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We report on the inception, organization, and activities of the 1st ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search, which took place at the University of Cape Town in South Africa January 14--18, 2019.
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The objective of this study is to assess the existence of gendered climate change adaptation practices of smallholder farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. We hypothesized that smallholders’ adaptation practices are gendered because of land fragmentation and gendered division of labour. To explore this, we considered sustainable land management practices as a tool for sustainable adaptation and assessed the effect of land management practices deployed and land fragmentation on...
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We revisit the discussion on family limitation through stopping and spacing behavior both prior to and during the fertility transition. Using the birth histories of 13519 settler women in nineteenth century South Africa we find no evidence of parity specific spacing prior to the transition. In addition we _find no differences in spacing behavior based on differences in time invariant economic and social characteristics. On commencement of the fertility transition, we see increasing parity...
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A research report submitted to the college of higher degrees and research in partial fulfilment for the award of a Post graduate Diploma in Computer Sciences of Kampala International University
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Persons with hearing impairment are particularly disadvantaged in most studies related to Fruits and Vegetables (FV) consumption due to the hidden nature of their disability. This study was designed to assess the effect of Health Promotion Intervention on Self-Efficacy (SE) and practices related to consumption of FV among in-school adolescents with hearing impairment (HI) in Southwest, Nigeria. The quasi-experimental study was carried out among students with HI attending special schools in...
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The understanding of the interaction between education and income can never be exhausted, mainly because education remains the leading mechanism for upward social mobility. The argument is that people with higher levels of income are more likely to earn a higher income that those with lower level of education, that?s the rule, although there maybe exceptions to the rule, the numbers for such cases are arguable small. However, there exists differences in the extent to which education...
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In line with heritage language studies and bilingualism (Cummins, 2015; Bethele & Lambelet, 2017), this study analyses the possibility of implementing a heritage language proposal in Spanish bilingual education/CLIL. This work focuses on the problematization of the absence of the heritage language studies and data in the Spanish context, focusing specifically on Moroccan Arabic as the main point of interest. In order to accomplish the objectives, the present study has three points of...
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Introduction: Frequent reports of laboratory- and hospital-acquired infection in Egypt suggested a deficiency in handling hazardous samples and microorganisms among different researchers and profes...
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The Moroccan school system suffers from recurring dysfunctions as reported by the National Evaluation Body (NEB). These results lead to the degradation of learning and academic performance, in which several factors come into play. In Morocco, studies focusing on the neurocognitive profile of students and its influence on school performance are very limited or rare. In this context, the present study aims to study the role of working memory in school performance among Moroccan high school...
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Objective: In 2017, there was an estimated 350,000 women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Ethiopia. Primary cancers including vulvar cancer are increased among HIV women, which is associated with the numbers of years of HIV infection and compliance with antiretroviral therapy (ART). In 2013, the Addis Ababa city cancer registry reported a vulvar cancer incidence of 1.4 per 100,000 women. In 2016, a gynecologic oncology clinical service was initiated with the start of the...
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Author(s): Radice Fossati, Filippo | Abstract: Working with Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS), a German foundation that helpscoffee farmers across the tropics increase their business resilience, I had the chanceto conduct field research in the district of Luwero, in the central region of Uganda.The main aim of this project is to understand whether or not the Climate andWeather Service (CSW) offered by the Uganda National Meteorology Authority(UNMA), is helping farmers in their seasonal and...
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South Africa's escalating electricity rates are increasingly diverting educational resources to utility bills. Recent advances in solar PV affordability, the advent of the smartgrid and the capacitive nature of water heaters could be combined to enable new methods for electricity cost and efficiency management without affecting user comfort. Control methods that combine excess PV energy dumping and real-time temperature-based prioritised scheduling were compared with the normally-employed...
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This aim of this ag-nutrition integrated intervention was to contribute to improved dietary diversity (DD), nutrition, food security and incomes of smallholder households (HH) with children under-five years. The M&E strategy of the intervention assessed the overall effectiveness and sustainability of the OFSP delivery approach linking agriculture to nutrition behavior change and communication at community level. A total of 140 clubs were established and run by 157 trained community health...
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East Africa (EA) has been the primary focus for various drought studies in recent years. However, a comprehensive analysis of droughts, including their evolution, complexity, social implications and people's vulnerability is currently lacking. Hence, there is a pressing need for an overview of drought studies in EA. Here, we present a state-of-the-art review of the causes and impacts of, and resilience to droughts in EA. Studies reveal that droughts tend to be more frequent, longer and more...