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The paper investigates the development of foreign language education policies in Palestine, at a time when the establishment of a Palestinian state has become a real option, and when, following the Oslo agreements, the Palestinians have become responsible for Palestinian education. As the New Palestinian Curriculum shows, an international orientation is clearly part of the policy, and accordingly the learning and teaching of languages are a primary concern in identity formation. Through...

Although prevalence of disease in sub-Saharan Africa is often quite high and attracts much research, relatively little is known about less critical maladies. We examined Helicobacter pylori infected students in rural Zambia. We attempted to determine if any socio-economic or co-occurring diseases were correlated to H. pylori infection. Understanding the context in which H. pylori infections occur may increase our understanding of this organism.We conducted a screening survey with diagnostic...

The purpose of this report was to investigate the awareness by high school attendees of risky behaviour likely to lead to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS and to assess their preparedness to prevent or obviate the consequences.Cross sectional study.A small town located 100 km south of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare and in communal and commercial farming areas within a 50 km radius of the town.With the permission of school authorities, a group of second year medical...

Studies have found that many teachers are not successful with African American students. This study grew out of the need to explore and learn from insights and knowledge of effective Title I White Reading teachers and their personal experiences, beliefs, and instructional practices. These experiences have helped the teachers bridge cultural barriers with African American students. Examples of such experiences are early educational experiences; college education and experiences which prepared...

Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Philospiae Doctor (PhD) in the Department of Curriculum Studies Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria.

Proper well-organized orthodontic treatment planning for special needs patients quantifies such needs with a valid screening method to determine priority treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the orthodontic treatment needs of mentally handicapped children in Ibadan, Nigeria.The sample consisted of 124 mentally handicapped children, 68 boys and 56 girls who were 6 to 18 years old with mean age of 14.5 +/- 1.5 years, drawn from 7 special centers/schools in the city.Less than 42%...

In this paper we investigate gender differences in the determinants of several schooling indicators - grade attainment, current enrollment, and withdrawal from school - in a poor urban environment in West Africa, using ordered and binary probit models incorporating household-level random effects. Increases in household income lead to greater investments in girls' schooling but have no significant impact on schooling of boys. Improvements in father's education raises the schooling of both...

This article explains the reasons behind the introduction of Minimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) programmes in sub‐Saharan Africa. Following a brief description of the ideas behind these programmes and their advantages over the traditional social security safety nets and guaranteed‐income programmes, we describe the pilot scheme which the government of Mozambique is intending to introduce in 2003 and evaluate its prospects for success and the trade‐offs which will have to be made. We...

Protein tyrosine kinases and tyrosine phosphatases from several bacterial pathogens have been shown to act as virulence factors by modulating the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of host proteins. The identification and characterization of two tyrosine phosphatases namely MptpA and MptpB from Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been reported earlier. MptpB is secreted by M. tuberculosis into extracellular mileu and exhibits a pH optimum of 5.6, similar to the pH of the lysosomal compartment...

Preliminary Table of Contents: It's very long. Please see DRM if you need more detail. Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Theme-Based Chapters Part 2. Country Chapters Bibliography Index

The pattern of gunshot injury in the Ife-Modakeke communal clash between March 3 and May 23, 1999 was analyzed in this study.The history was recorded for each patient presenting at the hospital with gunshot injuries from the clash. Each was examined and followed up through subsequent treatment in the wards and clinics.The study included 185 patients. The male-to-female ratio was 22.1 to 1, and 45.9% of the patients ranged in age from 21 to 30 years. The mean age was 28.3 +/- 11.2 years, and...

Abstract Mine-risk education programmes will fall short of their intended impact for as long as they fail to take into account local responses—knowledge, logic and everyday practices—to mine threats. Community information, systematically collected through household and institutional surveys, can help to define and understand endogenous ‘mine smartness’. The same evidence provides insight into the impact of mine-risk education, including its unintended consequences. Using six criteria of mine...

The volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (e.g., Um Saki deposit) are associated with Precambrian coarse acid pyroclastic rocks. The upper contacts of the massive sulphide body are sharp and well-defined; while the keel zone to the mineralization is always associated with pervasive alteration, characterized by the presence of septechlorite and talc, associated with variable amounts of carbonate and tremolite. On the other hand, the economic talc...

To examine the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) for a community sample of African-American high school students.The 41-item SCARED was administered to 111 adolescents (57 girls; mean age 15.75) in an urban parochial school. Item frequency, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity were assessed.Approximately 30% of the sample had scores high enough to warrant further assessment for anxiety disorders, and...

Neither distance learning courses nor utilising information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance these courses are new to sub‐Saharan Africa. “Long‐distance” training by correspondence has been practised here for decades. ICT as basic as e‐mail has the potential to enable the remotely situated student to interactively take part in a particular programme. Additional equipment can simulate the lecture environment by allowing the student to watch a video of a presentation while...

This article focuses on systemic conceptualizations that attempt to explicate why academic achievement may be challenging for some urban African American high school students. In addition, the author delineates the important roles that high school counselors can play in ensuring urban African American high school students' academic success.