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Climate change mitigation and air quality management are mostly addressed separately in South African legal acts and policies. This approach is not always coherent, especially in the context of other serious issues South Africa is facing, such as poverty alleviation. Policies implemented to mitigate climate change might increase negative health affects due to unanticipated outcomes (e.g. increased local air pollution), and these indirect consequences must therefore be taken into account when...

Climate change mitigation and air quality management are mostly addressed separately in South African legal acts and policies. This approach is not always coherent, especially in the context of other serious issues South Africa is facing, such as poverty alleviation. Policies implemented to mitigate climate change might increase negative health affects due to unanticipated outcomes (e.g. increased local air pollution), and these indirect consequences must therefore be taken into account when...

Clinical training in most medical schools, including the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS), is offered in the form of junior and senior rotations. During these clinical rotations, students are expected to acquire and master the basic procedural skills. However, students' learning process should be evaluated for quality improvement.This study was conducted to identify the basic medical procedural skills that third-year medical students should acquire and master and...

Child labourers play an integral role in households' income diversification process by contributing to farm and non-farm incomes but policies, including that of ILO, have focused largely on eliminating child labour from the agricultural sector through education. This study sought to ascertain the relative contribution of child labourers to farm and non-farm incomes using the GLSS6 data and employed a SUR estimation that simulated, empirically, with the child's number of hours spent in...

1 Faculty of Science Dhar El Mahraz / Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (MOROCCO)2 Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (MOROCCO)3 Faculty of Science Dhar El Mahraz (MOROCCO)

This paper aims to identify and compare the determinants of entrepreneurial Attitudes, Intentions and Behaviours (AIB) among Portuguese-Speaking Countries (PSC) with different levels of economic development. A descriptive statistical analysis was developed based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2010. Analysis includes the creation of a quantitative index for entrepreneurial AIB (Entrepreneurial Index) and multiple linear regressions in order to asses which factors affect the...

Teacher management of individual's physical and psychological wellbeing of learners tend to deliver them from pessimistic and traumatic life threatening circumstances in which children with disabilities (CWD) find themselves particularly between ages 4-6 in Early Childhood Education (E.C.E) centres .The pessimistic and traumatic episodes creates emotional imbalance in children with disabilities particularly navigating around their safety, self actualization and independence in participation...

Issues regarding the diagnosis and treatment of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) continue to be of increasing concern to practitioners in educational and mental health settings.Given this rising concern, it is important to note that the majority of research regarding self-injury has focused on the symptomology and treatment of Caucasian females; little work has been done regarding the prevalence, presentation and treatment of self-injury with other populations (Marchetto, 2006).This article...

A research thesis submitted in fulfillment of the degree of Master of Education (Special Needs Education) in the School of Education Kenyatta University. March, 2016

Sleep disorders are diverse in Parkinson's disease. We aimed to assess the quality of sleep in patients with Parkinson's disease in an African population. In a transversal and prospective study from April to June 2014, all parkinsonian patients followed at the Fann Teaching Hospital Neurology Clinic (Dakar, Senegal) were assessed using the Hoehn and Yahr's scale and filled out the following questionnaires: Parkinson's disease sleep scale (PDSS), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and...

Introduction Schemas are the organized general representations of the experience intended to facilitate information processing. Any dysfunction in these schemas could affect the normal neurocognitive abilities, as memory. Aim To evaluate the forward and backward memory span abilities among Moroccan students and to study the impact of maladaptive schemas on the memory. Methods The present study is a cross-sectional study conducted among 212 students, aged 17 to 25 years, randomly selected...

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and other high-magnitude events are important steering mechanisms in the geomorphic development of coral reef islands. Sandy reef islands located outside the storm belts are strongly sensitive to the impact of occasional high-magnitude events and show abrupt, commonly erosive geomorphic change in response to such events. Based on the interpretation of remote sensing data, it is well known that the process of landform recovery might take several decades or even...

Introduction Teachers are confronted with increasing difficulties and demands that make them vulnerable to burnout. Aims To evaluate burnout among a population of Tunisian teachers and to identify factors that may be involved. Methods It was a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytic study, involving 165 teachers working in 10 primary schools and 7 high schools in Sfax, Tunisia. The participants completed a self-questionnaire containing their socio-demographic and professional...

Uganda suffers from substantial school infrastructuregaps, which need to be addressed to better serve the student population. Due to ambitious goals for the education system and rapid population growth, the number of children in primary and secondary school isexpected to nearly double overall by 2025 versus the size of the education system a dozen years earlier. This dramatic expansion will require building new schools apart from improving/expanding existing ones.This note focuses on two...

While there is a reduction in the incidence and prevalence of HIV among general population, studies indicate the opposite among people with disabilities. The possible causes for the increase in HIV among this population were attributed to limited knowledge related to HIV/AIDS information and untargeted services to address the HIV/AIDS related needs for people with disabilities. The greatest challenge is that the picture among people with disabilities in general population, is also the same...

This paper investigated how Subject Advisors perceive their support for teaching and learning in schools. The qualitative research approach was used and two subject advisors were purposively selected from two underperforming Education Districts. Since this study was premised on the interpretive paradigm, the researcher used semi-structured interviews to collect data. The qualitative data analysis method was used and data from different participants were simultaneously analyzed and...

This article assesses mine ventilation systems and air pollution impacts on 4000 artisanal tanzanite miners at Merelani. Concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) in five selected mines averaged 66.2 ppm (with maximum of 102 ppm) which is 2.5 times higher than the maximum concentration specified by Ontario Ministry of Labour (2015). The average level of respirable dust was 8 mg dust/m3 air, which is 4 times higher than the allowable American guidelines for mines. Suffocation accidents consists...