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School disciplinary practices for students with disabilities and their peers without disabilities have long been questioned. Moreover, the school discipline of both dominant culture and ethnic minority children and youth has raised concerns. In that regard school discipline has in general become a hotbed for litigation and debate. While suspect discipline practices have been used with students across ethnic backgrounds, they are disproportionately meted out to African American students,...
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School disciplinary practices for students with disabilities and their peers without disabilities have long been questioned. Moreover, the school discipline of both dominant culture and ethnic minority children and youth has raised concerns. In that regard school discipline has in general become a hotbed for litigation and debate. While suspect discipline practices have been used with students across ethnic backgrounds, they are disproportionately meted out to African American students,...
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School disciplinary practices for students with disabilities and their peers without disabilities have long been questioned. Moreover, the school discipline of both dominant culture and ethnic minority children and youth has raised concerns. In that regard school discipline has in general become a hotbed for litigation and debate. While suspect discipline practices have been used with students across ethnic backgrounds, they are disproportionately meted out to African American students,...
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Objective To determine the mental morbidity rate and types of disorders in elderly patients admitted to non-psychiatric wards of a teaching hospital in Nigeria; the ability of the non-psychiatrists to recognise the mental disorders was also assessed. Method All subjects aged 60 years and above who were admitted into the medical, surgical and gynaecological wards were assessed with the Self-Reporting Questionnaire, Mini Mental State Examination and the Geriatric Mental State Schedule....
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Objective To determine the mental morbidity rate and types of disorders in elderly patients admitted to non-psychiatric wards of a teaching hospital in Nigeria; the ability of the non-psychiatrists to recognise the mental disorders was also assessed. Method All subjects aged 60 years and above who were admitted into the medical, surgical and gynaecological wards were assessed with the Self-Reporting Questionnaire, Mini Mental State Examination and the Geriatric Mental State Schedule....
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Schooling has been shown to provide substantial externality benefits by increasing farm output and shifting the production frontier outwards. This paper investigates the role of schooling at the household- and site-levels in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of adoption but less crucial to the question of whether a household has ever adopted fertiliser, i.e., early innovators tend to be...
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Idku lagoon is one of the northern delta lakes, connected with the Mediterranean Sea through Boughaz El Maadyah.It is subjected to industrial, domestic and agricultural pollution.Depending on collected data of water samples during one year of research, the lagoon was separated into different water masses by using the discriminant function analysis (DFA).Estimation of some biological (total and saprophytic bacteria, faecal bacteria and chlorophyll-a) and chemical variables (chlorosity,...
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A total of 79 cases of perforated uterus from termination of pregnancy in Accra, an incidence of 3.6% of induced abortion were managed at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital during the period 1990-1994. The mean age and parity of patients who had perforated uterus were 21.6 +/- 2.3 years and 1.97 +/- 0.28 respectively. The specific case mortality associated with this calamity was 227.8 per 1000. The need to prevent unwanted pregnancies through improved contraceptive measures and sex education must be emphasised in developing countries.
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A qualitative study was conducted to explore the perceptions of African American nursing students as they provided care to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. This research addressed the following question: What are the lived experiences of African American nursing students when they provide care to AIDS patients? The participants in this study were a convenience sample of 12 associate degree nursing students enrolled full-time at a historically Black college and university...
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The first democratic elections in the history of South Africa have taken place, the Government of National Unity has been installed, and as the country at last starts moving towards establishing a non-racial society based on a constitution that embodies equal rights for every person, the need to establish an equitable and effective higher education system becomes a top priority.
 Redressing historical imbalances relating to staff appointments and student access is an imperative for...
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Purpose - To evaluate the impact of a sub-regional training course in pharmacovigilance on participants' attitudes to ADR reporting, and self-reported application of knowledge gained. Method - The study involved a cross-sectional survey during a sub-regional pharmacovigilance training course in Zimbabwe. Eighteen participants from 10 African countries attended and were asked to complete self-administered pre-course and post-course questionnaires. A follow-up questionnaire was also posted to...