling, sensing, and thinking students perform better on multiple-choice theory tests.&nbsp

Poverty And Childhood Survival Rates In Sub-Saharan Africa

Life-expectancy at birth is an important indicator of well-being. Most of the nations with very high life expectancy rates are among the economically advanced nations of the world. This fact leads one to infer that mortality differences exist partly due to economic status. The poverty of women and children remain a major developing challenge for all societies, especially the developing nations. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa play a very important role in food production, bearing and raising children, the prevention/treatment of childhood diseases and malnutrition. As such, the education of mothers and household income could help improve family health, and sanitation. The findings here do show that childhood mortality is significantly influenced by female education, household income, and the feeding practices of mothers