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41st STTI Biennial Convention 2011, Theme - People and Knowledge: Connecting for Global Health.
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The study investigated psycho-demographic variables such as gender, age, frequency of computer use weekly, attitudes toward computer and computer self efficacy as predictors of computer anxiety among distance learning students in a Nigerian University. The study employed survey research design where the participants were accidentally sampled for the study. Five hundred and two (N=502) students comprising of 346 males and 156 females of four Faculties (Social Sciences, Education, Science and...
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A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed to examine the influence of family resources and coping behaviors on the well-being of African American and Caucasian parents providing care to a school-age child with asthma. A convenience sample of 71 (33 African American and 38 Caucasian) parents of school-age children with asthma were recruited from two private medical practices and one school. Family resources were assessed using the Family Inventory of Resources for Management. Coping...
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This study aims at investigating the adults' motivations for participating in organised learning of the African drums in Hong Kong at the turn of the century: how they participate in related learning, why they take part, and how they have developed varied motivations for learning. Adhering to its constructivist perspective of the social world, this research has adopted a qualitative grounded theory approach and targets at generating a substantive theory about adults' motivations for...
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This article examines how issues of teaching and learning have been implemented in South African classrooms. We apply a framework of curriculum implementation (Rogan & Grayson, 2003) to studies of classroom teaching and learning reported in the literature. In doing so, we use the framework to categorise and comment on the research studies and determine the applicability of the framework to science and mathematics classrooms. Our review findings show that the framework's constructs of...
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The aim of the study was to investigate the sense of coherence among students in Zambia. Sense of coherence was assessed with the questionnaire SOC-29. The respondents were 102 students, aged 15 to 20 years, in three schools in Livingstone. A secondary aim was to examine the relationship between sense of coherence, gender and age. The mean score on SOC-29 was 131 for the Zambian students, which is lower than SOC measured for Swedish adolescents (m=138,5) as well as the Swedish population...
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Only the uninformed will be surprised to learn that the provision of (or failure to provide) education is of great political importance in every state which claims to be democratic. Any modern society in which the provision of education is not prioritized by government is well on the way to comprehensive moral collapse as well as social disintegration.
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Objective To explore the therapeutic effect of nerve growth factor (NGF) in guinea pig with hearing loss caused by noise.Methods Forty-eight male guinea pigs were randomly divided into four groups:control group,hearing impairment model group,acupuncture point-injection group,and intraperitoneal injection group.Except for the control group,the rest groups were exposed to 100dB white noise for a whole week.The acupuncture point-injection group and the intraperitoneal injection group were...
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Much attention has been paid on the achievements Syrians school in America have gained in literature and philosophy,but little has been explored on the causes why these scholars can't succeed in their mainland but in the remote America. Compared the disadvantageous talents environment of Syria and Lebanon in the early 20th century with the advantageous talents environment of the reasons of forming Syrians school in America can be discussed as follows:Multi-culture elements have great effects...
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The aim of this research is to highlight the role of job-training, overall on the macroeconomic level and mainly on the microeconomic level. To this end, we will show through an approach by the endogenous theories of economic growth how the training of human capital stimulates economic growth and through human relations how it develops the skills of employees (work factor). Given the prevalence of Small and Medium Firms (S.M.F) in the Moroccan economy and government efforts to stimulate...