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1 DIFFUSE POLLUTION - BASIC PRINCIPLES, DEFINITIONS AND REGULATORY ASPECTS - R. Hranova 2 MONITORING, ABATEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF DIFFUSE POLLUTION - R. Hranova 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DIFFUSE POLLUTION CONTROL - THE CITY OF HARARE, ZIMBABWE - R. Hranova 4 ASSESSING AND MANAGING URBAN STORMWATER QUALITY FROM COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS - R. Hranova & M. Magombeyi 5 DIFFUSE POLLUTION IN HIGH-DENSITY (LAW - INCOME) URBAN AREAS -WATER QUALITY...
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has brought renewed attention to the role of grandmothers as caregivers of children. Using 2004 Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey data, the authors examine the relationship between coresidence with a grandmother and child schooling in Lesotho, a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infection. Results confirm the critical role grandmothers play in the event of maternal death. Maternal orphans who live with a grandmother are just as...
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Abstract The C4 grass Zea mays (maize or corn) is the third most important food crop globally after wheat and rice in terms of production and the second most widespread genetically modified (GM) crop, after soybean. Its demand is predicted to increase by 45% by the year 2020. In sub-Saharan Africa, tropical maize has traditionally been the main staple of the diet, 95% of the maize grown is consumed directly as human food and as an important source of income for the resource—poor rural...
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This study has investigated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) knowledge, attitudes and sexual at-risk behaviours of youths from disadvantaged communities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Participants were 800 youths aged 12–15 years within three youth subgroups in these poorer communities: those children attending school; children who were not attending school but who were still residing within their communities; and children who were street children (more than 50% of them being orphans)....
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The Junior Farmer Field and Life School (JFFLS) Programme, a joint venture of the Government of Mozambique and the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Programme, was piloted in Mozambique in 2003 to support orphans to gain farming skills. In this article, based on fieldwork in Mozambique in 2006, the impact of the JFFLS programme is examined in four different communities. The findings show that JFFLS graduates from rural communities, who anticipated that their livelihoods...
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Data from the third wave (2003—2004) of the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study are used to generate nationally representative estimates of current school and classroom placements of elementary school—aged students who are African American and profoundly deaf. These students are found to have less access to regular schools and less access to typical classroom placements within schools than their White peers.
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The working practices and outcome of patients admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), a tertiary institution, was examined. The conditions under which these were carried out were reviewed over a 15-year period (January 1985 to December 1999). We found that the admission rate was 53.3% with post-surgical patients in the majority (50.4%). One hundred and thirteen patients needed respiratory support and were ventilated (14.1%). The...
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More women are in medicine. The study aimed at examining medical students' perception of female doctors' clinical practice and teaching as it relates to their gender. The study's design was simple randomized using well-structured questionnaires. One hundred and sixtyone medical students with a mean age of 24.4 ± 2 years were involved in the study. Gender bias was shown generally by 68.9 % of them with male doctors being favoured (42.9%). Specialty preferences significantly favoured male...