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Over the past decade, economic and agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has resumed. The secular downward trend in agricultural prices ended in the early 1990s; growing incomes in Asia and Africa, combined with continued rapid population growth, are fueling food demand, which is expected to lead to a gradual upward trend in international real agricultural prices. For Africa the major agricultural growth opportunities will be in regional and domestic markets for food staples....
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This study is designed to examine cheating tendency among secondary school students in Nigeria, with evidence from schools in the Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. A total of 331 respondents in Senior Secondary 3 classes were randomly selected from 10 post-primary schools in the area. A survey questionnaire was used to elicit information on cheating tendency, the level of supervision, forms of cheating behaviour, and gender influence on cheating tendency. The data were...
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CITATION: Bitzer, E. (ed). 2009. Higher Education in South Africa – A scholarly look behind the scenes. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. doi:10.18820/9781920338183.
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This study on the prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in primary/nursery school children in Maiduguri was conducted in September, 2006. A total of 300 urine samples were examined using the sedimentation technique, which revealed an overall prevalence of 5.7% made up of 12(6.3%) males and 5(4.6%) females (p>0.05).Age groups of 4-7 years, >7-12 years, and >12-15 years had 2 (4.1%); 6 (4.3%); and 9 (8.2%) respectively (p of the disease was low in this study but medically significant....
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A study on human ascariasis amongst patients attending University of Maiduguri, Teaching Hospital between January 2000 and September, 2004 was conducted using the formal -ether concentration method. Of the 6868 patients stool examined 108 (1.6%) were infected with (58.3%) as male and (41.7%) as female (p>0.05). Ages between 5- 15 and 16-25 years were most infected represented as (33.3%) and (55.6%) respectively. The disease could be described as endemic since it was recorded throughout the...
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There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important limiting factor for business growth is the level of human capital among the entrepreneurs. The present paper uses a randomized control trial to evaluate a business training program in Tanzania. Our results show that there is a positive average treatment effect on business knowledge. It also appears that training has a stronger effect on the...
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CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A FRAMEWORK TO STUDY THE EARLY READING INTERVENTION STRATEGIES OF PRIMARY GRADE TEACHERS WORKING WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE STUDENTS
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South Africa in general has been approximately 2% hotter and at least 6% drier over the ten years between 1997 and 2006 compared to the 1970s. The use of water has also increased greatly over this same period. By 2000, 98.6% of that year's surface water yield and 41% of the annual utilisable potential of groundwater was allocated to use. Irrigation agriculture, comprising 60% of total consumption, is by far the largest single consumer of water. Given these climatic and water use changes as a...
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Since it adopted stabilisation and structural reforms in 1986 under the International Monetary Fund and World Bank auspices, Tunisia has been hailed as a model student. The country has never defaulted on its debt repayment, has managed to sustain a healthy growth rate, has stabilised its macroeconomic indicators, and substantially reduced poverty rates (Lamloun and Hibou 2002). Compared to Tunisia most of the rest of the MENA region seems to have had somewhat disappointing results after...
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Physics education research has shown that students have difficulties in learning essential optics concepts.Therefore, in this present work we deal with student’s conceptions in geometrical optics field. Our objective is to show the Algerian students misconceptions. We proposed to 246 students in first year university (aged 18–21) a closed questionnaire where most of its questions were already used by other researchers. The misunderstandings identified were compared with those in...
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This article summarizes African Americans' ongoing struggle for quality education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by utilizing school district data and secondary sources. The historic integration effort in the Milwaukee Public Schools system is outlined and the impact of sustained segregation, in the midst of significant changes to Milwaukee's social and economic context, is discussed. The historic integration movement and the social and economic context are used to contextualize and critique...