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Antibiotic resistance due to overuse of antimicrobials is an issue that has been of concern to many health institutions and society in general. Resistant infections have high impact in low income countries since they can't afford more recent and expensive antibiotics. Studies that evaluate antibiotic use in hospitals are scarce in Eritrea. Ceftriaxone is commonly available in Halibet National Referral and teaching hospital (HNRTH). Resistance to this antibiotic would have a great impact on...

History informs the present and helps in prediction of the future. This paper examines the historical development of special education for the Visually Impaired (VI) learners in Kenya with key focus on establishment of the institutions offering special education for the VI. The paper presents the strides made and the challenges experienced in the development of this type of education from the time it was introduced in Kenya up to the present. Historical research design was employed in data...

This paper examines the involvement of the government in the development of education for the Visually Impaired (VI) persons in Kenya from the time such education was established to the present. The paper presents the government’s hand in the strides made and the challenges experienced in the development of education through the years. In documenting the involvement of the government, the researchers employed the use of a historical research design in data collection, analysis and...

Climate change and variability is one of the common challenges of rainfall dependent economic activitieslike agriculture. In this study, we assessed the perception of small landholders on the impact of climate change and theiradaptation strategies in Mareko district in southern Ethiopia. Data were collected from a total of 120 small farmersfrom two villages in Elala Gebiba and Hobe Jare Dembeka. The results obtained from meteorological data of threedecades (1986-2015) show an increase in...

Climate change and variability is one of the common challenges of rainfall dependent economic activitieslike agriculture. In this study, we assessed the perception of small landholders on the impact of climate change and theiradaptation strategies in Mareko district in southern Ethiopia. Data were collected from a total of 120 small farmersfrom two villages in Elala Gebiba and Hobe Jare Dembeka. The results obtained from meteorological data of threedecades (1986-2015) show an increase in...

Abstract. In eastern Africa droughts can cause crop failure and lead to food insecurity. With increasing temperatures, there is an a priori assumption that droughts are becoming more severe, however, the link between droughts and climate change is not sufficiently understood. In the current study we focus on agricultural drought and the influence of high temperatures and precipitation deficits on this. Using a combination of models and observational datasets, we studied trends in six regions...

Abstract. In eastern Africa droughts can cause crop failure and lead to food insecurity. With increasing temperatures, there is an a priori assumption that droughts are becoming more severe, however, the link between droughts and climate change is not sufficiently understood. In the current study we focus on agricultural drought and the influence of high temperatures and precipitation deficits on this. Using a combination of models and observational datasets, we studied trends in six regions...

The study investigates the implementation of Annual National Assessments on teaching and learning in King Cetshwayo district primary schools in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.The Annual National Assessments as a form of standardised test is not a new phenomenon within the education systems, especially in developed countries. The Department of Basic Education in South Africa resorted to Annual National Assessments as a strategy to respond to the national outcry about the quality of...

This conceptual paper sought to develop a conceptual framework that brings together the concepts of subjectivity, agency and identity as key analytical tools to understand the construction of identities. The paper reviewed two sets of literature that frame differently the construction of identities. The first set of literature is on conceptualisation of identities, and the second set of literature is on theorisation of identities. The paper argues that identities are not static, rather forms...

The deplorable state of mathematics in the country has been a source of concern to Mathematics educators, Government and the Society at large. The effect of an innovative method such the use of videotaped instruction for learning mathematics at junior secondary school level was therefore experimented. A random sampling technique was used in selecting the three schools out of 50 junior secondary schools in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria, with each serving as experimental...

This study examined the attitude and academic performance of public single-sex (Boys’ and Girls’ only) high school students in the teaching and learning of Agricultural Science in the aspect of practical knowledge of Agriculture. We investigated whether there were significant differences in the mean achievement test scores of students in practical Agriculture in the selected schools. We also examined the relationship between their academic performance in practical agriculture and their...

This chapter recounts, for the first time, the twentieth-century history of intellectual disability in Ghana. the first sub-Saharan British colony to achieve independence in 1957. It outlines the stark clash between the relative recently introduced beliefs of Western individuality and the long-standing beliefs of a more community-based society. In traditional rural Ghanaian society, the mildly or moderately intellectually disabled persons could integrate with relative ease into a...

Scientific research processes are accompanied by burgeoning amounts of research data that serves as findings of the research and provides a platform for the results to be verifiable. Scientific researchers are under pressure to make their data openly available to other researchers for use. Access to scientific data and its curation has become a dominant theme in scientific policy discussions. Besides the funder requirements, researchers are making their data openly available for a number of...

Adolescents are especially vulnerable due to increased biological, social and economic risks associated with early pregnancy and childbirth, yet most pregnancy and childbirth-related complications are preventable through a combination of proven, cost-effective clinical interventions including timely antenatal care (ANC). The voices and specific needs of adolescents are currently underrepresented in the literature on antenatal and maternity care. Objectives were to a) increase our...