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Routine surveillance of guinea pigs maintained within a barrier facility detected guinea pig adenovirus (GPAdV) in sentinel animals. These guinea pigs served as models of induced hearing loss followed by regeneration of cochlear sensory (hair) cells through transdifferentiation of nonsensory cells by using human adenoviral (hAV) gene therapy. To determine whether natural GPAdV infection affected the ability of hAV vectors to transfect inner ear cells, adult male pigmented guinea pigs (n = 7)...

The purpose of this communication is to promote international experience and training for young ecologists and a greater focus on international collaborative ecological research in the developing regions of the world. The scientific opportunities and the value of training experience in developing regions are great, particularly as global issues are at the forefront of science and as we recognize the need for young professionals to be prepared to work effectively in a global academy and...

Organic agriculture requires farmers with the ability to develop profitable agro-enterprises on their own. By drawing on four years of experiences with the Enabling Rural Innovation approach in Uganda, we outline how smallholder farmers transition to organic agriculture and, at the same time, increase their entrepreneurial skills and competences through learning. In order to document this learning we operationalised the Kirkpatrick learning evaluation model, which subsequently informed the...

<p><strong>Objectives.</strong> Depression is associated with diabetes mellitus and affects treatment goals negatively. We aimed to determine the prevalence of depression and identify its socio-demographic or clinical correlates among patients with diabetes mellitus attending an out-patient clinic in Nigeria.</p><p><strong>Methods.</strong> Two hundred consecutively recruited diabetes patients (index group) were compared with a similar number of...

A Research Report Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Award of a Bachelor of Education (Arts Primary) of Kampala International University

Malawi is one of the countries with a youthful population. Youths are susceptible to various social ‐ economic pressures that put their well being into jeopardy. One of the issues that affect youth is early drop out of school, drug abuse and contracting sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. To address these issues, the Malawi Government introduced Life Skills and Sexual and Reproductive Health (LS/SRH) education. The objective of LS/SRH was to empower pupils and their teachers with...

Developing countries are experiencing demographic and epidemiologic transition and the prevalence of non-communicable diseases especially cancers which is on the increase. Breast cancer is the most common and lethal malignancy in developing countries with varying presentation. This study aims to determine the pattern of presentation and survival of breast cancer patients in North Western Nigeria.A five-year retrospective review of breast cancer records from 2001-2005 was conducted. Relevant...

OBJECTIVE To assess willingness of high school students to be treated by HIV/AIDS infected dental practitioners in Ilala municipality, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODOLOGY This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. RESULTS More than half (52.8%) of the high school students showed fear of being treated by HIV/AIDS infected dental practitioner, with 175 (55.4%) out of 316 students fearing even to be clinically examined by HIV positive dental practitioner. Out of 316 students, 163 (51.6%)...

Power can be equated to the possession of a particular language used to navigate the world. In Mali and Burkina Faso, two former colonies of France, language choice for instruction in mainstream primary schools remains a struggle between the powerful and the powerless. Fifty years after independence from France, both countries continue to recognize French as the official language and as the medium of instruction in primary schools. With low literacy rates and high dropout rates in both...

The author investigated the teaching and learning processes among children in a suburban community of The Gambia, West Africa. Participants included children and adults in the community ( N = 101). The researcher used ethnographic techniques of participant and nonparticipant observation, interviews, and song and chant collection. Data consisted of field notes from observations of play and adult-centered musical events, interviews with children and adults, and transcripts of video and audio...

[Abstract] Adult learners from Sub-Saharan Africa pass through different of transformation in their journey to achieve academic success. In the present diverse and globalized world, there is the interdependency with the environment, where people face constant life changes (Taylor, 2008). There has been little research done about learning activities that promote transformative learning among adult learners from Sub-Saharan African in an university. This chapter will address reasons adult...

Indoor radon measurements were carried out in 30 elementary schools in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, during the winter months of December 2008 to early March 2009. Two classrooms, one each from ground floor and first floor were chosen from each school making a total of 60 classrooms. In some of the classrooms, two detectors (open and closed) were used to measure the concentrations of radon as well as radon and its progeny to allow the calculations of the equilibrium factors. Nuclear...

ABSTRACT This paper attempts a brief meta‐reflection on quality assurance policy and practice in South African higher education, with a focus on methodology. More specifically it seeks to answer the question ‘What are the effects of the Higher Education Quality Committee’s (HEQC) quality assurance technologies on institutional practice and how could they be more effective in achieving its mandate?’ This question is pursued with regard to the failure of the quality assurance system to impact...

Abstract Gallium abundances, determined by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, are presented for phenocrysts and glassy matrices from a metaluminous trachyte and five peralkaline rhyolites from the Greater Olkaria Volcanic Complex, Kenya Rift Valley. Abundances in the glasses range from 28.9 to 33.3 ppm, comparable with peralkaline rhyolites elsewhere. Phenocryst Ga abundances (in ppm) are: sanidine 31.5–45.3; fayalite 0.02–0.22; hedenbergite 3.3–6.3; amphibole 12;...

This paper analyses local communities' involvement in land use planning to regulate land use change and customary land tenure challenges in a rapidly expanding city in Tanzania. It takes Himo settlement in Kilimanjaro in Sub-Saharan Africa as a case study. It analyses, on the one hand, how those excluded from the land use planning process articulated their interests in the planning system, and what strategies, resources and powers they used. On the other hand it looks at how planners and...

This article discusses sexual orientation and gender expression bias as they impact the educational experience of African American students. Sexual orientation and gender expression bias have a unique presentation in Black educational settings. The climate in such settings can be metagrobolized by the combination of distorted notions of Black sexuality and of homosexuality. The legacy of internalized racism as it impacts sexuality is examined in this article. Homophobia, heterosexism, and...