Learning communities and fair trade in doctorates and development: report of a collaborative project     

Janinka Greenwood  Safayet Alam  Abu Nayeem Mohammad Salahuddin  Mollah Mohammed Haroon-Ar Rasheed 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2016,14(1):49-67

This article reports the second stage of a study examining an academic partnership in which Bangladeshi doctoral students in a western university focus their research in the grounded context of Bangladesh and investigate the processes for change. After briefly outlining the previous published stage which examined the academic trade in higher education with developing countries, the article builds on the concept of fair academic trade to critically reflect on the development of a doctoral learning community, a publication project and three specific doctoral studies. The methodological approach is one of participatory action research, with focus on critical reflection on practice.  相似文献   

The triad-iodine deficiency,hyperlipidaemia, high coronary risk— in a ‘maternal-neonate’ population of rural Africa     

Santosh C. Das  Aminu Z. Mohammed  Sani U. Al-Hassan  Abraham A. Otokwula  Uche P. Isichei 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2007,22(2):79-83

In order to see the pattern of changes in differential serum lipid and lipoprotein fractions as a risk marker of coronary complication in paired ‘maternal—neonate’ blood samples in an iodine deficient zone, 26 pregnant women and their corresponding new born infants at term delivery from the iodine deficient Bassa region of Plateau state, Nigeria were assessed and the results were compared with those seen in a similar 44 group of women and their newborns assessed in non lodine deficient region of Jos. The serum thyroid function and lipid and lipoprotein profiles were determined by ‘ELISA’ and ‘enzymatic’ methods respectively. Urinary iodide excretion level was also measured in 14 pregnant women in Bassa, 23 pregnant women in Jos and 16 non pregnant control from Jos. Results indicate that the pregnant women assessed in Bassa were iodine deficient (P<0.01) and their thyroid status was strikingly reduced as reflected by a drop in serum level of T4/TBG ratio (P<0.01) and a rise in TSH (P<0.005) in comparison to that seen in Jos. There was marked hypertriglyceridaemia and total hypercholesterolaemia (P<0.005), with differential significant rise in LDL cholestotol fraction (P<0.005) in the women assessed in Bassa as compared to Jos. The HDL cholesterol however dropped less significantly in the group (P<0.05) with a concurrent marked rise (P<0.001) in the serum ratio of LDL cholesterol/HDL cholesterol, total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol and triglycerides/HDL cholesterol in the lodine deficient group. A similar pattern of changes were seen in the corresponding neonates in the Bassa group as compared to Jos group. It is concluded that the pregnant women and their newborn offsprings living in a longstanding environmental iodine deficiency run a higher risk of developing coronary complications than those living in non endemic region. It is striking that such newborns surrounded by a continued state of lodine deficient may at a later adult-period of life develop marked risk of coronary complication and other features of hyperlipidaemias associated with varying thyroid insufficiency and accompanied iodine deficiency disorders. Prophylaxis measures as intervention has been highlighted.  相似文献   

Library Anxiety among Undergraduate Students: A Comparative Study on Egypt and Saudi Arabia     

Ahmed Maher Khafaga Shehata  Mohammed Fathy Mahmoud Elgllab 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2019,45(4):386-393

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study of library anxiety among a group of Arab students in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The paper also investigated the factors that affect the students' level of anxiety while using academic libraries. The study tried to compare the difference in the level of anxiety in the two countries using a scale (LLPB) developed by the researchers which fit the culture in the Arab region. The study adopted a mixed methods approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with several students in Saudi Arabia and Egypt to determine the main factors that lead to having a level of anxiety in the libraries. In the second stage, a questionnaire was sent to students to measure what factors have a greater impact on the level of anxiety. The data showed that Egyptian students are more anxious about using the libraries than the Saudi students. The results also indicated that there is a need to train students on how to use the libraries and also change students' perception regarding the library to reduce the level of anxiety. This study was conducted in Egypt and Saudi Arabia the level of library anxiety and the factors that may affect the students may vary in other countries.  相似文献   

ERSDO: E-learning Recommender System based on Dynamic Ontology     

Amane  Meryem  Aissaoui  Karima  Berrada  Mohammed 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(6):7549-7561

Education and Information Technologies - In distance learning, recommendation system (RS) aims to generate personalized recommendations to learners, which allows them an easy access to various...  相似文献   

Exploring students’ expectations of learning analytics: A person-centered approach     

Viberg  Olga  Engström  Linda  Saqr  Mohammed  Hrastinski  Stefan 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(6):8561-8581

Education and Information Technologies - In order to successfully implement learning analytics (LA), we need a better understanding of student expectations of such services. Yet, there is still a...  相似文献   

Retracted: On a Patrol Problem     

Mohammed Ageel 《Teaching Statistics》1997,19(3):84-86

Retraction: The following article from Teaching Statistics, ‘On a Patrol Problem’ by Mohammed Ageel, published online on 8 June 2007 on Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the author, the current and immediate past journal Editors, Paul Hewson and Roger Johnson, the Trustees of Teaching Statistics and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to unacknowledged overlap with ‘A Patrol Problem’ by Alan Levine, published in Mathematics Magazine, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 159–166 (1986).  相似文献   

Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?     

Marie Lallier  Reem Abu Mallouh  Ahmed M. Mohammed  Batoul Khalifa  Manuel Perea  Manuel Carreiras 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(2):181-190

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How to repair the Hill cipher     

ISMAIL I.A. AMIN Mohammed DIAB Hossam 《浙江大学学报(A卷英文版)》2006,7(12):2022-2030

INTRODUCTION Owing to the advance in network technology, information security is an increasingly important problem. Popular application of multimedia tech- nology and increasingly transmission ability of net- work gradually leads us to acquire information di- rectly and clearly through images. Hence, data secu- rity has become a critical and imperative issue. Hill cipher is a block cipher that has several advantages such as disguising letter frequencies of the plaintext, its simplicity be…  相似文献   

English,Israeli‐Arab and Saudi Arabian Adolescent Values     

Cyril Simmons  Christine Simmons  Mohammed Habib Allah 《Educational studies》1994,20(1):69-86

This paper compares the results of three surveys. The subjects comprise 96 adolescents in an English comprehensive school, 118 Arab adolescents in three schools in Israel and 89 adolescents in two schools in Saudi Arabia. The first and last groups of subjects have a modal age of 14 years whereas the majority of the second group are 15 years of age. The open‐ended questionnaire comprised 10 prompts designed to elicit responses concerning ideals and least ideals, most and least preferred companions, use of solitude, summum bonum, most and least desired outcomes to life and nascent philosophies. Two methods of analysis were used. First, references to dominant themes were totalled; secondly, responses were assigned to six categories according to the dominant values expressed from materialistic to altruistic. Similarities but also significant differences were found in the dominant themes and significant differences were also apparent in the values that were expressed. Most marked was the high value placed on parents and friendship by the English young people, the importance attached to education by the Israeli‐Arab group and the prominence given to Islam by the Saudi Arabian adolescents.  相似文献   

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: teaching resources and the role of faculties of education in educational development     

Dr Mohammed A. Rasheed 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1984,7(2):117-126

Dr Rasheed provides an overview of school provision in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and identifies the main problems of teacher provision. These are seen as a continuing shortage of adequately qualified Saudi teachers and a consequent over‐reliance on expatriates. He then goes on to consider the function and role of teacher training in the development of the national system of education.  相似文献