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Aims: This study investigated the study habits and academic performance of science education undergraduates in Rivers State University.
Survey Design: Descriptive survey design was adopted.
Place of Study: Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria between May and November, 2021
Methodology: The sample comprised 182 science education undergraduates form first year to final year. The instruments were Science Undergraduates Study Habits Inventory and Cumulative Grade Point Average. The study habits inventory was subjected to face and content validation by two lecturers in Department of Science Education and one lecturer in Measurement and Evaluation and reliability coefficient established by Alpha Cronbach method to be 0.76. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using independent t-test and Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient.
Results: Results of this study showed that science education undergraduate exhibit bad study habits. Also, there was no significant difference between male and female undergraduates' study habits while a significant difference between first and final year undergraduate study habits was found. Further evidence revealed a significant relationship between study habits and academic performance of science education undergraduates.
Conclusion: Bad study habits of science education undergraduates contributes to their poor performance in examinations. There exist a significant difference in study habits with regards to gender (male and female) and class level (first and final year) while there was significant relationship between study habits and academic performance of science education undergraduate.

This article traces systems of exchange concerning the life sciences and capital and how they configure subjectivity in the United States and India. This is done through case studies concerning the emergence of personalized medicine in the two locales. In the U.S. case, I argue for the configuration of the subjects of personalized medicine as sovereign consumers; in the Indian case, I argue for their configuration as experimental subjects. I situate these arguments in the context of epistemologies of genomics and the consolidation of systems of speculative capitalism.

On the basis of archival materials and other sources, the complex process of formation at the Belarusian State University of mathematical education and scientific research in various fields of science is considered. Particular attention is paid to the years that did not stop in 1919–1921 discussions among officials and scientists about the legality of creating a separate mathematics faculty specifically for the opening of the Belarusian State University. In this case, for the first time, the position of an outstanding mathematician and organiser of mathematical education, a native of Belarus, I. R. Braitsev, is presented in detail. The author defines the 1920s as an undoubtedly significant stage not only in the formation of the mathematical component in the general character of Belarusian State University, but also in the formation of the foundations of the future high level of university mathematics.

As part of a comparative survey, the essay reports on a survey of the academic soc sci journals in the US: their history, development, circulation, etc. The earliest soc sci journals were either organs of assoc's or founded by strong U dept's; the later journals were offshoots of more specialized interests within each profession. Little attention is paid to soc sci articles in the public press. However, a new dimension is added with the start of new 'mediating' journals such as Transaction, The Public Interest, etc. AA.

AbstractScholars of nation-building and secession tend to prioritize elite or broader nationalist activism when explaining the proliferation of nation-states. Yet, recent historical research reveals a major finding: the influence of great powers tended to eclipse nationalist mobilization for new states in Latin America, the Balkans, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on recent trends in historical research largely unknown in other fields, this article examines context, timing, and event sequencing to provide a new approach to multi-case research on nation-state proliferation. Major power recognition of new states in the Balkans also emerges as transformational for the post-World War I replacement of dynastic empires with nation-states in Europe. These findings suggest a shift of focus to the interplay of nationalist activism and great power policy for explaining the spread of nation-states.