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  Multidrug-resistant bacteria remain a serious worldwide public health problem. Health care workers are particularly implicated in dissemination of multidrug-resistant bacteria. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of multi-drug resistant bacteria (MRB) carriage by health care workers in high risk units of the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital (YUTH). Nasal, rectal and hand swabs were collected from a sampled staff involved in patient care in the targeted...

Dissociative fugue is a psychiatric disorder characterized by amnesia coupled with sudden unexpected travel away from the individual’s usual surroundings and denial of all memory of his or her whereabouts during the period of wandering. Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder that is infrequently reported. Before now, no case of it had been reported in a medical student. This article focuses on the report of a case of dissociative fugue symptoms in a 28-year-old male Nigerian medical student....

The study aimed at identifying the measures that can be used to promote effective Home Economics teacher education in Nigeria in the 21 st Century using Delta State as a case study. The population for the study was 195 persons. This included Home Economics Lecturers, education lecturers, student-teachers in College of Education, and Delta State University, Abraka and secondary school Home Economics teachers in Ethiope East L.G.A who had Bachelor’s Degree in Education. A sample of 178 persons...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the undergraduate dental curriculum of the University of Lagos Dental School, adequately prepares the dental graduate with the behavioral science and business/management (practice management) skills required for private dental practice. A review of the current undergraduate dental curriculum of the University of Lagos Dental School was carried out to determine if there were any behavioral science and business/management course(s) designed to...

In Zimbabwe, the discourse on access and quality in education has been a raging one since the colonial days of bottlenecks and outright discrimination against black Zimbabweans in education. The doors to education were declared open to all at independence in 1980 with the new Zimbabwe government’s enunciated policy of education for all. It is an uncontested fact that strides were made soon after independence to address issues of quality and access in education. However, with the prosecution...

Mental health problems are common in primary care, with prevalence rates of up to 40% reported in developing countries. The study aim was to evaluate the impact of a specially designed toolkit used to train primary health care (PHC) workers in mental health on the rates of diagnosed cases of common mental disorders, malaria and non-specific musculoskeletal pains in primary care in Malawi.Clinics with out-patient services in the designated district were randomly divided into control and...

Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic studies have been carried out on the lavas of Mt.Oku, the central part of the continental sector of the Cameroon volcanic line (CVL).The lavas define a considerable range of Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic compositions characterized by 143 Nd/ 144 Nd = 0.512626 -0.512937, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr = 0.699411 -0.704279 and more radiogenic isotopic ratios 206 Pb/ 204 Pb = 18.3800 -19.4480. 207Pb/ 204 Pb = 15.4216-15.6448, 208 Pb/ 204 Pb = 37.1114 -39.7507, with radiogenic Pb similar to the HIMU of the...

This study investigated the effects of two pre-reading activities (class discussion and vocabulary definitions) and a control condition on the reading comprehension of 57 Moroccan college freshmen. It also investigated the differential facilitative effect of the two pre-reading activities on the students’ comprehension. Each student read an expository text under one of the three conditions and immediately afterwards answered a 9-item short-answer test designed to measure comprehension of the...

Em 2009 a AAPS entrou em um projeto intitulado “Revitalizando o Ensino de Planejamento” financiado pela Fundação Rockfeller. Este projeto encontra-se atualmente em sua segunda fase. Seu objetivo primário é distanciar o planejamento de suas origens focadas no controle (ainda em prática em muitas partes do continente africano)e reinventá-lo como uma prática que apoie os pobre nas cidades africanas. Um ponto de início para fazer isto de forma prática foi formulada sob a forma de um segundo...

This study evaluated the adequacy, suitability and use of educational technology in selected faculties of education in Nigerian universities. The study was carried out using the National Universities Commission (NUC) minimum academic standard as the basis for the evaluation. Data were collected through the use of educational technology Evaluation questionnaire (ETEQ) and observation guide for educational/technology centres (OGETC). Two universities were involved using purposive and random...

Despite the relative uniqueness of peace education in contexts of intractable conflict, research on peace education carried out in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be instructive, to a greater or lesser extent, in other contexts.Six researchbased lessons are presented: (1) The short life of peace education's positive effects and so the need for continuous reinforcement; (2) ways of restoring the eroded effects;(3) the benefits of learning about another conflict; (4) the...

Creating awareness among people especially rural dwellers in Nigeria about appropriate activities required in terms of mitigating climate change is imperative. This paper discusses climate change in relation to its causes and the perceived effect of fuelwood utilization by rural dwellers in Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states. The study used data from 360 rural people proportionately selected according to the number of agricultural cells of each of the states by simple random sampling....

Creating awareness among people especially rural dwellers in Nigeria about appropriate activities required in terms of mitigating climate change is imperative. This paper discusses climate change in relation to its causes and the perceived effect of fuelwood utilization by rural dwellers in Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states. The study used data from 360 rural people proportionately selected according to the number of agricultural cells of each of the states by simple random sampling....

This descriptive cross-sectional study documented the experience of sexual harassment (SH) and coping strategies among 250 consenting students of University College Hospital, Ibadan school of nursing, using a pre-tested questionnaire.Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used to analyze the data at 5% level of significance.Mean age was 23.0 ± 4.1 years, 78.8% were females and 91.2% perceived SH to be common in the school.Fifty-eight percent of respondents (20.0%males, 80.0%...

Using qualitative methods, involving interviews, the study explored, among a sample of 10 ex-dropouts who re-enrolled in secondary schools in South Africa, whether social labels were used to define their social life and the form these social labels take, as they reintegrate at school. It also explored the reactions of these ex-dropouts to the social labels. Evidence in the literature on the effects of negative social labelling on children and adolescents, prompted the empirical investigation...