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Taabaa streams situated at Taabaa-Okwale and East-West roads, Taabaa were investigated using physico-chemical and entomofauna biodiversity indicators to ascertain their pollution status, following series of human activities; bathing/laundry services, cars/motorcycles washing, run-offs from agricultural farms that occur at the streams. The discharge from the run-offs and other sources into the streams may cause increase in the hydro-carbon concentration and phosphates of the water bodies and...

Malaysian universities’ adoption of English as a medium of instruction provides Libyan international students, who have been reported as the seventh largest ethnic group enrolled in those institutions, with opportunities to pursue various fields of study. However, Libyan students struggle with academic speaking resulting from inadequate prior EFL learning experience characterised by a lack of speaking practice. Consequently, causing communicative incompetency that contributes to language...

Statistics helps medical students understand research. Without understanding statistics, students can't choose the proper analysis in their research. We aimed to assess the attitude toward statistics, usage of statical software and associated factors for using statistical analysis software in Sudan.A cross-sectional online survey was distributed among undergraduate medical students across ten Sudanese universities. The study aimed to measure their attitude towards statistics using Survey of...

Air pollution research has been conducted in Europe and North America as well as in Asia and South America for decades. Until recently, global inventories of pollutants from North America Europe and Asia have been used for air quality and climate change modelling in Africa (Bond et al., 2004, Streets et al., 2004, Bond et al., 2007, Klimont et al., 2009, Klimont et al., 2013, Lamarque et al., 2010). Research in air pollution has, however, been lagging far behind in Africa, despite the...

Learners living with hearing impairment are at a higher risk of visual impairment.To summarise relevant literature investigating the prevalence and causes of visual impairment amongst learners living with hearing impairment in sub-Saharan Africa.A search of nine databases and the reference lists of retrieved studies were conducted using the standard methodology for scoping reviews as described in the PRISMA statement. The databases were MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Global...

While countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made significant progress towards achieving universal school enrolment, millions of students lack basic numeracy skills. This paper reports the results of a pilot study that aimed at using the Emergent Literacy in Mathematics (ELM) software to teach mathematics in early primary grades in Kenya. Designed as a pre- and post-test non-equivalent group research, the study unfolded in 14 grade-one classes from 7 primary public schools. After having...

Background: Epidemiological studies reported independent effects of air pollution and temperature on health, yet these twoexposures are often treated as separate risk factors. Few studies investigated temperature effect modification on the health effects ofair pollution in Africa and none examined the effects of black carbon on respiratory disease (RD) hospitalisations. The aim of this studywas to determine whether the association between RD hospitalisations and air pollution in the Vaal...

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to establish the effect of quality of messages on employee engagement in technical training institutions in Kenya. 
 Methodology: The study was conducted using survey research design. Study population was all the 3780 trainers in the 102 technical institutions in Kenya out of which a sample of 360 respondents was used. Stratified random sampling, random sampling and stratified proportionate random sampling technique design were employed. Data...

The aim of this study was to develop the procedure for the varietal discrimination of date palm fruit using image analysis and traditional machine learning techniques. The fruit images of ‘Mejhoul’, ‘Boufeggous’, ‘Aziza’, ‘Assiane’, and ‘Bousthammi’ date varieties, converted to individual color channels, were processed to extract the texture parameters. After performing the attribute selection, the textures were used to build models intended for the discrimination of different varieties of...

An Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred in Moiyabana, central Botswana on April 3, 2017. This chapter expands on our previous paper on this subject, and highlights on the effects of the spatial distribution of foreshock and aftershock sequences associated with this earthquake. The data used was from the Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) and was analysed with the Seisan software. The Moiyabana earthquake was preceded by foreshocks that were widespread across the country and had no preferred...

Environmental conflicts manifest in different ways, with context-specific impacts on the affected regions. Emerging as a crucial point of national and international security, issues of climate change have taken the fore. In the Lake Chad Region, more people have become more susceptible to the climate change, given the poverty level, unemployment and inadequate governance in these regions. Christened as the world’s most complicated humanitarian disaster, the receding lake which has served as...

Climate change-related drought risks are intensifying in many urban areas, making stakes particularly high in contexts of severe vulnerability. Yet, how social power, differential agency and economic visions will shape societal responses to droughts remains poorly understood. Here, we build a social-environmental scenario of the possible impacts of an unprecedented drought in Maputo, which epitomizes a Southern African city with highly uneven development and differential vulnerability across...

Web-based services offer users convenient access to and the ability to manipulate information that is of concern to such services. Not only does online registration address the manageability issue of a growing student population, but it also ensures greater constancy and reusability of information. These advantages in turn lead to better productivity and hence better quality of the overall registration system. Furthermore, online system can be used not only for registration, but also for...

Climate change poses a severe threat to the agriculture sector of low-income economies. To mitigate the influence of the intensifying deforestation and climate change on the environment and the livelihoods of many societies, it is crucial to illustrate the association between environmental pollution, degradation, and crop production. Somalia is facing massive deforestation. The key drivers of land degradation in Somalia are the dependence on traditional biomass energy—charcoal and firewood—,...