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The presence of religion in higher education institutions as an academic discipline has far reaching implications. Indeed, its agenda, whether it is meant to train for religious ordinances and reflect on dogma (theology) or it is a study of religious phenomena in society (religious studies) has been highly contested over the centuries. For Africa, religious enquiry is more complex on account of the missionary factor. The fast changing trends that are specific to a context such as Kenya, for...
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Abstract This study focuses on the radiative impacts of dust on the thermodynamics and dynamics of a major Saharan dust‐storm that occurred between 7 and 15 March 2006. The implementation of a dust module within the convective‐scale operational model AROME permitted a 10‐day simulation at high resolution (5 km) over a large domain (6.5–30°N; 3°W–33°E). The model is able to represent most of the life cycle of this dust‐storm and of the principal dust sources. According to the comparison with...
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The objective of this study was to examine psychology students' attitudes toward suicidal behaviour and the meanings they assign to the act. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 final year psychology students at a university in Ghana. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the students had a generalized negative attitude toward suicide. Religious beliefs and family harmony are cultural contexts influencing the...
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The study examined the Human Resource Availability and Students` Academic Performance in North West Geo Political Zone of Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Secondary schools principals’ drawn randomly across the zone were respondents to the Human Resource Availability and Academic Performance of Secondary Schools Questionnaire (HRAAPSSQ) which was used to collect relevant data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to answer the research questions...
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In Guinea Bissau, the majority of university level professionals are still being trained abroad and most of them do not return to their country. This was a major incentive for creating Guinea Bissau's Medical School. An observational, cross-sectional, analytic study was conducted on the second trimester of 2007 to characterize the socio-demographic, familial and educational profile of medical students, their satisfaction levels, difficulties and expectations concerning the medicine course. A...
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The traditional idea about physical education as jumping and running, and had no academic value have been the opinions of Nigeria parents and public. Physical education as an academic and science subject finds its self on across road. This study ascertained the relationship between secondary school students' attitudes towards physical education and their achievement in the subject. Two instruments were used; Physical Education Achievement Test (PEAT) and Physical Education Attitude Scale...
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Education is considered to be the key to effective development strategies, technical and vocational education is the master key that can alleviate poverty, promote peace, conserve the environment, improve the quality of life for all and help achieve sustainable development. This study sets out to examine the potency of technical and vocational education as a key for poverty alleviation. The concept and the scope of technical and vocational education was discussed as well as the causes of...
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The purpose of this paper is to test for core competencies of organizations in achieving sustainable competitive advantage within the service organizations in a developing economy like Nigeria. The paper specifically deals with the importance of organizational learning on sustainable competitive advantage and how it can be used to achieve sustainable advantage. Despite the wide spread importance attached to building sustainable competitive advantage, the relationship between organizational...
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Describing conditions similar to the twenty-first century, perhaps the earliest written record of climate in Africa is that of Theophrastus (372–287 B.C.) who wrote of the Red Sea coast that “a little north of Koptos [on the Egyptian Red Sea shore] there grows on the land no tree except that called the thirsty Acacia [A. tortilis], and even this is scarce by reason of the heat and lack of water, for it never rains except at intervals of 4 or 5 years, and then the rain comes down heavily and it is soon over” (Hort 1916–1926).
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The Sahel experienced a particularly marked increase in rainfall from 1870 to 1880, but towards 1895 a marked tendency to lower rainfall culminated in a severe drought about 1910 to 1920. Some improvement in rainfall occurred after 1920, and there was relatively abundant rainfall in the Sahel in the 1950s, but probably never reaching the optimum of the nineteenth century. After the mid-1960s a long period of severe drought ensued. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Sahel rainfall...
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Most of South Africa’s climate is dominated by semi-permanent high pressure cells controlling the major upper-air circulation patterns. Through the combined effects of a stable relatively persistent South Atlantic anticyclone and the cold Benguela current, the west coast experiences arid conditions. While the South Atlantic high pressure cell exhibits small irregular longitudinal fluctuations, the South Indian oceanic anticyclone moves substantially eastward in summer and shifts westward...