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Highlights• We estimate the effects of climate variability and change on agricultural revenues of small-scale farmers in Kenya.• We use a balanced panel household data set collected in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2010 from eight agro-regional zones and climate data from 1980 to 2010.• We assess the effects of climate variability and change using a household fixed effects model.• Results imply that climate variability and change significantly affect smallholders livelihoods with greater effects in...

Highlights• We estimate the effects of climate variability and change on agricultural revenues of small-scale farmers in Kenya.• We use a balanced panel household data set collected in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2010 from eight agro-regional zones and climate data from 1980 to 2010.• We assess the effects of climate variability and change using a household fixed effects model.• Results imply that climate variability and change significantly affect smallholders livelihoods with greater effects in...

The use of modern wound dressing (MWD) techniques has been found to promote wound healing faster than the traditional wound dressing techniques. This cross-sectional descriptive study examined the knowledge of clinical nurses on MWD vis-a-vis their perception and perceived factors hindering implementation of MWD in the study setting. Data was collected from 183 nurses using a self-developed questionnaire with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.85. Results showed that a higher percentage had poor...

Inland fisheries are important for nutrition, employment, and income, but climate variability and change are adding to other stressors, such as overexploitation, pollution, habitat degradation, and invasive species, to threaten their productivity as well as livelihoods of fisheries-dependent communities. Understanding the whole socio-ecological system to enable communities to adapt and build resilience is therefore vital. Here, we present results from a review of the responses of African...

In Nigeria, communal conflicts arise due to misunderstanding from ownership of land for farming, oil deposits, solid minerals or water for fishing activities. It may also arise in defence of community pride and properties or even in defence of the people involved in the conflict. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), The Short Screening Scale for Post traumatic stress disorder, The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-2) were used to assess...

Abstract This study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of collaborative strategic reading and whole language approach on reading comprehension performance of primary school children with learning disabilities in Oyo state Nigeria. Seventy eight pupils participated in the study; they were between ages nine and eleven. Five hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance, convenience sampling technique was used to sample participants. The study was carried out in...

Unemployment as a global phenomenon is on the increase especially in Nigeria.The rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria is put at 54% of the population [21].It is also pertinent to note that this problem cannot be totally eradicated or solved but can be drastically reduced to its barest minimum through continious education and the acquisition of entrepreneural skills.Education is said to be the gradual acquisition of knowlwedge which is integrative in nature.Education as an on-going process...

A research project submitted in fulfilment for the degree of master of education (early childhood education) in the School of Education, Kenyatta University

This study compared the effectiveness of the community-wide treatment and school-based treatment approaches in the control of Schistosoma mansoni infections in villages with ⩾25% prevalence in western Kenya. Stool samples from first year students, 9-12year olds and adults (20-55years) were analyzed by the Kato-Katz technique for S. mansoni eggs. After two rounds of treatment, S. mansoni prevalence and intensity levels significantly declined in both treatment approaches. Prevalence...

A research project submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of master of education (early childhood education) of Kenyatta University June, 2016

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a serious health threat in most countries globally, placing a severe burden on the workforce in the corporate environment. Physical activity intervention has already been indicated as an effective regime against CVD. The purpose of this study therefore, was to examine the effect of training and retraining, following different exercise programme frequencies on the aerobic capacity, and some intrinsic cardiovascular dynamics (systolic time intervals) in a...

This was a descriptive cross sectional study of one year duration conducted in Pediatric department of Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad. The objective was to assess the clinical pattern, age distribution and type of heart diseases in children under 5 years of age. In this study 150 children with suspicion of cardiac problem were enrolled.Among 150 cardiac patients 55.3% were male and 44.7% were female. Congenital heart diseases (CHD) seen in 89.3% and 10.7% had acquired heart disease....

Backgroud: Sports participation is a healthy behaviour but it is not without the risk of injuries. Information on the extent of sport participation and sport injuries among Nigerian Unversity students is sparse. Objeclive: To determine the prevalence and types of sport participation and injuries among university.students in Nigeria. Factors associated with sport participation among students were also examined.A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire to...

Poor teaching methods are blamed for a large number of Nigerian pupils in government schools becoming either non-readers or struggling readers [20].This study investigated the effects of a Reading Intervention that trained primary school teachers in specific strategies of teaching reading skills in order to enhance instructional practices.In a quasiexperimental design with 15 teachers and 140 primary pupils, teachers were trained for four weeks using activities derived from the whole...

Large amounts of mineral dust are injected into the atmosphere during dust storms, which are common in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where most of the global dust hotspots are located. In this work, we present simulations of dust emission using the Community Earth System Model Version 1.2.2 (CESM 1.2.2) and evaluate how well it captures the spatio-temporal characteristics of dust emission in the MENA region with a focus on large-scale dust storm mobilization. We explicitly focus...

Abstract 54 Program Purpose: The Uganda Cancer Institute (“UCI”)/Hutchinson Center Cancer Alliance studies infection-related cancers and builds capacity for research and medical care. Weekly research in progress (RIP) meetings for Alliance scientists and staff were started in 2010 and, in 2013, were converted to a structured, facilitated Peer-driven Mentoring and Career Development program (“PMCD”). PMCD includes weekly RIP, monthly consultant lectures or skills workshops (N=16), monthly...

Little is known about the drinking behaviour of South African university students and education and prevention campaigns are not necessarily based on scientific research results. To change drinking behaviour, it is important to address the drinking motives, alcohol outcome expectancies, and alcohol-related behaviour that hold valence in education and prevention campaigns. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the drinking behaviour of South African university students, and to...