This review of recent literature examines the research on the impact of service-learning on student retention.The theoretical framework of the review draws on both Tinto’s model of student attrition and Knowles’s theory of adult learning, which together suggest that academic and social integration, active participation and engagement in learnin
Background: The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced in 2003 to provide financial protection to the population.While the Scheme has made strides in improving access to healthcare there have been a few challenges including out of pocket charges to insured patients with weak client power.The study investigated the catastrophic nature
Aiming to optimize the truss leg structure of self-elevating unit, the sensitivity of leg strength to different chord space was analyzed, and the optimal value of chord space for legs was presented.The wind load under storm condition was obtained by wind tunnel test, and the wave and current loads were calculated based on theoretical and numerical
Abstract Mathematics is a key school subject for some of the most lucrative and economically important careers.Low mathematics performance in school is associated with low psychometric intelligence, family socioeconomic status (SES), specific mathematical abilities, and high mathematics anxiety.We used a sample of Hungarian schoolchildren (N = 102,
Species richness is not homogeneous in space and it normally presents differences when comparing among different sites.These differences often respond to gradients in one or several factors which create biodiversity patterns in space and are scale-dependent.At a local scale, diversity patterns depend on the habitat size (species-area relationship),