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In the South African context, there are no specific guidelines regarding how to prepare and support adolescents for the transition from a health care to a high school setting post TBI. This raises questions about the relevance and responsiveness of the current transition practices in occupational therapy in terms of adequately preparing and supporting these adolescents to participate in school and hence exercise their right to a quality education.This study explored adolescents and other key...
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The pastoral communities are groups of people who depend on livestock or the sale of livestock products for most of their livelihoods. In Kenya they inhabit mostly Arid and Semi-Arid Lands’ (ASALs) and thus rely mainly on rainfall for water and pasture, lack of which poses greater challenges to their livelihoods. The conceptualization of this paper is based on the need to establish the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of the pastoral community of Narok County. Pastoralism in Narok...
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Background: 2.6 million children worldwide died within the first month of life in 2016, with the highest mortality in Africa. Specifically in Ethiopia, the infant mortality rate in 2016 was 27.6/1000 live births. Current global newborn care programs focus on training health workers, such as nurse delivery attendants and midwives, in drying, warming, stimulation, and positive pressure ventilation (PPV). Though medical doctors learn critical thinking and teaching skills that would allow them...
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During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) lowland forests contracted throughout the tropics but, by contrast, many montane forest taxa moved to lower elevations. These taxa are often found in cloud forests, which are globally important ecosystems that depend on the capture of atmospheric water from fog drifting through the canopy, here referred to as occult precipitation. Understanding the response of tropical montane taxa to climate variations is limited by a lack of modern data on fog capture;...
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This paper proposes an initial rough model to evaluate the economic impact created by provision of Internet connectivity in an educational setting in a developing country. The research is based on three Television White Space technology (TVWS) trials, where over 20,000 pupils and teachers in 20 schools in two African countries were connected to Internet, some for the very first time. A large impact is hypothesized to result from the additional skills development, resulting in a learners'...
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted and ratified with unprecedented support from states, including those on the African continent. In large measure this was precipitated by the remarkable work of disabled peoples’ organisations (DPOs). However, CRPD ratification is only the first step in a long process which African states parties must undertake to manifest the treaty's provisions in the lived experiences of persons with disabilities....
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Local institutions play pivotal role in climate change adaptation though less attention has been given to them compared with other components of adaptation. The conventional approach to study local institutional roles focuses on how institutions can support climate change adaptation with little emphasis to other institutional dimensions. Thus, the current study deconstructs the conventional institutional roles in climate change adaptation to reframe them on broader institutional dimensions...
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To evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the adolescent package of care (APOC) training on adolescent viral suppression at Family AIDS Care & Education Services (FACES)–supported sites. The effect of APOC training was evaluated based on viral load suppression (<1000 copies/mL) of 10–19-year-olds in 13 FACES-supported sites in six months before (January 2015–August 2016) and after (November 2015–March 2017) the APOC training for each site. Patient-level data were abstracted from...
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A dissertation submitted to the Dept. of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Botswana in partial fulfilment of the requirement of the degree of Masters in Educational Management. Citation: Mmolotsi, P.V. (2019) The role of art in early childhood education in primary schools in Botswana: a case of Kgatleng region, Univesity of Botswana.
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A dissertation submitted to the Dept. of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Botswana in partial fulfilment of the requirement of the degree of Masters in Library and Information. Citation: Modise, C. D. (2019) An assessment of distance learners’ use of information resources and services at the University of Botswana Library, University of Botswana.
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The initial years of life, particularly the first two years, are considered the most important for brain development and timely interventions profoundly affect the health of the child and families.This study aimed to determine the effect of maternal health education on motor, social and cognitive development in infants less than two years old, and to identify the factors that could affect normal development.Two hundred and ten mothers and their infants (109 interventions, 101 controls) were...