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Background: The management of open fractures has been of great challenge to surgeons over the years, and these fractures are often associated with considerable patient morbidity and high socioeconomic consequences. Epidemiological studies are of great importance in the management of these conditions as the information obtained will be used to define priorities and enhance the understanding of this challenging subgroup of traumas. Objective: The aim of this study was to define the...
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Nigeria is a lower income country (with extreme poverty status) characterized by very high youth unemployment and large informal sector. Consequently, the Nigeria government have implemented youth empowerment training (N-power) program to tackle the critical issues. However, youth training programs and their evaluations is complex. Yet there is relatively little evidence on the mechanisms through which they operate and their effect on outcomes beyond the labor market. Using detailed...
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Oral mucosal melanoma (OMM) is a malignant lesion of melanocytes of oral epithelium. The prevalence in four Nigerian teaching hospitals is reported.This study shows the hospital based prevalence and the clinicopathologic features of OMM in four Nigerian teaching hospitals.A retrospective study of patients diagnosed with OMM in four teaching hospitals in Nigeria was carried out. All records of patients with orofacial lesions from 1969 to 2016 were identified and retrieved from the archives of...
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This study investigated the influence of teacher motivation to the academic performance of pupils in primary schools in Nyamira South Sub-County. The population of study was 147 head teachers and 836 teachers in Nyamira South Sub-County. Stratified sampling was used to get a sample of 84 teachers and 15 head teachers .A mixed method design was adopted for this study that used qualitative and quantitative approaches in collecting and analyzing data concurrently. A questionnaire was used to...
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This paper examined how parents' socio-economic status determined students' performance in English language in Tanzania secondary schools.Two research questions and two research objectives guided the study.The study was conducted in two randomly selected Regions in Tanzania Mainland.It employed a cross-sectional survey design to collect data from 350 students in sixteen secondary schools.Data was collected through a questionnaire and achievement tests and was analysed using both descriptive...
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This paper analyzes gender, education and poverty in DRC through a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach.The latter was needed in this study to judge the difference in level of consumption expenditure per adult equivalent per day depending on whether the household is headed by a man or a woman.Preliminary results based on the regression of the variable of interest (consumption expenditure per adult equivalent per day) on the endogenous variables considered (the age of the head of the...
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This chapter is a research article which utilizes the livelihood resilience and climate risk management constructs to explore climatic sensitivities and response strategies to these sensitivities within African agricultural systems using a case study of the mid-Zambezi valley area in northern Zimbabwe. Discussions in this chapter are based on a 6-year longitudinal qualitative primary fieldwork research focused on livelihood resilience, climate change adaptation and climate information needs...
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The capacity of farmers to adapt to climate shocks and stresses is a critical part of sustainable development. Generally, farmers’ adaptation to climate change variability exploits beneficial opportunities to reduce its vulnerability and minimize the risk associated with the impacts of climate change variability. As such, the aim of this study was to determine the socio-economic determinants of farmers’ adaptation to climate change variability in Meatu and Iramba Districts, Tanzania....
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A frustrated undergraduate student asked me in 2012: “Why is writing a paper at university so incredibly difficult?” It is only now, six years later, upon reading this excellent book that I feel fully equipped as a higher education professional to answer this age-old question in an informed and comprehensive manner. Certainly other higher education scholars and practitioners will similarly find the book of immense value to their work. It also provides an understanding of some of the...
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In this article, the writer seeks to show that whereas the industrial court assumes that the TSC as the employer are equal parties with the Teachers as the employees, the employer has an upper hand and they cannot be equal parties, secondly, a strike is the only arsenal that these employees have, thirdly the right to strike is essential and forms part and parcel of the bargaining process, fourthly, when these injunctions are issued, no meaningful agreement can be reached and hence the...