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In pursuit for sustainable economic growth, developed countries have constantly rejected proposals to reduce gas emissions from their economic dependent industries. For those countries who accepted or seem willing to mitigate, progress has been somewhat snail paced. On the other hand, developing countries have also raised concerns for the need to accelerate economic development of their societies faced with high rate of poverty, unemployment and many other social ills. Furthermore, because...

The study sought to investigate and analyse teachers’ perception of their role  in the school and society in  Harare Metropolitan Province and measure the extent to which teachers perceive their role as “diffuse” or just “restricted” to the traditional  role of instruction. The investigation employed the survey research design, which was mainly quantitative in nature.  The study was conducted in 145 schools: 102 primary and 43 secondary schools. The sample of 360 teachers was randomly...

This paper is a part of a multi-disciplinary research "Application of Decentralized On-Site Water Treatment System in Egypt for Use in Agriculture and Producing Safe Fish and Animal Proteins". The project aimed to investigate the environmental impact of implementing sewage water before and after treatment using the effluent of the on-site decentralized Japanese' Johkasou system, in agriculture and producing fish protein. The aim is to establish such system in Egypt to strengthen the sanitary...

Background: School-based hearing screening is likely to be the first opportunity to identify childhood hearing loss in South Africa. Criteria for school-based hearing screening requires balancing the targeted degree of hearing loss while ensuring that referral rates are sufficiently low for a cost-effective and sustainable programme. The study aim was to investigate the effect of screening intensity (loudness) levels on the referral rate and to establish the effect of an immediate rescreen...

The primary aim of this article was to determine the nature of peace education embedded in African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) in order to develop convincing explanations on how and why such knowledge systems should be incorporated in peace education initiatives in Africa. The research was triggered by the reality that contemporary dialogues on peace education continue to project the subject as if it were foreign to AIKS. Despite the fact that AIKS have always prioritised a culture...

Training plays a strategic role in improving the competitiveness and the productivity of the agricultural sector. This paper identified training challenges faced by smallholder farmers in the Mopan...

INTRODUZIONE L'immagine che ci viene restituita dai mezzi di informazione e dalle campagne pubblicitarie delle associazioni umanitarie dei paesi in via di sviluppo ci racconta di una condizione di assoluta poverta e di degrado culturale, tecnologico, igienico e sociale che perversa in maniera allarmante. Spesso e cosi, molte altre volte e pure esagerazione. Come sempre, la verita sta nel mezzo. Vi sono molti esempi in cui un popolo ha introdotto delle tecnologie o dei modelli sociali che...

This theoretical and conceptual article explores the planned post-school sectoral reform in South Africa. The reform proposals set out in the White Paper (DoHET 2013) privilege a skills-based transformation agenda which we argue is inadequate to service the needs of a diverse post-schooling sector in South Africa. In addition to a skills-driven discourse that is underpinning thinking about transforming the post-school sector, transformation as a construct has also not been fully engaged with...

Abstract Topsoils developed on different lithologies of all the geological units of the volcanic Brava Island (Cape Verde archipelago) were studied by neutron activation analysis and Mossbauer spectroscopy. Sampling was performed according to the recommendations of the IGCP 259 (“International Geochemical Mapping”). Significant chemical contents variations were found even within the same volcano-stratigraphic unit, inherited from the parent rock composition under the semi-arid climate of the...

Research Thesis Submitted to the School of Education in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Master of Education of Kenyatta University, December, 2016

Young adults including university students are at high risk of acquiring HIV due to their risky sexual practices. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of risky sexual behaviours amongst regular undergraduate students in Jigjiga University. The researcher used a quantitative, univariate cross-sectional descriptive study. Two hundred and thirty six (236) students were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a standardised structured...

Entrepreneurship training programmes and self-employment initiatives for unemployed adults has become a new frontier for poverty reduction in South Africa. This article investigates the types of challenges graduates encounter and opportunities in accessing financial services in order to start-up and grow an own micro-enterprise in South Africa. The main findings reveal that micro-finance institutions are keen to grant loans and credits to graduates from entrepreneurial training centres....

Injury accounts for 9.6% of the global mortality burden, disproportionately affecting those living in low- and middle-income countries. In an effort to improve trauma care in Rwanda, the Ministry of Health developed a prehospital service, Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente (SAMU), and established an emergency medicine training program. However, little is known about patients receiving prehospital and emergency trauma care or their outcomes. The objective was to develop a linked...

The study was conducted at Ardaita Agricultural Technical Vocational Education Training (ATVET) college dairy farm, to evaluate the reproductive performance of Holstein Friesian and its crosses with Boran cattle breeds. Data collected between 2000 and 2015 on reproductive traits (n=2632) were studied and analyzed using general linear model procedure. The overall estimated means for age at first service (AFS), age at first calving (AFC), calving interval (CI), days open (DO) and number of...

IntroductionTeenage pregnancy has become a growing concern and therefore various causes of teenage pregnancy had become identified. Teenage pregnancy refers to pregnancy that occurs in young girls, in the age range of 13 to 17 years old. According to Jackie, (2012) low self-esteem is among the causes of teenage pregnancy. Children who are not shown love and affection from parents will seek it out with their peer group. Many adolescents report pressures from their peers to have sex before...