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Maintaining sustainability in rainfed wheat production under changing climate is a grave concern for food security in Algeria. This study aims to assess the impact of future climate change on rainfed wheat yield in the semiarid Eastern High Plains (Setif and Bordj Bou Arreridj (BBA)) in Algeria using AquaCrop model. For this purpose, the EURO-CORDEX climate projections by 2035–2064 and 2065–2094 were downscaled using ICHEC_KNMI model under two representative concentration pathway (RCP)...

Potato has increased in importance as a staple food in sub-Saharan Africa, where its production is faced with a multitude of challenges, including plant disease development and spread under changing climatic conditions. The economically most important plant viruses affecting potatoes globally are Potato virus Y (PVY) and Potato leafroll virus (PLRV). Disease management relies mostly on the use of insecticides, cultural control and seed certification schemes. A major obstacle in many...

African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne disease that is mainly transmitted by infected tsetse flies. A deterministic model of tsetse fly vector, human, and cattle hosts is formulated and analyzed to gain insights into the disease dynamics. The roles of public health education, treatment, and tsetse fly traps are studied. The effective reproduction number, a threshold used to determine whether the disease persists or dies out in the population, is determined. The sensitivity analysis of the...

Background: Mathematical equivalence is a critical element of arithmetic understanding and a key component of algebraic thinking which is necessary for success in all levels of mathematics. Research studies continue to highlight misconceptions related to equivalence and reveal that many primary school students have a narrow and limiting view of the equals sign as an operation.Aim: This study aims to investigate young students’ understanding of mathematical equivalence in South Africa with a...

Abstract Background Vitamin D (vit D) deficiency has recently been associated with risk of development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this research was to assess vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene expression in Egyptian patients with RA and its relation with the inflammatory state, disease activity, and functional disability. Results RA patients had significantly lower vit D level and VDR gene expression compared to controls (mean ± 17.0 ± 6.65, 20.73 ± 8.42 ng/ml, p < 0.05 and 3.29...

Background: Travel demand in higher education precincts is derived from the affordability of university education, the availability of student accommodation on- or off-campus and the manner in which university mobility is managed.Objectives: This article described the transport policy environment for student travel behaviour through the process of integrated policy analysis (PIPA) with the primary aim of outlining the major directions of student mobility management from peer-reviewed...

Workplace learning is a critical aspect of both continuing professional education and human resource development. However, often providers, scholars and even the learners themselves pay little attention to the learning that actually happens in the workplace. The study sought to obtain insights into workplace learning of Adult Education and Training, centre managers and educators. Qualitative data generated through interviews and focus group discussions with 62 conveniently selected educators...

Background: Globally, approximately 180-200 million pregnancies occur each year, about 75 million are unwanted pregnancies. The majority of unwanted pregnancies end in induced abortions each year. Combating abortion, abortion-related morbidity and mortality by preventing unwanted pregnancy has a great role in decreasing maternal mortality. Induced abortions, specifically unsafe abortion, are an important public health concern in developing countries. Nursing professionals encounter cases in...

Despite the status of English as dominant language in Nigeria, a lot is still required to enhance its effective teaching and learning.Being a second language in Nigeria, English is confronted with difficulties faced by students, teachers, and researchers of the language.This raises a need for professional based English teaching.It is on this note that this paper reviewed different strategies developed by different scholars in the teaching of ESP vocabulary under the framework of...

Globally, and in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa countries, there is a concerted focus on teacher continuous professional development to enhance quality in education. However, Uganda has limited research about how continuous professional development aligns to classroom practices. This research examines the contribution of continuous professional development to teachers' classroom practices, addressing this main question: What are teachers' understanding and use of the continuous...

It is very important to address the need to adapt the existing structure to meet the demands of the emergency situation that has been placed on tertiary institutions globally and with specific emphasis on the African institutions. In the face of the emergency situations such as the one that has been created by the global pandemic covid-19; it is impractical to start building de novo systems to address this challenge. Hence, the practical and logical response to these will simply be to...

This study sought to evaluate the instructor and learner preparedness for online learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the study explored the devices lecturers and learners use for teaching and learning, their level of digital proficiency, access to internet connection and finally, their level of satisfaction of connectivity cost, speed and stability.The study followed quantitative design and used structured questionnaire which were distinct for lecturers and students but with...

Student assessment is a process that entails the collection of evidence of learning in diverse and systematic ways to make judgments on students’ learning. What then is the perception of this vital tool in the hands of the users (teachers)? This study investigates teachers’ conceptions of assessment and their choices of assessment tasks in postgraduate teacher training. Action research with one group pretest-posttest design was adopted for the study. The survey used to collect data for this...

In multicultural and multilingual South Africa, recent initiatives to decolonise curricula have suggested dispensing with the works of Shakespeare and other ‘Western’ texts to make space for African and postcolonial texts. The elevated and archaic language of classical texts often proves difficult for students to access comprehensively and discourages their interest or engagement. This article gives an account of the author’s interventions in the field of Theatre and Performance, and...

This qualitative study examined how decision-makers and teachers have responded to offer education for all Palestinian students at the immediate onset of the COVID-19 outbreak and how technology is being used to continue education online. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 participants from parents, teachers and decision-makers in Palestine. Interview transcripts were coded using a grounded theory design with a constant comparative method. The findings show that participants...

The progress of a nation is a function of the level of the resourcefulness of the people which to a great extent, relates to the level of quality of the training and purposeful development of education in that nation.Such progress or development could only occur when an individual in the society is gainfully employed and per capital income is enhanced.This could only be possible when government educational policies are geared towards a functional education that can lead to job creation and...