Social Sciences and Humanities

Agricultural growth and productivity remains central to poverty reduction, particularly in the developing countries, where a large share of the population relies on agriculture and agribusiness for their livelihood. Generally speaking, there is a greater form of limited access to credit by a greater chunk of Ghanaian farmers. The question that can attract multi-billion answers is whether the risks associated with giving loans to farmers in sub-Sahara Africa of which Ghana is no exception are overtly immeasurable. The study made use of cross-sectional source of data.

Objective: Disc herniationaffects the life of person in all parts of life, physically, mentally and socially. From performing activities of daily living, movement is limited, patients are often dependent on the help of others, the thinking and behavior of the patient are changing. The overall assessment of the perception of quality of life is change at least one year after surgeryof intervertebral discs. Design:to ascertain the perception of quality in the daily activities of life after the surgery of discherniation in area of the bio - psycho - social needs.

The Study was set to examine the effect of autonomous learning strategy on academic performance of Government students in secondary schools in Urue-ofong Oruku Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State-Nigeria. Three hypotheses were formulated to direct the study. The study adopted the pre-test-post-test quasi experimental design. The study made use of 80 government students selected from two out of seven schools in Uruefong Oruku Local Government Area. They were divided into experimental and control groups.

This paper attempts to investigate primary and secondary school teachers’ perception on the contributions of psychology to education. Descriptive survey design was used and one hundred and twenty (120) public school teachers in Abakaliki LGA of Ebonyi State were selected for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire was used to elicit information. Simple percentage was used in the analysis. The findings of the study include as follows: that perception of primary and secondary school teachers on the contributions of psychology to education is positive.

This study uses statistical methods to identify the consumers’ quality such as gender, age, educational background, income and the frequency of using O2O, which impact the variables of the O2O user acception model. Firstly we test whether significant difference on the whole of the variables in the model, then take multiple comparison in the overall significant variable later, and list the specific group reached significant level.

In the Modern period we have only very limited historical study especially of the microlevel.  Such studies regarding many places in Kerala are getting to come. The study of nomenclature is very important part of micro level history; many historians tell that micro level studies regarding names enable us to understand the details history of that particular area. Many of the Indian historians wrote about excavation and expedition without concentrating minute issue like nomenclature. Recently modern historians gave explained on   minute level historical study.

This conceptual article seeks to explore the leadership perspectives which can assist school leaders to enact moral purpose. Through a comprehensive exploration of a relevant literature, I propose a practical framework to guide the process of enacting moral purpose. In this analytical framework, I argue that moral, shared and collaborative leadership perspectives can assist in describing ways in which school leaders and other relevant stakeholders can pragmatically solve challenges of learner achievement and school improvement facing many South African schools.

In this paper, there are some selected episodes of Tash ma Tash satirical comedy which depict Saudi women and their sufferings in Saudi Arabia. For example, the episodes present how Islamic feminism, patriarchy, male guardianship, and polygamy are not welcomed by most of Saudi women. They present how Islamic feminism is rejected and does not fulfill or make them satisfied with their rights there because it makes their mobility limited and specified. The episodes not only portray Saudi women’s sufferings, but also pave the way for their contributions and appearance on screen.

This study was designed to identify technical constraints to marketing of eggs in Mohale’s Hoek district of Lesotho. The primary data used were obtained through the use of semi-structured interview schedule from 30 egg producers in the study area. A range of technical factors in marketing were incorporated in a binary choice model to investigate the egg marketing with their previous year’s farming results.

The purpose of this project was to identify the factors constraining agribusiness growth in the Maseru district. Primary data from 10 owners/managers of agribusiness enterprises were selected for the study, and were analysed using descriptive analysis and empirical probit models. The results indicate that majority of the respondents were females (60%), aged between 40-49 years (50%), majority of the forms of agribusiness enterprises were sole-trade enterprises. The results also showed that majority (70%) had secondary education.