abstract. academic spin-offs are recognized as the main means of technology transfer, contribute to the commercialization of the results of academic research, leading to society wealth creation. academic spin-offs start with some major disadvantages related to their liability of newness, smallness and their university origination. it is been argued that academic spin-off need to strengthen thei...

The advent of social networking technologies has been met with mixed reactions in academic and corporate circles around the world. This study explored the influence of social network in current era, the relation being maintained between the Social networking site and its user by the extent of use, benefits and latest technologies. The study followed a descriptive research design wherein a quest...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature concerning the impact of otitis media on language acquisitions in children. SOURCES OF DATA Medline. The following keywords were used for searching: otitis media, hearing, language and children. SUMMARY OF THE FINDING: The hearing loss observed in otitis media may be a result of: 1) structural disorders in the middle ear; 2) ultrastructural lesions and bioch...

This paper reports a research in progress of an academic effort to adopt TOEFL materials into English course for vocational education particularly at State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang. During the last five years, open source Learning Management Systems called Moodle has been used in the institution as a platform to deliver several science and engineering related courses in blended learning env...

BACKGROUND The contribution of different cognitive abilities to academic performance in children surviving cerebral insult can guide the choice of interventions to improve cognitive and academic outcomes. This study's objective was to identify which cognitive abilities are associated with academic performance in children after malaria with neurological involvement. METHODS 62 Ugandan children...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties in word-level reading skills are prevalent in Brazilian schools and may deter children from gaining the knowledge obtained through reading and academic achievement. Music education has emerged as a potential method to improve reading skills because due to a common neurobiological substratum. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of music education for the improveme...

This paper describes a project that sought to integrate academic literacy skills into an elective intermediate accounting subject. It offers a strategy whereby students are set academic reading and writing tasks through a series of graded published articles, written by faculty members, which were accompanied by questions and other activities to help them understand the text and analyse the acco...

Reading habits have been singled out as having a significant impact on learners' intellectual output. Good reading allow learners to develop their critical thinking skills and eventually improve academic performance also non-academic novels helps linguistic skills. Learners with weak made noticeable improvements after taking part in lengthy assignments. nurture such thinking, valuing, flexibili...

This study explored relations of print exposure, academic achievement, and reading habits among 100 deaf and 100 hearing college students. As in earlier studies, recognition tests for book titles and magazine titles were used as measures of print exposure, college entrance test scores were used as measures of academic achievement, and students provided self-reports of reading habits. Deaf stude...