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The increasing number of vehicles in Kenya roads and growth of industries could see a rise in underweight babies. Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of air pollution from industrial/car fumes are likely to have underweight babies.

Background: Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological conditions and knows no age, racial, social class, geographic, or national boundaries. The impact of epilepsy rests not only on the individual patient, but also on the family and indirectly on the community. The burden of epilepsy may be due to the physical hazards of epilepsy resulting from the unpredictability of seizures; the social exclusion as a result of negative attitudes of others toward people with epilepsy; and the stigma.

Drought poses one of the most important environmental constraints to plant survival and productivity and by implication-food insecurity in the tropics. Pigeon pea ( Cajanus cajan ) has the potential of fertilizing the soil thereby improving agricultural production and ensure green environmental and ecosystem stability. Despite the ability of the plant to improve soil fertility and promote greening environment, it has not attracted adequate awareness as a soil improvement plant. This paper...

On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) was inaugurated as an independent state with new hopes for a more peaceful and prosperous future for all its citizens after years of conflict. In...

There is a growing body of evidence on the correlation between improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools and positive health and educational outcomes for students. Similar evidence on the impact of school WASH facilities on health, enrolment and absence for children with disabilities is not available. The limited data have revealed that children with disabilities are burdened by poor WASH in schools access, and even prevented from attending school due to...

lt is estimated that epilepsy affects approximately 50 million people worldwide and about 40 million of them live in developing countries. Studies have indicated high rates of poor knowledge, negative attitude and poor first aid management skills of students with epilepsy among practicing teachers. However, there is paucity of such studies on trainee teachers to ascertain any similarities or differences (if any) and the effect of educational interventions.To determine the effect of a health...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and...

This study examined the perception of accounting students about whistleblowing. In addition, the study investigated the impact of the strength of retaliation and materiality on internal whistleblowing intention of accounting students. Also, the study investigated if there are significant gender differences. Two hundred and two questionnaires were collected from final year accounting students in two universities in the Gauteng province in South Africa in a survey through the use of...

This article presents a critical discussion on how teachers teach sexuality education in South African schools. Using data collected from classroom observations and in-depth interviews with Life Orientation teachers, it focuses on how values and comfort play out in the teaching of sexuality education. I argue that teachers teach sexuality while inserting their values in ways that undermine the key points of a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum. Also posited is the distinction...

In this paper, I examine cultural citizenship not as a stable fact but as the product of everyday practice. The analysis focuses on educational discourses and classroom interactions in the school of a rural town in Spain and in relation to Moroccan immigrant children’s membership and identity. I show how teachers engage in distinction, authentication, and authorization practices, playing on essentialist notions of children’s ethnolinguistic identities and upholding notions of belonging to...

Education is acknowledged as a vital tool for the attainment of sustainable transformation and inclusive societal development. Through acquisition of basic skills, knowledge formal/informal, various segments of the population especially widows (married women) who have lost their husband can be empowered to be self-reliant and economically independent in-spite of the vacuum created by the loss of the supposedly “breadwinner”. Education occupies a unique position in the national...

The study assessed the menstrual hygiene practices and challenges of junior school students during menstrual periods, with its implication for Home economics education. The multistage method of sampling was used to select a sample of 500 post menarche junior secondary school students. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Frequency tables were generated. Percentages and mean values with standard deviation were calculated. 70.9% of the respondents reported some challenges...

SB13 Southern Africa: Creating a Resilient and Regenerative Built Environment, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-16 October 2013