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The communication and public availability of the vertebrate paleontological data set for the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic rocks of the Karoo Basin provide a testable model for the scientific community. We have found that the results and conclusions of several of our previously published research reports, and those of other workers, have been misused in support of the proposed model involving a three-phased extinction and rapid recovery pattern in the terrestrial record of South Africa....
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Educational disparities are deeply entrenched in U.S. society. Our research focused on a move toward equity and investment in one Midwestern charter school via the implementation of the African American Student Network. Participants were 15 male and 15 female students in Grades 9 to 12 who participated in the network for one semester. Qualitative analysis of focus group interviews revealed that students in the network experienced safety, support, empowerment, affirmation, and connectedness....
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A technological divide exists in Zimbabwe between urban and rural schools that puts rural based students at a disadvantage. In Zimbabwe, the government, through the president donated computers to most rural schools in a bid to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban schools. This phenomenological study purpose was to understand the experience of using computers for Advanced Level students at two rural boarding Catholic High Schools in Zimbabwe. The study was guided by two research...
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Community-university partnerships through service-learning have progressively developed as part of institutions of higher education's mission statements. This paper explores the qualitative reflections of 410 undergraduate students enrolled in an academic recreation science course on a first time service-learning experience in South Africa. The study asks the question: 'how can pre-service and formative reflections used in a social constructive approach impact on collaborative, in-depth...
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Abstract: As a very low-income country, Ethiopia faces significant development challenges, though there is great aspiration to dramatically improve health care in the country. Family medicine has recently been recognized through national policy as one potential contributor in addressing Ethiopia's health care challenges. Family medicine is a new specialty in Ethiopia emerging in the context of family medicine development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Addis Ababa University family medicine...
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This report is an outcomes evaluation of Caritas Zimbabwe’s school feeding project which was implemented at Chirongwe Primary School in Masvingo Province. The school feeding project ran for approximately nine months from November 2015 to July2016 and has been designed as an emergency response to the drought that was threatening the lives of many rural schools feeding project managed to change lives of its clients, treatment effectiveness, lessons learnt and to generate recommendations to...
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Substance abuse (SA) refers to the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs. The most common substances which are usually abused are alcohol and tobacco. Herein, we assessed the prevalence of SA among regular degree health science students of the Sheba University College (SUC).A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 1076 SUC students using self-administered structured questionnaire. The simple sampling technique was used to select...