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Existing health programmes in Nigeria for young people mostly target children below 5 years. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to assess perspectives of male and female adolescents on common diseases they experience and medicines used for treatment during a three month study in a boarding secondary school in Owerri, Imo State of Nigeria. Malaria was named and ranked as the most severe and frequently experienced disease followed by diarrhea. High body temperature,...
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Africa is characterised by widespread and deeply entrenched poverty, armed conflict, slow economic development until recently, and agricultural systems proven to failure during frequent and persistent drought. With its tremendous natural resources and remarkable social and ecological diversity, the continent reflects a close dependency of people on natural resources. This paper illustrates that it is this dependency that will present Africa with potentially severe adaptive problems in...
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of body mass on cardiovascular reactivity to racism in African American college students.Cardiac output, stroke volume, heart rate and blood pressure were measured as participants viewed a racially noxious scene on videotape. Body mass was measured using body mass index calculated using height and weight. We hypothesized that obese individuals would have greater cardiovascular reactivity to the scene than overweight individuals or...
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PURPOSE In 2003 at the conclusion of the 14 year civil war in Liberia the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare listed the reduction of maternal mortality as a critical health need. However, the maternal mortality ratio in Liberia continued to increase. It was the purpose of this study to identify the contributing factors that led to the increased maternal mortality. As a result of our analyses, we developed a health education strategy for adolescents to prevent unwanted pregnancy,...
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The analysis of recent food crises in Sahel Africa, has shown that they were not due to major failings in agricultural production. These famines, have contributed to a renewed vision of the contribution made by agricultural research to development. Today, agricultural science needs to reach beyond this sector in order to incorporate studies into the economic, social and cultural contexts of rural areas. That new paradigm assigns a central role to technical and institutional innovation...
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From 1995 to 2005 education doctoral degrees conferred to African American females increased by 92%, however the increase in availability among this population for higher education administrator positions has not kept pace with the growth of African American female higher education doctoral graduates (Ryu, 2008). Such data have spurred inquiry regarding double jeopardy or the impact of race and gender bias on career success attainment among African American female administrators in higher...
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This paper analyses educational expenditures in Kenya over the past two decades, comparing these with changes in enrolments and outputs from the education system. While there is a direct relationship between public financing policy and participation in education, the positive outcomes in the sector cannot be directly attributed to external aid. Though aid has played its part, the major stimulus to sector improvement has been internal. But the Kenyan experience shows that aid has had an...
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This study explores and describes the academic literacy practices of students completing a vocationally orientated web design and development course at Hoerikwaggo University of Technology, a higher education institution in South Africa. The research study proposes a more inclusive conceptualisation of academic literacies to accommodate the multimodal and digital texts produced by students on the course. An academic literacies research perspective is used as a conceptual framework for the...
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The incidents of claims of racism against the Visual Art department during the last two years has motivated the author to research the differences in perceptions and expectations that could exist within such a multicultural and multifaceted learning-teaching situation. This type of difference of opinion can often be very complex and emotionally loaded, when taking into consideration a racially divided past. A curriculum is planned and performed from a particular viewpoint that is affected by...
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Spatial learning and memory is an important skill for the survival and fitness and may vary between the sexes depending on differences in space use. This is particularly true for animals that explore the subterranean niche as it is associated with high travelling costs. In subterranean rodents the complexity of burrow systems varies with differing degrees of sociality possibly posing stronger selective pressures regarding spatial abilities on species with more complex burrow structures. This...