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The project CLIMB (Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins - Reducing Uncertainty and Quantifying Risk through an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System, www.climb-fp7.eu) investigates the impacts of climate change on hydrological quantities and the occurrence of extreme events for the Mediterranean Region and neighboring countries. This study gives insights into setting up the “Water balance Simulation Model” WaSiM in Chiba basin, situated in the north-east of...
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Objective: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Escherichia coli in asymptomatic bacteriuria among the students of Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology, Jos. Methods: Mid-stream urine samples from 213 students who consented were collected, cultured, isolates identified and antibiotic susceptibility test was carried out according to standard microbiological protocols. Results: Of the 213 test samples screened, 9(4.2%) had asymptomatic bacteriuria. The study...
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This study aimed at identifying some of the problems militating against effective management of primary schools in Afikpo South local government area in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. A self-administered questionnaire containing eight research questions with twenty-four (24) questionnaire items was utilised for this study. The study found, among others that, high numbers of enrolment put pressure on meagre school facilities, while heads of schools, teachers and pupils are affected by a general...
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The East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) region faces a critical shortage of skilled birth attendants despite high levels of maternal and neonatal mortality. This situation could be improved by training more midwives, but in order to achieve this there is a need for more trainers. However, most countries in the region have no midwifery educators’ programmes to produce people to train the required midwives. To address this gap, the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing...
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There is now overwhelming evidence that global warming is taking place, but the impacts on the built environment are less effectively documented. Similarly, climate instability is an additional factor in increasing movement of rural populations to ur-ban centres. Inadequate living conditions in rural areas are also recognised as key components in encouraging such migration – hence efforts to create improved rural housing which is sustainable, affordable and desirable is a fundamental...
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Le deperissement du cedre de l’Atlas observe au cours de la derniere decennie dans les massifs de l’Aures et du Belezma a ete attribue par la majorite des chercheurs et gestionnaires forestiers a la secheresse comme facteur principal. Deux autres vagues de forte mortalite ont ete signalees en 1880 et en 1979 suite a des secheresses intenses. Le but de notre travail a ete de retracer les annees de secheresse en se basant sur la relation existant entre l’indice de croissance du cerne et les...
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This study objective was to investigate and identify the factors that contribute to female students drop out in mixed day secondary schools in Mathioya district. The purpose of the research was to come up with findings that are likely to create awareness to the administration in formulating and implementing educational policies that may minimize this problem. The importance of the study is to understand the challenges facing female students and how these can be resolved. The study was guided...
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With thousands of materials having been produced and shared openly and freely on the Internet as Open Educational Resources (OER) or OpenCourseWare (OCW), the focus of the Open Education movement has shifted toward the need to demonstrate how such materials are being used, by whom and with what impact. This paper reports on the uses, the motivation for and perceived benefits of use, as well as the challenges of using or producing OER/OCW among academics at public Higher Education...
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This article reappraises John Emmanuel Hevi’s “An African Student in China”, a 1966 book that complained about Chinese racism towards Africans but has received scholarly criticism that, for instance, petty annoyances had been overly exaggerated. In an attempt to construct images of Africans in China during Mao’s era and to re-analyse whether Hevi’s work was truly based on “petty annoyances”, the author, using declassified official files, studies the circumstances that Hevi and his peers...
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[1] This study applies the technique of event attribution to the East African rainy seasons preceding the drought of 2011. Using observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs), and sea ice conditions with a state-of-the-art atmosphere model, the precipitation totals during late 2010 (the “short rains”) and early 2011 (the “long rains”) were simulated hundreds of times to produce possible distributions of precipitation. Alternative distributions of precipitation were produced, consistent with a...
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Afyare Abdi Elmi. Understanding the Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam, andPeacebuilding. Oxford: Pluto Press, 2010. xvii +193 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $35.00. Paper.Markus Hoehne and Virginia Luling, eds. Milk and Peace, Drought and War: Somali Culture, Society and Politics: Essays in Honour of I. M. Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xi + 437 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.The field of Somali studies has been shaped to a remarkable...