National Science Education Standards

Moreover, once Africans are educated they can take advantage of available technologies like GIS that can assist them in making informed and accurate decisions in areas of agriculture (yield improvements), health care (telemedicine) and even in education (distance learning) and many more areas. In the next section a SWOT analysis depicting the Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats for the growth of space research in Africa. Strengths Youthful population • Africa has the most youthful…

The goal of this French study was to assess the correlation between the amount of board games played and number of incidences of cognitive decline among the people Paquid cohort, a group of French adults over the age of sixty-five who participated in many studies. Dartigues found that the incidences of cognitive decline among board game players was significantly lower than non-players at each follow-up. Non-player instances outweighed player instances three percent to six percent after three…

history through education and their part in both…

Introduction The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a unique group of stages involved in the creation or development of a system. The process involved in the SDLC is comprised of four phases with a series of steps involved in each phase. The phases involved in the SDLC process include: Planning phase, which represents the vital stage of the process as it defines the problems and scope of the system, seeks viable solutions by carrying out feasibility tests, the schedule of the project is…

promote the rational use of antibiotics, it is expedient to gain in-depth understanding on public knowledge and use of antibiotics (PHE, 2015). This is because adequate monitoring of antibiotic knowledge and consumption pattern is pivotal to designing education and awareness campaigns (WHO, 2015). In other words, local and global strategy to control antibiotic use and contain resistance will require intelligence on factors influencing public use of…

To meet the demands of our changing world, education is the key. Less economically developed countries suffer from poor or inequitable educational facilities, as well as an inadequate supply of qualified and competent teachers. Also the need to ensure safe and equitable access to education is a large contemporary issue when attempting to make it available to all children regardless of gender, age and social status. Iraq established its education system in 1921, offering both private and public…

exploration. However, beyond scientific achievement, the space race served as a powerful way to project national prestige and ideological superiority. The Cold War space race played a significant role in advancing the social civil rights movement for Black people in the United States by providing a platform for challenging racial discrimination, fostering scientific and technological education opportunities, and catalyzing shifts in public perceptions of equality and meritocracy. During the Cold…

technology and science, medicine, agriculture, finance and the arts, to name a few. However, it is important to remind ourselves that we do not rate high on the Human Development Index of the 2014 Human Development Report (HDR); India is ranked 135 among 187 countries. This is mostly due to the miserable condition of our education, health and living standards. India’s booming population makes it difficult for children from poor and marginalized communities to afford and/or access basic education…

“Scientific research is increasingly recognized as a vital catalyst and important index for national development. In many countries, it is scientific research, rather than rich natural resources that have a direct impact on economy and development”. (Samir Al-Adawi, 2015) One must not take for granted that when an article or journal is published, the statistical methods that have been used are correct. “Unscrupulous medical research not only halts the progress of medical knowledge, but also…

Political Influences In its current state, regulations on public power have a number of lobbyists spending and unknown amount of money to bring power utilities back to the private sector with unregulated profits. Groups like the American Public Power Associations (APPA) make a political organization known as PowerPAC. Their goal is to change legislation by supporting congressmen with similar interests. “PowerPAC (Public Ownership of Electric Resources Political Action Committee) is a group of…