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This research was intended to survey the practices and challenges of mother tongue as a medium of instruction with reference to Sidaamu-afoo. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a descriptive research design was used. To this end, a total of 144 teachers were randomly selected from 36 first cycle primary schools in Sidama Zone; the schools were also selected in like manner. The teachers were made to fill in a close-ended questionnaire, and a semi-structured interview was held with 12 teachers who were randomly selected from those who had already filled in the questionnaire.

The UNFCCC meetings bring together two sets of countries with entirely different economic goals. The first set of late industrializes in the Third World aim at “catch-up”, as they have recently “taken-off”. In an effort to close the affluence gap to the First World.

Jammu and Kashmir, known for its strategic international location and significance, consists of three natural regions – Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, each having its own distinctive identity and economy. Yet they together constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir uniquely different from other states of Indian Union. It has its own constitution intended to constitute the three different sets of people into one integral whole, where each segment of society shares a common composite cultural identity, an identity of tolerance and mutual appreciation.

An attempt was made to find whether or not the quality of ground water in the areas of study suitable for human consumption. Ground water samples were collected from wells in different locations within a radius of 25 km of Beni mellal city. These water samples taken from 10 sampling points in each one of 4 areas were analyzed for their physicochemical characteristics. The results show that the conductivity in the four areas is an average of about 1138 μScm-1 that is far exceeds the national standard and WHO regulatory limit of about of 500 μScm-1.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of ownership structure on voluntary disclosure of information on intellectual capital.
Design/methodology/approach:We use a sample of 50 Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for 2012. The extent of disclosure is measured by the index of Li et al., (2008).

Introduction: Anemia is one of the major public health problems in the world. Anemia affected 273.2 million under five children in 2011 of which 62.2 % occur to Sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia is one of the seriously affected countries in this region. Hence, the aim of the study is to assess the prevalence, and the predictors of preschool children anemia in Shebelle Zone of Somali Region.

The present reflection aims at questioning the different trends and innovations that are observed in Francophone African novel. Today, as in the past, most Francophone African writers who have settled in the West and those who continue to live in Africa produce works centered on migratory phenomena and on environmental issues. By these concepts, we mean the desire and the fact of migrating and also the desire and the fact of raising with acuity the pressing preoccupations of the populations confronted with the climate deficit.

The uproar of political corruption that involved the parliament and political parties members in Indonesia was depicting the form of extra-ordinary white collar crime. This article is study of some research reports, journals and literatures on political corruption as white collar crime as happened in Indonesia parliament and political Parties. The results found five political corruption models: 1) official policy framing model, 2) development plan passage model, 3) project budget mark-up model 4) buying and selling votes model and 5) bribe/money political model.

Computer Security, also known as cyber security or IT security is the protection of computer systems from the theft or damage to the hardware. The field is of growing importance due to the increasing reliance on systems and the internet in most societies. Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation, typically between hosts on a network. For programs such as carnivore and narusinsight have been used in FBI and NSA to eavesdrop on the systems.

This article aims at analyzing the individual and environmental factors that determined the loss of the savers to a Ponzi scheme known in Benin as ICC et al. Data was collected on the populations of Cotonou thanks to an investigation with 5000 households representative of the city. A multilevel logit model was used to research the environmental and individual factors that lead a man or a woman into investing their savings in an illegal institution.