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This study focuses on the stress transfer and the related poroelastic effect of four major earthquake sequences that occurred in the Northern and East African rift system: the May–July 1990 Sudan earthquake sequence, the May 2018–June 2019 Mayotte–Comores earthquake swarm sequence, the 1980–2003 El Asnam-Zemmouri (Algeria) earthquake sequence, and the 2016 Alboran sea earthquake sequence. We observe a causative relationship between the stress transfer caused by mainshock fault ruptures and...

Several countries are associated with the long-term ecological research (LTER) program, while others are in the process of joining the network. In Morocco, there is an urgent need to be a member of this network because the diversity of challenges associated with the various ecosystems requires multidisciplinary long-term studies. The chapter discusses this need by assessing the environmental vulnerability of Morocco basing on data from the environmental vulnerability index profile. Ecosystem...

The purpose of this research paper was to carry out a sector wide exposition of accountability in curriculum implementation in the public secondary schools in Kenya.The research is conducted with a view to evolving a sector wide model for curriculum accountability in these schools.At the center of this accountability are the Boards of Management and their linkages with various curriculum agencies.BOMA are the semi-autonomous school governing bodies with established local, national and, in...

quality medical documentation helps to explain the services provided to a particular person and enhance the exchange of information between health care providers. The objective of this study was to assess the documentation practice of physicians and nurses in a teaching hospital, University of Gondar, Ethiopia. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with a total of 284 respondents who were selected with a stratified simple random sampling from January 8 to January 23, 2020. Data...

Introduction: The importance of determining health related quality of life in Chronic Kidney Disease patients on dialysis is well established.However, research was limited in establishing the health related quality of life for chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis at University Teaching Hospital-Adult Hospital.Further the effects of haemoglobin levels and adequacy of dialysis on their health related quality of life were unknown.Therefore, the study sought to answer a research question:...

Smallholders’ agricultural production and thus food security in Ethiopia are heavily pressurized from changes in seasonal climate, heavy weather events and associated pests. This directly impacts on the predominantly rural, poor smallholder farmers and their families that are dependent on yields and seed material for annual food security. This paper describes the predominant climate change impacts on the farming systems at the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, South-west Ethiopia, an area of...

Climate change is expected to greatly alter and modify the ecological conditions of plant growth and distribution, particularly in the Mediterranean Basin, considered as one of the most vulnerable zone to global warming in the world. In this chapter, we look at the biogeography of the olive tree, an emblematic species of the Mediterranean Basin, represented in Morocco by two wild subspecies: Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris, the ancestor of all the olive varieties and widely...

The role of school gardens varies from place to place depending on the goal(s) pursued by the practitioners. Firstly, researchers have noted that school gardens are used as a strategy for improving food security. During the 1st World War, school gardens served as an important source of food in Europe and North America. Again, to date, school gardens are considered to have great potential of boosting food security in the developing countries experiencing hunger and malnutrition challenges....

This report examines how Seychelles has moved to online legal education and where, if any, improvements need to be made. The legal profession is integrated, making no distinction between attorneys and advocates. However, the number of lawyers is worrying low standing at 0.5 lawyers per 1000 people. Within legal education, gaps present themselves where there is no Seychellois LLB degree, a Bar Vocational Course which has a low online presence, and CLE non-existent. Notwithstanding this, the...

As STEM agendas continues to rise, well-equipped functioning science laboratories are essential resource inputs for teaching and learning science and subsequently realizing the STEM agendas.This study is part of a series of projects driven by the continuous poor performance in Biology Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) paper 3; which is a practical oriented paper.In particular this study aimed at exploring the use of Biology Laboratories in Namibia Secondary Schools mainly to...

Partly due to the overwhelming importance of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in enabling rural households in developing countries to obtain their livelihoods, the United Nations acknowledge that different types of knowledge, underpinned by their unique epistemologies, are needed to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). This study sought to ascertain climate change experts’ knowledge regarding the importance of IKS in facilitating climate change adaptation among rural households in...

Head of schools in public secondary schools play a key role in establishing the adhesive that links the outdoor environment and while doing such important duty, conflict during implementation is not too far especially during conflict management. At the same time head of schools have different alternative in attacking the challenges. This study examines challenges which head of schools encounter during resolving conflict and techniques used to stand as way forward towards challenges. Primary...

The primary aim of every citizen in any nation of the world is to be economically emancipated, as it enables one to be self-reliant rather than depending on parents, guardians or government for survival. However, the majority of Nigerian youths are living in abject poverty compared to their counterparts in developed countries. In an attempt to find a solution to the problem of acute poverty, this study investigated the relationship between entrepreneurship, education and the economic...

Leadership in education has been demonstrated to make a measurable and significant impact on the success of schools and the achievement levels of learners. This book displays the scope and range of the emerging field of the scholarship of education leadership by means of chapters zooming in on various areas of research in the field. The ensuing chapters focusing on various areas in the field of Education Leadership scholarship are ordered in the following categories: chapters dealing with...

Risk-taking in sex work is related to financial gains from condom-protected and condomless-acts alongside vulnerabilities, including socio-economic factors, which influence the safety of sex workers. Large international sporting events have been shown to significantly impact the economies of host countries, but there is a dearth of studies that examine how major sporting events may affect the economics of sex work and the risks taken by sex workers and clients. This study examines the...