Global Journal of Human-Social Science
"Spot On & Off": Evaluation of Effectiveness of Self- Formulated Menstrual Hygiene Campaign in Rural India
Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to girls. However, it has always been surrounded by taboos that lead to the exclusion of women from many spheres of life. In rural India, the topic is still taboo. One of the biggest challenges that women face is not being educated and not having the resources to get sanitary pads. The present research study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-formulated campaign called "Spot On & Off" to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene among females belonging to three different age groups 8-15, 16-35, 36-60, with most of the girls from the age group 16-35. They live in the rural area of Mewat in Haryana, India. A survey was conducted with 300 female respondents. Post the survey, an awareness workshop was carried out, where videos of gynaecologists explaining what menstruation is, was shown. A post-survey was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the campaign. The respondents' awareness showed a significant increase from 2.19 to 5.54 out of 10 on average. The study also found out that awareness had a 19% impact on the liking of reusable pads.
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The Aetiology of Political Leadership Conflicts in the ANC and Implications for South Africa's Democracy
The internal conflicts within the ANC are to a large extent about leadership contestation for power, given the possibilities that ANC Presidency carries in relation to becoming President of the country. In fact politics within the ruling party and ANC led government has become a 'new economy' in the South Africa. The aetiology of political conflict in the ANC needs more careful analysis since it serves as a magnifying glass of underlying possibilities for the country's young democracy. This paper traces the evolution of conflicts within the ANC. It proceeds to cover the post 1994 period to show how internal conflicts are eroding the power and legitimacy of the democratic state. The paper will reflect on the challenge of political leadership transition, a problem in the entire African continent, and a problem which has become prominent in South Africa, post the Nelson Mandela leadership period. The politics of fracture in the governing party are in fact 'a politics of precarity' and have inaugurated uncertainty, instability, and moral decline in the country's democracy as whole. It's difficult to foresee the end point and return of inclusive democratic 'reason'.
Teachers' Effective Strategies for Enhancing in-Class Participation among Passive Learners in Secondary Schools
This study investigated the teachers' effective strategies for enhancing in-class participation among passive learners in secondary schools. It was carried out in Owerri Municipal Council, Imo State. The design of the study is a descriptive survey research design. Two research questions and one null hypothesis were used. The sample size was 210 secondary school teachers randomly composed from seven public secondary schools in the area. The instrument used for data collection was the researchers' self-developed 10-item questionnaire named the Teachers' Effective Strategies Questionnaire (TESQ). It was scored on a four-point rating scale. The data obtained for the study were analyzed using mean ratings and standard deviation to answer the research questions. In contrast, t-tested statistics was used to test the null hypothesis at a 0.05 probability level. The result of data analysis revealed the strategies that can be used in enhancing in-class participation among passive learners.
Patterns of Pronunciation of Morpheme "- ed" in English News among Yoruba Television Newscasters in Lagos State
The study examined the possible phonological environments that influence the renditions of morpheme '-ed'; identified the patterns of the pronunciation of morpheme "-ed" by Yoruba L1 Television Newscasters; and it investigated the level of awareness of phonological rules guiding the articulation of morpheme " -ed" by Yoruba L1 newscasters. This is with a view to examining the patterns of pronunciation of morpheme '-ed' in English news among Yoruba television newscasters. The study is a descriptive survey; weekly news episodes were recorded from August 2020-March 2021, hence a total of 32 news episodes were collected from each television station. A collection of 25 words that contain morpheme '-ed' and common to the news episodes from all the television stations were selected for analysis with their corresponding number of occurrence. Theoretical insights were drawn from Distinctive Features and Phonological Rules. It was found that the newscasters were aware of the morphophonemic rules but they were not consistent in deploying it. Instead of the three patterns of pronunciation of morpheme '-ed' in the received pronunciation -/t, d, id/, the newscasters had five different patterns -/t, d, id, ed, /. Of all the renditions, /d/ and /ed/ were the commonest ones.
Clustering of Fine-Grained Tropical Soils using Data Science Tools Applied to their Geotechnical Properties
The characterization of fine-grained tropical soils for use in pavements has evolved since the 1980s, however, even today these soils are still discarded or underused in infrastructure works because they do not fully meet the requirements established by traditional classification methodologies or even by the CBR. Tropical soils present peculiarities of geotechnical behavior regarding elastic and plastic deformability, as many authors have already observed. This article contributes to this distinction by analyzing the grouping of thirteen fine-grained soils from northeastern Brazil through the application of data science tools to the results of geotechnical tests. More than fifty geotechnical parameters obtained in the laboratory were considered. By means of simple and multiple linear regressions, they were analyzed in a hierarchical cluster, using Ward's linkage method and Euclidean distance. The results showed that the mechanical behavior of soil compaction and the granulometry, especially the quantities of silt and fine sand, were decisive for the initial division of soils into clusters.
tropical soils. geotechnical properties. geotechnical behavior. cluster analysis. data science.
Modelo Gerencial Para La Innovación En La Gestión De Las Organizaciones Educativas Del Sector Público. Un Enfoque Desde El Desarrollo Humano
Resumen-El estudio tiene como objetivo analizar los modelos gerenciales que prevalecen en la gestión de las organizaciones educativas del sector
Mediação da Leitura através da Literatura Infantil: O Conhecimento do Vocabulário
Some Externalities Stemming from Mexico's Urban-Regional Imbalance: The Covid's Struggle in the Country's Center Region
socioeconomic and environmental implications.
COVID-19 and Human Security: Western Populism, Chinese Strong State and Africa's Submissive Populace
The COVID-19 has been one pandemic that has greatly impacted the world and its economies since it was identified in 2019. This current research therefore sets out to investigate the COVID-19 and Human Security in relation to western populism, Chinese strong state and Africa's submissive populace. The study was undertaken in the University of Cape Coast (UCC) which is a diverse community of both Africans and Euro-Asians. Three categories of respondents are involved in this study namely: Africans (mainly Ghanaians), Euro-Americans and Chinese. Purposive sampling technique was used to interview respondents who are Chinese and Euro-American since they form a very small population and need to be specifically identified. The study also adopted simple random sampling for the respondents who are African (mainly Ghanaians) in a survey research. The study revealed that China's strong state in defeating the virus could be attributed to mandatory testing and quarantine for 14 days on arriving in China. Again, China was able to defeat the virus because of mobile hospitals and mandatory vaccination that the government implemented.
From Insolent Fratricide to Outrageous Genocide: Interethnic War and the Exorcisation of the Injustice of War in Eugène Ebodé& Souveraine Magnifique
The war between the Longs and the Shorts is the backdrop for Eugène Ebodé's Sovereign Magnificent. Told through the eyes of the eponymous character, Souveraine Magnifique, an orphan from the Longs' ethnic group, she recounts the alarming circumstances of an atrocious war that sprang up between brothers of the same blood in the heart of a Rwanda ravaged by jealousy and unjustified hatred. How does fictional literature script this genocidal war by emphasizing the representation of an ethical value system in order to postulate an ethical worldview? Edmond Cros's sociocriticism, through its two axes, the phenotext and the genotext, serves as a reading frame of reference to answer this question. On this basis, we revisit, in three points, the meaning of the chronotope that takes the place of a war scene; then the stylistic manoeuvres that allow us to visualize the literarity of the novel and, finally, the significant indices that inscribe the novelist's argument in a humanist worldview.
Discolored Almond: the Monstrosity of the Difference in "Historia de Mariquita" by Guadalupe Dueñas
This work presents an analytical approach to the story "Historia de Mariquita" by the Mexican writer Guadalupe Dueñas, the aim is to demonstrate the monstrosity of the difference observed in it, starting from the traditional subversion of Judeo-Christian funerary rituals, concretely the burial. Furthermore, the concept of deautomatization, proposed by Russian Viktor Shklovski, is used to point out the elements Dueñas deautomates in her story, such as: the funeral ritual, the space and state in which the corpse is preserved, punishment, among others.
Adolescence is that transitional period of human development, during which the immature racial child is transformed into a mature and capable adult for reproduction. The period of adolescence is a developmental period in the life of the individual that is characterized by evolution and changes in the structure of personality and psychosynthesis. The teenager has to struggle with many things, such as the changing self-image, the fundamental question "who am I", what is my identity, his attempt to differentiate himself from his family, to start his own autonomous course of life , issues that create potential risks of disorientation and claiming his image & his professional opportunities.
Trafico De Tierras En Areas Periurbanas De Lima, Peru: Tipos E Implicancias Político-Institucionales Y Socioculturales
Resumen-El propósito de este artículo es analizar, determinar y describir los tipos de tráficos de tierras, así como las implicaciones políticas, institucionales y culturales. En específico, en el aspecto político-institucional se toma en cuenta el rol que cumplen las municipalidades y las prácticas clientelares que derivan del uso de instrumentos de reconocimiento para
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Effects of Farmers-Herders Conflict on Food Security in Benue State (2013 - 2018)
The sustainability of a society is basically inclined to their access to the basic need of life -food, and in such occasion where there is unavailability of food and a corresponding unaccessibility of food by the members of society, then the society is at the mercy of food insecurity and gruesomely death on a long run. This paper examines the case of food insecurity ravaging Benue state of Nigeria in the face of the rising conflict amidst food producers (farmers and herders), what the cause of this conflict are, how this conflict has affected food security and the solutions to end the conflict and boost food security within the state. The paper discovered climate change and intolerance as the causes of the conflict, loss of agro-proceed, loss of agromanpower, cessation of farmlands, displacement of farmers and herders alike, change of farming occupation, fear of going to the farm, rise in cost of food items and deprivation of access to markets as the effects of the conflict on food security in the region.
The Green Flaneur and the Widi'd Street Paul Guzzardo
Nothing could have been further from my mind. I thought that I was returning to my home in New York at the end of a long trip abroad. Instead, I was at the beginning of the journey that would end with my mother's death. To be specific, it was the afternoon of March 28, 2004, a Sunday, and I was in Heathrow Airport in London on my way back from the Middle East. .... I began making phone calls -reconnecting with home as has always been my habit once I am through reporting a story. That was when my mother, Susan Sontag, told me that there was a chance that she was ill again. My mother was clearly doing her best to be cheerful. "There may be something wrong," she finally told me after I had gone on at far too great length about what the West Bank had been like. While I had been away, she said, she had gone in for her twice-yearly scans and blood tests -the regular routine that she had been following since her surgery and subsequent chemotherapy for the uterine sarcoma she had been diagnosed with six years earlier. "One of the blood tests they've just run doesn't seem so good," she said, adding that she had already had some further tests done, and asking me if I would come with her the following day to see a specialist who had been recommended to her and who had done some follow-up tests a couple of days earlier. He would have the conclusive results then.
Tamil Silappathikaram and the Greek Argonautica and Medea - Comparative Literary Mythological Studies on Characterising and the Philosophy of Fate and Chastity
Epics Argonautica and Medea were written in the Greek language a nd the epic Silappathikaram was written in the Tamil language. Even though these epics were written in two different languages, both mention the Kingdom of Pandion. More than that, the epics in both these languages exhibit heroism, one in a pair, proficiency of music, extreme affection for husband and the theory of fate and chastity. Above all, they also mention about their foreign trade contacts. The Greek myth mentioned about the lack of clarity in the sorrow happenings and it authorised the house of the God which is not understandable. The Tamil philosophy mentions that according to the action of the individual he or she gets happiness or sorrow. So the reason for the sorrow is not in the hands of the God as in Greek, but with the human being oneself.
The Psychological Sensualism and the Cognitive Structure of Creativity and Creation in Nawal El Saadawi's a Daughter of Isis
Throughout the structure of cryptographic methods and the attitudes of conditioning entree of understanding, the field of perception and conception becomes inside the respect of A Daughter of Isis, a system thinking, and decrypting resources within sensitive materials are assimilated. Respectively, through the cognitive interpretation and the valuation of this meta-data, the feminine creativity and creation coordinate their progress inside a quantitative responsive value and purchase the apposite cognitive structures in perspective to pledge a functional and organizational response concerning the phallus modeling judgment and comprehensive architectural arrangement of perception. In this run, the symbolic metamorphosis of the feminine Be-ing describes a system of sensualism that encompasses the subjective emotional familiarities and subjective cognizance system. Within this respect, the purpose of this paper remains an attempt to display the implied functionalism of psycho-affectivity and the method Nawal El Saadawi utilizes the schema of psychophysics in the standpoint to determine the quantitative associations between reinforcement and social interactionism.
Reasons behind Child Labor in Bangladesh: Case & Policy Analysis
Bangladesh's socioeconomic realities include the problem of child labor. This is a huge problem that cannot be overlooked. In this study, I looked at the elements that contribute to child labor in Bangladesh. Poverty is the primary cause of children working as child laborers. The issue of child labor has become one of the most prominent challenges in developing countries. To put an end to this, societies and governments must act together. The government, in particular, must ensure that citizens' basic rights are protected. Following that, the implementation of child labor legislation and a social boycott of child work would be an effective remedy.
Sobre Antropología Cibernetica De La Arquitectura
The present work aims to p ropose the necessary bases for an anthropology of architecture, from the cybernetic approach, that is, the science that studies the processes of communication and control, present in technical, biological and social devices. For this purpose, the cybernetic notion of self-organization is used at its different levels of complexity, according to the movement of reality to be addressed in its relations with architecture, that is, physical, biological and social reality (self-organization, self-eco-organization and selfecoproduction).
Pace Carabelli Aand Dow, There is No Common Discourse Language Logic in Keynes's A Treatise on Probability
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Working Mothers in Amphitheaters: A Mixed-method Projective Analysis on Case-peculiarity & Academic Yield
The unprecedented number of working mothers pursuing master's education this year is captivating. This reality triggered a closer look to scrutinize underlying motives behind this undertaking. A mixed-method was used to capture the incentives for the satisfactory educational results achieved by this category of students. Five older learners, out of twenty-five enrolling in a master's degree at Dr. Tahar Moulay University of Saida, Algeria, are the focus of this study. The prominence was in favor of adults, rather than youngsters. The findings postulate that, the following dual consideration is worth pointing out: the extrinsic reward/motivation, which surfaces, besides, brain maturation, appears of paramount importance in academic engagement.
Electoral Processes and Media Coverage- A Study of the Media's Performance in the Gambia's December 2021 Presidential Elections
The focus of the investigation was The Gambia's media outlets. The study's 30-day timeframe allowed for the content analysis of the media outlets' output. The media's coverage of political rallies, the candidates, and party manifestos, their efforts at voter education and civic engagement, and their ethical use of language were the areas of interest. It was discovered that government-owned media outlets covered the parties and election-related topics in an utterly impartial, nonpartisan, and thorough manner. Most of the private media outlets paid little or no attention to giving voter education or giving presidential candidates a platform on which to engage with the public. It is remarkable, nevertheless, that media companies did not permit unethical language use on their platforms, with a few notable exceptions. The Gambia's media is entering a period of unprecedented freedom of expression, allowing professionals to carry out their civic duties without fear of reprisal. The dormant potentials are starting to manifest. This activity represents a reaffirmation of what the public expects from the media during election season.
Cultivating Campus Mobility: An In-Depth Analysis of Student Perspectives on the BulldogTransit System at Alabama A&M University
This research provides an overview of the transportation system at Alabama A&M University (AAMU) and discusses the Bulldog Transit System (BTS), which operates on campus to facilitate student and staff mobility. The study is being conducted to assess the perspective of AAMU students regarding the performance of the BTS on campus and how it affects their transportation experience. The research questions aim to understand the main transport mode of students, how students perceive the efficiency and effectiveness of the BTS operations, what service(s) students need the BTS to improve in its operation, and the relationship between students' BTS efficiency rating and drivers' behaviors/conducts. The study reviewed literature on the importance of public transport, factors that positively influence mode of choice, and the decrease in public transport ridership and a significant shift to private transport and other transport modes. The researcher employed quantitative research methods to collect and analyze data. Simple random sampling was used to distribute questionnaires to undergraduate and graduate students of a university.
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The Cultural Genocide that Resulted from the Agreement between Macedonia and Greece Concluded in Prespa Village
In this paper, we have shown how Macedonia, in its misperception that Security Council Resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1995) were legal UN acts, nonsensically negotiated for three decades over the legally impermissible sovereign matter of national identity, virtually not understanding that the legal identity is the basic element of sovereignty and the juridical personality of any state and at the same time an inviolable category of "national identity of a sovereign people" (which is an essence of the cultural sovereignty). In their apparent ignorance, all Macedonian governments didn't notice that the Macedonian state without the legal identity (as a de facto, even de jure nameless State) was admitted to the UN membership by an error and an omission (delict of omission) committed by the main political bodies of the UN when they admitted Macedonia under prohibited additional conditions extraneous to the legally defined scope of general UN membership conditions, prescribed by Article 4 (paragraph 1) of the UN Charter.
Cultural Echoes: Navigating the Legacy and Evolution of Bangla Musical Instruments
This research investigates the importance of musical instruments, emphasizing their role in expressing and preserving cultural identity. It highlights their significance in conveying emotions, playing ceremonial and ritualistic roles, fostering social cohesion, preserving traditions, contributing to global music fusion, impacting tourism, and holding symbolism and spirituality. The study then focuses on Bangladesh's rich history of musical instruments, exploring the diverse heritage and cultural expressions, aiming for a robust and credible exploration of the history and future of Bangla musical instruments. The researcher interviewed critical stakeholders, including artists, musicologists, lyricists, tuners, instrumentalists, and media personnel. A comprehensive literature review and the researcher's insider perspective from a government-owned radio organization provided additional insights. Structured and semistructured interviews were used for primary data collection, employing qualitative analysis techniques.
Social determinants and COVID-19 vaccination: a study based on global data
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One with an Asterisk A Request to the Creators of Quantitative Evidence in Educational Policies
Efficacy and Realization of Welfare Schemes for Senior Citizens in Kolkata, North & South 24 Parganas Districts of West Bengal: A Statistical Analysis
The steep rise in human life expectancy has resulted in a substantial increase in older people population particularly in the age group of 80 years and above. According to the National Policy for Senior Citizens, March 2011, the Indian demographic profile shows that in 2000-2050 the population in the age group 60 years to 70 years will increase by 326% and in 80 years above will increase by 700%. It has been seen that out of the total World Elderly Population, 1/8 of them resides in India. The elderly population in India never retires in its strict sense and they continue to work as long as they are physically capable to do. As aging is inevitable and physical infirmity entrails age, this result in steep decline in earning that eventually amounts to poor savings and decline in standard of living. It has been observed that most of the senior citizens of India live in destitute, therefore old age income security is one of the greatest challenges amongst the senior citizens. A lot of aspects of their standard of living have been taken into account by the government of India to ensure their social security namely, economic, health, socioeconomic and shelter to propose adequate social security schemes.