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Many studies have considered job satisfaction and its antecedents in the profit making sector. These studies have provided a number of factors that influence job satisfaction including autonomy, compensation, growth opportunities, leadership styles, task variety and so on. There are numerous factors that have been discovered to positively influence job satisfaction. Interest in job satisfaction arises from the fact that productivity and other favourable organisational outcomes such as...

This study addresses the issue of groundwater resources quality affected by solid waste disposed of in the Médiouna dumping site. In this order, we applied the Driving forcePressureStateImpact Response model (DPSIR) model combined with external factors of SWOT analysis (Opportunities and Threats) to assess the environmental impact of waste from Médiouna landfill on groundwater. The analysis study revealed that the continuous demographic expansion and economic growth made solid waste a...

This article presents results of a study on the level of satisfaction of graduate and undergraduate students, instructors and higher education quality assurance experts with respect to online learning in the field of social sciences at Egyptian universities. A random sample of 577 students, 101 instructors and 6 quality experts participated in the survey. Results convey considerable variations between students affiliated to state universities, a 50% level of dissatisfaction on online...

Miyo-Hadi watershed in the northeast dry highland of Ethiopia is known for the excessive degradation of natural resources and recurrent drought. To avert the problem soil and water conservation practices (SWCPs) were exhaustively implemented by governmental and non-governmental organizations based on the integrated watershed management approach. Although many studies have been conducted in the wet highlands of Ethiopia to assess the role of SWCPs on soil physical and chemical properties,...

Local values, institutions and knowledge have enabled people to understand the happenings and changes in their environment. Local perceptions and knowledge provide a crucial foundation for community-based climate change adaptation measures and natural resource conservation. This paper is specifically focused on the assessment of the opportunities and challenges of traditional knowledge and institutions for community's sustainable climate change adaptation in Ethiopia. We used knowledge...

Recently, women in engineering and technology education have been given due importance in academic studies. In this background, the study has been carried out with two objectives. The first is to compare women's participation in engineering and technology vis-à-vis other STEM subjects. It has been done based on secondary data of enrollment, and the second one is to discuss the factors affecting their choice of pursuing engineering and technology. The average registration of women in...

This study assesses the impact of climate change on water resources in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) River Basin using a regional climate model (RCM), COSMO Climate Limited-area Model (CCLM), coupled with a hydrological model, Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The SWAT model was calibrated and validated using measured streamflow data from four gauging stations. Climate change projections showed increases in mean annual temperature and decrease in precipitation in most parts of the Basin....

Background or Objectives: Ethiopia has high fertility rate which around 1% of the population is affect by one from of disability. However, a little know about factor affecting unmet need of family planning to disabled women. The aim of this study was to assess the unmet need for family planning and associated factors among married disabled women in southern Ethiopia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 312 disabled married and union women. Simple random...

Tunisians on social media tend to express themselves in their local dialect using Latin script (TUNIZI). This raises an additional challenge to the process of exploring and recognizing online opinions. To date, very little work has addressed TUNIZI sentiment analysis due to scarce resources for training an automated system. In this paper, we focus on the Tunisian dialect sentiment analysis used on social media. Most of the previous work used machine learning techniques combined with...

Comprehensive sexual education plays an essential role in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The study aim was to investigate Kenyan secondary school teachers' attitudes toward girls associated with contraceptive use and abortion.We conducted a cross-sectional study in January 2018 among school teachers (n = 144) at 4 religiously affiliated suburban secondary schools in Kenya and used 2 validated Likert Scales (1-5) to capture contraception and abortion...

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Tunisia, located on the shores of the Mediterranean, is projected to experience most predominant droughts. However, detailed drought assessments at the regional scale of Tunisia are limited to date, with most studies only focusing on a specific region and/or making use of one drought index. This study identifies both vegetation and agricultural region-specific drought indices over the country. Tunisia was divided into three main vegetation zones: the northern forest, central steppe, and...

In this paper, we provide insights into the eruptive history and volcano-tectonic evolution of the Paka volcanic complex in a revised stratigraphic framework. We integrate all available 40Ar/39Ar radiometric dates along with field observations, remote sensing data, and the analysis of surface and cutting samples from a 2552 m deep borehole (PK-01). Chemical analyses distinguish basalt, hawaiite, mugearite, benmorite, and trachyte rock type in Paka. It also indicates that the eruptive...

The faculty building of School of Architecture and Built Environment (SABE) at University of Rwanda was designed based on volcano form and volcano stones was used as part of its external finish. This was done for aesthetic purposes and also to ensure that the building fits into the environment. The design was based on the principle of energy efficiency in terms of lighting and thermal considerations. The observable problem is the effectiveness of the design provision in meeting the users’...

The research on intellectual capital carried out so far for the academic entrepreneurial development is few but has clearly shown its importance.However, the overall contribution of intellectual capital to the performance of academic entrepreneurial projects of both technologies, social and environmental or university spin-offs remains little studied.Even studies carried out on this subject, often, focus only on a single component and favor, for the most part, the quantitative approach.This...

The purpose of the current study was to determine the effect of career counseling on students' career development in secondary schools in Kenya.The study sample consisted of 341 (158 males and 183 females) secondary school students from year one to year four of study.The students were surveyed on measures of career development.The study found that female students were more likely than male students to go for career counseling and that going for career counseling had no significant effect on...