Social Sciences

Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019

  • Catch-up Growth of Low Birth Weight Infants: A Study Among the Infants Born in the Backward Areas of Howrah

    Arpita Mandal Nandi

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 206-213
    Received: Mar. 08, 2019
    Accepted: Jul. 05, 2019
    Published: Sep. 10, 2019
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    Abstract: Background: Babies having low birth weight are comparatively more susceptible to infection and are unable to grow to their full potential of physical and mental development. This often lead to high infant morbidity and mortality. Hence, it becomes important to identify the low birth weight infants and offer them adequate care. This study was carrie... Show More
  • Trends and Actors of Local Water Governance in Ethiopia: The Case of Borkena River

    Shimellis Hailu Dessie, Sebsib Hadis Woldie, Mulugeta Tesfaye Teshome, Yimer Ali Mohammed

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 214-225
    Received: Jul. 06, 2019
    Accepted: Jul. 24, 2019
    Published: Sep. 10, 2019
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    Abstract: Water governance is the range of political, social, economic and administrative systems that are in place to develop and manage water resources and delivery of water services at different level of society. This research assessed the trends and actors of Borkena river water governance. Borkena is major tributary of Awash River that originated from S... Show More
  • River Pollution in Ethiopia: An Exploratory Assessment of the Causes and Effects on Environmental Sustainability

    Sebsib Hadis, Mulugeta Tesfaye, Shimelis Hailu

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 226-233
    Received: Jul. 14, 2019
    Accepted: Aug. 14, 2019
    Published: Sep. 10, 2019
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    Abstract: Ethiopia has been reflecting the environmental sustainability interests. However, questions have been raised regarding its effectiveness. Thus, this paper addresses one of the environmental sustainability issues specifically Borkena river pollution. Furthermore, it addresses the causes and effects of Borkena river pollution on environmental sustain... Show More
  • One Election, Two Victories: Ghana’s 2016 General Elections Revisited

    Awaisu Imurana Braimah, Alhassan Salifu Bawah

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 234-244
    Received: Aug. 12, 2019
    Accepted: Sep. 05, 2019
    Published: Sep. 19, 2019
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    Abstract: This article examines election-related violence that characterizes some electoral processes across Africa. The study thematically focussed on two dominant political parties in Ghana, thus the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in respect of the December 2016 Presidential election. These two political parties have a... Show More
  • Impact of Disaster Risks on Regional Economic Resilience in China: A Case Study of Wenchuan Earthquake

    Dan Zhou, An Chen, Jianfei Wang

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 245-254
    Received: Aug. 22, 2019
    Accepted: Aug. 28, 2019
    Published: Sep. 20, 2019
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergency Management
    Abstract: The occurrence of disasters has a great impact on the sustainable development of cities and regions. This makes the ability of urban economic system to deal with disaster risk and its ability to recover development after being disturbed by disasters become two important indicators to measure the economic resilience. Unlike the study of economic sho... Show More
  • The Contributions of Community Radios in Fostering Social Services in Tanzania: An Evaluation of “Maendeleo vijijini” Program by Radio SAUT FM in Misungwi District

    Mwidima Peter Charles, Fortunatus Manenosabini

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 255-260
    Received: Aug. 15, 2019
    Accepted: Sep. 16, 2019
    Published: Sep. 26, 2019
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    Abstract: Being one among the peripheral countries in the world, the provision and access of social services in the rural areas in Tanzania is still one of the major stumbling blocks facing the country. Access to clean water and health services in the rural Tanzania areas are one of the major challenges facing residents in those areas. Likewise, about 85% of... Show More
  • The Rise of Divorce in Bangladesh: A Review in the Change of Marriage Dynamics

    Sawkia Afroz

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 261-269
    Received: Sep. 04, 2019
    Accepted: Sep. 27, 2019
    Published: Oct. 10, 2019
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    Abstract: The world is going through massive globalization. The ideas, trends, practices diffuse much faster than past. The family is not an undeviating institution anymore. In recent decades, the earth has experienced downfall in marriage rates, increase in divorce rates, and change in the defining attributes of marriage dynamics. The western countries have... Show More
  • Chinese Community Correction System and “De-labeling” - On the Jurisprudential Basis of Community Correction System from the Perspective of Label Theory

    Chao Fan, Yuan Liu

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 270-274
    Received: Sep. 10, 2019
    Accepted: Sep. 27, 2019
    Published: Oct. 12, 2019
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    Abstract: The community correction system is relatively mature in Western countries such as the UK and the USA. In recent years, it has gradually emerged in China and has been pushed from the pilot to the whole country. It has had an important impact on the transformation of the executi of punishment in China. And its development can not be separated from th... Show More
  • The Formation Path of Moral Authority of Village Leaders

    Ang Liu, Lu Kexin, Yi Yang

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 275-281
    Received: Sep. 20, 2019
    Accepted: Sep. 30, 2019
    Published: Oct. 12, 2019
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    Abstract: General Secretary Jinping Xi put forward the ‘Implementation Strategy for Rural Revitalization’ at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This is the first time that the Party Central Committee has raised the rural issue into a strategic issue. It proposed rural revitalization along with regional coordinated development and hea... Show More
  • Influence of the Internet on Health Seeking Behaviors of Youths in Ekiti State, Nigeria

    Adeosun Foluke Odunayo, Folayan Opeoluwa Florence

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 282-288
    Received: Jun. 11, 2019
    Accepted: Jul. 08, 2019
    Published: Oct. 15, 2019
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    Abstract: The use of online resources to locate health-related information is known to be increasing among Nigeria youths; sadly, not enough studies that investigates the influence of the internet on health seeking behaviors of Nigeria youths have been done. This study therefore investigates the influence of the internet on health seeking behaviors of youths... Show More
  • The Path to Enhance the Identification of Socialist Core Values

    Shumei Wu

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5, October 2019
    Pages: 289-298
    Received: Aug. 22, 2019
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    Published: Oct. 23, 2019
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    Abstract: With the advancement of economic globalization, the deepening of exchanges between different countries has grown, among which the trend of mutual influence, mutual agitation and even mutual competition among different countries and nations in the world have gradually become prominent. To adhere to the core values of the country in the complicated c... Show More