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Within the FishBase Consortium, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren is responsible for data on African freshwater fishes. These activities are part of a larger FishBase for Africa programme, supported by a framework agreement between the Museum and the Belgian Development Cooperation. Within this programme, the team is keeping the information on African fishes up to date. In addition, the programme includes a major capacity building training component. Every year, and alternatingly...

Previous studies found different trajectories of conflicted relationships with teachers predictive of academic underachievement. However, little is known about what places children at risk for atypical conflict trajectories. This follow-up study examines whether African American ethnicity, IQ, and SES are unique predictors of teacher-student conflict trajectories taking into account sociobehavioral predictors, including aggression and prosocial behavior. The study included the same...

Most scholarship on rural–urban migration in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates that migrants tend to move in a “circular” fashion and only spend short periods of time in cities before returning home to rural villages. However, some scholars working on the impacts of climate change on migration suggest that deteriorating environmental conditions may undermine rural livelihoods and lead people to move to cities for longer periods of time. If this is true, then climate change threatens to...

Mauritius is a high middle-income country with low levels of poverty and inequality. The headcount poverty level was 6.9 percent in 2012; measured by the international standard of United States (U.S.) $2 per day (PPP), poverty was less than 1 percent. On inequality, Mauritius also fared well compared to its peer middle-income countries. On the negative side, Mauritius’ growth has not been equally shared, despite the general improvement in welfare. The economy’s polarization was associated...

This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship.Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and coercion, on the other.In 2007, a nationwide programme was launched to teach all Rwandans about the politically dominant vision of the model Rwandan citizen -an ideal that is today pursued through...

This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship. Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and coercion, on the other. In 2007, a nationwide programme was launched to teach all Rwandans about the politically dominant vision of the model Rwandan citizen – an ideal that is today pursued through ...

Nowadays climate change is expected to affect society in a number of ways ranging from food security to water resources. Water plays an important role in the socio-economic development of any society. Thus, this study mainly deals with assessing climate change impact on water availability of Bilate watershed, Ethiopian Rift Valley Basin. The watershed is situated in Ethiopian Rift Valley Basin and covers an area of about 3643 km <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"...

Abstract: Organizations are now increasingly expected to address the sustainability of their information technology (IT) and communication infrastructure. This research investigates the antecedents for the adoption of Green IT in South African higher education institutions (HEI), namely which drivers and readiness factors influence Green IT adoption. Green IT comprises of server virtualization, storage virtualization, storage consolidation, environment‑friendly IT procurement, electronic...

<b>Objective.</b> To evaluate cognitive factors that might influence academic performance of students in Nigerian pharmacy schools. <b>Methods.</b> A cross-sectional, multi-center survey of Nigerian pharmacy students from 7 schools of pharmacy was conducted using 2 validated questionnaires measuring cognitive constructs such as test anxiety, academic competence, test competence, time management, and strategic study habits. <b>Results.</b> Female students and older students scored...

The study examined the extent community education promotes literacy among women in Enugu State.Three research questions guided the study.The population for the study was 68 community development officers from the 17 local Government Areas and 51 development centres in Enugu State.The entire population was used for the study due to the manageable number.A structured 21-itemed questionnaire with response options of very great extent (VGE), great extent (GE), low extent (LE) and very low extent...

This study using a sample size of 400 for survey and 12 focus group participants drawn from the population of a federal University in Nigeria, investigates the practicality of thinking about social media as online public sphere that offers Nigerian youth opportunity for such meaningful civic engagement and agenda setting. It investigates the level of access and social media literacy inherent in these youth, the uses they make of it, the extent of exposure and use and whether these translate...

<b>Background:</b> Childhood respiratory disease is the leading cause of under-5 mortality in the developing world. Indoor air pollution (IAP) and tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) are risk factors for lung disease, however the extent of exposure has not been well studied in an African setting. This study aimed to quantify household IAP and TSE in the Drakenstein Child Health Study, a low socio-economic South African birth cohort. <b>Methods:</b> Pregnant women were enrolled, followed until birth...

Abstract Since 2004, the government of South Africa has issued a number of white papers calling for the development of a national e‐education strategy. A recent study published in this journal (Mooketsi &amp; Chigona, 2014) suggests that the current e‐education strategy is not working for many communities in South Africa. This paper presents an alternative e‐education strategy for South Africa known as the DREAMs plan (Digital Resources for Education And Mobility). The DREAMs plan proposes...

The 79-page book, Teachers as Agents of Pupil Indiscipline (University of Zambia Press, 2013) is filled with African and European studies that reveal the sources of pupil and teacher indiscipline and how these affect learner behaviour. The author also presents global research evidence on the common cases of pupil and teacher indiscipline in secondary schools. The main objective of the book is to bring to the attention of the reader how teacher indiscipline affects the academic performance of...

A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education of Kenyatta University

In this phenomenological study, a sample (5) of adolescent middle school African American males discuss the characteristics their professional school counselors demonstrated that made them feel supported and nurtured. Themes were generated from data in a larger study where participants articulated that effective school counselors were humane professionals who, among other things, made themselves available to students, and were knowledgeable about those students. Following the findings,...

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, and often with implications for the appropriateness and adoption of technologies or the success...