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AbstractThis paper investigated the perception of farmers on climate change and adaptation in Limpopo province in South Africa. A sample of 300 farmers aged 16 - 65+ years (46 percent males and 54 percent females) participated in the study. The study involved Sekhukhune and Capricorn districts, with 56 percent farmers in Capricorn and 44 percent in Sekhukhune district. The following 11 local municipalities were visited: Elias Motsoaledi, Makhuduthamaga, Fetakgomo, Ephraim Mogale, Tubatse,...

This is a cross sectional survey of the possible effects of streaming pupils according to ability on pupils’ behaviour, resource allocation and institutional relationships in Mazowe District secondary schools in Zimbabwe. Six secondary schools out of fourteen in Mazowe District of Mashonaland Central, in Zimbabwe were purposively selected for the study. Data was gathered from a random sample of 1794 pupils through questionnaires. Overally the study revealed a wide streaming intention and...

The purpose of this preliminary study was to determine if a course of chiropractic care would change blood pressure measurements in African American patients and to determine if a study was feasible in a chiropractic teaching clinic.Twenty-four African American patients received chiropractic care in a chiropractic teaching clinic over a study period that spanned 23 visits for each patient. Inclusion criteria consisted of patients having a diagnosis of prehypertension (120-139/80-89) or...

Recent studies have shown that the efficacy of benzimidazole drugs is influenced by the intensity of trichuriasis. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of albendazole (ALB) and mebendazole (MBZ) administered randomly for 1 (ALB×1 and MBZ×1) or 2 days (ALB×2 and MBZ×2) to 385 school children with heavy-intensity trichuriasis (mean faecal egg counts (FEC) >1000 eggs per gram of stool (epg)) in Jimma Town, Ethiopia. The efficacies (95% confidence intervals) by...

There are particular distinct changes that students are supposed to portray as a result of science instruction. These changes can be identified in the development of the students as they progress with learning. The changes include among others: ability to develop investigative skills, to reason scientifically, learn about the complexity of the world and be informed citizens. The study aimed at finding out the effects of teaching and learning experiences of teachers and students on science...

Increasingly erratic rainfall and unreliable cropping seasons in southern Africa, combined with high food prices, heighten vulnerability of rural people to food insecurity. To understand what actions are needed to expand adaptive capacity to climate change and its consequences for food security, it is useful to learn from existing agricultural practices in semi-arid areas that exploit positive opportunities of rainfall variability. To determine how residents attain food self-sufficiency...

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The article examines student activism in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2010 to investigate how Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political challenges influenced the nature and forms of student responses. While conceding that student activism was not as well-coordinated and as unified as it had been in earlier periods of Zimbabwean history, it argues that student activism, nevertheless, continued despite relentless efforts by state agencies to violently stifle student protests and also in spite of...

AbstractThis paper reports on the qualitative study that used in-depth interviews and document reviews on financial management practices in their schools. The participants were school principals of the case study schools. The findings of the study highlighted problems regarding the implementation of the policy – despite the Manual for Principals of Secondary Schools on financial planning and organisation, there are still problems regarding the collection and recording of school fees,...

The damage caused by earthquake occurrences in different localities necessitates the evaluation of the subsurface structure. A priori estimation of the site effects became a major challenge for an efficient mitigation of the seismic risk. In the case of moderate to large earthquakes, at some distances from large events, severe damage often occurred at zones of unfavorable geotechnical conditions that give rise to significant site effects. The damage distribution in the near-source area is...

A local geodetic network consisting of eleven benchmarks has been established to study the recent crustal deformation in the Abu-Dabbab area. Seven campaigns of GPS measurements have been collected started from October 2008 and ended in March 2012. The collected data were processed using Bernese version 5.0, and the result values were adjusted to get the more accurate positions of the GPS stations. The magnitudes of horizontal displacements are variable from one epoch to another and in the...

The impact of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Gulf Guinea to the West Africa and Sahel drought of 2005 has been examined using Satellite data. Daily TRMM 3B42 precipitation estimates and TMI SST data sets show concurrent variability during the summer of 2005, indicating the influence of Gulf of Guinea SST over rainfall in these regions. The SSTs that contribute to the drought are no-seasonal fluctuations that occurred during this period and are caused by stronger than normal...

<h3>Background and Aims</h3> Sierra Leone has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, with 113 out of every 1000 live births dying in their first year of life. Many of these deaths occur in the first month of life from birth asphyxia, complications of low birth weight and prematurity and neonatal sepsis. Sierra Leone has a critical shortage of health workers, especially those with skills in neonatal care. We aimed to develop and evaluate the impact of a two-day training...

This study empirically captures the complex multidimensional nature of internationalisation within the South African higher education sector by developing a means of measuring the construct. The study starts off by specifying the domain of the internationalisation construct. Factor analysis was used to analyse interrelationships among identified internationalisation indicators and to explain the indicators in terms of their underlying dimensions. The result was the identification of 16...

Citation: Mukeredzi, T. G. (2013). Professional development through teacher roles: Conceptions of professionally unqualified teachers in rural South Africa and Zimbabwe. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 28(11),1-16. Retrieved from http://jrre.psu.edu/articles/28-11.pdfTeachers' conceptions of what they learn and how they professionally develop through their teaching roles are key to classroom practice and learner achievement because they influence teachers' pedagogic approaches and...

This study focused on access and support of assistance technology for people with visual impairments in open and distance learning (ODL) institutions in Zimbabwe with particular focus on Zimbabwe open University (ZOU). Access to education and support for people with visual impairments in open and distance learning institutions in Zimbabwe appears to be a relatively grey area. The aim of the study was to analyse access and support of visual impairment in ODL for the improvement of ODL through...

The third study by the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) revealed that achievement in mathematics among Grade 6 children in Mozambique is declining, and gender differences favouring boys persist. This study examined the contribution of parents, economic resources and cultural factors on Grade 7 students' beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics. No gender differences were found, but age, geolocation, number of siblings, education of parent, and...

&lt;div class="column"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Objective&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;To determine the effectiveness of psycho-education on symptom severity in depression, hopelessness, suicidality, anxiety and risk of substance abuse among para-medical students at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methodology. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;A clinical trial drew experimental (&lt;em&gt;N&lt;/em&gt;=1 181)...