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Mental disorders are widely recognized as a major contributor to the global burden of disease worldwide.They often constitute a double jeopardy for those affected because of stigmatization by members of the community.The purpose of this study is to explore knowledge and social distance of mental disorders among students from Cameroonian universities who reside in urban areas, as mental health among university students represents an important and growing public health concern for which...
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© 2015. Syrian American Medical Society. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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This paper proposes a rights-based approach for participatory urban planning for climate change adaptation in urban areas. Participatory urban planning ties climate change adaptation to local development opportunities. Previous discussions suggest that participatory urban planning may help to understand structural inequalities, to gain, even if temporally, institutional support and to deliver a planning process in constant negotiation with local actors. Building upon an action research...
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Anthropometric measurements are used to identify three key markers of malnutrition in children. These measures can be compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth reference standards for children 5‐19 years old. The purpose of this study was to use anthropometry to determine prevalence of stunting, underweight, and wasting in students at a boarding school in rural Southern Uganda. This was a cross‐sectional descriptive study of the nutrition status of 320 students. Prevalence of...
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently.In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country's education budget.We find large positive effects on test scores at younger grades that persist at least two years.We show that these effects are concentrated among schools that focused funds on...
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Abstract This article explores complexities of identity inhered in African Diasporic communities through an investigation of Spanish‐speaking Afro‐Latinas/os and Latinas/os of African descent in a predominantly Black middle school. Participant observation and interview data collected over 17 months revealed a school whose members represent peoples of diverse African descent. Among educators and students at the research site, Diasporic encounters reveal ideologies grounded in a lack of...
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Mozambique is experiencing significant population growth with a growing number of youth (ages 15-34) into the labor market. The surge of the raw number of individuals, particularly young people, opens both challenges and opportunities: challenges, because of the need to create sufficient jobs to employ new entrants; opportunities, because if well managed, the country will benefit from a young, dynamic labor market where innovations and creative activities serve as an engine of growth,...
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This work aims to evaluate the implementation of e-learning platforms in schools in Egypt along with promotion of Islamic values. E-learning has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. In this paper we suggest to combine the areas of e-learning and Web services, by providing electronic learning offerings as (individual or collections of) Web services as well. We elaborate on this by showing how content providers and content consumers (i.e., learners) can communicate...
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Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment Degree of Master of Education in Language Education in the School of Education, Kenyatta University. November 2016
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Improper traditional complementary foods contribute to high levels of under nutrition among infants and young children in rural Tanzania. It occurs during transition from breast milk to solid foods. A survey was conducted to assess food availability, meal consumption patterns, and knowledge of mothers on effective complementary feeding practices followed by a 12‐week interactive nutrition education on correct complementary feeding practices. Study population consisted of 60 mothers and their...
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<h3>Aims</h3> Health is a key factor in enabling universal access to education. Children miss over 200 million days of school every year due to illness. Traditionally, vertical approaches have been used to individually tackle child health and nutrition problems such as malnutrition or malaria. However, these interventions overlook the complex interactions between them. We therefore sought to develop a comprehensive, integrated school health and nutrition programme to produce long-term and...
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This work studied how pollution impacts the ecosystem of Lake Manzala by determination of physicochemical parameters, studying biodiversity of aquatic plants and macroinvertebrates, and determining bioaccumulation of Pb, Cu, Cd & Zn in some major organisms, Biomphalaria alexandrina and Melanoides tuberculata snails and Oreochromis niloticus fish. The more near to Mediterranean Sea and to the industrial area, Port-Said and Damietta sites showed higher dissolved oxygen and conductivity than...
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The study aimed at using Transformational Leadership as an Approach to Building the Egyptian Secondary Schools Capacity .The study used a descriptive approach for its suitability for the nature of the study. Survey data from an achieved sample of (102) Teachers and (57) Heads in one large education district in Egypt were used to explore the relative effects of transformational leadership practices on selected organizational conditions and school capacity. Results referred to powerful...