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In South Africa, environmentally and socio-economically sustainable wine grape production is promotedby governmental and private initiatives. All the initiatives contribute to establishing a scientificallybased response strategy of agro-systems to ensure sustainable production under future expected climateconditions. South African wine grape producers would probably have to cultivate their grapevines underhigher atmospheric CO2 levels and in warmer, mostly drier, conditions. Due to the...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies seen in the Western World. It is increasing in developing countries due to adaptation of the western lifestyle with an incidence of 6% in Nigeria. Treatment options are dependent on the stage of disease at presentation, the performance status of the patient, and increasingly the molecular makeup of the tumor. There is a dearth of data on the treatment options obtainable for the management and outcome of CRC cases in Northwestern,...

<title>Abstract</title> Climate change and soil fertility decline are threatening food security in southern Africa and efforts have been made to adapt current cropping systems to the needs of smallholder farmers. Conservation Agriculture (CA) based on minimum soil disturbance, crop residue retention and crop diversification has been proposed as a strategy to address the challenges smallholder farmers face. Here we analyse the potential contributions of CA towards adaptation to the effects of...

We aimed to determine whether a Case-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL) curriculum, developed from the clinical experience of U.S.-based clinicians in collaboration with Rwandan medical faculty, is acceptable, feasible to implement, and effective as a virtual educational tool for medical students in a resource-limited, global health setting.In this CBCL distance learning education, students were actively engaged and understood the case material and asked probing and insightful...

In the original version of the book, the first author’s first name was inadvertently published with a typo. The name has now been corrected from “Tibebe T. Tigabu” to “Tibebe B. Tigabu” in the chapter “Sustainable Water Resources in Rural Areas: Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Surface Water Groundwater Interactions at Lake Tana, Ethiopia” updated version. The chapter and book have been updated with the changes.

Sustainable water resources management should guarantee that also future generations can fulfil their needs and that also natural systems still receive enough water. As we face multiple uses and stakeholders such as agriculture and food production, space for settlements and water supply, tourism, and nature conservation we need integrated modeling approaches to assess the complex impact of human activities on the water cycle. Additional pressures on water resources result from population...

The study analyzed the impacts of climate change and related factors on yields of teff crop in Ethiopia using quantitative time series data for the period 1981 – 2018. The study adopted Augmented Cobb-Douglas Production Functional model to examine the impact of climate and non-climatic factors on yield of teff in the country. The study confirmed that long-season rainfall has negative and significant impact on yields of teff. The results indicate that an increase in rainfall during...

The study analyzed the impact of climate change on yields of wheat crop in Ethiopia by employing Cobb-Douglas Production Function Approach using time series data for the period 1981 – 2018. The study confirmed that long-season rainfall and crop growing season maximum temperature have negative and significant effects on wheat yield. The result implies that a rise in maximum temperature during crop growing period and variation in long-season rainfall could have adverse impact on yield of wheat...

The evaluation of teaching in higher education is gaining momentum as education takes a holistic learning approach, where the perspectives of students are considered important. Yet, no studies have been undertaken on the factors influencing undergraduate nursing students’ evaluation of teaching effectiveness in Namibia. To investigate the factors associated with undergraduate nursing students’ evaluation of teaching effectiveness at a higher education institution in Namibia. A...

Background: Student satisfaction is considered to be an important factor in assessing the quality of any university programme. However, the delivery of quality student experiences is challenging in the absence of insight into student expectations. Student satisfaction in Namibia in particular has been understudied.Aim: The study aimed to assess and describe students’ expectations and experiences of academic services in a nursing programme.Method: The study employed an online cross-sectional...

Student satisfaction is increasingly becoming a policy driver for evaluating the quality of education and the accreditation of academic programmes. Although student satisfaction is viewed as a yardstick of academic success, it remains understudied in Namibia. To determine undergraduate students’ satisfaction with the nursing programme at a university campus in Namibia. A cross-sectional descriptive survey, with use of a non-proportional quota sampling strategy was used to recruit 147...

This article presents findings of an exploratory study conducted under a Response-to-Intervention based model in a regular primary school in Mozambique, aiming at identifying pupils with Special Educational Needs and provides them the support in the context of Inclusive Education.The study was methodologically grounded on the Action-Research approach.Participants were 106 Grade 2 pupils identified by their teachers as performing negatively in Portuguese Language and Mathematics.Their...

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown improvement for high-resource languages, but there is still a problem with low-resource languages as NMT performs well on huge parallel data available for high-resource languages. In spite of many proposals to solve the problem of low-resource languages, it continues to be a difficult challenge. The issue becomes even more complicated when few resources cover only one domain. In our attempt to combat this issue, we propose a new approach to improve...

Climate change has led human beings to take an interest in the study of meteorological and climatic phenomena.In fact, the main impact of climate change on different sectors of society is caused by extreme events since the occurrence of extreme events leads to more impact related to change in mean climate.Unfortunately, the West African region is vulnerable to extreme rainfall impact because its economy is based on rain-fed agriculture.This study examined the seasonal variability of extreme...

Sexual and reproductive health is a major global public health concern, and teenagers in Africa, in particular, face a variety of unresolved issues. Adolescent pregnancies are occurring more than 50% earlier in Africa, and new HIV infections are rising more frequently by more than 80%. Talking to parents and teens about sexual and reproductive issues is not regarded as a critical strategy in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to assess parent-adolescent communication on sexual and...

This study examined the effects of the School Improvement Grant (SIG) on student enrolment in public basic schools in The Gambia.The study uses both descriptive and inferential analysis to study the trends of school improvement grants and school enrolment from the 2014/2015 to 2018/2019 academic years.The study also runs an econometric estimation model of panel regression data analysis to assess the effects of the SIG program on enrollment and student performance taking into consideration...