bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Utilization of modern animal processing facilities among butchers in amosun abattoir, akinyele local government area of oyo state.
Authors: O C Odeyale , O O Abegunrin , O O Olayemi , J O Ogunsola , F T Adelusi , A O Ajanaku 
Published: December 2022

To ensure good public health standard, the quality of management of abattoirs in the aspect of compliance to standard practice of meat inspection, sanitation and utilisation of modern facilities is fundamental. This study therefore examined utilization of modern animal processing facilities among butchers at Amosun abattoir in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. Simple random sampling was used to select 53% of the butchers out of 212 who use modern processing facilities to give total number of 112 respondents. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). The result showed that all the respondents were male (100%) and married (90.1%). Also, 81.98% were below 50 years, 45% of them had primary school education and practiced Islamic religion (75.70%). The result further revealed that majority (70.3%) had low utilisation of modern processing facilities as well as unfavourable attitude (55.0%). Majority (64.0%) of the respondents identified some of the constraints to utilisation of modern processing facilities to be high. PPMC showed that there is significant relationship between utilisation of modern processing facilities and attitude (r= 0.221, p = 0.02). Also, constraints and respondents attitude toward utilisation of modern processing facilities was significantly related (r = -0.257, p= 0.007). It is therefore recommended that government should organize seminar and programmes to create awareness on the importance of utilizing modern animal processing facilities.
Economic analysis of cassava processing in egbeda local government area, oyo state, nigeria
Authors: B H Ugege , A A Tunde-Francis , O C Odeyale , R T Ibode 
Published: December 2022

Cassava is one of the most important crops that can be cultivated all year round yet there is inability to meet the quantity demanded by industries and other end user of the product. This study was carried out to analyse cassava value chain in Egbeda local government area of Oyo state, Nigeria. Primary data needed for the study were collected through the administration of questionnaires. A total of 85 questionnaires were administered. Descriptive (Table and Frequency) and budgetary analysis was used. Well-constructed questionnaires were administered to major actors in the chain (farmers/producers, marketers and processors.). The result revealed that there are three major cassava processed products in the study area; garri, cassava dough(fufu) and cassava chip (lafun).The result also revealed that females are more involved in the marketing(71.14% ) and processing(85.71% ) of cassava. Also most of the respondents were betweeen the age range of 31-50. The study also revealed that to every one tonne of fresh cassava 275000(garri), 34500 (wet fufu) and 45000(cassva chip) are produced respectively. While the average gross margin estimated for the producer/farmers was N706111. Also it was discovered that poor marketing information is a major challenge faced by the processors. It is therefore recommended that cassava processors should organize to form an association and a cooperative society to strengthen the marketing network.
Sexual Violence against Children in Rwanda: Prevalence and Associated Factors
Authors: Nyandwi Alypio , Namatovu Fredinah , Rusanganwa Vincent , Munyanshongore Cyprien , Nyirazinyoye Laetitia , Ndola Prata , Nshimiyimana Jean Damascene , Ingabire Marie-Gloriose , Nyirabahinde Anastasie , Salant Natasha , Kamukunzi Mecthilde 
Published: December 2022

Background
Information and data on the burden and factors associated with violence against children are critical in designing and implementing preventive strategies and interventions. This study aimed to examine patterns of the prevalence of sexual violence (SV) against children in Rwanda and investigate associated factors to contribute to the knowledge about violence against children in Rwanda.
Methods
A sample of 1,110 children aged 13-17 years from a cross-sectional national survey done in Rwanda in 2015 was analysed. Weighted descriptive statistics were applied to describe the prevalence of SV against children, and weighted logistic regression allowed us to investigate factors associated with it.
Results
Over eight percent (8.4%) of all children, including about three percent (2.8%) of male children and around five percent (5.6%) of female children, reported having experienced SV within the last twelve months. Being a female child, having a romantic partner, and not attending school were some factors associated with SV against children in Rwanda.
Conclusion
Female children reported more SV than male children. Factors associated with sexual violence pertained to the child’s characteristics, family or household background characteristics, and community relations. The study findings call for an urgent need to prevent SV against children through awareness raising about it amongst children and the general public.
Rwanda J Med Health Sci 2022;5(3):302-314
Concepción pedagógica de los conflictos TIC en centros escolares de la provincia de Málaga (España): Una apuesta por la mediación
Authors: González Sodis José Luis , Leiva Olivencia Juan José , Matas Terrón Antonio 
Published: December 2022

Los comportamientos indeseados utilizando las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC), generalmente con la telefonía móvil, están siendo una preocupación en los centros educativos de nuestro país. Con el fin de afrontar esta situación se está desarrollando y aplicando nuevas estrategias que promueven la convivencia en positivo como es la mediación entre iguales.
El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar como perciben los conflictos TIC estudiantes de Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO). Se ha llevado a cabo un estudio de encuesta a partir de un cuestionario tipo Likert, Cuestionario de Violencia Escolar (CUVE-R) sobre percepción de conflictos. La muestra está formada por 1069 estudiantes de distintos centros educativos de Málaga. Los resultados, indican la existencia de un nivel significativo de la conflictividad TIC entre el alumnado y en menor medida del alumnado hacia el profesorado, siempre desde la óptica del alumnado. Se concluye que la violencia TIC, puede ser abordada con la implementación de la mediación escolar, estrategia que se propone como procedimiento apropiado para la gestión positiva de conflictos. Los principios fundamentales de la mediación son los mismos: voluntariedad y libre disposición, igualdad de las partes, neutralidad de las personas mediadoras y confidencialidad. En el presente trabajo no incluimos conducta de ciberacoso al considerar estos autores que dicho conflicto, es el más grave de los posibles y no admite mediación escolar entre iguales por no soportar el principio elemental de igualdad entre las partes, aunque puede ser la mediación una buena estrategia proactiva contra el ciberacoso.
UTOPIA E DECOLONIALIDADE EM O PAÍS DAS MULHERES, DE GIOCONDA BELLI
Authors: Leite Giovanna de Araújo 
Published: December 2022

Utopia e decolonialidade caminham juntas, trazendo sonhos e esperanças de onde se pode tirar um pensamento de ação e de mudança. Em “O país das mulheres”, Gioconda Belli cria um cenário onde a proposta é buscar soluções para enfraquecer o patriarcado, excluindo os homens dos serviços públicos e decretando que eles trabalhem remuneradamente apenas no espaço doméstico. O objetivo geral é analisar se há a presença de um feminismo civilizatório branco-burguês e o objetivo específico é refletir se isso acontece. A metodologia adotada é bibliográfica e qualitativa. Como resultados, destaca-se a inter-relação entre utopia e decolonialidade para transformar consciências em prol de sujeitos excluídos e despossuídos e assim, conclui-se que o “risco da essência” em favor das mulheres se edifica de forma positiva na obra.
A curriculum for whom? Rereading â€˜Implementing the Australian Curriculum in Rural, Regional, Remote and Distance-Education Schoolsâ€™ from a rural standpoint.
Authors: Roberts Philip 
Published: December 2022

This paper builds upon the evolving methodological perspective of a rural standpoint (Roberts, 2014b), and its related method of strategic eclecticism (Roberts & Green, 2013), to reanalyse existing data behind a previously published paper by Drummond, Halsey and van Breda (2012).Â It does this through an examination of the role of the rural in the Australian curriculum, drawing upon work that raises the lack of recognition of rurality in the curriculum as an important social justice issue (Roberts, 2014a; Roberts, 2015; Roberts & Downes, 2016).Â Through the reanalysis the paper illustrates that the rural educators who responded to the initial study had a concern for local places, and a perspective that an Australian Curriculum has the potential to marginalise local knowledges, and rural and remote schools more generally. Furthermore the re-analysis shows that age, time teaching in a rural or remote setting, distance from a major centre and jurisdiction of the school all influence respondentsâ€™ views in distinct ways.Â Consequently this paper illustrates the utility of re-analysing previous research reports, the use of a rural standpoint in research, and that rural educators have specific rural-related concerns regarding the Australian Curriculum that are largely unaddressed.
Third Age Learning In Regional Australia
Authors: Lear Glenna Catherine , Ellis Bronwyn Joan 
Published: December 2022

This paper explores the diversity of third age learning in regional and rural communities when people open themselves to new experiences and challenges in everyday life in two very different parts of South Australiaâ€™s Eyre Peninsula. One is Whyalla, an industrial city with a small university campus, and the other, largely rural Lower Eyre Peninsula focused on agriculture, fishing and aquaculture. Both communities have ageing populations above the state average. The paper is a synthesis of a number of research studies, conducted between 2000 and 2015, and has relevance for all concerned with the importance of learning throughout life, including educators, community organisations and service providers. While rural and regional communities may appear to have limited opportunities for formal education compared to large centres, community activities provide numerous, perhaps unique, learning venues and occasions for informal and non-formal learning, especially for older residents. Smaller, less diverse populations result in usually higher volunteering levels in social, economic and service organisations that provide many of the basic, essential and emergency services. Some organisations support the interests and needs of older residents, with various special interest groups providing opportunities for socialising and new learning opportunities that have individual and community benefits, fulfilling the aspirations of both. Supplementing these modes of learning are technologies enabling regional, rural and remote people to access formal education and training offered by open access colleges and universities.
Praxis Makes Preference: Grassroot governance of school funding in rural China with evidence from a northeast county
Authors: Li Yiran 
Published: December 2022

In Chinaâ€™s latest school funding reform, the central government remarkably increases input in basic education. However, this fiscal re-centralisation of education provision is implemented through a highly decentralised administration structure and yet local governments have long been criticised by the public for their inefficiency and misconduct. This paper depicts a snapshot of how school funding policies are practiced in rural China at grassroot government levels. It also discusses the implication of such praxis, drawing on the concept of equity underpinning Australiaâ€™s recent review on school funding.Â Selecting Shandong Province as a case study, this paper firstly analyses publicly accessible online documents on funding policies, released by the state, provincial, prefecture and county governments, to map out the procedures and models of school funding in rural areas. The second set of data was collected through interviews and focus groups with officials from local education authorities and school principals, so as to create a real-life portrait of policy implementation.Â This empirical study discovers that waste of resource coexists with insufficient funding: biased funding reinforces school hierarchy, improper means are employed to identify students with financial needs, disabled children have strikingly limited access to education, and students with learning difficulties are largely ignored. This paper argues these deficiencies can be explained by local governmentsâ€™ operational preference. In short, local governmentsâ€™ active involvement in school funding process may have aggravated inequity.Â
Attracting teachers to rural and remote Queensland: A case study
Authors: Paynter Ann-Maree , Taylor Elizabeth 
Published: December 2022

For many years the supply of graduate teachers, including specialist secondary teachers for Queensland state schools, has largely met demand. In recent years however, attracting and retaining specialist teachers in some Queensland locations and curriculum areas has become more challenging.
Reflective of wider Australian and international trends, balancing the supply of specialist teachers to meet current and future demands requires planning and early action. Taking a traditional approach to recruiting teachers (as vacancies arise) can result in shortfalls when unplanned absences, retirements and promotions occur unexpectedly. Subjects that are already hard to fill such as senior mathematics and science, English, languages, industrial technology and design (manual arts) are even more elusive in the middle of a school term. Many schools located in low socio-economic, regional, rural and remote communities are also experiencing challenges in recruiting teachers for the breadth of learning phases and curriculum areas.
Principals as Protagonists: Practices Beneficent for Indigenous Education in Rural Schools
Authors: Davies James Robert , Halsey John 
Published: December 2022

The participation and performance of Indigenous students in Australia's schools is below that of other students and is a matter of national concern. Evidence suggests that the impact on student learning of school principals' leadership is significant. What then, can school principals do to improve schooling outcomes for Indigenous students? Herein, we discuss research that investigated school principals' professional practices associated with their leadership of Indigenous education in rural, regional and remote (RRR) schools. Qqualitative research was undertaken using interpretive methodologies and document analysis techniques. Data collected in the period 2012-2014 through evaluations of Indigenous education in thirty one Australian primary, secondary and combined schools, from diverse RRR locations, was used for the research. Principals' professional practices described in the 'Australian Professional Standard for Principals' provided the overall framing for analysis of the data (AITSL, 2014). Principals' extant practices that shape the ecology of education for Indigenous students in rural schools were identified. Educational leadership that authentically values the culture, agency and beliefs of Indigenous people; that places Indigenous students' physical, mental, cultural and spiritual wellbeing at the centre of the schools' activities; that actively develops collaborative relationships and networks based on reciprocity, trust, cooperation and civility; that is guided and sustained by humanistic endeavour, makes a significant contribution towards the participation and achievements of Indigenous students.
The article concludes with a framework for leadership of Indigenous education in RRR schools which locates the principal in the role of 'protagonist', building bridging social capital around the practices that contribute holistically to the education of Indigenous students.
Erasing Rural Massachusetts: Consolidation and the Urban Revolution in Education
Authors: Cervone Jason A 
Published: December 2022

Massachusetts is the least rural state in the US, and its existing rural communities are shrinking. This paper examines the historical processes of urbanization, specifically through industrialization that have come to dominate and erase rural communities in the state. The capitalist mindset behind industrialization has spread to education where the state has a long history of pursuing consolidation as a way to deal with the supposed problems of rural schools. This policy represents a narrow viewpoint of what education should be and does not value the lived experiences of rural youth. These phenomena are analyzed using Henri Lefebvreâ€™s Urban Revolution in an effort to theorize the way education policy is being used by the state to increase urbanization and erase rural schools and communities.
literacy enrichment program for small rural schools
Authors: Vaughan Pain , Rowe Gaelene , Smith Kevin , Walters Julie 
Published: December 2022

There is now general agreement about the disadvantages associated with all levels of 'rural' and 'remote' education. To some extent these are being overcome by advances in distance education delivery systems which now offer more interactive learning environments; yet there is still a strong case for the effectiveness of intense, individualised face-to-face teaching and learning. The project outlined in this report originated as an attempt to integrate the professional needs of third year Diploma of Teaching students at La Trobe D.C.N.V., Bendigo, with the curriculum needs of primary school children in an isolated rural setting. The Country Education Project, through Maureen Chiswell, a Project Officer, agreed to fund a pilot project where forty-nine Grade Five and Six primary school pupils from the Pyramid Hill area (Pyramid Hill Consolidated School and St. Patrick's School) were bussed ninety kilometres to the college for an intensive three-hour program once a week for five weeks. The program involved individualized instruction by third year students in literacy skills related to independent study and research, and curriculum studies in Science, Computer Studies and Mathematics. This paper reports on the aims, program details, and evaluation of the literacy component of the project. Miscue analysis refers to a method for monitoring a child's oral reading of a set of text. An observational inventory is an interview schedule for noting a child's reading and writing interests. An interactive journal is a written dialogue between child and teacher, and top-level structure refers to contrasting ways text information can be organised, such as cause and effect or main idea then supporting ideas.
Technology and distance education
Authors: Walker Robert , Boylan Colin 
Published: December 2022

Under the Distance Education Plan of the NSW Department of School Education, the provision of a full secondary education to rural students has been enhanced through the use of technology based communication networks. In the Riverina region of New South Wales, a pilot project linking three Central Schools into a cluster commenced in 1990. This pilot project is known as the Telematics Access Program and is similar to other projects in operation in Victoria and Queensland. Each school is linked to the other schools in the cluster by teleconference, fax and electronic blackboard computer facilities. Through the schools in the cluster sharing teacher expertise and using the technology to link students and teachers, a comprehensive Years 11 and 12 curriculum has been offered to these students. Students can select from 17 subjects currently available.
BENEFÍCIOS DO FILTRO DE LUZ AZUL: CÍCLO CIRCADIANO E ASTENOPIA
Authors: Luiz Silva de Jesus Cleberton , Duque da Silva Analu , Sonoda Rodrigo Trentin 
Published: December 2022

A pandemia da COVID-19 provocou mudanças no estilo de vida das pessoas no último biênio, o confinamento levou ao uso excessivo de telas como celulares e notebooks. A interação humana sofreu enorme alteração promovida por meios eletrônicos e os écrans. Alterações no estilo de vida historicamente são acompanhadas de fatores maléficos imensuráveis. A exposição prolongada a luzes violetas ou azuis pode prejudicar os olhos, bem como a pele e a retina. O sol é o produtor de energia mais importante, é também a principal fonte de energia que emite radiação, entretanto diversos eletrônicos também emitem ondas radioativas. Através de revisão bibliográfica, esta pesquisa buscou demonstrar a aplicação de filtros aplicados em lentes para a diminuição da astenopia e alterações no ciclo circadiano.
Role of Dexmedetomidine Infusion on Renal Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Randomized Control Trial
Authors: Chohan Haris Tariq , Khuwaja Amin M. , Ahmed Sajjad , Ahmed Aftab , Muzaffar Maaida , Siddiqui Rashad 
Published: December 2022

Objective: To find out the effect of Dexmedetomidine infusion on renal function in patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery.
Study Design: Randomized control trial (RCT- NCT05375188).
Place and Duration of Study: The research was conducted in the Department of Anesthesia, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Karachi Pakistan, from Jun to Sep 2021.
Methodology: 60 patients were allocated randomly into two groups. In Group-D, Dexmetedomidine was given as an infusion of 0.4 μg/kg/h from induction of anesthesia for 24 hours. In Group-C, patients were receiving an equal volume of normal saline. The primary outcome of the study was Serum Creatinine (mg/dl) which was measured 24 hours before the surgery as baseline and then 24 hours and 48 hours after surgery.
Results: In Group-C Serum Creatinine was found to be 0.96 +/- 0.21mg/dl at baseline, 1.02 +/- 0.35 mg/dl after 24 hours and 1.38 +/- 0.47 mg/dl after 48 hours of surgery. In Group-D Serum Creatinine was found to be 0.76 +/- 0.12 mg/dl at baseline,0.85 +/- 0.17 mg/dl after 24 hours and 0.82+/- 0.24 mg/dl after 48 hours of surgery. p-value was found to be <0.001 after 48hours of surgery.
Conclusion: Dexmetedomidine infusion significantly reduced incidence of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.