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The COVID-19 pandemic, first identified in Wuhan, China, was first confirmed to be present in Morocco on the 2nd of March 2020. It swiftly took hold in Moroccan society and spread like wildfire. This led to a surge in deaths, those needing extra and intensive care, and generalised anxiety amongst the population. There was perceived dissatisfaction in how the Moroccan government was handling the crisis, and accordingly, on the 13th of March, schools and universities were closed until further...

This chapter investigates the implementation of learning-oriented assessment (LOA) in two reform schools in Cairo which offer the British curriculum. Semi-structured interviews with Arabic and English teachers and school principals, and a classroom observation protocol, were used to understand the extent to which LOA is implemented in language classes. Based on thematic analysis and analysis of frequency, the most recurrent LOA techniques and implementation patterns are identified and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected educational systems worldwide, leading some scholars to scrutinise the consequences of lockdown and school closure on learners’ learning habits and teachers’ teaching practices. In this regard, this paper aims to explore the teachers’ challenges while implementing a reading strategy-based instruction for beginners during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking the Algerian middle schools as a case in point. It highlights the difficulties to achieving quality in...

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) fruit peel exposed to mixture air pollutants were collected from two sites with different air quality around the industrial area of Gabes city, Tunisia. The first site presented the ‘Polluted site’, which is situated in the oasis close to the industrial area. While, the second site referred to the ‘Control site’ located at 37 km from the industrial area. Using HPLC ES-MS, 21 phenols were identified and quantified in methanol extract from pomegranate fruit...

A Dissertation submitted to the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training, in partial fulfillment for the ward of Degree of master of education in science of Makerere University.

Like almost all the world countries, Algeria is experiencing an exceptional state characterized by a real epidemic of Coronavirus (covid19), which has prompted all institutions (establishments, businesses, businesses, and people) precautions to curb the risks of this pandemic. To this end, the higher education sector has called on the entire university teacher and student community to turn to e-learning to ensure continuity of courses and TD. Our paper is in line with this, with a...

Due to its climate-sensitive agricultural system and low adaptive capacity of the subsistence farmers, Ethiopia is cited among the countries experiencing frequent drought and highly vulnerable to climate change associated impacts. Micro level vulnerability assessment, in the context of a changing climate, has a paramount significance in designing policies addressing climate change induced effects. Assessing vulnerability to climate change is important for defining the risks posed by the...

The latest eruption of COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019 has led to the complete lockdown of key conurbations worldwide which occasioned the premature shutting down of schools in conurbations affected. With the surging cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, it is conjectured that COVID-19 may have an undesirable effect on the performance of senior secondary school class three students in science, technology, and mathematics (STM) subjects in the forthcoming national and regional...

Pra River Basin, Ghana, West Africa. In this study, variations of the future streamflow in the Pra River Basin (PRB), are projected using the Soil and Water Analysis Tool (SWAT) model with bias-corrected climate data from regional climate models (RCMs) for the near 21 st century (2010–2039), the mid 21 st century (2040–2069), and the end of the 21 st century (2070–2099), under two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). Weighting, scaling and ranking techniques were...

Introduction School Bullying is an educational and a health care issue that was kept hided for a long time. Despite, growing interest about this issue, it’s still a topic that is not well known and well analysed in Tunisia. Objectives - Evaluate the prevalence of school bullying among Middle school students - Establish the psychological profile of harassers Methods It’s a cross sectional study including 600 students of 2 middle schools of the region of Sousse -Tunisia during the month of...

Stereotype threat has been shown to have deleterious impacts on the short- and long-term academic performance and psychological well-being of racial and ethnic minority students. Psychological variables related to this identity threat represent significant sources of achievement and attainment gaps relative to nonstereotyped Asian and white students who do not tend to be subject to performance declines related to such threats. In the current study, we investigate long-term effects of a brief...

Groundwater contaminations’ spatial distribution and risk assessment are among the most important issues for human consumption, water resources managers and decision makers. For this purpose, stochastic and deterministic methods are employed in this paper based on the empirical Bayesian Kriging (EBK), ordinary kriging (OK), and radial basis function (RBF) with multi-quadratic function, which help to predict the spatial distribution and risk assessments. These methods are based on the...

Introduction The regulation of emotions is a psychological process covering the capacity of inhibiting, maintaining or modulating emotions to create a coherent psychological functioning and to enable the individual to live in adequacy with his or her environment. Objectives The aim of the study was to develop an Arabic version of the “Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire-2” (REQ-2T) from Phillips & Power, 2007, and to validate it in a sample of Tunisian university students. Methods This...

Climate warming is inducing dramatic changes in species distribution. While many studies report the poleward range expansion of some species, some others report the range retraction and extinction risk of other species. Here we explore how climate warming affects the southern edge in North Africa of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, which is a model insect currently expanding northwards and toward higher elevation in Europe. This Mediterranean forest insect was found in...

Climate-related disasters in coastal urban areas are intensifying with significant impacts on populaces, environments, and ecosystems. Hence, climate-related disaster preparedness is now acknowledged by climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction experts. However, there is limited knowledge of communities and policy-makers on the integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This paper through the lens of resilience theory presents goals towards...

Understanding how climate warming and land-use changes determine the vulnerability of forests to drought is critical. However, we still lack: (i) robust quantifications of long-term growth changes during aridification processes, (ii) links between growth decline, changes in forest cover, stand structure and soil conditions, and (iii) forecasts of growth variability to projected climate warming. We investigated tree-ring records over the past 400-700 years, quantified changes in grazing area...

PCWP: -0.28 p = 0.05;, p = 0.025].Empirical cutoff values after axillary Impella insertion for changes in RAP, RAP:PCWP, and PAPi to identify early RHF after LVAD implantation are provided in Table 1.Conclusion: In patients at moderate or high risk for early, severe RHF after LVAD implantation, greater improvements in RAP, RAP:PCWP, and PAPi after Impella insertion are associated with lower RHF risk.

Undergraduate health professionals' education in Malawi is mostly provided through a uniprofessional approach, even though the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends interprofessional education (IPE) in order to prepare health workers for collaborative practice. Because IPE is not widely practiced in Malawi, faculty may not have the knowledge and skills required for successful IPE implementation.To explore perceived needs for knowledge and skills related to IPE among faculty in...

Studies have suggested that the effective use of school self-evaluation is one of the best ways of improving schools. Several countries use school self-evaluation as an accountability measure and quality assurance framework to improve schools’ and students’ academic performance. This article examines teachers’ understanding of school self-evaluation, the usage of school self-evaluation, and the nature of support systems that may be available to basic schools in Ghana. Interview data were...