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Background: Non-communicable diseases, notably hypertension and diabetes mellitus have become an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. The prevalence of dyslipidaemia and concurrent hypertension is also known to be on the increase in developing countries including Nigeria. Dyslipidaemia is one of the components of cardiovascular disease risk factors and metabolic syndrome. It is therefore important to know the lipid profile of hypertensive patients in planning their...
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The purpose of this study was to explore teacher’s cultural perception of ICT in Nigerian Schools. The study was guided by three research questions and used the qualitative method, with a case study as a strategy. Interviews were employed to collect data about teacher’s cultural perception of ICT in Nigerian schools. Findings from the interview revealed that teachers are incompetent and blame lack of ICT facilities and access for this inadequacy. All five participants demonstrated that their...
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The distinctive feature of Cameroonian Francophone literature is authors recourse to linguistic miscegenation as a narrative paradigm. Cameroonian fiction of French expression exists at an intersection of French as an imperial language and its regional variant on account of linguistic appropriation that often engenders a third codeCamfranglais. In an attempt to convey Cameroonian cultural specificities, worldviews, imagination and sensibilities in a European language, in our case French,...
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Higher education was considered a ‘public good’ worthy of public support in Africa, during the first decades of independence, and most countries adopted a state-funded and heavily subsidized model for university expansion. With the fiscal crisis of the 1980s, public funding declined and universities fell into a state of disrepair, leading to a deterioration of physical facilities, a decline in student enrollment and teaching standards and a depletion of research capacities. Reforms to revive...
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In recent years, international efforts to improve educational quality in sub-Saharan Africa have focused on promoting learner-centered pedagogy. However, it has not fl ourished for cultural, economic, and political reasons that often go unrecognized by development organizations and policymakers. This edited volume draws on a long-term collaboration between African and American educational researchers in addressing critical questions regarding how teachers in one African...
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Orientation : Positive psychological and subjective wellbeing indicators have proven to be protective against certain physical illnesses but have been rarely assessed in teacher stress. Research purpose : The main objective of this study was to assess the relationship between indicators of wellbeing and stress and to further assess the relative importance of these wellbeing indicators in explaining stress variance in a large sample of Eastern Cape primary and high school teachers in South...
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The uptake of mobile phones has been especially remarkable in the developing world. For the first time in history people at the bottom of the income pyramid can also take part in the telecommunication society. Mobile phones can play a unique role in reaching those who are outside the scope of formal or institutionalized schooling and open doors to out-of-school learning practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Wesbank, an impoverished community in Cape Town, we look at the (informal)...
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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2013
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Disability is perceived as ‘a result of sin’ (Bowers, 2004) or as ‘must be healed’ (Moller, 2012) in several countries. Given that the cause of disability often is sought within the family or in God (Treloar, 1999), it could be very well that attitudes about disability are related and attributed to religious belief systems. Since many people with disabilities encounter barriers and inequalities in society (WHO, 2011), the level of participation of persons with disabilities in society could...
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This report assesses climate risks and opportunities and proposes actions. It provides a synthesis of evidence of climate variability and change, impacts, and uncertainties associated with climate change that may affect Tunisia s water, land, agriculture, and coastal zones. The report then provides a detailed analysis of the potential impacts of climate change on food security and gross domestic product (GDP) as well as on local populations looking in particular at seven governorates. The...