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Determination of Cardinal Temperature and Evaluation of Germination Characteristics of Syrian Thistle (Notobasis syriaca) in Response to Temperature Range and Salinity and Drought Stresses

Abstract Before the Syrian uprising (2011) and the subsequent war, Syria's literacy rates were among the highest in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, after a decade‐long humanitarian crisis and devastating war, all aspects of life, including education, have been fundamentally transformed. Building on ethnographic fieldwork (2014–2019) that includes 76 interviews with Syrian refugees and asylum seekers in the United States and six remote interviews with displaced families...

Mt. Lamington is a Quaternary volcano located on the Papuan Peninsula, SE Pacific. Texture studies and in-situ chemistry analyses on mineral phenocrysts are performed on andesite and its enclaves and pre-erupted shoshonite to better understand the petrogenesis and tectonic settings of the volcano. Both amphibole and plagioclase phenocrysts have variable zoning textures in the three major lithologies. Although the andesite and enclaves have similar bulk 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios (~0.7039), their...

Abstract This article reflects on the religious narratives and psychological processes of transformation in the life of a disabled man in Uganda. It calls attention to the work of Christian genre conventions that privilege decisive breaks as well as to the ways that this man's subjectivity is irreducible to such breaks. Here, the article takes inspiration from psychodynamic approaches and a psychoanalytic ethics of close listening. The analysis draws particularly on the work of D. W....

The signing of the Paris Agreement at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 repositioned the global agenda toward sustainable forest management to address the threats of global warming. However, deforestation rates in many parts of the world continue to accelerate. The study evaluates the rate and causes of deforestation in Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment (UMSC) due to land use land cover (LULC) changes between 1990 and 2020. Landsat imagery analysis augmented by household questionnaire...

Introduction and Back Ground to the Study IntroductionThis chapter presents the introduction, back ground of the study, problem statement, purpose of the study, general and specific objectives, research questions, scope of the study, significance of the study and the conceptual frame work.Globally, some progress is being made towards achieving the MDGs, but societies affected by armed conflict and criminal armed violence are often off track.These countries are usually in the lower ranks of...

This study investigates major challenges encountered by Syrian refugee youth in public high schools in Turkey, focusing on three sources of assessment: the refugee students themselves and their parents and educators. Based on qualitative interpretive research methodology, twenty-three individual semi-structured interviews were conducted. The study simultaneously hears the voices of the Syrian refugee students as well as those of their parents, teachers, and principals. Making friends among...

IntroductionEdification is the paramount topographiesof communalgrowth that is ominouslyemphasized in the world.The paramount intention for this eminence is the connotation of edification in social, economic and political expansion (World Bank, 2011).There has been a lot of connotations on edification amongst the girls in both technologically advanced and incipient realms, nevertheless girls' involvement in edification is a major delinquent antagonizing numerous countries in the world...

Abstract Background Adolescent girls’ risk of school dropout and reproductive health (RH) challenges may be exacerbated by girls’ attitudes toward their bodies and inability to manage their menstruation. We assessed effects of sanitary pad distribution and RH education on girls in primary grade 7 in Kilifi, Kenya. Methods A cluster randomized controlled trial design was used. Eligible clusters were all non-boarding schools in three sub-counties in Kilifi County that had a minimum of 25 girls...

Why, despite enormous efforts to reduce illiteracy and dropout rates in Morocco, are rural populations the most affected by these two scourges? The dominant explanation is the limited provision of education and literacy in rural areas. Previous studies in the fields of sociology of education and educational policy management have analyzed the problems of illiteracy and school dropout separately. These studies have not been comprehensive enough to explain the complex relationships between...

Major political changes since 1994 have initiated the pace of change in the South African education system. Parents’ values, traditions and practices that served in the past were no longer relevant in the new dynamic educational environment. Parental school choice and “the right to choose” movement has subsequently come to the fore. The purpose of this article elucidates findings regarding the demographics of active school choice engagement among middle class parents in Western Gauteng,...

National education systems are socio-economic, political, cultural, and geographical complex realities with their own specificities. When we look to Global Agendas that defend the promotion of equitable and equal access to education, in a broad,

Educators are one of the stakeholders in the education system working to ensure learner success. According to the Minimum Requirements For Teacher Education Qualifications, educators must fulfil 7 roles in their quest to impart education. In the study reported on her, we investigated Grade 6 educators’ knowledge and use of mediation as one of their roles in teaching English as First Additional Language (FAL) in Grade 6 inclusive classrooms. We further investigated how educators responded to...

This study investigated the extensiveness of the procedures followed by science teachers in preparing SBA tools for science subjects in secondary schools in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania.The reviewed literature indicated that ambiguity in following procedures for developing SBA tools resulted in to lack of assessment formative aspects in SBA practices, and hence there was a need of establishing a way forward.Guided by complex adaptive system theory, it was important to examine and explore the...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the level of use of electronic resources (e-resources) by postgraduate students at the University of Zululand in South Africa. The theoretical basis of the study was informed by the Technology Acceptance Model proposed by Davis in 1989. The study adopted a post-positivist research paradigm to enable numerous perspectives by using both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. A total of 66 questionnaires were sent to postgraduate students...

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze, based on representations of physical education teachers, the obstacles to teaching of cuff volleyball in middle schools in Brazzaville, Congo.The theoretical model of Trinquier's representations, which is based on the "attitude" variable as an evaluative judgment variable, made it possible to distinguish the attitudes of teachers and to characterize this population in terms of representations, and therefore sociological anchors.A total of...

Abstract Background E-learning has been widely adopted as a teaching and learning approach in medical education internationally but its adoption in low- and middle-income countries is still at an infantile stage. The use of e-learning may help to overcome some of the barriers to access to quality education and provide flexible, low-cost, user-centred, and easily updated learning. Research can inform improvement in health care, but strategies to develop research skills among health...

The paper is derived from a study that examined use of children’s lens in a reflective teaching approach to enhance their learning of social emotional competences (SECs) in Molo Sub-County. The sample comprised of 73 children and 4 teachers where, 37 children and 2 teachers were in the intervention class and 36 children and 2 teachers were in the control class. The study employed a quasi-experimental design with pretest posttest model with a training module for teachers, a semi-structured...