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The performance of food crop production is currently, greatly threatened by climate change. However, the extent to which these impacts are felt depends principally on the adaptation measures used by farmers to cushion the effects of climate change. This study centered on the factors that drive the choice of major adaptation measures by farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. The study used multistage sampling procedure to select 360 food crop farmers in the area. Primary data were collected through...

A chapter from the book titled : INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING AND RE-TRAINING (P. Calloginiakis, K. Carras & C, Wolhuter (Eds.) Crete: University of Crete Press)

The development and impacts of famines are predominantly explained by theories focusing on the social aspects of food distribution, and not on its availability. However, during the last 30 years, the frequency of droughts in Kenya and other countries in the Horn of Africa has increased. In public debates, this development is linked to global climate change, which is claimed to have led to a reduction of rainfall in recent years. In order to investigate Kenya’s hunger crises in 2009 and...

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. In Ghana, most people affected by this disease subsequently die as a result of late treatment. The study seeks to model the appendicitis cases and also forecast future trends of the disease using Box-Jenkins approach. Data on monthly reported cases of appendicitis from 2008 to 2014 was collected from the Biostatistics department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. The results shows that ARIMA (1,0,0)×(0,1,1)12 adequately model the number of...

Compared to the few public higher education institutions in the prewar era, postwar Somalia boasts a large number of academic institutions at the tertiary level, mainly as privately owned universities. Although these community-initiated academic establishments are making tremendous contributions to the higher education sector, particularly in the absence of an effective national government, one can argue that much still remains at stake in terms of evaluation and quality assurance, key...

Grade 9 students’ ideas of the pathway of food, water and painkiller were investigated. We found differences in pattern especially among the students with nonscientific explanations models. Concern ...

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration in Entrepreneurship))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015.

Background: There are many reasons for children to underperform at school such as nutritional status, sociocultural environment and other environmental factors.Iodine deficiency disorder is the major cause of preventable brain damage in children resulting in academic underperformance.Although few studies have been conducted on goiter among primary school children in Ethiopia, the mountainous area like Goba town which experiences poor soil conservation over a long period of time and the...

The study investigates L2 learners of English in Cameroon processing and processing strategies of both the subject and object noun phrases (NPs), in sentences with embedded relative clause, in order to assign the correct meaning to the sentence. Data was collected from university students who performed a sentence comprehension task consisting of the SubjectSubject, Subject-Object, Object-Subject, and Object-Object embedded relative clauses. Results show that respondents opt for a linear...

Background: Most autopsy studies on prostate gland are limited to malignant prostatic tumours. The possibilities of finding other histological types of prostatic diseases was worth exploring bearing in mind that Nodular hyperplasia and cancer are of epidemiological importance. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the pattern of prostatic diseases at autopsy among individuals not previously diagnosed with prostate disease and who died from other causes. Materials and...

Electric DC and AC measurements and dielectric investigations have been carried out on some Plio-Qaternary basalt of Hemat Madam volcano from Sana'a-Amran volcanic field (SAVF).In this article we focus primarily on the field aspects and the main characteristic mineralogical and petrographic features of this inactive volcano.Using DC and AC experimental arrangements we discovered excellent electrical characteristics for this inactive volcano.The results of DC electrical resistivity versus a...

The study was specifically designed to find out the following: (1) To know and understand the ranking of the causes of truancy among students by teachers and counsellors. (2) To set priority areas for counselling interventions. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated for the investigation. The study utilized descriptive survey method. The population of the study was JSS1 students in Port Harcourt, Obio-Akpor, and Okrika Local government areas. A sample size of 150...

Globally as well as in the developing world unintended pregnancies are among the major social and health problems.In Ethiopia, 54% of pregnancies to girls under age 15 are unwanted.In some countries where accesses to safe and legal abortion services are restricted, unsafe abortion is the cause for more than 30% of maternal deaths.The aim of this study was to assess factors associated with unwanted pregnancy among female students of Madawalabu University from 01-21, March 2014.A cross...

Care is a complex issue that may be analysed using different perspectives and theories. It is also a biological imperative for human beings. For many people with disabilities, assistance and support are prerequisites to perform daily tasks and participate in society. In most cases, family is the primary provider of care and support and, within families; care is a role that falls disproportionally on women. The issue of unpaid carers (sometimes referred to as ‘caregivers’) may be analysed in...

This study examined the Implementation of Entrepreneurship Development Education Curriculum of Polytechnic Education towards Unemployment Reduction among Graduates of Office Technology and Management in the Nigerian South-South Zone. The design of the study was survey. Five research questions guided the study. A structured questionnaire tagged implementation of Entrepreneurship Development Education Curriculum of Polytechnic Education (IOEDECPE) which consisted of 65 items was distributed to...

ABSTRACT : Academic achievement is a cumulative outcome of different factors. School type has a paramount effect on students’ performance in regional examination. This study was conducted to critically examine the effect of school type on students result in regional examination. An e x-post facto research design was employed to look into the impacts of school type on academic achievement in regional examination. Data analyses were undertaken using chi-square test, t-test, and ANOVA (Analysis...