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This study investigated the approaches to learning and influence of a metacognitive educational intervention on deep learning among undergraduate pharmacy students. The study was necessitated by contextually relevant recurring concerns about attrition rates due to poor academic performance that...

This study has reported, in more detail the coping strategies to challenges experienced by students from the rural areas of Zambia who are studying by distance at the University of Zambia (UNZA). An initial literature review suggests that a number of studies completed in the past report that most...

I had to change the direction of my study from focusing exclusively on decentralisation and forms of decentralisation to decentralised community participation in Muchinga and Northern provinces of Zambia. The change of study focus was because several scholars have written on decentralisation and...

This study explored classroom discourse patterns of perceived difficult topics in biology such as classification of living organisms, mitosis and meiosis at senior secondary level in selected secondary schools of Luapula Province in Zambia. A collective case study design was used and data was...

Domestic animals and wildlife are considered important reservoirs from which Non-Typhoid Salmonella serotypes have emerged to cause public health concerns worldwide. Identification of the zoonotic origin of such organisms is important to understand the risk factors associated with a diversity of...

This study sought to examine dynamics of life satisfaction among elderly people and to explore prospects and challenges to its attainment. The main purpose was to create an enabling environment for attainment of life satisfaction. Creating an enabling environment for attainment of life...

Quality population is a parameter for economic development. Inter alia, health determines the quality of a population. Evidently, attaining optimal health calls for collaboration between humans, animals, and environmental health professionals plus understanding the consequences of humans, animals...

Psychometric measures of intelligence, which are grounded in early 20th century psychological investigations of intelligence in Europe and USA, are established means of assessing intelligence across many contemporary societies. In Zambia, schools, hospitals and employment opportunities use...

Hypertension is a risk factor for stroke, end-organ damage and death. HIV positive individuals are more likely to have hypertension compared to the HIV-negative population, however, the underlying mechanisms are still unknown. Recently, researchers have discovered that chronic...

The aim of this study was to explore how outgrower schemes in the context of block farming, affects livelihoods of the smallholder sugarcane outgrower communities in Zambia. The study examined the Magobbo smallholder sugarcane outgrower scheme in Mazabuka District, in southern Zambia – a...