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Teacher quality is critical in the provision of quality education. Teachers are a country’s determinant of competitiveness and capacity to create more jobs and growth. They are important means of passing on values, skills, knowledge and attitudes required for democracy, citizenship, intercultural dialogue and personal development. Research has shown that teacher effect is much larger than the effect of school organization, leadership and financial conditions. The purpose of this study was to...
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Age-related tree responses to climate change are still poorly understood at the individual tree level. In this paper, we seek to disentangle the relative contribution of tree age to growth decline and growth–climate relationships in Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica Manetti) trees at the Middle Atlas Mountains, northern Morocco. Dendrochronological methods were applied to quantify growth–climate relationships using tree-ring width indices (TRWi) calculated for cedars of two contrasting age...
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Physics students’ representational competence: South African Physics lecturers’ teaching and curriculum response strategies.
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If a legal 'vacuum' exists at the international level, and no domestic or national remedy can be found, and (non-government organisations) NGOs have not taken up their cause, then where may climate vulnerable people look to find adaptation strategies and remedies for the equity and justice issues contained within them? With the goal of investigating one kind of answer to this question, this case study examines local-level discourse about the prospect of internal resettlement in Papua New...
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Introduction:Malawi is located in south-east Africa, 53% of the population live below the poverty line. Few studies have specifically investigated the situation for people with physical disabilitie ...
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As more and more Africa scholars learn the development of medicinal plants,experiment teaching methods have became a hot topic commonly concerned by educators. In this paper,four aspects were discussed,including improvement of teachers' level,selection of the experiment content,preparation of appropriate lessons and teaching based on teaching experience of English Teaching Advanced Training Class of Medicinal Plants for Africa. This paper provides a meaningful reference for educators who...
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Daily rainfall records of 39 stations spanning the different agro—climatic zones of Burkina Faso were analyzed to describe the evolution of five seasonal rainfall descriptors over time. The period from1941 to 2000, including the two most contrasted periods in the recent history of the Sahelian climate, i.e. the wet decades (1941–1970) and the dry decades (1971–2000), were considered. It was found that certain seasonal descriptors—namely total seasonal rainfall, number of rain-days and...
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Climate change is among the factors that pose serious threats to sustainable cocoa production in Nigeria. This paper analyzed farmers' vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Osun state. A total of 125 cocoa farmers were sampled using multi-stage sampling method. Data were analyzed with Factor Analysis (FA), descriptive statistics and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression. The results show that farmers in the oldest age group (≥ 70 years) have the highest average climate change...
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With the 'upgrading' of the relations between the European Union and the Republic of South Africa into a Strategic Partnership in 2007, environmental co-operation and climate change were identified as the most relevant areas of co-operation to be developed. Both parties agreed to establish a high-level Energy Dialogue Forum and several working groups in order to exchange know-how and secure funding. The opposing positions of South Africa and the EU in the last rounds of international climate...