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Information about the paper titled "SOCIAL MILIEU AS A MODERATOR OF RESILIENCE AMONG LEFT-BEHIND LEARNERS FOLLOWING PARENTAL LABOUR MIGRATION: EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE AND SOUTH AFRICA" at IATED Digital Library

Deplorable living conditions among persons with disabilities and the need to improve their living conditions cannot be overemphasized. This has triggered international discussion on the need for deliberate social policies to bridge the poverty gap between persons with and without disabilities. In Malawi, expansion of financial services has been identified as an essential tool to accelerate economic and inclusive development. However, empirical studies are yet to explore the preparedness of...

Climate change adaptation requires understanding of complex social ecological systems (SESs). One source of uncertainty in complex SESs is ambiguity, defined as the range and variety of existing perceptions in and of an SES, which are considered equally valid, resulting in a lack of a unique or single system understanding. Current modelling practices that acknowledge the presence of ambiguity in SESs focus on finding consensus with stakeholders; however, advanced methods for explicitly...

Reading is a language skill which is very important in almost all aspects of life.It is used in education and other daily activities.Therefore, reading is a critical skill which should be taught appropriately in schools.Despite this, many learners in primary schools cannot read the grade-level materials written in Kiswahili.This is attributed to the failure of the conventional strategies to promote reading.To find the solution to this problem, the current study investigated the influence of...

In the recent decades, extreme weather events have increased in frequency, intensity and magnitude threatening and increasing the vulnerability of rural livelihoods particularly in the arid and semi-arid lands. This study explored climate change events, the extent of their impacts on farmers’ livelihoods, farmers’ adaptation strategies and the extent of the strategies on improving farmers' ability to manage the climate change impacts in the Yatta region, Kenya. The study adopted a...

Although most of the African countries have laws and regulations that protect the rights of people with disabilities in every aspect of their lives, including leisure and tourism, people with disabilities still do not enjoy tourism attractions. The main objective of this study was to review the published articles in Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, and Science Directon African accessible tourism. The study specifically analyzed the extent to which the existing published studies have addressed...

Aim: To determine the antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens from urine, blood and wound infections and their distribution by age, sex and location. Materials & methods: A total of 49,168 samples were collected, processed and analyzed. Results: Multidrug resistance was observed in almost all bacterial pathogens in blood urine and wound swabs. In urine and females odds ratio (OR) = 0.864, p = 0.023, OR = 0.909, p = 0.013 urine and neonates were susceptible to antibiotics OR...

Migration is voluntary or forced relocation of individuals from a familiar physical, social, and cultural environment to an unfamiliar one. While migration is a challenging experience, traumatic experiences that happened before and after migrating may have numerous adverse effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate Syrian nursing students’ experiences of being a foreigner before and after migration and throughout their university lives. Phenomenology, which is a qualitative research...

Sediment, soil and fish samples collected from the Songor Wetland were assessed for the spatial distributions of metal (Al, Fe, Zn, Cr, Ni, Cu, Pb, As, Cd and Hg) levels and contamination loads, using pollution indices and multivariate analysis. The samples were processed through microwave digestions (Soil and Sediment: [HNO3, HCl, HF, H2O2]; Fish: [HNO3, H2O2]), followed by the analysis of extracts using ICP-MS. The results displayed patchiness of metal levels in the sediment and soil...

The poor understanding of changes in mollusc ecology along rivers, especially in West Africa, hampers the implementation of management measures. We used a self–organizing map, indicator species analysis, linear discriminant analysis and a random forest model to distinguish mollusc assemblages, to determine the ecological preferences of individual mollusc species and to associate major physicochemical variables with mollusc assemblages and occurrences in the Sô River Basin, Benin. We...

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a “pay-for-percentile” or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed so that some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of...

Abstract Purpose: Oncologic emergencies contribute to a large proportion of morbidity and mortality for oncology patients, who present unique medical challenges due to disease and treatment complexities. Emergencies training of medical staff is important, particularly if there is high turnover. We describe the development and implementation of a program to enhance timely recognition and treatment of oncologic emergencies. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, sessions were conducted virtually....

Mangroves are among the most productive coastal ecosystems; however, they are prone to anthropogenic pollution due to their land-sea interface position. We used stable nitrogen isotopes and spectrophotometric nitrate analysis to study the anthropogenic pollution in five mangrove ecosystems in Tanzania, including two polluted (Mzinga and Kizinga), one moderate (Kunduchi) and non-polluted (Mbegani and Ras Dege) sites. Also, we tested the suitability of mangrove leaves, roots, sediment, and...

The main clinical manifestation of scabies caused by the mite, Sarcoptes scabei, is a pruritic skin eruption.Since 2017, WHO has recognised it as a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD).In order to bring forward strategies relevant to the framework of NTDs in Senegal, we conducted a study.Our aims were to determine the prevalence of scabies and its risk factors among students attending Koranic schools in Dakar Method: We were provided with a list of Koranic schools by the heads of health...

Mathematics is an area of knowledge whose learning is done in a phased manner. Each of these phases is filled with learning from mathematical entities or entities that in turn serve as a support for learning other new concepts, considered more complex in relation to those already seen. However, for the learning of the new concepts to occur without difficulties, it is necessary that the basic concepts are very well retained. And for the retention of these new concepts, this work presents a...

The use of technology has necessarily invaded all aspects of our lives.One such area is education, especially that of lecturers at teacher training colleges.However, availability of technology in the education system does not necessarily mean the use of technology.Acceptance of technology use by individuals is critical to the successful implementation of technology in teacher training.Therefore, there is a need to research factors that determine the intention to use technology.Researchers...

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences in the rest of the world, they have had at best marginal success. Their essential premise is that it should be more efficient and effective to establish an enclave with world-class administration and infrastructure than to address cross-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In Southern...