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Pacific Island countries are already experiencing severe impacts from climate change and these will likely increase in the future. In response, a plethora of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented across the region with the aim of assisting those most affected. Yet these projects have largely failed to reduce vulnerability to climate change in a meaningful way. This chapter addresses a commonly overlooked, but argued here to be crucial, reason for failure: how religion...
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Public health emergencies stemming from infectious disease outbreaks is creating a serious threat to global health security. For example, climate change and extreme weather events threaten to alter and affect geographic areas pertaining to disease vulnerability, such as greater risks of mosquito-borne diseases (dengue, malaria, yellow fever and Zika). The emergence of these disease outbreaks and their influence globally has sparked a renewed attention on global health security and the...
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In developing tropical and subtropical nations, hookworm is the main cause of maternal and childhood illness. In vulnerable children, it causes cognitive and growth retardation, intrauterine growth delay, prematurity and low birth weight among new-borns born to infected mothers. The research aimed to determine the prevalence and intensity of hookworm infestations, among primary school children in three selected schools in the study area. This study utilized a cross-sectional research...
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In a fragile and unpredictable economic and health context, Climate Change (CC) is emerging as an eminent issue for businesses in Morocco. This planetary scourge is a double-edged issue. It exacerbates the vulnerability of these companies by affecting the supply of raw materials, energy, and water. It can also be an opportunity for companies that opt for innovative mitigation and adaptation solutions to address CC. Today, the tools and approaches for monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
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With a high percentage of Syrian refugees population in Jordan aged 18 - 35 years, the number of refugees that are willing to access the job market is very high. Therefore, many organizations try to make these refugees qualified by enrolling them within many educational and training programs in order to enhance their skills, thus make them able to find jobs. However, with the presence of many challenges that are facing Syrian youths in accessing the tertiary education system in Jordan, many...
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cial effects on economic growth.First, they improve macroeconomic stability by increasing government's effectiveness in using public resources and providing services (IMF 2019b; World Bank 2016; Tanzi and Davoodi 2002, Abed and Gupta 2002).Second, they improve investors' confidence and countries competitiveness in the global market (Busse and Hefeker 2007).Third, they can make growth more inclusive by spreading its benefits among all members or groups in society (Campos, Estrin,
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Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on arid regions such as Tunisia country. This research uses a “bottom-up” approach, which seeks to gain insights from the farmers themselves based on a farm household in the south-east of Tunisia. Econometric analyses and Main Component analysis was conducted in this research. Finally, probit binary models were estimated to determine the factors influencing adaptation strategies. All actions aimed at...
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The main purpose of this study was to invigorate teachers’ perception and implementation of constructivist learning approaches in Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion design (EiTEX, hereinafter), Bahir Dar University. The study focused on mostly noted constructivist learning and teaching methods particularly question-answer, individual-work and group-work methods. Also, the study invigorated teachers’ view on constructivist learning. To this study purpose descriptive survey design was...
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Cerebral palsy (CP) is a commonly occurring disorder of movement and posture that starts in early childhood. It is accompanied by other disturbances including hearing loss which has been shown to worsen the quality of life of the patients due to problems associated with speech and language acquisition. Several factors are responsible for developing hearing loss in CP.To determine the factors that can help in early diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children with cerebral palsy.This...
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Background: Soil transmitted helminth (STH) infections disproportionately affect poor populations in tropical and subtropical parts of the world.They contaminate soil and pupils are mostly at risk of these infections due to their soil related habits.Aims: to assess pupils' knowledge, attitude and practice in relation to the rate of soil contamination in public primary schools.Methods: Structured questionnaires were administered to 729 consenting participants to obtain information on their...
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A Research Thesis Submitted to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics of Kenyatta University. April, 2021
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This study attempts to contribute to the existing literature by exploring the effect of financial inclusion and depth on inclusive growth for 26 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Using the random effects panel regressions, the results suggest that financial inclusion positively affects inclusive growth in the sub-Saharan region, while financial depth variable does not. At very high levels of financial inclusion, however, the results portray decreasing marginal effects of financial inclusion on...
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This Article examines the barriers to an environment where African American law students no longer view themselves, and no longer are viewed as, what American abolitionist Harriet Tubman coined, "a stranger in a strange land." 1 In this Article, I explain the research on the structural, psychological, and social factors that face the African American community, and more specifically, the African American legal community.I discuss the implications of these factors for African American law...
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Ponte Academic JournalOct 2021, Volume 77, Issue 10 THE PROLIFERATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER INEQUALITY AND THE BARRIER OF CULTURE ON SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (SET).Author(s): Juliet JosephJ. Ponte - Oct 2021 - Volume 77 - Issue 10 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2021.10.9 Abstract:Two-thirds of illiterate adults are women, who are generally the caretakers of the family. This lack of education thus has an impact on both the children and the...