Background: The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study of 2016 lays claim to the need for critical thinking be developed since, South African context, 78% learners could not even retrieve explicitly stated information (lower-order thinking) from texts, as opposed 4% rest world. Critical, higher-order and reading-for-meaning skills development are imperative allow become active partici...

This paper presents a critical review of studies addressing the effects window views, daylighting, and lighting on occupant behavior, perception, performance, well-being. A systematic search in Scopus database was performed November 2021 yielded 515 hits. Seventy-six were selected according to following criteria: i) papers presenting research results with participants' responses ii) accounting ...

A major conservation concern is whether population size and other ecological variables change linearly with habitat loss, or whether they suddenly decline more rapidly below a "critical threshold" level of habitat. The most commonly discussed explanation for critical threshold responses to habitat loss focus on habitat configuration. As habitat loss progresses, the remaining habitat is increasi...