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I would to thank my family for their support and AUC for giving me the opportunity to learn and study. I would also like to thank my committee for their patience, comments and time. I would like to thank my supervisor Martina Rieker for her endless support, patience, time and help. I learned a lot from you. Thank you.
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Abstract This study assesses the water resources and environmental challenges of Lagos mega city, Nigeria, in the context of climate change. Being a commercial hub, the Lagos population has grown rapidly causing an insurmountable water and environmental crisis. In this study, a combined field observation, sample analysis, and interviews were used to assess water challenges. Observed climate, general circulation model (GCM) projections and groundwater data were used to assess water challenges...
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The availability and retention of healthcare professionals in rural areas and remote areas is a challenge to the health sector worldwide. Attracting people who are most likely to be interested in rural practice can be conducive to the sustainable availability of health services in rural areas where health facilities are typically understaffed and existing professionals often underqualified. This article aims to contribute to the rural pipeline evidence, and reports on the findings of a study...
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Psychiatry is an under-resourced discipline, specifically in terms of personnel, not least of all in developing world settings. The capacity for training specialists does not seem to meet the requirements of an increasing disease burden. Notwithstanding the status quo, countries in such settings continue to train and graduate specialists. The current paper provides an overview of specialist training in South Africa, specifically noting the exposure to Psychiatry at undergraduate level,...
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Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of disability globally, resulting in limitation of walking and activities of daily living. Patients with OA frequently have to depend on devices and humans for assistance in carrying out activities of daily living. Disability associated with OA is attributed to pain. Other factors that may directly or indirectly contribute to this disability are poorly studied.Objective: To determine factors other than pain that can predict...
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Agriculture in the three regions of the north is mainly subsistence and rain-fed with very limited irrigation facilities. Traditional approach to agriculture in the region is therefore being threatened by erratic rainfall, high temperature, drought and floods due mainly to a changing climate. This research, therefore, examines the climate in the Upper West, Upper East and Northern regions and its impacts on agriculture productivity. It began with an extensive desktop study and the...
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The study examined the management of teachers’ diversities for service delivery in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The research design was the descriptive survey. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Weighted mean score, standard deviation, and criterion mean were used to answer the research questions while z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Theory of X and Y propounded by Douglas McGregor in 1960, and the Need...
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The current study aimed to describe the medical case history factors in a group of neonates admitted to high care and Kangaroo Mother Care wards at two hospitals in Gauteng, South Africa and to explore the relationship between specific case history factors and audiological outcomes.This study was part of a bigger study titled "Early detection of hearing loss: exploring risk-based hearing screening within a developing country context" where all case history data were recorded from participant...
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This study sought to the extent to which implementation of the curriculum contributed to awareness of climate change among teachers and students in secondary schools in Githunguri Sub-county of Kiambu County in Kenya. To achieve the set objectives, the study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The study adopted purposive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques to compose a representative sample. Using stratified sampling technique, schools were divided into either boys,...
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Abstract Drought is responsible for almost 70% of total crop damage in tropical and subtropical countries. In the Colombian Caribbean, drought has caused low availability of Guinea grass ( Megathyrsus maximus ) in forage amount and quality, generating increase in production costs in livestock systems. In this study, we aimed at designing and evaluating dry macro-polymeric inoculants of Bacillus strains and used them successfully to mitigate drought effect on Guinea grass ( M. maximus ). We...
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Despite being a country of various blue stockings, Indian daughters particularly from the countryside and lower socio-economic hierarchy have remained the victims of unfairness in learning opportunities from ancient to modern time.The present research work tries to examine the regional progress and inequality in education and determinants of lower educational prospects of girls in India on the basis of secondary data.Here, the disparity index and correlation coefficient are applied to...
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Producer Company is a new concept of organizing and uniting the farmers under one umbrella to help them compete in the market collectively, by increasing the yield and getting higher net returns for their produce.The farmers are mobilized into farmer groups and their capacity is enhanced to turn them into Producer Company.This paper examines the process involved in forming and nurturing the producer company and steps taken to achieve empowerment of farmers.Case study method was used to study...
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Neoliberal education reforms in schools serving sizeable Black populations throughout the United States have proliferated and are being transported to Black educational contexts abroad. Building on a framework of Coloniality, antiBlackness and a review of Black colonial education this relational analysis argues that contemporary neoliberal education reforms not only resemble the early 20th century movement to spread Black industrial education from the American South to regions of the global...
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This article is based on an empirical study of the importance of a symmetrical relationship between higher education institutions (HEIs) and cognate industry in Ghana. Using social capital theory as the theoretical underpinning of the study, the authors investigate how social structure and networks serve to explain HEI–industry relationships. The research follows a mixed-methods approach for gathering and analysing data from students, academics and industry representatives. The results...