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Index insurance is new means of agriculture risk management;its effect had been tested by several countries' practices.This paper introduces the pilot experience of drought index insurance in Malawi,particularly analyzes the program and key points of project design for index insurance.At last,the paper discusses the feasibility of index insurance pilot for sugarcane in Guangxi,and states what questions should be paid attention to significantly during project design.
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[Objective] To observe effects of tympanic membrane perforation on auditory brainstem response and distort product otoacoustic emission in guinea pig with noise-induced hearing loss.[Methods] The tympanic membrane of 10 guinea pigs were made 25% perforation area of on right tympanic membrane.Left ears of 10 guinea pigs were normal group.The group was exposed to the continuous noise for 6 days intermittently(4 hours per day).Auditory brainstem response and distort product otoacoustic emission...
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We analyze the relationships between health expenditure, education and several indicators of human well-being in Africa and Asia. The aim is to suggest some priority measures addressed to increase international cooperation and domestic policies successful to improve health expenditure and quality of life accordingly to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The conclusions show that the main way to improve health expenditure is to increase expenditure on education. The beneficial effects...
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This paper explores ways of improving education quality in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools in Uganda. Following the introduction of UPE in Uganda in 1997, primary school enrolment increased tremendously, leading to a strain on existing teaching resources such as classrooms, teachers’ accommodation, toilets, teachers, chalk, and students’ furniture among others. The inadequacy of teaching resources partly attributes to the low quality of education in UPE schools as reflected in the...
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The United States Agency for International Development(USAID) is the principal official organ of the U.S.to pursue foreign aid.In recent years,USAID has invested a large number of funds and developed various projects on assisting Africa countries with their basic education.However,in the process of assisting to Africa basic education,USAID has many problems which resulted by United States Congress's political pressure and its own system deficiencies.And these problems with...
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As the largest international organization for funding educational projects in the world,the World Bank`s education policies have emphasized basic education and neglected higher education of developing countries for decades.The policies are based on economics theories which the World Bank pursues.These policies have had a very negative impact on the development of higher education in Africa.
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The Mozambican government has introduced reforms of basic education, notably the introduction of interdisciplinarity, learner-centredness and new teaching pedagogies. This is a case study of how these curriculum reforms have been implemented at Marrere Teachers’ Training College. We conducted interviews with lecturers, observed their teaching practices, and studied student results to assess teaching outcomes. The study is grounded in the literatures on educational change and globalization....
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Climate change and variability have threatened agricultural productions and adversely affected the natural resource base, which provides a living for more than half of the world's poorest people. Unpredictability of onset rainfall and an increase in the mean temperature have affected the growth and crop yields. Other consequences have been observed in reduced access to water resources, increase of diseases, frequency of food shortage and declining in soil moisture levels over much of...
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Vraagstelling Tijdens de ruim tien jaar durende oorlog in Sierra Leone zijn veel kinderen hiervan slachtoffer geworden. Zij hebben verschillende heftige gebeurtenissen gezien of meegemaakt. Deze kinderen zijn inmiddels jongvolwassen. Na de oorlog is er vooral praktische hulp geboden en is er weinig rekening gehouden met de psychische gevolgen. Nog steeds worstelen deze jongeren met dat wat er is gebeurd in het verleden. Ze kunnen of durven er niet over te praten of hun omgeving biedt niet...
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The Qattara Depression, which has a nearly triangular shape with a vertex at about 67 km distance from the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest natural closed land depression (19,605 km2) of the Eastern Sahara. It forms the most significant geomorphologic feature in the northern part of Egypt’s Western Desert. The deserted periphery of the depression is taken at the present sea level contour, while the lowest point in the depression is 134 m below mean sea level (b.m.s.l.). The large area of...
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Comparing an e-Learning Reproductive Health Module with Traditional Lectures at a Medical School in Egypt
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We present an agent-based model of human-environment interaction and conflict in East Africa using the MASON agent-based simulation environment. Our model focuses on the complex interaction of pastoral groups with their environment and other emerging external actors. Our model supports the observation that increased seasonal rainfall variability and droughts create tremendous stress on pastoralists groups and challenges their long-term resilience and adaptive response mechanisms.