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A Research project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Human Resource Management of Mount Kenya University

A body of research indicates that Arab EFL learners are incompetent in oral communication. This has been the case of the Libyan EFL learners who encounter great difficulties in speaking skills. Despite spending years in learning English, and building good linguistic knowledge, they fail to employ that knowledge in real communicative situations. This might be the outcome of inadequate teaching approaches that are employed by Libyan EFL teachers. Their overreliance on traditional methods that...

From July 1927, Bremersdorp, now Manzini, became the first medical mission and a centre of western healing and health in colonial Swaziland, which at that time, was replete with traditional healers and healing methods. Varying interests gave birth to this medical mission, one of which was the need to replace traditional methods of healing with western biomedicine. Its establishment initiated the colonial state's financial involvement, at a very early stage, in the development of the...

The aim of the present study was to explore how African American female students perceived their experience of online collaborative learning. A qualitative study was conducted in a university in Southeastern United States. We conducted semi-structured interviews with nine African American female students in an online multimedia instructional design course. Data triangulation was achieved by including the analysis of the students’ emails, their posts on online chat room and bulletin boards....

The main goal of this research is to investigate the difficulties Libyan undergraduate university English major students have in the use of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations by looking at their performance in free production.Twelve verbs and twelve adjectives were investigated in depth with the aim of determining their collocational patterns when used by Libyan learners. Having done this, I also investigate whether there is a significant difference between native speaker ratings of...

The coastal waters of Al-Mukalla, Hadramout Governate, Republic of Yemen, receive considerable amounts of treated and untreated domestic and industrial effluents, which carry a variety of contaminants including heavy metals. We surveyed benthic foraminiferal assemblages as potential indicators for pollution and collected geochemical, sedimentological and water-quality data. Cluster and canonical correspondence analyses delineated three areas: unpolluted areas east and west of Al-Mukalla...

The Al Haruj intra-continental Volcanic Province (AHVP), located at the south-western margin of the Sirt Basin, hosts the most extensive and recent volcanic activity in Libya - which is considered typical for plate interiors. From north to south the AHVP is divided into two subprovinces, namely Al Haruj al Aswad and Al Haruj al Abiyad. The total area of the AHVP is around 42,000 km2. Despite the great size of the AHVP, its volcano-tectonic evolution and activity have received very little...

Disability and poverty are linked in a vicious cycle in the developing world. With limited access to healthcare resources, the disabled population often lacks necessary diagnosis, treatment, and medication. They experience stigma and neglect within their communities. With severely limited healthcare and education for disabilities, both the disabled population and the community remain unaware of not only prevention and treatment but also of social realities and the mistake of stigmatization....

We examined the change over time in tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship exposure and the concurrent changes in cigarette smoking behavior among students age 13 to 15years in two African countries with different anti-tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship policies. In South Africa, anti-tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship policies became more comprehensive over time and were more strictly enforced, whereas the partial anti-tobacco advertising, promotion and...

BACKGROUND: Every woman in South Sudan has a 1 in 7 chance of dying in childbirth. There are no post-graduate training programs in Obstetrics and Gynecology, so that MBBS-qualified doctors remain especially underprepared in maternal and neonatal care. Due to concerns for political instability and safety, a distance learning module was needed. METHODS: We first identified topics most pertinent to undergraduate MBBS education in maternal health. We next developed a delivery system for the...

Background: Communication from parents on reproductive health (RH) issues with their adolescent children plays a great role in preventing morbidity and mortality associated with RH. The majority of Ethiopian adolescents do not communicate on these matters with their parents. This study aimed to identify the factors that affect communication on RH issues between parents and high school and preparatory students in Boditi town, Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Objectives: The aim of this study...

The livestock sector serves as a foremost source of revenue for rural people, particularly in many developing countries. Among the livestock species, sheep and goats are the main source of livelihood for rural people in Ethiopia; they can quickly multiply, resilient and are easily convertible to cash to meet financial needs of the rural producers. The multiple contributions of sheep and goat and other livestock to rural farmers are however being challenged by climate change and variability....

We studied a marine sedimentary section deposited at a high sedimentation rate in the Gulf of Aden (core MD92-1002) to document environmental and hydrological changes since the end of the last glacial period and better understand the onset and decay of the Holocene Humid Period (HHP). Pollen analysis reveals that the period from the LGM to 13.5 ka was hyper arid with sparse vegetation cover characterized by xerophitic taxa from the Saharo-Sindian phyto-geographical region. Humidity increased...

Introduction In spite of the growth of Black studies programs in colleges and universities across the United States, few African Americans enroll in courses or graduate from them (African Americans Show Solid Gains at All Academic Degree Levels, 2009), particularly at Northern Superior State University. Black studies programs are reported to have many benefits for African American students. Adams (2005) contends that Black studies programs have a history of assisting students with identity...

:Do the geographic contexts in which disadvantaged children are raised influence whether they have difficulties in elementary school? We address this question by estimating Cox proportional hazard models with instrumental variable measures of context, using data for 410 low-income Latino and African American children who lived in Denver public housing before age six. The Denver Housing Authority’s procedure for allocating families to dwellings mimics random assignment, thus offering an...

The objective of the study was to explore how gender was constructed in the English for Ethiopia Student’s Book for grade four. In order to find out the discursive actions, representations and identifications by unpacking the employed genre, discourse and style, respectively, the case study was conducted using Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis. Despite Ethiopia’s gender-sensitive education and training policy, the findings revealed that the texts in the book...