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According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warming in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expected to be greater than the global average, and rainfall will decline in certain areas. Global circulation models (GCMs), which provide an understanding of climate and project climate change, tend to agree that temperatures are increasing across the region, but models vary widely regarding predicted changes in precipitation—with the exception of some...
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Information technology has improved operations management globally. The health sector has benefited from this revolution through the introduction of eHealth solutions. The cost-effective utilization of Information Technology and flexibility in adapting and adopting organizational changes has posed some challenges to health institutions in developing countries. In the case of Nigeria, the implementation of the National Health Policy entails the delivery of a full-packaged health care system;...
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This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system of country-specific hydrology, crop, road and hydropower engineering models to simulate the economic impacts of climate change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopiaâ..s GDP in the 2040s will be up to 10 percent below the counterfactual no-climate change baseline. Suitably scaled adaptation measures could restore...
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In this report, we reflect on the Second Southern African Students' Psychology Conference. Reflections in the report are based on photographs taken during the two days of the conference. Certain themes were identified which include the presentations, the experience of the conference, and the culture expressed at the conference. This report is not an attempt to record all the happenings at the conference, although we do share some of our key experiences and reflections.
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This study aims to investigate factors that impact on students’ academic adjustment to higher education in South Africa. The research framework adopts qualitative methods based on focus groups with students attending the undergraduate programs at one of the nationally accredited academic institutions in Cape Town. The thematic analysis of focus group transcripts highlighted that the outcome-based curriculum in previous (secondary) education, family difficulties, and individual psychosocial...
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Teaching and research in robotics and mechanisms in engineering schools in Tunisia can be a very challenging task. Indeed, most engineering schools in Tunisia are relatively young, and only four out of about ten engineering schools in Tunisia have mechanical engineering curricula. This paper tries to delineate the place of mechanisms and robotics in these curricula and the evolution of teaching and research in this discipline during the last two decades. Especial attention will be paid to...
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The objective of this communication is to present the first results of the evaluation of learning processes induced by a global extension approach to family farms in Benin, CEF. This evaluation, comparing producers before the beginning of the training and 1 year later, is based on the identification of the causal chain of changes in producers' management decisions and representations, leading to impacts both at household and farm levels. At this point, the communication will describe the...
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The Africa-UK Engineering for Development Partnership continued their quest to build and sustain engineering capacity in Africa with their second workshop, held in Arusha, Tanzania, during the last week of November 2010.
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Agriculture is the major occupation of Nigerians and remains the largest contributor to the Nigerian economy. Access to agricultural information and knowledge have long been recognized as a key element for agricultural development but unfortunately access to quality agricultural information at the right time and in the appropriate manner has been a major hindrance to agricultural user population and agricultural development in Nigeria. The adoption of ICTs in agriculture have been found to...
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Author(s): McKinney de Royston, Maxine Ramona | Advisor(s): Suad Nasir, Na'ilah | Abstract: Discussions about gaps in achievement and opportunity, educational debts, and educational inequities, point to the lingering salience and pernicious role of race in schools (Hilliard, 2003; Ladson Billings, 2006; Noguera, 2003). Yet, reforms are often characterized by a quick-fix mentality and single-solution (Lee, 2008, p. 208) that do not explicitly address racism nor attempt comprehensive shifts in...
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The Rwandan government views Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a key tool for transforming the economy, with the education sector playing an important role in developing the necessary human resources. Since 2000 there has been a big push to introduce computers into schools and integrate ICT into the education curriculum through a range of initiatives. Within this paper we draw on the research of EdQual, a DFID funded project in order to examine issues related to the use of...
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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr.Wilbert Chagula Library, class mark (THS EAF LB3013.2.T34R48)