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This Open Access book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes place. It is also a
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If the heating and drying effects of global warming are not reversed, areas of northern, eastern and southern Africa will be unfit for normal human life. As they are doing in Libya's wastelands, terror groups will move in, undaunted by the physical hardships.
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Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Center for American Studies and Research, 2016. Pj:1890
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The purpose of this study was to compare the status of teachers in selected urban and rural secondary schools in Southern Province of Zambia and to establish factors that affected the status of these teachers. The target population was all head teachers, teachers and grades ten to twelve pupils in all secondary schools in Southern Province of Zambia as well as all parents living in communities around the selected secondary schools. The sample for the study was 1,135 participants. Out of this...
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Background: This study was carried out on factors contributing to non-compliance to routine ante-natal haematinics among pregnant women attending ante-natal clinic in University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Descriptive research design in which Yaro Yamen’s formular was used to calculate the sample size of 130. The objectives of the study were: to identify types of haematinics and duration of intake during ante natal care, to determine the factors contributing to non-compliance of...
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The climatology provides, for a given location or region, the time series of drought strength, the number, the mean duration, and the maximum duration of droughts of a given intensity.Similarly to most hydrological phenomena, droughts are characterized by a number of features such as their severity, duration and magnitude.Multivariate drought characterization has not been carried out in the various regions of the African continent despite the disastrous environmental, economic and social...
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This paper has proposed to investigate the interest in students towards physics among other science subjects. The investigation was carried out with 490 samples of grade ten students in wolaita soddo town governmental schools. Thus, overall result indicates that the interest in students towards physics is low and students hate to learn physics in comparison with other science subjects. The main causes to hate physics are the approach from teachers and the subject difficulty. From the result...
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This paper reports exploratory work that investigates inter-generational collaboration between students and teachers in a digitized version of the maker movement. The work is supported by the US National Science Foundation, the US State Department’s Fulbright Research Program, and partnering education ministries and NGOs. The core feature of digital media-making entails the use of pen-based tablet computers to create videos for teaching science and mathematics concepts in alignment with...
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In post-colonial Ghana, some rules of customary law have been criticised as being inimical to the rule of law and to socioeconomic development. As such, customary law has been a key focus of legal reform. There has been resistance to law reform efforts, especially from communities in rural areas because the state and customary legal systems have failed to reconcile their perceptions of law and legal responsibilities. Taking these legal conflicts as its starting point, this dissertation...
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Namibian community, regional and school libraries are engaged as active development partners that support education, innovation, knowledge creation, and economic development across the nation’s fourteen regions. In 2014-2015, Namibia’s Millennium Challenge Account Compact further strengthened library services by constructing and equipping three new Regional Libraries, which have the capability to use the latest technologies and innovations to bring information to their users. In addition to...
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The type of educational instructions expected to be delivered to the gifted students differ quantitatively from the traditional methods in general classroom settings. This is because, traditional and conventional strategies may not challenge the educational needs of the gifted. Considering the enormity of what is expected of build a qualitative education of the gifted, this study investigated the efficacy of acceleration and ability grouping on academic achievement of gifted students in...
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This chapter discusses supervising Millennials and use a number of stereotypes. One of the stereotypic descriptions of Millennials is that they value self-expression over self-control. The chapter reveals examples reflect the stereotypical high self-esteem, strong tendency toward ownership of responsibilities, and the apparent lack of self-control of Millennials. The general high self-esteem noted in Millennials is reflected in the lack of contact with the supervisor and the contention that...