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Background: Episiotomy is essentially a surgical procedure but it is often relegated to the least experienced member of the obstetric team with possible untoward consequences to the mother. Aim: This study set out to appraise how episiotomy was practiced in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital during the period of the study. Materials and Methods: It was a cross sectional exploratory study which assessed episiotomy and episiorrhaphy procedures among parturients in the centre. Results:...
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Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural model of schooling choice in South Africa using a panel dataset that contains the entire schooling...
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Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural model of schooling choice in South Africa using a panel dataset that contains the entire schooling...
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In my study of Rwanda’s post-genocide process of kubaka ubumwe (unity-building) and its activities of unity and reconciliation (principally the ingando camps), I found that these cannot be easily extracted from wider frameworks of power and the tightly knit state apparatus (Purdekova, 2011a).1 Similarly, they are part of a broader transformation effort of the Rwandan government. In what follows, I argue that the dense state apparatus is used today to achieve the elusive and ambiguous beacon...
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The education of a group of cadres and leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) continues to be evoked as an essential component of the achievement of a non-racial constitutional democracy in South Africa. They were educated through a system of Native Education developed and implemented by a partnership of Christian mission organisations and a British colonial government. A number of analyses of education suggest that formal education has acted to reproduce the structures that produce...
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In present scenarios, employee training is widely considered as the source of gaining competitive advantage. However, the effect of employee training on organisational performance in the print-media industry remains largely unexamined in the African context. This paper investigates the effect of employee training on organisational performance using Graphic Communication Group Limited as a case study. The results from the descriptive analysis indicated that, although some employees are not...
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This is a review of the major publications from the Nigeria national blindness survey in order to highlight major findings and challenges of eye care in Nigeria. The review summarizes methodology and key findings. Survey publications on methodology, prevalence and causes of visual impairment and outcome of cataract surgery were retrieved, reviewed and relevant data extracted, reported and discussed. The study was the largest and more detailed eye survey in Nigeria (15,375 people 40 years and...
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Event Abstract Back to Event EFFECT OF LEARNING ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF GUINEA PIG Rajat K. Joshi1* 1 VEER SURENDRA SAI MEDICAL COLLEGE, BURLA. ODISHA, India Though hormone actions set the stage for sexual activities by generating the ability of animal to become sexually excited or aroused, it is each animal’s experience with sexual behavior and sexual reward that molds the strength of response made towards sexual incentives. The present study was conducted to elucidate that learning from...
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The extensive use of foreign languages in schooling might have an important role to play in the poor educational outcomes observed on the African continent. Exploiting the language policy change of 1994 in Ethiopia as a natural experiment, we estimate the effects of provision of mother tongue instruction on the largest ethnic group in the country. Our results suggest that provision of mother tongue education led to an increase of 0.75 to 1 year of primary schooling in the a....ected cohort....
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The extensive use of foreign languages in schooling might have an important role to play in the poor educational outcomes observed on the African continent. Exploiting the language policy change of 1994 in Ethiopia as a natural experiment, we estimate the effects of provision of mother tongue instruction on the largest ethnic group in the country. Our results suggest that provision of mother tongue education led to an increase of 0.75 to 1 year of primary schooling in the affected cohort....
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Selection bias is an educational and a social malady which is of concern to every educator especially educational administrator when allocating educational opportunities to learners based on previous performance.Bias in predicting who passes or who fails and hence in selection exists if the same prediction equation is used for different groups, for example, for both gender when in fact such prediction, given the tests involved, is different for male and female learners.As a check for this,...
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The Education Act and the Secondary School Heads’ Manual recognize school heads as the financial controllers and accounting officers, responsible for all school revenue and expenditure management. Prior to reforms, procurement and tendering activities in public institutions, including secondary schools, w as carried out under unclear legal frameworks, which failed to check irregularities ar ising from the process. Studies commissioned by the government and the World Bank in 1986 and 1997...