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Статья рассматривает проблему определения уровня доходов с целью введения целевых субсидий на высшее образование в развивающихся странах. Произведен обзор и анализ попыток введения системы финансирования по принципу cost-sharing в африканских странах.
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This study represents a comprehensive assessment of differences between participants in an HIV/AIDS prevention program (SHAPE: Sustainability, Hope, Action, Prevention, Education) and non-participants in knowledge, attitudes and practices with a focus on cultural, sociological and economic variables.We developed an eight-page questionnaire that was administered to 933 randomly selected students at the University of Zimbabwe. Survey items addressed sexual decision-making, condom use, limiting...
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This article outlines the emergence of a new practice modality, namely psychological consulting. Consulting psychology, a non-therapy-based practice modality, is investigated through an analysis of the experiences and perceptions of registered psychotherapists working as consultants, educators influencing the training of psychologists, and consumers of the services of consulting psychologists. Juxtaposition of the competencies required for success as a consulting psychologist, with the...
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Bahá’u’lláh, the prophet-founder of the Bahá’i religion, proclaimed his faith in 1863, the same year as the emancipation of the African-American slaves.1 Few among these early Bahá’i believers realized that as they were planting the seeds of their new world faith, calling for the unity of all people, that those seeds would grow and spread into a diverse community of believers, which would include the descendants of African slaves in the United States. Former African-American slaves, bent...
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South Africa held their first democratic election in 1994. The fact that ANC won this doctrinarian election is fundamental for all levels of the South African society. South Africa constitutes a society with clear inequalities and social problems. Since education is considered as a crucial factor to meet these challenges we have studied if a more extended and more equal access to education is observable after the democratic election in 1994 compared with the years before. The period we study...
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Maes cobaias podem aprender a discriminar assobios de filhotes individuais? Testou-se a habilidade de maes porquinhos da india (Cavia porcellus Linnaeus, 1958) em discriminar assobios de isolamento de diferentes filhotes. Seis maes passaram por 24 testes. Em 12 deles os filhotes eram apresentados as maes imediatamente apos o playback do assobio (CS+). Nos outros testes, o playback nao era seguido pela apresentacao dos filhotes (CS-). Nao houve diferenca no comportamento de se aproximar e na...
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Six medical papyri document how Santorini's volcanic ash from the Bronze Age biphasic eruption, otherwise attested by material retrieved at the bottom of lakes at the edge of the Nile Delta, severely affected the health of the inhabitants of Egypt as well as their society as a whole. Treatments for burns caused by particulate and dissolved acids are documented in the London Medical Papyrus as well as in the Ebers Papyrus, and are compatible with ash fallout and ash in rain, respectively....
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Six treatments for burns in the London Medical Papyrus provide data regarding a volcanic fallout over Egypt. They confirm a previously established scenario linking the medical text to one specific eruption, the one at Santorini in the Bronze Age. One treatment describes the contamination of waters with the ash. Four treatments describe the effects of the ash on the skin. The sixth treatment describes the effect of acid rain following the dispersion of ash in the atmosphere, which triggered...