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The study examined framing of agroforestry education in three Nigerian newspapers. Specifically, agroforestry articles were categorized according to the space allotted, placement and news sources in the Punch, Guardian and Nigerian Tribune newspapers. The period covered news published from January 2013 to December 2013. Frames investigated include: agroforestry awareness, intervention, warning, opinion and government policies. The result reveals that government policy was the dominant...
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English in a multilingual society : a study of interference phenomena in East African English, with special reference to the language learning situation
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In Mali, climate change is a major threat to the productivity of food security crops such as sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, 1794). The objective of this study was to analyse farmers’ perceptions of climate change effects, on sorghum productivity and the adaptation related strategies. A total of 352 sorghum farmers in the Sudanian and Sahelian zones of Mali were interviewed, using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data collected were related mainly to the farmers’ socio-economic...
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Soaring population growth in Yemen has led to approximately 200,000 young people entering the labor market each year. Figures are outpacing labor demand, in a country where the deteriorating economy is leading to less job creation. The majority of youth in Yemen works mostly in the informal economy with no prospects of regular contracts, social security, or forms of insurance. The limited ability of the formal education system to prepare young people for the labor market is also leading to a chronic ‘skills shortage’ in Yemen.
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Statistics on Women Education in Egypt
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The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) through its director Dima Dabbous- Sensenig along with two LAU graduate students participated in the workshop titled “Teaching Gender: Curriculum Workshop” that took place at the universities of Sana’a and Aden from June 9-12, 2007.
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The Including Disability in Education in Africa (IDEA) Research Unit at the University of Cape Town in South Africa was established in 2020 and focused on carrying out research studies in the field of disability and education in Africa and beyond.The objective of this article was to introduce the research unit and highlight its vision, mission and objectives.A general review of the research unit.The IDEA Research Unit plays an important role in the research arena within South Africa and...
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The concern for a sound moral status is occasioned by the alarming rate of decline in the moral consciousness and conducts among the Nigerian citizens. This decline has become a disease eating systematically into the very veins of the country, thereby eroding away the qualities and potentials needed in the Nigerian future leaders (students). Education which is universally believed to be a powerful weapon which can be used to correct moral and values decadence in the society is probably...
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Anastomotic leakage is a morbid and potentially fatal complication of colorectal surgery. Determination of perioperative risk factors for colorectal anastomosis leak helps to identify patients requiring increased postoperative surveillance.Institution based retrospective study was done to determine colorectal anastomosis leak rate and risk factors associated with it at a teaching hospital in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Patients operated from January 2013 to December 2017 G.C were included....
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The 2017 ACC/AHA Guideline categorized blood pressure into 4 levels:normal (SBP<120 and DBP <80mm Hg), elevated (SBP of 120-129 or DBP< 80 mmHg) and stage 1 (SBP of 130-139 or DBP of 80-89 mm Hg) or 2 (SBP≥140 orDBP≥90mmHg). Compared with the JNC7 guideline, the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline recommends using lower SBP and DBP levels to define hypertension.To determine the prevalence of hypertension as well as associated factors among students of the University of Kinshasa.This was a cross-sectional...
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Schooling has externality effects in agriculture when, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of their uneducated neighbours. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such benefits for rural areas of Ethiopia, where school enrolment is low and the private returns to education may not be apparent. Average and stochastic frontier production functions are estimated, including household and community...