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Background: Air pollution index is not applied in Egypt up till now. Objectives: This study is a trial to apply the concept of air pollution index  (API) to assess the air quality and its health concerns at one of the heavy traffic streets in Alexandria; Egypt. Methods: This was a case study that was conducted over one year, the setting of which was one of the heavy traffic streets. The total suspended particulate matter (TSP) was sampled using High Volume Air Sampler, for 24 hours/day with...

To investigate the protective effects of sildenafil to noise-induced hearing loss in guinea pigs.Guinea pigs were randomly divided into control group, noise exposure group and the sildenafil treatment group, with 10 in each group. One week after the exposure of 110 dB (A) white noise, sildenafil [10 mg/(kg×d)] and normal saline [4 ml/(kg×d)] were injected into guinea pigs of noise plus sildenafil group (NSG) and noise plus normal saline group(NNG) respectively. One week after noise exposure...

Background/Context Even though not fully realized, in legislation and theory, the requirements of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the No Child Left Behind Act have created pressure to address the historical inequity in educational opportunity, achievement, and outcomes, as well as disparities in achievement between students of color and White students; disproportionality in special education referral, identification, and placement; high dropout rates for...

The purpose of this report is to present the findings of a retrospective study (2008-2009) to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C virus in blood donors at the Blood Transfusion Center of Military Teaching Hospital Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. Samples from 19,801 consecutive blood donors were analyzed by the immuno-enzymatic method (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay, third generation). The overall seroprevalence of HBV and HCV was 0.8% and 0.2% respectively. A total of 98 units...

Training and development of individuals in the University system provides favorable climate for carrying out teaching, research and services. This paper suggests appropriate approaches for the training and development of housekeepers. It also identifies the engagement of professional housekeepers as a means of effective realization of goals. It discusses qualities of good housekeepers, the skills and knowledge to be acquired, training ground for staff development, management implication for...

Training and development of individuals in the University system provides favorable climate for carrying out teaching, research and services. This paper suggests appropriate approaches for the training and development of housekeepers. It also identifies the engagement of professional housekeepers as a means of effective realization of goals. It discusses qualities of good housekeepers, the skills and knowledge to be acquired, training ground for staff development, management implication for...

Due to the increasing demand on the incorporation of web-based materials into Egyptian higher educational institutions, this study examined students' learning styles, satisfaction with online learning, and the relationships be-tween these two variables and students' gender. The study was conducted on 51 EFL college students (24 males and 27 females) who were assigned to three lab classes. The participants were exposed to various web-based ma-terials (e.g., listening, reading, writing, and...

One cannot doubt that Churches in Malawi have played a significant role in promoting education system in the country. This has been so due to their Christian belief. Christians believe that God creates human beings with ability to learn, teach, and know and that God is active in and through education. It is their belief that the Church has been given the distinctive mandate to educate to instruct, form, and bring forth faithful, courageous, and wise disciples and reliable citizens. The...

One cannot doubt that Churches in Malawi have played a significant role in promoting education system in the country. This has been so due to their Christian belief. Christians believe that God creates human beings with ability to learn, teach, and know and that God is active in and through education. It is their belief that the Church has been given the distinctive mandate to educate to instruct, form, and bring forth faithful, courageous, and wise disciples and reliable citizens. The...

Childhood obesity is a serious non-communicable public health problem with negative physical, social, and mental health consequences. Factors contributing to childhood obesity are school nutrition, excessive snacks, fast food, lack of physical activity and family behavior. The objective of this study is to explore Fayoum preparatory of school students’ and teacher’s attitude concerning obesity and healthy nutritional behavior and investigating readiness of teachers to attain an active role...

Struggling to rise from widespread poverty, an AIDS epidemic, and racial disparity, the young nation of Namibia places much of its hope in the education of its children. However, this study argues that the resources associated with secular public schooling are inadequate to meet the needs of the nation. Though secular schools might teach knowledge and skills, the philosophic and human nurture of children is more adequately addressed in religious school settings. However, Namibia’s history of...

We present an initial study to project the long-term development of fog occurrence along the southern African west coast.For this purpose, we implemented a basic fog diagnostic scheme based on liquid water content into the regional climate model REMO.The validation of the fog diagnostic scheme is conducted using satellite-derived low cloud information as well as local station observations.The validation reveals that REMO is able to adequately represent the major fog characteristics in the...

This paper discusses the use of Microsoft Excel software in the teaching of statistics in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Problems associated with existing traditional methods are identified and a novel pedagogy using Excel is proposed. The advantages of using this software over other specialized statistical packages (SPSS, Minitab or Stata) are simplicity, universality, accessibility, increased acquisition of skills, and, more importantly, reduced...

Introduction and objective: Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is a type of periodontitis that causes rapid destruction of alveolar bone, especially in young ages. In Yemen, there is no previous study about aggressive periodontitis, so the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and related risk factors for aggressive periodontitis among school students in the city of Thamar. Material and methods: In this study, a two-stage sampling method was used. At first stage, a random sample of...

Bacterial and other pathogens often infect the female genital tract causing disease in most women, sometimes with severe complications.A number of vaginal infections present with few or no symptoms and yet could still be transmissible to sexual partners of infected persons.Poor socio-economic status, lack of diagnostic facilities and shortage of effective treatment all contribute to the high incidence of sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections.In this study we investigated...

This chapter gives an overview of Protestant educational practices and challenges in a variety of nations in the African continent. The author notes that Protestant education is on the rise in Africa, particularly because Christianity generally and Protestantism specifically are on the rise in Africa. The chapter considers both the history of Protestant education and the contemporary situations in a various African countries. In 1900 only about 3–4% of Africans were Christians, but today...

Over the years, the status ascribed to the teacher is tenaciously associated with the nature of the teaching profession which can be said to have been warbling when compared with the earlier and more settled professions such as medicine, law and engineering. The picture of the status of the teacher can be figured out from the following questions:  How do people feel generally when the term teaching is mentioned and how do they feel when the three other professions namely medicine, law and...