November 15, 2017. One of our graduates, Richmond Acheampong, has published his Doctoral Thesis on the Durreesamin Journal, an Australian peer reviewed quarterly multi-disciplinary journal. The study examined the effect of cartoons
December 6, 2017. One of our graduates, Dr. Robinson Ehiorobo, has published a book by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. called, “The Implication of Adequate Motivation on Workers’ Productivity in an Organization.”
You can view his work through the following link:
http://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/the-implication-of-adequate-motivation-on-workers-productivity-in-an-organization-ebook/on the behaviour of children in Sunyani Municipality in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
Richmond completed a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD program in Journalism at Atlantic International University.
December 17, 2017. Our graduate, Julio Salazar, received an award from the Chamber of Deputies of the Bolivian government for the work he has done for the benefit of children with developmental disorders and autism.
Julio completed a Master’s program in AIU and is now studying a PhD program in Physiotherapy.
December, 2017. This graduate student completed the majority of the requirements to obtain honors which included a 4.0 GPA, published works, recommendation from his advisors, patent a product, etc. Congratulations!
Call for Papers
This Conference will be held 17–19 January 2018 at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks.
2018 Special Focus: Forging Solidarity: Collective Sustainability Solutions in a Fragmenting World
Theme 1: Environmental Sustainability Theme 2: Sustainability in economic, social and cultural context
Theme 3: Sustainability policy and practice
Theme 4: Sustainability education
Become a Presenter:
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Late Registration Deadline
17 January 2018
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December 6, 2017. One of our graduates, Dr. Robinson Ehiorobo, has published a book by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. called, “The Implication of Adequate Motivation on Workers’ Productivity in an Organization.”
You can view his work through the following link:
http://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/the-implication-of-adequate-motivation-on-workers-productivity-in-an-organization-ebook/on the behaviour of children in Sunyani Municipality in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
Richmond completed a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD program in Journalism at Atlantic International University.
Dr. Robinson Ehiorobo has completed a Doctorate program in Environmental Science at Atlantic International University.
| Vaughan Emmanuel James Bachelor of Business Administration Business and Strategic Management Canada |
Edith Liliane Mbonjo Ejangue Endale Doctor of Philosophy Human Resource Management Canada |
Gloria Marina Silva Fandiño Doctor of Education Cognitive Therapy Colombia |
Jairo Alfonso Vargas Bonilla Master of Business Administration Business Administration Colombia |
Juana Ydalia Herrera Ramirez Master of Education Educational Management Dominican Republic |
Martha Suárez Heredia Doctor of Philosophy Science Ecuador |
| Sonia Maria Carrion Moreno Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Ecuador |
Calixto Filimón López Ventura Doctor of Mechanical Engineeeering Norms and Procedures El Salvador |
Baltasar Nseng Mesian Abaga Master of Political Science Administration and Public Policies Equatorial Guinea |
José Luis Jiménez Araujo Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering France |
Uwihanganye Augustin Bachelor of Arts English Literature France |
Eric Kwasi Elliason Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Ghana |
| Luis Antonio Velásquez Quiroa Master of Strategical Planning Public Administration Guatemala |
Tashmeni Ram- Singh Bachelor of Science Healthcare Administration Guyana |
Madina Ali Abdirahman Bachelor of Science Nutrition Kenya |
Sidavanh Thongsamone Master of Arts Project Management Lao P.D.R. |
Carlos Arturo Pérez Brizuela Doctor of Science Anthropology México |
Brenda Alicia Ramírez Villegas Bachelor of Science Psychology México |
| Estêvão Júlio Licussa Doctor of Economics International Economics Mozambique |
Clemence Magombedze Langa Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Mozambique |
Ernesto Luis Felix Lourenco Master of Public Health Business Management Mozambique |
Nicole Willes Doctor of Education Education Netherlands |
Adesua Julius Oluwafemi Master of Science Electrical Engineering Nigeria |
Oluwafolajimi David Oluwole Master of Business Administration Business Administration Nigeria |
| Isaac Aigbokhai Okogie Doctor of Business Administration Business Administration Nigeria |
Evelio Arcilla Cedeño Doctor of Economics Economics Panama |
Silka Muriel Núñez Vargas Doctor of Physical Education Health Science and Physical Activity Panama |
Marco Antonio Gutierrez Navarro Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Peru |
Agostinho M. Soares Batista de Sousa Master of Public Health Epidemiology Portugal |
Robert Kibuuka Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Rwanda |
| Moses Mathothetja Letsoalo Doctor of Science Development Studies South Africa |
Louise Elizabeth Roberts Doctor of Education Education South Africa |
Okwera Alex Aniseto Bachelor of Science Water Resources Engineering South Sudan |
Bernard Ugochukwu Ukomadu Bachelor of Education Education Turkey |
Ssemwanga Sadat Lutaaya Doctor of Human Resource Management Human Resource Management Uganda |
Fausto Rafael De León Tavárez Bachelor of International Relations International Relations Uruguay |
| José Luis Meza Torres Doctor of Science Health Science AUSA |
Kenneth Chinedu Okocha Doctor of Science International Relations USA |
Sakina Husseinali Hassanali Associate of Arts Early Childhood Education USA |
Helen Modupe Edozie Doctor of Business Management Accccounting USA |
Gina Isabel Pajares Aguirre Bachelor of Science Architecture USA |
Renel Arsel Jerome Doctor of Philosophy Project Management USA |
| James Lothschutz Doctor of Philosophy Educational Administration USA |
Justina Zulu Bachelor of Public Health Public Health Zambia |
Narmada Acharya Dhakal |
Tracy Kandeya Doctor of Project Management Project Management Zimbabwe |
Marcelo Kengue Ndjile
Peter Pemba
Solomon Armah
Bernard Ugochukwu Ukomadu
Matthew Ike M. Iniagolu
Introduction
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a nation in Central Africa. It has its capital city as Kinshasa. DRC borders Congo to the west, Tanzania to the west, South Sudan to the North, and Angola to the south west. The common languages spoken in the nation include French, Swahili, Kikongo, Lingala, and Tshiluba. BBC News Report (Cultural Orientation Resource Center, 2014, p.5) indicated that DRC has a 900 square miles area and has a population of 69.6 million persons. The country possesses massive mineral resources which have been the primary cause of the civil war which has lasted for several years. The BBC News Report (2017, p.1) reports that the civil war in DRC, which has been referred to as Africa’s World War, has so far claimed about six million lives. The civil unrest in the country has fuelled political and economic instability with militant groups fighting to take control of the government (Dagne, 2011, p.12).
The Swahili Language
The Swahili language, commonly referred to as Kiswahili, is an African language spoken in the Great Lakes Region and various parts of Southern Africa. It was developed by the Bantu speakers and serves as the mother tongue of the Swahili community (Safari, 2012, p.7). Swahili is mostly used in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mozambique. In some countries such as Tanzania, Swahili has been imposed as the official language while in the neighboring Kenya, it is considered as a national language with proposals of making it an official language being deliberated (Gaw, 2009, p.2). In the DRC, Swahili is regarded as a national language. Also, people in other regions of Africa and other continents have developed interests in learning the Swahili language (National African Language Resource Center, n.d, p.3).
Resettled Congolese in San Diego, United States
The United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP) initiated the resettlement of Congolese refugees mostly from Tanzania (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014, p.1) Congolese refugees in San Diego face numerous challenges that occur as a result of language barriers. Congolese natives speak the Swahili language that is different from the East African dialect. Therefore the Congolese refugees in the United States continue to face significant challenges which make their social lives unbearable as reported by the guardian (2016, p.1).
Challenges associated with language barriers among the Congolese refugees:
Problems in accessing
quality healthcare services
Refugees who succeed in acquiring visas and being resettled in the United States are thoroughly scanned for any diseases that pose threats to the American community (Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, 2016, p.3). However, when these refugees are resettled in areas such as the City Heights, San Diego, the risk of diseases outbreaks emerge. In such cases, physicians may be forced to turn down the refugee’s request of administering medication which is also equally dangerous to the patients (Espinoza, 2016, p.1). Therefore, the language barrier problem facing refugees from various regions who settle in the United States has left them prone to poor access to medical services as well as death due to misdiagnosis (Morris et al., 2009, p.534).
Poor education
The resettlement agencies, in collaboration with the federal and state governments, have set up English as Second Language (ESL) centers that help in ensuring that the refugees are enlightened on the use of the English language (Endicott, 2016, p.1). However, as reported by Garett (2006, p.7), many of these ESL centers have been mismanaged which leaves a significant proportion of the refugees unaware of how to communicate in English.
Access to Employment
One major challenge that Taylor et al. (2016, p.7451) suggested is that refugees flock the local economy which brings stiff competition between them and the natives. Additionally, when these refugees are in the workplaces, their counterparts who are American natives, may develop a tendency of ill-talking about them when they are still present in the room (Human Rights Watch, 2001, p.1).
Constant conflicts
with the law
Many of the Congolese refugees cannot read the American constitution because it is written in English and there are no Swahili translations for the same. Therefore, these individuals may contravene the law unknowingly, but they end up facing the same repercussions. The same problem of conflicting with the law has also affected other refugees from regions such as Syria, Palestine, and Jordan (Prettitore, 2016, p.1).
Transport Issues
When Congolese refugees are resettled in areas such as San Diego, they perceive to have a difficult time moving from place to place in and out of the city. Research by Segal and Mayadas (2005, p.566) suggested that the issue of transport has been a major drawback to refugees accessing services social services such as healthcare and stable jobs. As reported by Bose (2011, p.20), the refugees are unable to communicate with the drivers regarding where they are going or where to alight.
Making purchases
Refugees who are not versant with the English and other common languages in the US face serious problems during making purchases as suggested by Nunez (2014, p.1) Nonetheless, it is tough to find a convenient store with Swahili-speaking aides in San Diego. The few who are present in these stores are East African natives who, as seen in earlier discussions, speak a different Swahili from the Congolese.
Non-inclusion in community-based initiatives
Research conducted by West Midlands Strategic Partnership for Asylum and Refugee Support (2009, p.38) found that refugees are often sidelined during community development agendas. In other cases, Nawyn et al (2012, p.271) found that these individuals do not see the need to engage in these activities and prefer secluding themselves from the rest of the community because they feel inferior to the natives.
In the past, textbooks were the primary source for learning. However, times have changed. We now have the internet as a source for knowledge.
Granted that the internet provides abundant reading material, yet it also has videos. I recommend to every student at AIU to use videos as study material for every course. As one reads, they can search for videos about the subject, which supplement the reading material.
Videos have become such a high-quality source of teaching material that a student could use only videos, and no books, as reference material for a course, even the Phase 2 Seminar courses.
How do you find instructional videos on the internet? You can go to such sites as youtube.com and vimeo.com. You can also go to google.com, do a search for a subject and then click on the videos option below the search box. Then you will see direct links to videos from various internet sites.
How do you cite a video in bibliography? This may be the most common error that I have seen in essays. In my experience, all students need to be taught how to properly cite a video from the internet. Most times the student simply copies the web link to the bibliography and hopes the reader can clink on the link. This is not correct.
Let me give you two references to a video on youtube about citing videos correctly. Which do you think is better, more complete and makes it easier to find the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyA0MtKDuA
Virtual High School.
“How to Cite YouTube Videos.” Online video clip. YouTube. Youtube, 23 Nov. 2015. Web. 9 Dec. 2017.
The title of the video is in quotation marks in the second reference. The second proper reference citation makes it much easier to identify and find the video. That is why a proper citation is important in a bibliography.
Is there another useful tip about online videos? Yes… When you search a subject in YouTube.com, you will see a list of many videos. The best videos for learning are classes, lectures, conferences and documentaries, which are usually over 20 minutes. So above the list of searched videos, to the right, you will see a link “Filter”. Open the link to see options for filtering videos. Under Duration, click on “Long (> 20 minutes)” and the list will show videos over 20 minutes. These videos tend to be more in-depth for teaching purposes.
It is also helpful to filter for “Playlist” under the “Type” heading. Playlists are videos that have been grouped by subject.
AIU encourages students to watch videos for their courses. We accept videos as course resource material. Moreover, you now know how to reference the videos in your bibliography. So, sit back, be ready to take notes and watch videos. It is a 21st century way to learn.
The Arizona Autism Charter School is a tuition-free school, designed specifically for people on the spectrum —the first of its kind in Arizona. It began with a group of parents, grandparents, and ABA professionals who were frustrated with the way the public school system served students on the spectrum. Together they banded to create the nonprofit, Arizona Autism Charter Schools, Inc.
The school officially opened on August 6th, 2014 for the 2014-2015 school year, enrolling students in grades K-5, with a plan to add an additional grade level each year until they reach grade 12 (as of 2016, they started enrolling grades K-8). Each class caps at only 9 students, with a 3-1 staff to student ratio overall. The small class sizes, personalized attention, and spectrum-specific teaching methods are meant to help students with autism learn in an environment that’s tailored to their needs.
This is truly an exciting development and a big win for the autism community.
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In the mountains of northern Turkey, you might hear the strains of whistling on the breeze. It sounds like birdsong–trills, chirrups, lilting whistles —but it’s entirely human. And, for around 10,000 villagers in the Çanakçı district of Giresun, it’s a highly efficient form of communication.
Using only their fingers, tongue, teeth, lips, and cheeks, people can quickly say things as simple as “okay,” or as complicated as “Would you like to join us tomorrow to harvest hazelnuts?” Once upon a time, this way of communicating was widespread across the mountains and valleys of Trabzon, Rize, Ordu, Artvin and Bayburt, by the Black Sea. Today, it persists only among shepherds, and in one village, Kuşköy, where people call it “bird language.”
In the days before mobile phones, these high pitched noises allowed people to communicate across great distances, with their whistles winging through the air, connecting one remote house on the steep terrain with the next. But as technology has made its way across the region, smatterings of bird language have been replaced by much more private 160-character text messages. For centuries, the language has been passed on from grandparent to parent, from parent to child.
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Practical quantum computing has been big news this year, with significant advances being made on theoretical and technical frontiers.
But one big stumbling block has remained –melding the delicate quantum landscape with the more familiar digital one. This new microprocessor design just might be the solution we need.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have come up with a new kind of architecture that uses standard semiconductors common to modern processors to perform quantum calculations.
Details aside, it basically means the power of quantum computing can be unlocked using the same kinds of technology that forms the foundation of desktop computers and smart phones.
“We often think of landing on the Moon as humanity’s greatest technological marvel,” says designer Andrew Dzurak, director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW.
“But creating a microprocessor chip with a billion operating devices integrated together to work like a symphony –that you can carry in your pocket– is an astounding technical achievement, and one that’s revolutionised modern life.”
Whether or not you agree that such an achievement would rival space travel, the step is a giant leap for computing.
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It’s death by a thousand nibbles. Pando, the world’s largest living organism —and possibly its oldest— is being destroyed by the voracious appetite of mule deer.
Also known as the trembling giant, Pando is a colony of quaking aspen that spans 106 acres (43 hectares) of south-central Utah. Because of an explosion of deer in the area, new sprouts from Pando are eaten before they have a chance to mature, and the venerable organism is at risk of dying out altogether.
“The system is not replacing itself; it’s highly out of balance,” said Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University and the director of the Western Aspen Alliance.
To the casual observer, Pando looks like an ordinary forest. But each tree shares a common root system and is a genetically identical clone of its forest pals. It’s essentially a forest of one tree, Rogers said.
“What you all think of as trees are actually one living and connected being,” Rogers told Live Science. “Being in this grove or this forest to me is pretty magical.”
Mule deer and other herbivores became such a problem for Pando in recent decades in part because of humans.
“Humans have eliminated predators,” Rogers said.
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We all want to improve our brain function. Chances are you’ve tried something to aid your brain in the past, whether it’s brain games to improve memory, coffee to increase your ability to concentrate and learn something knew, or some sort of herb or meditation to improve your mental health. The pharmaceutical and natural health industries make a booming business from this area of health, and we spend hundreds of dollars a year on products to improve our brain health.
What if, however, a large part of the answer lies in one remedy, and one that can technically be done for free? Turns out this isn’t just hypothetical: research has found that one particular type of exercise is as close to a miracle drug as possible for our brain health.
While all types of exercise (cardio, strength training, and flexibility training) have an important place in your exercise routine, aerobic cardiovascular activity is your best option for improving your brain function. Before you throw your hands up and say “ugh! Cardio!”, realize that this doesn’t mean you have to start running marathons. Even just 30 to 45 minutes of moderate activity each day will bring on the benefits. This could be walking, jogging/running, swimming, biking, rowing, aerobics classes, playing a sport, stair climbing, dancing.
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Our brains don’t rest when we sleep. Electrical waves ripple through our noggins as our neurons talk to each other. Now, researchers have shown that when these waves don’t interact properly, we can lose our long-term memory. The work may help explain why older adults are so forgetful, and it could lead to new therapies to treat memory loss.
To find out how sleep contributes to memory loss in old age, Randolph Helfrich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his team gave healthy 70- and 20-year-olds a memory test. Participants were trained to match 120 common, short words—for example, “bird”—with nonsense words made of combinations of random syllables, like “jubu.” Once they learned the word-nonsense word combos, the volunteers played a version of the game “memory.” They had to match the word pairs twice: once about 10 minutes after they’d mastered the task, and again a few hours after waking from a full night’s rest. While they slept, researchers recorded the electrical activity in their brains.
As expected, the older adults’ ability to remember the word pairs in the morning was worse than their young counterparts’. The electrical recordings revealed one reason. Read full text:
At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in what has been described as “ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over a one-month period between August and September, according to the international aid group Doctors Without Borders.
The group, known by its French acronym MSF, conducted field studies to determine the number of people killed in the period Aug. 25, when a brutal crackdown by Myanmar’s military began, and Sept. 24. Myanmar’s widely disbelieved official count for the same period is just 400. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have streamed into neighboring Bangladesh since the violence began.
MSF’s number includes at least 730 children under the age of five.
Myanmar has disputed the claims of ethnic cleansing, which include accusations of mass rape.
“The numbers of deaths are likely to be an underestimation, as we have not surveyed all refugee settlements in Bangladesh and because the surveys don’t account for the families who never made it out of Myanmar,” Dr. Sidney Wong, MSF’s medical director, was quoted by The Guardian as saying.
Wong said the majority of those killed were shot, others were either burned or beaten to death.
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Conservationists are finally celebrating an epic victory after decades of fighting to protect grizzly bears in British Columbia. In August, the government announced its commitment to ending grizzly bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest and throughout the province. While the news was welcomed at the time, major concerns were raised about a loophole that would have allowed hunters to continue killing grizzlies for sport if they claimed they were being killed for their meat.
Now, however, following a public comment period, that loophole has been closed. Trophy hunting has been banned entirely throughout the province, with an exception for First Nations who hunt for food, social, or ceremonial purposes, or treaty rights.
“Through consultations this past fall, we have listened to what British Columbians have to say on this issue and it is abundantly clear that the grizzly hunt is not in line with their values,” said Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
Some continue to argue that these hunts, and trophy hunting in general, are a necessary management tool, and that the money brought in from permits benefits conservation.
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