Community education project leadership and organizational culture: Perceptions of empowerment in an Egyptian NGO by Khairat, Aisha

“…This in turn will have serious implications on the level of empowerment the communities managed by Nile Valley NGO are experiencing, and will serve as an indicator to the degree to which community schools are achieving their goals in transforming individuals and empowering communities and reforming Egyptian education - and not just a tool to reach literacy. This mixed-methods research utilized surveys and semi-structured interviews to capture the perceptions of empowerment in the views of a sample of 380 community schools facilitators (teachers) spanning eight Egyptian governorates and Nile Valley NGO's Community Education project team and leadership. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Teachers' perceptions on reflective practices in higher education institutions: A case study by Wahba, Samar

“…This study examines the perceptions of teachers on their reflective practices in private higher education institutions.The aim of the study is to understand how teachers' perceptions on their practices may impact the development of their teaching methods. The research investigates the views of teachers on their reflective practices and examines the teachers' approaches in applying such practices in teaching to establish whether these reflective practices are important and to what extent they benefit the teacher. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Temporary permanence: the use of refugee camps in protracted refugee situations and its effect on human rights protection by Angwenyi, Samantha Kerubo

“…Refugee camps are set up as temporary methods of providing protection while durable solutions are sought. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Community journalism and civic engagement in Egypt: the case study of Sahafet Welad El-Balad project by Tawfik, Rasha Saad

“…Moreover, the study examines the effect of political and socioeconomic status on civic engagement in Egyptian local governorates in post 2011 Revolution, and verifies whether the state of community journalism in Egypt's governorates matches with the definitions of the concept found in the literature. The study utilizes a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods through combining interview data and survey data. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Identification of Novel Genetic Biomarkers Linked to the Prodromal Stage of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Patients by Badawy, Marwa Tawfik

“…Materials and Methods: Data were sourced from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), focusing on prodromal patients with gVCF data from the 2021 cohort. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Sensor Data Fusion For Air Quality Monitoring by hesham, Mirna

“…Since traditional air quality monitoring methods often rely on geographically sparse and costly air quality monitoring stations, image-based air quality method- ologies are recently offering a compelling alternative that utilizes images from sources like satellites, traffic cameras, and even smartphones to monitor pollution levels by using estimation models, image-processing techniques, and deep-learning models. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Assessing the impact of a waiting time survey on reducing waiting times in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa by Daniels, Johann Alexander

Get full text

Entomological examination of the relationship between ante-mortem and post-mortem amitriptyline concentrations in insects by Sanyanga, Taremekedzwa

“…As a result no viable blood, urine or tissue samples may exist that can be collected and utilized in toxicological analyses. Entomotoxicology offers a supplementary method to detect and analyse the presence of drugs post-mortem, especially in cases where viable toxicological specimens such as human tissue cannot be obtained. …”
Get full text

Molecular epidemiology, susceptibility profiles, outcomes and transmission dynamics in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in two provinces of South Afri... by Pietersen, Gerbrecht Elizabeth

“…However, there are no prospective data to inform longterm treatment-related outcomes, design of effective XDR-TB treatment regimens, and public health interventions required to interrupt transmission. In particular, the utility of certain costly drugs, e.g. capreomycin, for the treatment of XDR-TB remain unclear. …”
Get full text

Systematic relationships in southern African Francolins as determined from mitochondrial DNA by Jakutowicz, Mariola Barbara

“…Both cladistic and distance-based analytical methods have been used to construct phylogenies from the molecular fragment data. …”
Get full text

An evaluation pf palliative care needs for HIV patients in the context of HAART at Phil Moyo Clinic, Gauteng Province by Eyassu, Melaku Alazar

“…AIM: To explore the palliative care needs of adult HIV patients at Philp Moyo clinic Methods: This study utilized a quantitative cross sectional descriptive design which was carried out at Philp Moyo clinic, Ekurhuleni District, Gauteng province. …”
Get full text

Young adults' perceptions of the implications of their hereditary, visual impairment: A Cape Town based study by Popel, Kalinka

“…A qualitative design, utilizing a phenomenological approach was used for this study. …”
Get full text

Design and validation of a leadership model for South African higher education by Walters, Cyrill

“…The primary data collection methods were both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative results of the Cassandra© survey and the qualitative findings utilizing semi-structured interviews were merged at the interpretation stage. …”
Get full text

Novel Approaches to Global Benchmarking of Risk-Adjusted Surgical Outcomes by Spence, Richard Trafford

“…Background Despite the existence of multiple validated risk-assessment and quality benchmarking tools in surgery, their utility outside of High Income Countries is limited. …”
Get full text

Post-operative Trachomatous Trichiasis in Africa: a systematic review and online survey by Mwangi, Grace Wangari

“…A number of the studies included in this review utilized the same data to measure the incidence of post-operative trichiasis and other poor outcomes over different follow-up periods. …”
Get full text

Food production, processing and retailing through the lens of spatial planning legislation and regulations in Zimbabwe: evidence from Epworth by Toriro, Percy M

“…Using mixed research methods, the thesis concludes that the legislative framework engages food in a largely inappropriate way for several reasons. …”
Get full text

A way to use GIS (incl. geomasking) to understand homelessness: a focus on the spatial characteristics of and around sleeping locations of the homeless in Cape Town City Bowl by Kekana, Dime

“…Data Source and Method: Through the quantitative approach, the individual sleeping locations of The Homeless, including their surrounding characteristics, are observed daily for two weeks, 13-26 Oct. 2018 (total of all locations: n = 9515, daily average, n = 680) between 06:00 am and 08:30am. …”
Get full text

Towards the institutionalization of divorce mediation in Nigeria: a case study of Enugu State by Anidi, Ugochinyelu Chikodili Nerissa

“…This thesis employs both desk and empirical research methods. It examines legislation, policy documents and academic treatises on divorce and divorce mediation. …”
Get full text

The Impact of Private Capital Flows on South Africa's Developmental State Agenda in the Post-Apartheid Era by Mokoena, Itumeleng

“…By exploring the impact of private capital flows, the study seeks to inform the reader about the nature and composition of private capital flows in South Africa as well as investigate whether these flows hinder or accelerate South Africa's developmental state objective. The study has utilized qualitative methods. It also made use of quantitative data as a secondary supplement to ensure a greater understanding of the research problem. …”
Get full text

Innovation in low-cost video-laryngoscopy: Intubator V1-Indirect compared with Storz C-MAC in a simulated difficult airway by De Villiers, Christiaan Tertius

“…Background: Video laryngoscopy has directly impacted airway management, with numerous studies demonstrating its utility in clinical management of anatomically difficult airways. …”
Get full text