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This study was conducted to estimate carbon stock enhancement and climate change mitigation potential of restoration effort in Rebu Watershed, Woliso Woreda, Ethiopia. Two restored lands of thirteen years old were randomly selected from two kebeles. Biomass and soil data were collected systematically from nested plots. Mensuration of woody species, soil, and grass/litter samples was collected from the subplots of the nested plots. A total of 72 composite soil samples were collected. The...

This study aimed to enhance entrepreneurship education toward preparing secondary school students at Kinondoni District Dar es salaam in Tanzania for the creation of employment opportunities. The study aimed at assessing the roles of Entrepreneurship Education in developing employment opportunities for ordinary level secondary schools. The study employed a mixed-method design in examining these phenomena. One hundred and nineteen (119) participants were conveniently sampled and heads of...

Smallholder farming households represent one of groups most exposed to the vagaries of climate change because their production and livelihood depend on climatic elements. This study assessed the effect of climate change adaptive capacity on smallholder farming households' food security in Oyo State, Nigeria. Data from 246 farming households were analysed using factor analysis to generate the Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Index (CCACI), Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Indices and Logit Regression....

IntroductionThe hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the most frequent cancers in Africa. Our objective was to identify the risk factors of the primary liver cancer occurrence among hospitalized patients in the gastro-enterology unit of the university teaching hospital Yalgado Ouédraogo.MethodsWe implemented a case-control study and collected data from January 1, 2012 to the December 31, 2015. Controls were recruited among blood donors. Cases were selected among patients visiting...

Introduction: Lyell's syndrome (SL), called Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis is one of the most serious forms of medication accidents.It is an acute, rare pathology, its incidence is estimated at 1 to 2 cases out of one million inhabitants per year and its evolution can be fatal.Materials and Methods: We report the observation of a 60-year-old patient, with no significant pathological history, admitted to our intensive care unit at the Renaissance University Teaching Hospital in N'Djamena for the...

With the social distancing imposed by the pandemic caused by SARS COV-2, many students around the world found themselves estranged from their schools and friends, with limited access, in many cases, to an educational environment.The literature points out the importance of such an enriched environment, especially for students with High Abilities or Giftedness with regard to the development of their potential, talents and self-concept, in the motivation to promote learning and for emotional...

Health advocacy is a core competency identified by Health Professions Council of South Africa to be acquired by health professional graduates. There is a lack of information on how health advocacy (HA) is taught and assessed in health science programmes. The aim of the study was to explore the teaching, learning and assessment of HA in undergraduate health science programmes at a South African university. Methods: Curriculum mapping of eight programmes and a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with...

Banning of corporal punishment in Kenyan schools since 2001 has sparked intense debate to both parents and teachers on management of discipline in schools. In the recent months after resumption of learning due to Covid-19 Pandemic, many schools have experienced unrest leading to burning of dormitories, classes and even learners assaulting teachers. The study was tasked with the analysis if divergent views on corporal punishment and justice in schools towards character formation. In addition,...

Correction for ‘South African physical sciences teachers’ use of formulae and proportion when answering reaction-based stoichiometry calculation questions’ by Angela Elisabeth Stott, Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. , 2021, 22 , 443–456, DOI: 10.1039/D0RP00291G.

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of online learning. However, particularly in developing world contexts, its feasibility, as well as context-appropriate design features of online courses, are unclear. This study seeks to contribute to this gap by exploring the engagement of a cohort of 50 South African teachers in an 80-hour short learning programme (SLP). This SLP was aimed at developing pedagogical and technological knowledge, for online teaching, of teachers with moderate...

Droughts and changing rainfall patterns due to natural climate variability and climate change, threaten the livelihoods of Malawi’s smallholder farmers, who constitute 80% of the population. Provision of seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) is one means to potentially increase the resilience of rainfed farming to drought by informing farmers in their agricultural decisions. Local knowledge can play an important role in improving the value of SCFs, by making the forecast better-suited to the...

Effects of Learning by Analogy on Senior High School Students’ Achievement in Genetics in Ilorin, Nigeria. Genetics has been identified in literature as one of the hard-to-learn biological concepts despite its importance to human existence. Therefore, there is the need for students to have deep conceptual understanding of the concept. Objective: The effectiveness of analogy on proper understanding of scientific concepts abound in literature, hence, this study examined the effects of analogy...

Education emancipates under “ethical frameworks”, but for persecution-driven refugees, does it also stir “critical consciousness”? If it does, would the education tag evaporate? Through a comparative Rohingya–Syrian refugee study of education in Bangladesh and Turkey, respectively, this chapter identifies the underlying conditions to those accessing education and assessing extant barriers to availing them. It finds Turkey’s responses (through the public school curriculum and a supplementary...

Objective: Refractive errors are most common ocular disorders among children and adolescents. They remain as secondary causes of avoidable blindness in impoverished areas in Africa, most notably in Ethiopia. The problem worsens if it is not managed and addressed early. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the prevalence of refractive errors among school students in Ethiopia. Methods: We searched international databases such as PubMed/Medline, Web of Science,...

aspects Endometriosis which affects a woman’s life in many remains an indecipherable condition which has been unexplored among non-Caucasian populations. This study was thus undertaken in Mauritius, which is a country belonging to the World Health Organization African Region. Its objectives were to explore the experience of women having endometriosis and to describe the essence of living with endometriosis. This qualitative research with phenomenological approach was undertaken among...