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Background: Intestinal helminth infections acquired from contaminated environment cause morbidity and mortality worldwide. These infections have persisted in some communities prompting the need to evaluate epidemiological determinants and plan for intervention programs. Design and Setting: A 6 months cross-sectional school-based study was undertaken in Nandi County, Kenya to assess the prevalence and intensity of intestinal geohelminthiases in school children. Materials and Methods: Fecal...
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Africa supports a population of over 1 billion people with over half of them depending on maize for food and feed either directly or indirectly. Maize in Africa is affected by many stresses, both biotic and abiotic which significantly reduce yields and eventually lead to poor production. Due to the high demand for maize in the region, different improvement strategies have been employed in an effort to improve production. These include conventional breeding, molecular breeding, high...
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The study used the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Global Trigger Tool (GTT) as a means of detecting and then monitoring adverse events across the entire population of inpatients in the internal medicine wards at Dr. George Mukhari Academic Hospital (DGMAH). The main focus of a Trigger Tool is to detect adverse events that lead to patient harm caused by medical management, rather than the patient’s underlying condition. To the best of the researcher’s knowledge, no research has...
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Ethiopia introduced a wide range of socioeconomic development strategies, programs and practices since 1991. One of these is Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) strategy that aims at producing extension agents (usually referred to as development agents /DAs/) who are capable to contribute to sustainable agricultural development in Ethiopia. The objective of this study was, therefore, to assess the contribution of ATVET graduates in improving agricultural...
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Studies on climate impacts and related adaptation strategies are becoming increasingly important to counteract the negative impacts of climate change. In Ethiopia, climate change is likely to affect crop yields negatively and therefore food security. However, quantitative evidence is lacking about the ability of farm-level adaptation options to offset the negative impacts of climate change and to improve food security. The MarkSim Global Climate Model weather generator was used to generate...
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This paper is based on a study which sought to examine the various errors and misconceptions committed by students in algebra with the view to exposing the nature and origin of the errors and misconceptions in secondary schools in Machakos district. Teachers’ knowledge on students’ errors was investigated together with strategies for remedial teaching. Descriptive survey design was adopted on four hundred and thirty form two students and fifteen mathematics teachers. Data was analyzed using...
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The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which teachers’ related factors (communication, conflict resolution, coordination and attitude) influence timely syllabus coverage in public secondary schools. The objectives of this study were: to establish the influence of communication on timely syllabus coverage, to establish the influence of conflict resolution on timely syllabus coverage, to establish the influence of coordination on timely syllabus coverage and to establish the...
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In this study we used a model of adult learning to explore undergraduate students' views on how to improve the teaching of research methods and biostatistics.This was a secondary analysis of survey data of 600 undergraduate students from three medical schools in Uganda. The analysis looked at student's responses to an open ended section of a questionnaire on their views on undergraduate teaching of research methods and biostatistics. Qualitative phenomenological data analysis was done with a...
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This paper explored the Relevance of the Pedagogy and Academic Content Knowledge that are offered to Prospective Science and Mathematics Teachers in Tanzania Teachers’ colleges. Morogoro Teachers’ College and Kleruu Teachers’ college were used as a case study. The performance in science and mathematics subjects in form four National examinations for four years consecutively are poor.There is doubt whether the pedagogy and academic contents offered to prospective science and mathematics which...
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Wetland ecosystems in Tanzania contribute significantly to livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. These ecosystems are vulnerable to both human and climate change induced impacts though the implication of climate change on these ecosystems is poorly known. We assessed a wide range of wetlands in the Ruaha River basin to quantify their biodiversity, livelihoods and potential climate change impacts. It was observed that biodiversity of wetlands is much higher than that in adjacent...
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The phenomenon of exceptional academic achievement in South African higher education is under-researched and frequently overshadowed by concerns around failure, underachievement, and poor quality of throughput. This paper reports on a study of exceptional academic achievement in one South African university. Taking a selection of contextually relevant and available variables, a logistic regression methodology was applied to a sample of graduates from the University of KwaZulu-Natal - an...