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National data were utilized to examine the influence of reading for pleasure on African American high school students' reading achievement. Overall, the study found that reading for pleasure positively impacted African American students' scores on a standardized measure of reading. Implications for teachers and parents were discussed.
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Kenya is one of the few countries in which karst cavities are scarce with respect to volcanic ones, which are widespread throughout the whole country.The great variability in lava composition allowed the evolution of very different cavities, some of which are amongst the largest lava tubes of the world.As normal for such a kind of cave, the hosted speleothems and cave minerals are scarce but important from the minerogenetic point of view.Anyway up to present no specific mineralogical...
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The growing interest in web information seeking / searching studies, and their importance for web site design, search engines, intranets, portals, etc. warrants a research agenda for web information seeking / searching studies in South Africa. A research framework directs research projects and should include: the rationale for and purpose of a study, descriptive information, links to related studies and traditional information retrieval, links to research paradigms and theoretical...
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Abstract The short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 453 white English-speaking secondary school pupils in South Africa during the early 1990s, together with the Francis scale of attitude toward Christianity. The findings are consistent with those from a series of studies employing the same measure of religiosity among school pupils and adults in the UK. According to these findings there is an inverse relationship between psychoticism and religiosity, while...
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This paper reports on the results of a 6-year ongoing training and quality control programme for sperm morphology. The programme consists of a 5-day semenology workshop, during which participants receive intensive training on issues such as sperm concentration, motility, vitality and morphology. Following the workshop, all the participants are enrolled in a continuous quality control (CQC) programme for sperm morphology. These workshops and quality control programmes are presented by the...
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Temporary threshold shift (TTS) and permanent threshold shift (PTS) may follow prolonged noise exposure. Several reports suggest that noise-induced damage to the cochlea may be related to the activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Drugs that scavenge or block ROS formation also protect the cochlea. Guinea pigs, treated with allopurinol, were exposed to white noise (120 dB SPL) or impulse noise (114 dB SPL) for 2 and 5 h. The protective effect of allopurinol was confirmed, but, at these...
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Background and purpose With the rapid turnover and consequent demand for hospital beds and the inadequate number of physiotherapists, increasing numbers will need to work in community settings in South Africa in the future. Education of students at the University of Cape Town was required to move away from a disease-centred, hospital-based curriculum to a community-based programme in order to meet the rehabilitation needs of the majority of the disabled population in the country. The aim of...
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This thesis investigates contemporary initial teacher training reforms in Egypt within a comparative and historical context. It pays close attention to the division between primary and secondary teachers as this is located at the heart of reform processes. To achieve this, it reflects on the experience of England, France and the United States, to identify lessons learned in teacher training reform that could be applied or avoided in order to enhance initial teacher education in Egypt....
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This paper investigates the effects of stress patterns of Tunisian Arabic, the native language, and French, the first foreign language, on the learning of English word stress, including function words. Results show that Interference from French in the assignment of stress to English-French cognates and from Arabic in basic English words occurred in 61% and 80% of the cases respectively. These results were significant at the .01 level. The errors in stress placements were inversely...
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Reviewed by: The Skewed Revolution: Trends in South African Higher education: 1988-1998 Trish Gibbon (bio) David Cooper and George Subotzky (2001) The Skewed Revolution: trends in South African higher education: 1988-1998. Bellville: Education Policy Unit, University of the Western Cape 'Empiric', Peter Burke reminds us, was 'a traditional English term for practitioners of alternative medicine, men and women innocent of theory' (2000:16) who based their practice on the observation of...