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The genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994 has been analysed from many perspectives, the most common being through the lens of security and (lack of) international involvement. International apathy, ethnic divisions created and crystallised through Belgian colonial rule, and a long history of ethnic hierarchical tensions leading to economic disparities are often offered as the root causes of the 100-day massacre that took place efficiently and swiftly, leaving close to one million Tutsi...
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The intelligence of 1936 engineering students in three universities in Sudan was tested with the Advanced Progressive Matrices. The sample obtained an average British IQ of 93. Males obtained marginally higher average scores than females, equivalent to approximately 1.2 IQ points. Key Words: Sudan, Advanced Progressive Matrices, Sex differences, Intelligence
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The Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM), combined sets 1 and 2, was administered to a sample of 503 male and 524 female high school students aged 16 to 18 years in Yemen. The male students obtained a higher IQ score than the female students by 0.9 IQ points, not statistically significant. The mean score of the sample was 21.6 and is equivalent to a British IQ of 93. Key Words: Yemen, Advanced Progressive Matrices, Sex Differences, Intelligence
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Climate change is a global challenge to both sustainable livelihoods and economic development. Tanzania has been affected by climate change due to primary dependence on rain-fed agriculture. Despite several studies being able to explore climate change farmers’ perceptions and adaptation in Tanzania, little attention has been to humid areas specifically forest adjacent communities. This study assessed the perceptions and adaptation strategies developed by forest adjacent communities against...
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Sustainable collection of Nontimber Forest Products (NTFPs) for trade is an appropriate measure to increase people’s adaptive capacity against adverse effects of climate change. However, information on the economic value for NTFPs for subsistence use and trade under the changing climate is inadequate, particularly in households around Iyondo Forest Reserve (IFR), in Kilombero District, Tanzania. The study identified and quantified NTFPs used for subsistence and trade, estimated its economic...
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Background: The Ebola Virus disease is one of the deadliest re-emerging diseases; the 2014 outbreak has been devastating with thousands of deaths resulting in global panic.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 423 under-graduate medical and nursing students from University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital using multi-stage stratified random sampling. Data was collected using a pretested self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using IBM-SPSS version 22. Chi-square was...
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Back ground: Rational drug use is one of the essential component of the health care system, because irrational medication use can cause multiple physical, psychological, economic and social effects both at individual and societal level. Hence, dealing with this problem is important in ensuring the safety and well-being of a nation. Objective: To assess the drug prescribing pattern in the outpatient department pharmacy of Mizan –Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Southern, Nation...
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The scarcity of rural education research in South Africa parallels the relative absence of theory development emerging from the developing world. Education research is influenced by the paradigms in which it is located and draws from established (and Western) theories of psycho-social, geo-spatial, economic, and political development (Moletsane 2012, 2). The questions posed by such theories (whether post-colonial, critical, gender or geo-spatial) require responses from developing societies...
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Although most students are conscious of the benefits of physical activity, there is a small proportion that practices sufficiently physical activity.Firstly, our studies aimed to find out the degree of importance of the problematic of no-participation of students in physical education.For this reason, we based our analysis on a questionnaire consisting of eighteen questions that were variables to clarify the latent construct "the no-participation of students".The value of Cronbach alpha...
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Elementary Teachers’ Support of Positive Development of Immigrant Africans in an Urban School District by Kelly M. Ballard MS, St. Joseph’s University, 2006 BA,William Paterson University, 2000 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Walden University May 2016 Abstract The Walter Pope School District (WPSD), a predominantly African American district, has experienced a new wave of immigrant students arriving from African...
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Collaboration between universities and professional bodies is neither new nor unique to South Africa. It occurs in many higher education systems and revolves around the role that professional bodies play in the quality assurance and accreditation of the relevant higher education programmes. In South Africa, this relationship has become increasingly problematic over the recent past due to a number of factors. This article begins by exploring those factors before highlighting the legal...
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The inclusion of the visually impaired in regular schools necessitates that braille is provided to them.Nonetheless, there is a likelihood or possibility in actuality for the visually impaired not being included in the learning that goes on in the regular secondary schools unless appropriate measures are taken to ensure their inclusion.This article which is an excerpt of an ongoing qualitative research in the North West region of Cameroon examines the braille provisioning in regular...
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Cross border education has become part of the options for higher education in countries with inadequate education opportunities. This is based on the fact that education is one of the pillar for economic development and improved living standards. Thus, many nationals from different African countries are taking higher education seriously and are seeking every available opportunity to pursue it. Consequently, this translates to an ever increasing demand for higher education in the continent....
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It is commonly acknowledged that collocations play an important role in the field of ESL/EFL acquisition. Previous seminal studies have reported students’ development of collocational knowledge and use of collocations regardless the difficulties students may encounter in learning collocations, specifically, Arab students. The present study focuses on students’ collocational knowledge, particularly, Yemeni EFL university students who were attending an Intensive English Course (IEC) at...