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Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections encountered by clinicians in developing countries. Although UTI seldom leads to complications, it can cause significant morbidity and mortality.To identify the etiologic agents of UTIs and to assess their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern.A retrospective analysis of 1420 mid-stream urine specimens processed fobr culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing in the bacteriology laboratory of Gondar University...
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For more than half a century, African scholars working in university institutions have been engaged in the writing of their societies’ history. In the case of the Dakar historians, the texts that heralded their entrance into the academic sphere were produced by Abdoulaye Ly and Cheikh Anta Diop in the mid-1950s. While their contemporary Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the leading lights of the Négritude movement founded in Paris in the 1930s, concentrated more on linguistics, literature and...
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Geochemistry of the Rungwe CO2 springs : Impact into the Rungwe volcanic system, southern rift in Tanzania
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This research investigated the likelihood of computer technology adoption in Botswana, among school principals in secondary schools, who are assumed to be transformational leaders. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) survey and an interview were used to determine the perceptions of the school principals about accepting and using computer technology. The survey was used to predict and explain the principals’ acceptance of computers in relation to whether they find them useful, easy to use,...
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The authors pay in a retrospective study, 95 cases of hyperthyroidism, listed in the teaching hospital Yalgado Ouedraogo of Ouagadougou from January 2000 to June 2005. These hyperthyroidism represent 39% of the thyroid affections, with a female prevalence (97%), 32 years of average age, the urban source of the patients (90% of the cases) and the importance of self medication (73%). They stress the importance of sonography, allowing a classification in diffuse goiter (44%) and multi nodular...
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E-learning (EL) is a training method based on communication and information technologies (ICT). It is the focus of current reflections in the academic and the business community. Courses using ICT, called EL courses, are developing in institutions of higher education as well as firms. This new method of teaching via ICT is regarded as an innovation on the technological, pedagogical, organisational, social and cultural levels. Reflection on EL should be carried out by paying attention to...
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This study attempts to understand how distance education practices influence the learning of calculus. Understanding student learning in a distance education environment is an important factor to consider in improving the learning experiences of those students who for one reason or the other opt not to study in conventional institutions of higher education. On one hand, understanding student learning may illuminate the influences that the learning environment has on student learning and on...