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School leadership changes are gaining momentum in South Africa as larger proportions of incumbent principals near retirement age. While this presents opportunities to replace weaker school leaders with better ones, these changes may also destabilize school environments and impede on learning. This study explores this issue using payroll data on public school principals in South Africa linked to national data on schools and matriculation examination outcomes. School fixed effects and...

This study presents a comparative investigation of atmospheric ventilation corridors and coefficients for gaseous pollution plume released from an isolated industrial facility into the ambient air of the host community in Ile-Ife suburb, southwest Nigeria. For the months of September to December in the year 2012 and 2013, measurement of surface layer atmospheric parameters made from an instrumented mast located near the industrial facility were used to parameterize for mixing layer height...

Our research carries out three tasks. The first is to examine the trends of poverty and inequality across the rural and urban areas in Togo between 2006 and 2011. The second task is to look for the drivers of these changes. The last is to inspect the evidence of inclusive growth. Using data from Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey (QUIBB) for 2006 and 2011 and the ADePT Poverty and Inequality Module, we explore poverty and inequality indices. We found that: 1) fifty percent of the...

Our research carries out three tasks. The first is to examine the trends of poverty and inequality across the rural and urban areas in Togo between 2006 and 2011. The second task is to look for the drivers of these changes. The last is to inspect the evidence of inclusive growth. Using data from Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey (QUIBB) for 2006 and 2011 and the ADePT Poverty and Inequality Module, we explore poverty and inequality indices. We found that: 1) fifty percent of the...

Learning to read and write is essential in the development and functioning of every child, with or without a disability including those with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Learners with CP experience limitations in Literacy Skills (LS) due to lack of speech, motor difficulties and/or use of inappropriate instructional strategies. These factors are likely to affect their overall academic work. In Kenya, learners with CP are enrolled in schools for children with Physical Handicap (PH) where they are...

Nutrition may be defined as the process, act, or study of how living things use nutrients for energy, growth, and maintenance.Contrary to widely held notions, malnutrition may be caused by people choosing to eat the wrong types of food, rather than a lack of what to eat.The objectives of the study were to describe the dietary pattern of primary school pupils in an urban and rural local government area of Lagos State, Nigeria and to examine the relationship between dietary pattern and...

This article examines the various perspectives of alumni from the Christian Bilingual University of the Congo (UCBC) on the topic of integrated learning. In this article, both an understanding and a definition of the concept of integrated learning are achieved by analysing data obtained from the twelve alumni. The tool used was semi-structured interviews. Five themes emerged as part of the definition of the concept. Firstly, integrated learning is a holistic education. Secondly, it is...

This study was aimed at investigating science teachers’ practice of integrating assessment within their daily instruction to improve students’ learning at East Gojjam Preparatory schools, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to gather the data. The subjects of the study were all of science teachers in the randomly selected schools. From 186 science teachers, 153 of them filled the questionnaire. Moreover, 8 purposively selected teachers...

The study explored the correlation of children's perceptions of their fathers' parenting behaviors and the pupils' academic performance in Kenya.Survey method involving self report measures was used to gather data on perceptions of fathers' support, monitoring, availability and involvement in school activities while official academic records provided mean scores for English, maths, and science.The research was guided by Urie Bronfenbrenner ecological theory and Baumrind (1968) parenting...

Iodine deficiency remains a public health problem in the world. It is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation and brain damage worldwide. Though 12 million school age children are at risk of developing iodine deficiency, there is a scarcity of literature showing the magnitude of iodine deficiency in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated factors of iodine deficiency among school children in Robe District, southeast Ethiopia.A school based...

The objective of this study was to investigate whether 10 phospholipids/metabolites previously identified as prospectively predictive of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia in whites would also be predictive in a mostly African-American cohort.We repeatedly measured 188 phospholipids/metabolites in plasma samples of 221 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, 97% African American, who were followed between 2004-2006 and 2011-2013.After a mean follow-up of 7.3...

Land-cover mapping is an important research topic with broad applicability in the remote-sensing domain. Machine learning algorithms such as Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Random Forest (RF) have been playing an important role in this field for many years, although deep neural networks are experiencing a resurgence of interest. In this article, we demonstrate early efforts to apply deep learning-based classification...

Recently, within the increasing implementation of the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach to teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the Yemeni EFL secondary school curriculum has adopted the CLT approach. This qualitative exploratory case study aimed at examining whether or not the Yemeni English for Science and Technology (EST) senior secondary reading instructional implementation is a communicative-based instruction in nature as it is labelled. The data were collected...

26Oct 2016 ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER POLLUTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – CURRENT POLLUTION LEVEL IN RWANDA. Sosthene Mubera , Philip Ochieng Ogada and Dragan Cigoja. UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for sustainable development. College of Environmental Science and Engineering. 20092, China.

The effects and causes of climate change and variability have been a cause of controversy and debate for many years in many parts of the developing world.Perceptions vary about the effects and causes of climate change and variability.This study assessed smallholder farmers' perceptions of climate variability and climate change adaptation in Bolero Community, Rumphi district in northern Malawi.Data were generated through a knowledge, attitude and practice survey using semi-structured...