In recent years, the school inclusion of children with special educational needs has been a central goal of European educational and social policy. However, on a practical level, integration is a very complex task as it requires a change from previously established practices in the context of a more general educational reconstruction. While the development and implementation of educational policy as defined by national and global imperatives shapes broader social and institutional teaching frame...

Special Education 

International business, social and economic international innovation refers to the ability to develop and implement new, unique or improved to create unique value for the Country. It includes incremental or improvements to existing products, processes, services, or solutions. Consistent international cooperation and innovation skills are necessary for a country to realize its full potential and prosperity, but many Countries lack this key skill. International cooperation and innovation are essen...

Business Management 

Introduction: The occupational risk of hepatitis B among health care workers (HCWs) has been long known. Despite a WHO recommendation for hepatitis B vaccine for all HCWs, coverage in Cameroon remains very low. This study investigates the hepatitis B vaccination coverage and its predictors among HCWs in Cameroon and evaluates their perceptions concerning the disease. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out where structured questionnaires were used to obtain data from HCWs in 24 differen...

Emergency & Critical Care  Epidemiology 

This paper explored the benefits of web-based information literacy programs for Open and Distance Education at tertiary institutions in Ghana. The purpose was to showcase the importance of developing a web-based information literacy program (WBILIP) for teaching and learning among distance education students and promoting Open and Distance Education at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS). This required a holistic perspective for in-depth findings, hence a qualitative method was a...

Educational Psychology  Education Administration  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology 

This study was conducted to analyse the health benefits and medicinal values of four different selected vegetable species (Corchorus olitorius, Melissa officinalis, Occimum gratissimum and Talinum triangulare) in three different families; Malvaceae, Lamiaceae and Talinaceae procured in serrekunda market for cosmopolitan consumption rate in the Gambia. A qualitative research design is adopted. Leafy vegetables play specific roles and ...

Public Health  Environmental Sciences 

Venture capital has become a hot topic in every economy today, as it has focused on companies with excellent growth potential and a need for large financial resources. Also in Latvia, 13 new venture capital funds have been registered for 2020, with a total fund capital of €294 million, while €172 million were uninvested. Financial resources are available in Latvia, but the question is why are there so many uninvested funds? Is it because new companies did not choose this support instrument, or b...

Business Management  Finance 

Since the emergence of the Internet, the most active contemporary college students, have plenty of time and are good at accepting new things. For some social problems reported on the Internet, they rely on the new media to express their views and opinions even give advice. Chatting on the network, establishing network forums for information exchange, forming large and small virtual communities. This paper first illustrates the code-switching form of college students’ speech community. Secondly, ...

Journalism and Communication 

Sensory image schema is a kind of unique image schema abstracted from human sensory experience and related life experience stored in the brain. Synaesthesia is a language phenomenon formed by projecting the sensory image schema of a certain sensory domain onto other sensory experiences. Based on the image schema theory of cognitive linguistics, the sensory image schema can be used to explain the cause and process of synaesthesia. Synaesthesia is a widespread phenomenon in Tang poetry. The approp...

Linguistics 

Debates on the origins of gestures and language have lasted for a long time. Many scholars have investigated in depth the mechanisms underlying human and non-human primate communication systems, including gestures and vocalisations, which shed light on the origin of language. Critiques argue that language derives from vocal modality, which can be demonstrated in the experiment on children’s language development. Since the origin of language is indispensable for the study of language evolution, i...

Linguistics 

Global climate change has recently received attention as it affects species distribution at all scales. Many species, including invasive species, have indicated a shift in their ecological ranges in response to climate change. However, little is known about the impacts of climate change on house crows (Corvus splendens) habitat distribution in Tanzania. We assessed the impacts of climate change on current and future potential suitable habitat distribution for house crows using Maxent 3.4....

Ecology