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A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Master of Environmental Science in the School of Environmental Studies of Kenyatta University

Developed countries have dominated the hosting of major sports events for many decades, however recent years have witnessed cities and nations from ‘developing countries’ bidding to stage and actually hosting these events. This thesis examines the growing interest of developing countries in hosting major sports events. There were three main objectives. First, to outline the relationship between African countries and the global sports system (GSS), with a specific focus on Kenya and South...

The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of cyber bullying behaviors among South African high school learners (adolescents) and the extent to which learner rights are violated by suc...

Education in Nigeria in the past was centered on recitation, use of conversation, lecture, and questioning method to teach students new information and concepts. Traditionally, the emphasis on our curricula has been on defined knowledge to be acquired with less attention on the development of skills, conscious articulation of the other remaining areas of learning -behaviours, attitudes and values and finally learning to learn. This paper therefore examines the trends in curricular issues of...

An analysis of undergraduate students’ perception in the mobile telecommunication industry was conducted using four Ghanaian universities. The study adopted a cross sectional and quantitative design methodological approaches and relied on primary data sources for data collection. Using quota and convenience sampling techniques, a total of 400 respondents were selected from the four universities. Results from the study revealed that a gap exists between customer expectations and perceptions...

Given the fact that there was only one public university in Botswana until recently when the second was established, it became impossible for the nation to meet the educational needs of its people through face-to-face system.The bid to expand the accessibility of citizens to further education led to the search for the option found in distance education.The study investigated the information needs of the students of four distance teaching institutions in Botswana.The institutions include the...

The present political dispensation in Nigeria requires that women should contribute to decision making in government. According to the Beijing Conference requirement every country that participated in the conference should reserve 30 percent of positions and office to women, but Nigeria, is yet to have 10 percent of women constitute a key resource whose ideas and ability can help bring about political economic and social transformation. This study therefore investigated the role of...

Learning is closely intertwined with wellbeing. The school environment, as a context of learning, has been found to play an important role in children?s social, emotional and behavioral development (Gutman and Feinstein, 2008). It has been observed by many scholars that ?high-quality early education produces long-lasting benefits? (Schweinhart & Weikart 1997; National Research Council & Institute of Medicine 2000; Peisner- Feinberg et al. 2000; National Research Council 2001; Reynolds et al....

The accuracy of an annotated corpus can be increased through evaluation and re- vision of the annotation scheme, and through adjudication of the disagreements found. In this paper, we describe a novel process that has been applied to improve a part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus for the African language Igbo. An inter-annotation agreement (IAA) exercise was undertaken to iteratively revise the tagset used in the creation of the initial tagged corpus, with the aim of refining the tagset and...

This study highlights drought characteristics and the many responses to drought stresses employed by Turkana pastoralists of northwestern Kenya. Multiple data sources, including socioeconomic interviews with 302 households, focus group discussions, and informal interviews with pastoralists were used to capture various aspects of drought and drought adaptation and coping practices. Standardized precipitation index derived from long-term rainfall data obtained from the Kenya Meteorological...

Nigeria is made up of 36 states and a Federal Capital Territory with 774 Local Government Councils. The nation has well over 350 indigenous languages (Osime, 2011). Edo State is one of the states. The state is located in the South-South geo-political region of the nation. Edo State is politically subdivided into 3 Senatorial Districts of Central, South and North. Our research is focused on one of the 5 local government areas of the state- Esan Central Local Government Area -in view with the...

The study was a descriptive survey that sought to evaluate the implementation of team teaching in federal tertiary institutions in a state in Nigeria.A sample of 1,110 lecturers was selected from the population using stratified random sampling technique.Four research questions guided the study.A set of researchers designed questionnaire in form of 4-point Likert scale, was used for data collection.The validity as well as the reliability was ensured by using experts in Curriculum and...

The impressive recent GDP growth performance in DRC has not contributed to significantly reduce the high levels of initial poverty that were inherited from long years of war and mismanagement. Using a CGE-microsimulation model of the DRC, this study assesses the economywide growth and distributional effects of mining-based growth. Unlike other studies, this paper went a step further by comparing the results of mining-led growth to an alternative more broad-based development strategy where...

The purpose of the study was to establish Teachers' Perception on observation as a Method of Assessment of Holistic Development among lower public primary school learners in Kisumu Central Sub-County, Kenya.The personal construct theory of Kelly G, (2000) guided the study.The research design employed was concurrent triangulation design.The target population for the study was 234 lower primary school teachers, 90 ECDE teachers30 head-teachers and 3 DICECE officers, and a sample size of 186...

The purpose of the study was to establish Teachers' Perception on progress monitoring record as a Method of Assessment of Holistic Development among lower public primary school learners in Kisumu Central Sub-County Kisumu county Kenya.The Global Holistic Human Development and Identity Formation Theory by Maehr and Braskamp guided the study.The research design employed was mixed method approach particularly the concurrent triangulation design.The target population for the study was 234 lower...

BackgroundThe high prevalence of asthma among urban African American (AA) populations has attracted research attention, whereas the prevalence among rural AA populations is poorly documented.ObjectiveWe sought to compare the prevalence of asthma among AA youth in rural Georgia and urban Detroit, Michigan.MethodsThe prevalence of asthma was compared in population-based samples of 7297 youth attending Detroit public high schools and in 2523 youth attending public high schools in rural Georgia....

Rationale: Symptom scores show that a significant proportion of Nigerians are at high risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea; however, the diagnosis is rarely made in this country. The knowledge of medical students regarding sleep apnea may provide insight into their future ability to recognize patients with sleep apnea and can also inform student education on this disease.Objectives: To assess the knowledge and attitudes of graduating medical students in Nigeria regarding obstructive...

Objective Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is recognized as a high-risk condition for conversion to dementia, although data on outcomes of MCI in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. We investigated outcomes of MCI over a 4-year period in Tanzania and considered risk factors for conversion to dementia. Methods In a longitudinal cohort study in the Hai district, Tanzania, patients with MCI were identified during a two-phase prevalence study carried out in 2010. Of 1,198 people aged 70 years and over...