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In a spatially explicit climate change impact assessment, a Bayesian network (BN) model was implemented to probabilistically simulate future response of the four major vegetation types in Swaziland. Two emission scenarios (A2 and B2) from an ensemble of three statistically downscaled coupled atmosphere-ocean global circulation models (CSIRO-Mk3, CCCma-CGCM3 and UKMO-HadCM3) were used to simulate possible changes in BN-based environmental envelopes of major vegetation communities. Both...

A cross-sectional descriptive study to determine the overall, age and gender specific prevalence, trigger factors and impact of headache and migraine on quality of life of students attending secondary schools in Benin City, Nigeria.Six secondary schools were randomly selected from which students were randomly selected. A self-administered questionnaire was used to screen those with frequent headache, defined as at least 2 episodes of headache unrelated to fever or any underlying disease...

<h3>Objective</h3> To assess the influence of smoking and tombak (local smokeless tobacco) dipping by parents, teachers and friends on cigarette smoking and tombak dipping by school-going Sudanese adolescents. <h3>Methods</h3> This was a school-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2005–2006. Logistic regression was used for the analysis. A total of 4277 Sudanese school-going adolescents (aged 11–17 years) from 23 schools who completed an anonymous self-administered questionnaire on...

A cooperation project on school physical education (PE) was established between the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The project was funded as part of the international cooperation agreement between South Africa and Sweden. The aim of the project was to investigate discrepancies between intended subscription and actual provision for PE/Life Orientation (LO) in Swedish and South African schools. Presented in this paper are...

Vegetables are valuable sources of vitamins, minerals, fibres and are important in fighting against diseases and malnutrition. One thousand, five hundred and thirty-four (1,534) student theses on plants submitted to the Faculties of Agriculture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast covering the period 1980-2005 were reviewed to determine the thrust and intensity of research on vegetables. The results indicate that students...

Primary education in Nigeria is of paramount importance to the attainment of personal and national development.This opinion necessitated this paper, as it relates to the need for improved supervisory skills by education personnel towards achieving the goals of primary education in Nigeria.This paper clarifies certain basic concepts such as inspection and supervision, the responsibility of supervisors, relevant areas in supervision, the challenges of supervisors as well as strategies for...

Background: Abortion is a common cause of maternal mortality and this usually follows severe haemorrhage or sepsis. Septic abortion is sequelae of unsafe abortion and this usually occurs when it is done in a clandestine manner which may be due to lack of legalization of abortion. The study is to determine the pattern of septic abortion managed in the hospital. METHOD: This is a retrospective study of consecutive cases of septic abortion that were admitted into the gynaecological ward between...

This study sought to identify factors that determine mate selection choice among university students in south-south zone of Nigeria.The study was a descriptive survey.The sample was made up of 1420 randomly selected undergraduates in south-south zone of Nigeria.They consisted of 907 male students and 512 female students, within the age brackets of 16-46 years (M=38.89,SD =7.72).The main finding of the study indicated that students consider character as the most important factor in their mate...

Malaria is the most prominent disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) have been distributed free of charge since 2006 to combat the disease. However, the success of this bed net campaign depends on sufficient bed net use in all age groups. This study was designed to examine the factors affecting bed net use in villages outside of Kinshasa. Two villages along the Congo River, totalling 142 households with 640 residents, were...

Since the inception of Ghana’s Educational Reform Programme in 1987, so many interventions have been put in place by the government and various donor organizations. Among them is the Quality Improvement in Primary School (QUIPS) programme sponsored by the USAID, which started in 1997, aimed at improving teaching and learning at the basic level. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of improvement in academic performance of pupils in New Edubiase Methodist Primary School since...

In this article, the relation between the Westernization experience and the radical Islamists reaction in Egypt is examined. It is argued that it is necessary to focus on the historical imagination of Westernization to understand the Egyptian reaction as manifested in Islamist religious educational discourse. The historical imagination appears to be based on a traumatic experience which was triggered by a traumatic event, namely British colonialism. The religious educational discourse in...

The Information Technology (IT) subject presented in South African secondary schools is considered to be a difficult subject. The programming component of IT is believed to be the main cause of this difficulty. Learners who struggle with programming are unable to obtain above average marks in IT, as the programming component has the largest weighting in the IT subject framework. The aim of the research upon which this paper is based is to identify factors related to learner achievement in...

Abstract Forty‐five years have passed since Kenya gained independence and almost 30 years since the feminist revolution ushered in a global gender and development agenda. While Kenya’s development agenda had a functionalist orientation aimed at modernisation, the outcome of efforts to promote education development cannot be understood without an examination of the context of women. Although development agencies acknowledge the need for empowerment of women, the interests of change agencies...

This paper emerges out of an ethnographic study conducted at the University of Cape Town that explored the dynamics of an intervention providing a ‘safe space’ for university staff to engage in alternative ways with South Africa’s apartheid past, the university’s institutional culture and with each other. This paper focuses on the social politics that arose between the intervention, its participants and imagined non-participants in relation to the university’s ‘transformation’ vision. The...