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Nurses are the frontiers at all levels of care in the health care industry. However, nurses do not receive due recognition and are viewed as feminine, caring professionals with limited career opportunities. This study was conducted to explore nurses’ perception about the public image of a nurse. Fifty nurses conveniently selected from six different departmental cohort groups of a tertiary hospital were administered a tool to gather baseline information and an open ended question on nurse’s perception about the public image. Data obtained were organized, coded, sorted and themes such as technical skills, professional qualification requirements, intellectual-cognitive skills, emotional skills, interpersonal skills, professional status, professional attitude, extra-professional roles of a nurse, nurse visa-vis medical professionals, angel of mercy and prospectus for nurses identified. There is a wide variation in the perception across different dimensions. The study recommends identification of the nurses’ perception of this public image and the influence on professional behaviours among nurses working in varied settings.

The social representations of school performance have proven to be very diverse, and vary according to the aspirations of the stakeholders involved, the position they occupy in the system and the issues attached to it. In Morocco, there are multiple stakeholders in the public education system (The ministry of education and its decentralized services, teacher unions, the civil society, parents, students, etc.), and each of them has a specific mission which is in dynamic complementation with the other stakeholders in the system. The school principal remains the local actor par excellence. He occupies a decisive position in the functioning of the school. This position, which involves critical decision making, is where the execution of educational policies is exercised and where the aspirations of the different stakeholders are expressed. This paper aims at questioning how school principals perceive the \"performance of their schools\". In other words, it enquires on the signification (meaning) that these school leaders give to the performance of a school. To respond to this inquiry, data is collected using a questionnaire, which is administered to 40 different schools in the region of Guelmim Oued Noun.

Cocoa is known for its beneficial effect on human health because of the essential actives ingredient contains there in. Local consumption of cocoa has been very low in developing countries and effort is geared toward encouraging daily consumption of cocoa products in cocoa producing areas of the world. This study assesses the perception of consumers with respect to health benefit of cocoa powder consumption. Cocoa powder was administered on 80 respondents who were randomly selected from records of healthcare facilities at the Medical Centre of Cocoa Research institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State. The variables considered in the study were in terms of the beneficial effect of consumption of cocoa powder with reference to acceptability, frequency of consumption, rate of malaria since commencement of consumption, extension to family members, purchase if sold and health improvement due to regular intake of malaria. The data were analyzed using percentages, mean, standard deviation. The result shows the mean age of the respondent to be (33.57%). Majority of the respondents (32.5) were female while those that are married represent 65.0%.