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Previous research has shown that the English article system poses a great challenge to second language learners of English. Thus, this current study aims at understanding the difficulties first year Libyan students have in acquiring the English article system by using the following three steps. First, the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) was adopted to compare the article system in both English and Arabic. This procedure was employed in order to predict the difficulties that Libyan...

Student engagement represents two critical features of institutional quality, namely the amount of time and effort students put into all educationally purposeful activities, and how the institution deploys its resources and organises learning opportunities to encourage students to participate in activities that research studies have shown to be linked to better learning. Institution-wide surveys of student engagement collect data from undergraduate students at universities. The Classroom...

The authors explored the relationship between academic self‐concept and noncognitive variables (i.e., Africentric cultural orientation, academic class level, gender, and involvement in culturally relevant school and community activities) among Black/African college students. Results indicated that Africentric cultural orientation and academic class level were significantly related to academic self‐concept. Female students had higher scores on the Academic Self‐Concept Scale ( Reynolds,...

Climate change is expected to affect the distribution of environmental suitability for malaria transmission by altering temperature and rainfall patterns; however, the local and global impacts of climate change on malaria transmission are uncertain.We assessed the effect of climate change on malaria transmission in West Africa.We coupled a detailed mechanistic hydrology and entomology model with climate projections from general circulation models (GCMs) to predict changes in vectorial...

High-temperature (1084 °C) fumarolic emissions from a spatter cone at the Erta Ale north pit crater granted a rare opportunity to collect Giggenbach bottles, condensates, and sublimates from the fumarolic gases of a rift/plume volcano in the immediate proximity of degassing lava. These results represent the highest-temperature gases sampled directly for trace elements and the first high-T fumarolic samples for a rift/plume volcano. Sixty-seven metals and metalloids were measured...

Immediately following the Oslo agreement in 1993, as part of reconciliation efforts, the Palestinian and Israeli sides undertook to revamp their school curricula by removing overtly biased material...

Infections caused byEscherichia coli have become a significant worldwide public health problem.The antibiotic resistance of E. coli isolated from the urine of patients of Omdurman Teaching Hospital, Sudan was investigated.The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial sensitivity of all the non serotyped urinary isolated E. coli.The antibiotic sensitivity test was carried out using antibiotic impregnated multi disc containing eight different antibiotics (Amikacin, Ciproflaxacin,...

This study was initiated to assess the level of lead (Pb) contamination in farmlands, crop plants and water sources and the health risk in one of the Pb-contaminated villages of Zamfara State. Soil samples were collected from two depths at intervals of 10, 50, 150, 300, 500 and 1000 m from the last house along each of the four cardinal directions (North, South, East and West). Crop plant samples were also collected at each sampling distance while profile pits were dug at 150 m in each...

The purpose of this study was to find out the dimensions of teacher job satisfaction in selected primary schools in Gweru District, Zimbabwe. The study employed the descriptive survey method. The population of the study consisted of 25 schools with 500 teachers .Two schools were randomly selected from the population and used for the pilot study. Seven teachers from each of the remaining 23 schools were purposively selected and hence 161 teachers make up the sample for the study. A...

This study investigated the effectiveness of self-instructional and bully-proof strategies on the management of school violence among transitional students in Junior Secondary Schools in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test, control group experimental design using a 3x2x2 factorial matrix. 108 Junior Secondary One students were selected through purposive sampling technique from three local government areas in Ibadan. The scales used in the study were the School Violence...

Nigeria is an active participant in international meetings including those that seek solutions to the scourge of climate change. Particularly, the country signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992), the Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto Japan, 1997),2 among others. Nigeria also sent a delegation to the UNFCCC 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) on Climate Change, held in December 2009 at Copenhagen. While these may put the country among the group of...

The study investigated the predictive validity of students’ scores in Geography Field Project on their final scores in Geography Theory examination. The predictors were Geography Field Project in terms of Observation, Recording and Interpretation while the criterion was the score in the final Theory examination in Geography. This study was an ex-post facto type of the descriptive research design because all the variables used had already occurred and therefore were not manipulated. The...

This essay is an inquest to voter registration process in a multiparty Tanzania. The main question that this essay attempts to answer is whether or not the introduction of permanent voter registers in Tanzania has resolved registration controversies. These registers were purposely created in order to address registration problems that were observed by elections stakeholders during the 1995 and 2000 general elections. Through a review of various elections observers’ reports on 2005 and 2010...

Following the limited military intervention in Mali in 2013, the European Union decided to launch a training mission tasked with the modernization of the Malian government army and the provision of military assistance. The essay’s main goal is to provide a detailed analysis of the EU’s training mission in Mali (EUTM Mali), beginning with the events leading up to the creation of the mission, then proceeding with the description of the mission and its execution so far. The article examines the...

This study estimates the impact of climate change on supply for the four most common crops (millet, maize, sorghum and cassava) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).The analysis relates crop supply, measured as cropped area, to weather, climate and prices.Crop supply functions are estimated using an error correction model (ECM) built on panel data.Crop supply through 2100 is predicted by combining estimates from the panel data analysis with climate change predictions from 20 general circulation...

This paper explores the nature of vulnerability to climate change and examines the adaptation strategies of the residents of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Data were collected through qualitative interviews to understand the perceptions and coping mechanisms of households and then contextualized within the existing local, national and international research.The findings reveal positive adaptations to climate change in some areas but also non-existent or maladaptive changes in other areas that have...