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Air pollution problems over mega cities differ greatly and are influenced by a number of factors, including topography, demography, meteorology, level and rate of industrialization and socioeconomic development. Cairo is considered a key city for economy, education, politics industry and technology in the Middle East.Increasing business and industrial activities in the city accompanied by shortage of the institutional capabilities for monitoring and control, in addition to environmental...

Air pollution problems over mega cities differ greatly and are influenced by a number of factors, including topography, demography, meteorology, level and rate of industrialization and socioeconomic development. Cairo is considered a key city for economy, education, politics industry and technology in the Middle East.Increasing business and industrial activities in the city accompanied by shortage of the institutional capabilities for monitoring and control, in addition to environmental...

Air pollution problems over mega cities differ greatly and are influenced by a number of factors, including topography, demography, meteorology, level and rate of industrialization and socioeconomic development. Cairo is considered a key city for economy, education, politics industry and technology in the Middle East.Increasing business and industrial activities in the city accompanied by shortage of the institutional capabilities for monitoring and control, in addition to environmental...

This article describes and evaluates an environmental health education project, focusing on water and sanitation issues, which was carried out in two Egyptian villages in the Nile delta. The study is multifaceted as it involves various hygiene education strategies carried out by health unit staff, teachers, graduate volunteers and local village leaders who deliver simple environmental health messages in a variety of different settings. The project is also multifaceted in that it looks at...

This study examined family decision-making style, peer group affiliation, and prior academic achievement as predictors of academic achievement of African American students. The sample for this study was 16,489 students who participated in both the first follow-up (10th grade) and second follow-up (12th grade) student questionnaire of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). However, findings were only discussed for the 1,628 African American participants. Logistic...

Research Article| July 01, 2006 The Mw7 Machaze, Mozambique, Earthquake of 23 February 2006 Clark H. Fenton; Clark H. Fenton Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ, U.K. c.fenton@imperial.ac.uk j.bommer@imperial.ac.uk (C.F., J.B.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Julian J. Bommer Julian J. Bommer Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington Campus...

Given the persistence of an achievement gap between White and Black students and the positive association between parental involvement and student achievement, a greater understanding of factors that influence Black parents to participate in their children’s education is warranted. Using a qualitative methodology, this study investigated factors that contributed to such involvement, as reported by 22 Black parents. Although a majority of the parents exhibited beliefs and practices...

The Black-White achievement gap presents perhaps the most important issue in education. Legal actions play a role in the efforts to reduce and eliminate the gap. School finance adequacy litigation offers the most widely used legal strategy to seek fairer outcomes for children. However, the literature is sparse with regard to the impact such litigation has on student outcomes. This article addresses the extent to which adequacy litigation functions as a means of narrowing the achievement gap....

School attendance incentive schemes essentially compensate families for the direct and indirect costs associated with children attending school rather than working. The primary benefit of these programs is their ability to tie together short-run assistance and long-run human capital formation to fight the intergenerational transfer of poverty. The current study presents a set of simulations designed to assess the likely impact of an incentive scheme based on cash transfers on school...

Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide. The course of breast cancer can be alerted through early detection through breast self-examination and prompt treatment. Breast self-examination is a readily available method and doesn’t require a specialized personal or equipment. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of health education and training program for High Institute of Health students on breast self-examination. The study was carried out in High...

Motivation can be defined as an individual degree of willingness to exert and maintain an offort towards organizational goals. The aim of this study is to determine motivating factors for choosing nursing education program among nursing students and to explore the nursing student’s perception toward their nursing work in the future. The study was conducted in High Institute of Health [Nursing Department] in Benghazi City in Libya. The sample of the study included all nursing students [135]...

Engineer educational program is theoretically the same throughout the world. The light differences are in the credits and didactic means. If it seems the same in the theory undergone through lectures and practice through laboratory training, the educational program differs from one place to another when it is developed or applied in the field. The staff organizes field sessions in order to illustrate, develop, show and apply the knowledge given in classrooms and laboratories. This is covered...

This article extends concerns of our National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) membership beyond the borders of the United States to the continent of Africa. Specifically, it explores the current status of early childhood teacher education in one of the poorest nations of the world—Ethiopia. It includes an analysis of recent policy developments as well as continuing challenges to educational progress. The article concludes with a call for like-minded professional...

The study assessed biology teachers’ effectiveness in the instructional process using two instruments and classroom observation, with a view to determining the most objective and appropriate one. The instruments were: Student Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness Instrument (SATEI), Teacher Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness Instrument (TATEI) and classroom observation by the researchers. One hundred and eighty (180) Senior Secondary Class Two (SS2) biology students and six biology teachers...

Why do we investigate traffic accidents? What is the current state of accident investigation in South Africa? Is there a need for the investigation of serious traffic accidents? What technology is available to assist the investigators and what are the plans for the future? The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on the current level of accident investigation in South Africa. The current level of investigation in South Africa, with one of the highest accident rates in the world, is...

OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge and practice of Gondar University students regarding emergency contraceplion. PATIENTS AND METHODS A university based cross-sectional study was conducted in the University of Gondar in May 2004. All undergraduate students of the university were included in the study. A self-administered anonymous questionnaire was used for data collection. RESULTS A total of 2323 students (1764 males & 559 females) responded to the questionnaire. Five hundred fifty eight...

To assess the rate of Episiotomy in vaginal birth in Tikur Anbessa teaching Hospital and the associated factors that influences the use of episiotomy in the unit.A cross-sectional study was conducted in the delivery unit of the Tikur Anbessa Hospital from May to September 2000. Data on mothers who delivered in the study period was collected using structured questionnaire. Variables on use of episiotomy, parity, fetal presentation, duration of labor, mode of delivery, Apgar scores at first...

On average, about 25 percent of students leave higher education (HE) institutions annually in South Africa because they are excluded on academic and financial grounds. To resist such putouts, student boycotts and protests are common despite the fact that student organizations were incorporated into decision-making processes at HE institutions (defined as universities and technikons in South Africa) in 1997. By examining recent student protest behaviour, this paper explores the dimensions of...

In semi-arid regions, trees often wither during the dry season. Withering is sometimes manifest as die-back, whereby whithering results in shoot death, which progresses downward from the uppermost part of the crown. In this study, we measured the relationships between height growth and diameter at breast height, die-back frequency and severity, vessel size and specific hydraulic conductivity of four evergreen (Senna siamea (Lamk) H.S. Irwin & Barneby, Jacaranda mimosifolia D. Don,...