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Summary Quartz-trachytic differentiates characterise volcanic islands on or near mid-ocean ridges, while phonolitic trends are found on islands rising from ocean basins. A large part of the Kenya Rift Valley is dominated by Plio-Pleistocene quartz-trachytes, which are underlain and flanked by variably nepheline-rich Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene lavas. Phonolitic and nephelinitic lavas dominate the assemblages of Miocene age, trachytes and olivine basalts those of Plio-Pleistocence age. This...
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Population planning is as important as economic planning and should be applied both at the national and personal levels. Population control and socioeconomic development are intrinsic to each other. Proverty, illiteracy, political instability, and social retardation are found in the countries with high birth rates. Most African nations tend to think of the population in terms of density rather than growth potential. Family planning programs should be accorded the same priority as...
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S ummary . Twenty Nigerian Ibo children aged about 11 and 12 years, matched with a control group of the same age and number, were trained in classification, using a type of colour‐form‐size sorting test, and were tested on a transfer task of animal‐sorting. On being retested after training the experimental group showed significant improvement. No positive transfer was observed, however, on Kohs Blocks, which were administered as supplementary transfer task. The results indicate the need for...
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Many investigators have reported that in guinea pigs the development of delayed hypersensitivity to a simple chemical allergen requires at least 5 days between initial exposure (sensitization) and the acquisition of a specific altered skin reactivity to the chemical; serum antibody to allergen is found some days later. We have studied the appearance in serum of antibody induced by allergen in guinea pigs sensitized to a simple chemical viz., 3-iodo-4-hydroxy-5-nitrophenylacetic acid (NIP)....
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TRAINING MALAWI'S YOUTH: THE WORK OF THE MALAWI YOUNG PIONEERS Get access Community Development Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 1970, Pages 130–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/5.3.130 Published: 01 July 1970
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Background Locally advanced rectal cancer can be downstaged by neoadjuvant therapy and the resultant tumour response can be quantified histologically. This study aimed to assess clinical response of neoadjuvant chemoradiation in patients with locally advanced rectal cancers treated in Wad Medani Teaching Hospital (WMTH) & National Cancer Patients and Methods A total of 36 consecutive patients with locally advanced rectal cancer that were managed in WMTH and NCI during the period from...
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BACKGROUND: Abdominal injury is among the major causes of trauma admissions. The aim was to determine etiology, commonly injured organs, indication and outcome of patients with abdominal injuries requiring laparotomy.METHODS: A retrospective study of all adult patients who underwent laparotomy for abdominal injury at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College was conducted from January 2014 to December 2016. The factors associated with outcome were identified with bivariate and...
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This study describes the in-service training experience of perioperative nurses from the SickKids-Ethiopia Paediatrics Perioperative Nursing Training Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The study emphasizes specifically how nurses applied the knowledge and skills gained from the Paediatrics Perioperative Nursing Training program in their subsequent practice and consider the situational factors that facilitated or hindered implementing these new knowledge and skills.The first author led...
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BACKGROUND: Disorders of pregnancy induced hypertensive are a major health problem in the obstetric population as they are one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that at least one woman dies every seven minutes from complications of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The objective of this study is to assess pregnancy induced hypertension and its associated factors among women attending delivery service at...
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Background: Co-existence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and electrocardiography (ECG) abnormalities heightens the risk of sudden cardiac death. However, there is a gap in evidence of how ECG changes cluster among continental Africans with or without MetS.Methods: We included 491 participants with interpretable ECG tracings who were consecutively recruited into the Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Registry (CRP). CRP is a registry of newly presenting patients into cardiology clinic of the...
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After a year of COVID-19 being distributed in all countries worldwide, several COVID-19 vaccines were invented by different companies. All of these vaccines got emergency approval from WHO because of critical conditions to fight this pandemic, but still, scientists work on clinical experiments to approve the safety of these vaccines and their adverse effects. This research tried to check the safety of vaccines imported from the Libyan Health Ministry. The comparison was among Sinovak,...
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Pre-service ‘teaching practice’ is an essential aspect of teacher-training which provides pedagogical knowledge and experience on how to go about the business of teaching. It should be conducted properly so as to prepare pre-service teacher trainees to service their mandate effectively. It is with this understanding that this study assessed the effectiveness with which it is conducted in tertiary institutions in Kwara State. Data was collected using two structured questionnaires and analysed...
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The strive for reducing conflict all over the world has necessitated the need to build the culture of peace in the individual. One of the strategies recommended for catching them young for promoting tolerance, solidarity and group understanding among people is cooperative learning. This paper therefore examined the effect of two cooperative learning strategies (Learning Together and Constructive Controversy) on building students’ culture of peace in Ogun State, Nigeria. Although, no...