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Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the usage, ingredients, and microbiological profile of traditional eye medicine (TEM) at a teaching hospital in southwest Uganda. Methods: This was a single-center prospective pilot study that included 11 individuals who used TEM before presenting to a tertiary eye center of the Mbarara University of Science and Technology between Feb 15, 2017, and Feb 24, 2017. We noted the patients’ demographics, chief complaints, reasons for using TEM, and...
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Quantifying Externalities in Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan FarmersI investigate how positive externalities contribute to underadoption of agricultural technology among sub ...
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ABSTRACT Most developing countries including Lesotho, faces a major challenge of creating jobs for their high education graduates. This matter hard presses policy makers to advocate for training which equips graduates to venture into self-employment for job creation. This study therefore intended to establish students' opinions regarding self-employment opportunities in agriculture. The key objectives were: to describe students' knowledge of potential self-employment opportunities in...
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This comparative, explanatory and cross-sectional quantitative study was aimed at evaluating students’ perspectives of entrepreneurial intentions. The secondary data used comprised of 484 (205 [42.36%] Walter Sisulu University and 279 [57.64%] Tshwane University of Technology) students. The study reported that students at the two universities had similar perceptions of entrepreneurial intentions, and that students from Tshwane University of Technology are more likely to encourage other...
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Interest in entrepreneurship has developed tremendously over the years and this study was aimed at evaluating students’ perspectives of entrepreneurial intentions at the Tshwane University of Technology. The sample for this study comprised of 279 (153 [54.84%] first year and 126 [45.16%] no first year) students. The data collected was analysed through Stata version 15. Rank-sum test results indicated that students who were in the first year and those who were not in the first year had...
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Teaching is cross-culturally widespread but few studies have considered children as teachers as well as learners. This is surprising, since forager children spend much of their time playing and foraging in child-only groups, and thus, have access to many potential child teachers. Using the Social Relations Model, we examined the prevalence of child-to-child teaching using focal follow data from 35 Hadza and 38 BaYaka 3- to 18-year-olds. We investigated the effect of age, sex and kinship on...
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tenderness, body aches, back pain, upper thigh pain, headache, fatigue and swelling of extremities, where psychological symptoms like school/work absenteeism [2][3][4].Premenstrual symptoms might cause several difficulties for female including impairment in physical functioning, psychological health, and severe dysfunction in social or occupational functioning.In young adolescents, symptoms might particularly affect school functions and social interactions in a negative way [5][6][7][8].The...
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Teaching as a knowledge-based profession requires pedagogical content knowledge for problem-solving, decision making, class management and sensitivity for adapting to diverse needs of learners. Whereas teacher knowledge is absolutely a component of professionalism, pedagogical content knowledge contributes to mastery of teaching, self-regulation and cognitive abilities for professional competence. Further, pedagogical content knowledge assists teacher trainees to; reflect on experiences;...
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Stakeholders' involvement in implementation of social studies curriculum forms a cornerstone for strengthening partnerships essential for achieving learning outcomes for sustainable development.Strong bonds between parents, school administration and community influence knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that learners require for survival in the 21 st century as effective citizens.While communities, families and the society act as a linkage in social studies learning, continuous...
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This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language, in rural and urban settings.
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<title>Abstract</title> In Tanzania studies on conflicts between subsistence farmers and agropastoralists/pastoralists as well communities versus conservationists have been frequently reported. These include studies on water use conflicts in the Pangan River Basin. Agropastoralists have also been evicted as a result of these conflicts. The overriding tendency has thus been centered on discussion about what keeps pastoralists and crop cultivators apart rather than what keeps them together....