International Journal of Science, Technology and Society

Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022

  • Psychosocial Support Risk Prioritisation Model [PSSRPM] for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children: A Case of the Kingdom of Eswatini

    Happyson Bimha

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 166-175
    Received: 10 June 2022
    Accepted: 23 June 2022
    Published: 28 September 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.11
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    Abstract: The research was influenced by the growing demand for psychosocial support interventions owing to disintegrating family and community support systems and ineffective management of psychosocial support resulting from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The study analysed risk management in the Eswatini psychosocial support program for orphan and vulne... Show More
  • Bibliotherapy - A Book as a Medicine for the Soul

    Dragana Marinkovic

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 176-179
    Received: 17 May 2022
    Accepted: 7 June 2022
    Published: 28 September 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.12
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    Abstract: Reading books helps to better understand the world we live in or the problem we are in, affects the development of critical and creative thinking, helps to achieve better family relationships, can move us to a completely different world, and we can see our own lives through the lives of other characters. Each story read can have several functions: ... Show More
  • Afro-Descendants in Chile: From Disappearance to Reappearance

    Ibrahim Tuo

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 180-185
    Received: 22 August 2022
    Accepted: 16 September 2022
    Published: 29 September 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.13
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    Abstract: Studies related to slavery but also to the contribution of Africans to American culture and population, for more than two decades, have allowed progress in the knowledge of these issues that, far from being secondary and anecdotal, point to a better knowledge of the social conditions that, in the Americas, they allowed the accumulation of capital. ... Show More
  • Public Health and Population Perspective of COVID-19 as a Global Pandemic

    Nazneen Akhter, Mohammed Salim Uzzaman, Amr Ravine

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 186-191
    Received: 25 May 2022
    Accepted: 14 July 2022
    Published: 11 October 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.14
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    Abstract: Background: COVID-19 appeared as a single case to a cluster of cases in Wuhan, China (Dec 2019), and with its continuous upsurge of case spread as global pandemic which has created enormous threat and tension across the global public health care field. This is an infectious disease of global health emergency and highest public health concern of 21s... Show More
  • Acoustic Modules to Help with Spatial Distancing

    Quentin Lagarde, Bruno Beillard, Serge Mazen, Julien Leylavergne, Corentin Azais, Ibrahim Kamal

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 192-197
    Received: 12 September 2022
    Accepted: 26 September 2022
    Published: 17 October 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.15
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    Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a means of enforcing a spatial distance between individuals, of 1 meter or more (depending on the health policy of each country). Despite some urgent initiatives, nothing has really been conclusive. Currently, some devices have been implemented but using technologies that threaten individual freedo... Show More
  • Mining Exploration in the Pan-African Province of Damagaram-Mounio (Eastern Niger), Using Termite Mound Geochemistry and High Resolution Airborne Geophysics

    Djibo Maiga Abdoul Wahab, Moussa Konate

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
    Pages: 198-216
    Received: 24 September 2022
    Accepted: 24 October 2022
    Published: 30 October 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijsts.20221005.16
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    Abstract: The Damagaram-Mounio region is one of the metallogenic provinces of Niger belonging to the Pan-African Mobile Zone where mining exploration began in 1903. Several exploration missions including geological mapping, hammer prospecting, geochemistry and airborne geophysics have been undertaken. Among others results termite geochemistry conducted betwe... Show More