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Este artigo centra-se numa avaliacao historica e teorica da arquitectura e urbanismo dos periodos colonial e pos-colonial de Luanda, onde os assentamentos miseraveis, social e economicamente, conhecidos como musseques (‘terra vermelha’, a cor do solo) contrastam drasticamente com os elevados padroes de desenvolvimento no centro da cidade. O trabalho incorpora o projecto de uma Escola/ Centro Politico na periferia de Luanda. O objectivo e propor um complexo que responda aos conflitos...
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Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) is a global entrepreneurial training program created, sponsored, and disseminated by the International Labour Organization. SIYB is arguably the world's largest skills enhancement program for entrepreneurs. SIYB has been in operation since the early 1970s and currently operates in almost 80 countries. In the decade to 2002, more than 100,000 entrepreneurs, thousands of trainers and hundreds of small-enterprise development organizations around the world...
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Objective: This survey was carried out to assess the perception and management of malaria in secondary schools in South-West Nigeria. Methodology: A total of 600 teachers and senior secondary school students were sampled using a structured questionnaire in 20 secondary schools randomly selected. Results: Ninety five percent of the respondents have had malaria infection before. Seventy percent had it at least once in a year. Although 89% mentioned mosquitoes as the causative agent of the...
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Although Karthala volcano in Grande Comore Island has erupted four times since 2005, the government and the local population still remain unprepared for a major eruptive crisis. The reasons for this lack of preparation lie in a deep tangle of political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors. Consequently, the population accepts the volcanic threat in different ways and to different levels. The ways in which Comorians deal with this threat lead to important changes in their...
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This paper aims at understanding the failure of the crisis management system during the 2006 eruption of Karthala volcano on Grande Comore Island. Since 2005, the eruptive activity of Karthala volcano had increased, with higher intensity and frequency. These changes should have led Grande Comore to be better prepared for confronting a volcanic threat. But the following analysis demonstrates that the country remained unprepared to face even a minor eruptive event. The weaknesses that led to...
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The putative feminisation of higher education has become a global discourse. However, quantitative increases only tell a partial story about women’s participation. In some cases, this is impeded by symbolic violence in quotidian gender relations. Women students’ reporting of sexual harassment has been widespread in our study of widening participation in higher education in Ghana and Tanzania (www.sussex.ac.uk/education/wideningparticipation). The hierarchical power relations within...
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This article is based on an ESRC/DFID funded research project on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania: Developing an Equity Scorecard (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/wideningparticipation). There are questions about whether widening participation in higher education is a force for democratisation or differentiation. While participation rates are increasing globally, there has been scant research or socio-cultural theorisation of how different structures of...
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SUBMITTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL