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In 2015, South Africa experienced one of the worst (El Niño-induced) droughts in 35 years. This affected economic activities, individual and community livelihoods and wellbeing especially in rural communities in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Drought's direct and indirect impacts on public health require urgent institutional responses, especially in South Africa's stride to eliminate HIV as a public health threat by 2030 in line with the UNAIDS goals. This paper draws on qualitative data from...
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本稿ではアフリカにおける環境変動および近年の気候変動に関する世界的な研究の動向と，日本において展開された研究のレビューと将来展望を行った。長期的な年代スケールの環境変動研究，衛星データを用いた植生の動態研究，フィールドワークに基づいた人―自然の相互影響の解明に関する知見をまとめた。またアフリカの気候変動の現状と将来予測を概観したうえで，気候変動がアフリカの諸地域の自然環境に与える影響に関する研究成果を紹介した。最後に本分野において今後，期待される研究トピックをまとめた。
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IntroductionTime management refers to all of the practices that individuals follow to make better use of their time (Allen, 2001).This concept narrowly refers to the principles and systems that individuals use to make conscious decisions about the activities that occupy their time (Sahito et al, 2016).According to Mgbere and Andrew (2019), time management for teachers is an indispensable element of school organization comprising the art of arranging, scheduling and budgeting ones time to...
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Gangs and gang violence continue to be serious challenges throughout South Africa, but especially in cities such as Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. In the northern areas of Port Elizabeth, hardly a day goes by without at least 1 report in the local news media about gang-related incidents. Most of the gangs in the northern areas have organised and relatively sophisticated recruitment strategies that they use to recruit new members. Various factors contribute to the gravitation of most youths to...
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Background. Global health competencies are an increasingly important part of medical training; however, there is currently no integrated formal global health curriculum at South African (SA) medical schools, and perceptions of medical students towards global health have not been reported. Objectives. To describe SA medical students’: (i) perceptions of global health; (ii) access to global health education (GHE); (iii) awareness of global surgery as a global health priority; and (iv)...
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Background. There is global awareness of investment in higher education to ensure quality learning. Provision of quality feedback is perceived as a key benchmark of effective learning and a vital requirement in meeting students’ expectations. Nevertheless, increased students’ demands and expectations regarding quality feedback compete with increased pressure on academic resources, which may result in student dissatisfaction. Despite the high priority that higher education institutions (HEIs)...
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Critical thinking is an essential skill not only for educational achievement but also to enhance the quality of life (Bakry et al., 2019, pp. 632-633). However, Yemen has not traditionally encouraged or utilized critical thinking in graphic design education, a field of study where critical thinking is required to think beyond a problem to create solutions to existing and new problems. Design does not come up with the same solution for each project but looks for new ideas and solutions that...
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Dengue is the most common arbovirus in the world. In Africa, dengue virus is endemic in almost every country; however, in Togo few data are available. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of dengue fever among patients with febrile syndrome at the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sylvanus Olympio of Lomé. Procedure. A cross sectional study was conducted in the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sylvanus Olympio of Lomé.One hundred forty-seven patients with a median age of 36...
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Management is the bedrock of classroom effectiveness; without it, effective learning is usually disrupted. Therefore, to bring the fore the indispensability of management, the researcher investigated teachers' classroom management strategies and Islamic Studies senior secondary school students’ academic performance in Ilorin East, Kwara State, Nigeria. All the twenty-eight (28) public senior secondary schools in Ilorin-East were used for the study. A total number of four hundred and twenty...
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E-tutors are viewed as major role players in supporting virtual collaborative learning. This is the view espoused by Kopp et al. (2012). Consequently, they are expected to bridge the gap between academics and students in an Open Distance Learning (ODL) environment. However, it has become apparent that the interaction between e-tutors and lecturers is somewhat problematic. This paper discusses the perceptions and expectations that e-tutors and lecturers of a module in the Department of...
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Urocolpos is rare as is the reflux of urine into the uterus which may be associated with it. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a rarely described cause. We present two cases, one of which is associated with reflux of urine into the uterus.Two 7-year-old and 15-month-old girls presented after FGM with pelvic pain, pushing dysuria, and episodes of urine retention.It was the pelvic ultrasound which made it possible to objectify an urocolpos associated in the 7-year-old patient with reflux of...
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This paper provides the rationale and purpose for a critical literacy awareness strategy, implemented to 20 English second language students at a township secondary school in South Africa. This empirical study provides insight into using newspapers as a pedagogical tool to develop students’ language and critical literacy skills. Using different classroom activities and class discussions, the teacher helped the students to read beyond different texts and raised their awareness of different...
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Background. Near-peer teaching (NPT) programmes may benefit both student learners (SLs) and near-peer tutors (NTs). However, data evaluating NPT programmes in developing countries such as South Africa are lacking. Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of an NPT programme in improving the knowledge and confidence of SLs and NTs, and to evaluate student perceptions of the NPT programme. Methods. An NPT programme in which clinical year students provided tutorials to pre-clinical year students...
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There is a call for studies that explore the concept of career development self-efficacy among people in rural contexts. In this study, we explored the determinants of student career development self-efficacy in a rural context. We were guided by the literature and explored the role of self-directed learning consisting of three sub-scales, namely a) self-management, b) desire for learning, and c) self-control. We sought to ascertain how the three elements of self-directed learning influence...