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Morocco did not experience any radical/revolutionary change in 2011 and it does not seem to be following the conventional steps of the transition paradigm (Liberalisation, breakthrough, and consolidation). However, this situation does not necessarily mean the country is stuck with the status quo. It can be rather analysed as a third way of democratisation, referred to sometimes in the Moroccan political context as ‘the Moroccan exceptionalism', and it is shaped by several factors that are...
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Household air pollution exposure is a major health risk, but validated interventions remain elusive.The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) is a cluster-randomized trial that evaluates the efficacy of clean fuels (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG) and efficient biomass cookstoves in the Brong-Ahafo region of central Ghana. We recruit pregnant women into LPG, efficient cookstove, and control arms and track birth weight and physician-assessed severe pneumonia incidence in...
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends. --Maya Angelou The world is changing. Human mobility is at an all-time high, and globalization is a consequence of that mobility (Haskins, Greenberg, & Fremstad, 2004; Suarez-Orozco, 2001). The influence of globalization can be felt in terms of transnational employment and recruitment, a...
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This paper asks the question as to whether secular Tunisian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) demonstrate a process of democratic learning, thereby interrogating the assumption – often found in media and academia – that secular CSOs are necessarily the democratic counterparts to undemocratic Islamist organisations. Drawing on extensive fieldwork including both in-depth, private, qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation, this paper examines whether the norms and discourses of such...
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As demand for knowledge of the Chinese language has increased, so too have the teaching and learning of Chinese worldwide. This article presents the findings arising from a questionnaire administered to lecturers teaching Chinese as Foreign Language (CFL) in universities in both China and South Africa. CFL programmes offered by universities in China are a popular choice among foreign students who wish to learn Chinese. In addition, the increase in CFL programmes offered by universities in...
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Abstract This article is a personal commentary about experiences teaching across national and disciplinary borders in the United States, Tanzania and Germany. Highlighted are national differences in learning, teaching, testing and writing. The article concludes that the ferment in such “provincial” universities where the author taught is likely to drive developments in how disciplines continue to develop in the world’s rapidly expanding university systems.
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Abstract This article is a personal commentary about experiences teaching across national and disciplinary borders in the United States, Tanzania and Germany. Highlighted are national differences in learning, teaching, testing and writing. The article concludes that the ferment in such “provincial” universities where the author taught is likely to drive developments in how disciplines continue to develop in the world’s rapidly expanding university systems.
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A team of Year 13 students from Harrogate Grammar School returned to receive their A Level results, after spending part of their summer holiday working ...
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Background. The prevalence of anaemia in school-aged children is reported to be high (>10%), yet neither the onset of anaemia nor the disease causing it is easily established. Any form of anaemia, even if mild, can compromise children’s health and survival. This study was conducted to generate data to support or reject use of the HemoCue device as a potential point-of-care method for haemoglobin (Hb) assessment in field and primary healthcare settings. Objective. To assess the validity of...
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Higher education institutions in developing economies are at different stages of adopting ICT for education. For institutions that are in the early stages of the adoption of eLearning there is no clear strategy or framework to implement a working eLearning model. This study set out to understand the models that are appropriate for faculty heads to adopt and influence the implementation of eLearning. The objectives of this research were to determine the participation of stakeholders, evaluate...
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Farmer perceptions clearly influence the adoption of technology and adaptation to climate change, but may not be consistent with or captured by scientific measurements. There has been a significant research on how perceptions influence water resource management and adaptation to climate, but conclusions are unclear or contradictory. This research aimed to clarify what shapes perceptions and how this understanding can refine meteorological data collection and to make more relevant and useful...
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Motivation can be viewed as an internal state arouses, direct, and maintains behavior. This simply means motivation is a reason of students’ thinking in a given situation . Mathematics teachers should wisely utilize available learning resources to enhance positive motivation, reinforce neutral motivation, if any, and neutralize any negative attitudes towards learning and performance in mathematics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of motivation on pupils’ academic...
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A unified Mw-based earthquake catalog of seismic activity reported in Sudan and adjacent was performed. Data from local and international agencies were analyzed, duplicate events were identified and removed using CompiCat software. The priority for data entry was given to the Ambrasys et al (1994, 2001) (AMA), England, Van der Hilst and Buland (EHB), International Seismological Centre (ISC), Preliminary Determination of Earthquake (PDE) and King Saud University (KSU). The moment magnitude...