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10 different species of trees from 42 sampling locations were taken in Oyo town, southwest, Nigeria. The barks of these trees were analysed for trace metals: lead, copper, cadmium, chromium, zinc and iron, employing Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. The results of the analysis indicate various anthropogenic sources. Mean values of Pb, 3.64 μgg-1; Cu, 8.54 μgg-1; Zn, 20.84 μgg-1 and Cr, 2.02 μgg-1 correlate with the traffic volume of the study area. However, the statistical...
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The aim of the study on which this paper is based was to develop guidelines for the support of newly qualified nurses to ease their transition from student to professional practitioners in Lesotho; and to get their first-hand experience of their transition from student to professional practitioners in a public hospital in Lesotho. An explorative, descriptive, contextual, qualitative research design was chosen. The sample included all newly qualified professional nurses who worked in a public...
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This research explored the phenomenon of school financial management in three secondary schools located in the Qacha’s Nek district of Lesotho. In particular, the study focused on ways in which secondary schools obtain their finances. In addition, this study also discussed ways in which the said schools budget their finances. It explored measures that the schools put in place to monitor and control their budgets. Through the use of purposive sampling, three schools were selected as cases in...
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This article presents the findings of a study that examined factors associated with teacher conflict in 16 schools in Lesotho. Teachers at the school and either the principal or the deputy principal completed a survey questionnaire. Individual interviews were held with eight teachers. The findings revealed that teachers experienced institutional, cultural and personal conflict within the school settings. The complexity of teacher conflict was evident in the intersection of factors such as...
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The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which the Standard Seven pupils of the Busibi Primary School in the Samia District in western Kenya would misuse the pairs of noun class markers AWA-, LI-YA-, KI-VI-, IZIand U-ZIin their written Kiswahili. A sample of thirty pupils was used in the study. A grammar test consisting of nineteen sentences containing a total of forty mistakes was used. The respondents were required to write the correct version of each sentence in the spaces...
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Summary: Climate change has emerged as the most outstanding of the environmental challenges and there is a necessity to evaluate its impacts on the vulnerable development sectors such as agriculture. In this study, spatially adjusted general circulation models and crop models were used to simulate climate change scenarios and the associated cereal crops yields for the western lowlands of Lesotho for the year 2030-2050 and 2080-2100. Focus was placed on three main cereal crops namely...
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This paper investigates the relative timing of solid Earth tides and thermal anomalies associated with volcanic activity at Oldoinyo Lengai (OL), Tanzania, from 2000 to 2008. The low viscosity of OL's carbonatite magmas may make it particularly susceptible to tidal stresses. Thermal data from the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) were filtered using the MODLEN algorithm and Earth tides were modeled using TSoft. Application of the Schuster and Chi-squared tests resulted in...