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Background: The non-medical use of prescription psychostimulants or cognitive-enhancing substances among healthy college students is a growing concern. This use appears to be particularly high among medical students. To our knowledge, no literature is available on the non-medical use of stimulants among South African medical students. Objective: To determine the prevalence and correlates of non-medical stimulant use as well as subjective opinion on peer numbers using stimulants and...
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TOWARDS A HYBRID UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, INTEGRATION OF MOOCS IN INITIAL TRAINING PROGRAMS: A CASE OF A BIG PRIVATE EDUCATION STRUCTURE IN MOROCCO
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To the Editor: Twenty-five percent of older adults in the United States have type 2 diabetes mellitus, which increases their risk for cognitive decline.1, 2 This risk disproportionately affects African Americans because they have higher rates of diabetes mellitus than whites and worse glycemic control, which magnifies their risk.3 These disparities contribute to why African Americans have twice the rate of Alzheimer's disease as whites.4 There are now 1 million older African Americans with...
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Organic material from the Noordhoek area on the western margin of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, was obtained from a ~ 50 m-long drill-core dominated by fluvio-lacustrine siliciclastic sediments. The aim of this study is to constrain fluctuations in climate and the decline of tropical vegetation elements along the southwestern coast and the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, during the Late Cenozoic phase, when the Benguela upwelling system was established. The approach was to combine...
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The goal of physical education (PE) is to develop physically literate individuals to pursue a lifetime of healthful physical activity.Schools in Ghana, like other sub-Saharan African countries, do not implement their PE programs in accordance to policy.Thus, it is important to identify those factors that prevent schools from delivering quality PE.Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine what primary school teachers in Ghana perceived as barriers to teaching PE.Participants...
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The study sought to establish the coping strategies used by the international students from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pursuing their degree studies in one of the universities in South Africa. A purposeful sample of nine (9) Congolese French speaking students was used in this study. Data was collected through individual interviews. The findings of the study revealed that DRC students indicated that they employed several coping strategies such as the use of dictionaries, asking...
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SUPPORTING THE NUMERICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CP CHILDREN WITH DELAYED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: A PILOT STUDY AMONGST GRADE 4, CP LEARNERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
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Obesity has become an important public health problem in children and adolescent because of the rapid increase in its prevalence rate and its severe co-morbidities. To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among preparatory school adolescent in urban Sharkia Governorate, aged from 12 to 15 years and to explore the associated risk factors. A cross-sectional study was carried out at Sharkia Governorate during academic year 2014–2015 (from October 2014 to 30th of May 2015). All the...
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Building on the participation model of Schuetze and Slowey, this study contributes to the public discourse on theoretical considerations for guidance of empirical research on participation of non-traditional students (NTS) in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Drawing from empirical work at Makerere University Uganda, we found that improving only the institution environment cannot suffice as there are also other factors affecting participation outside the institutional structures....
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A growing body of evidence suggests a relationship between periodontal disease and non-communicable systemic diseases with rising prevalence in developing countries, Nigeria inclusive.To determine the periodontal status and its association with self-reported hypertension among non-medical staff in a university teaching hospital in Nigeria.A cross-sectional study was conducted among non-medical staff using self-administered questionnaires and periodontal clinical examination between July and...
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Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the adverse effects of such losses. The scheme insures individual households through an area-aggregated seasonal forage scarcity index derived from remotely-sensed normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series. Until recently, insurance contracts covered animal losses and...
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Purpose:Through the comparison of the principal’s self-role cognition in the compulsory education in China and South of Africa, this study combs the similarities and differences between the two countries in principal’s role cognition, explores the basic orientation of the principal’s role, and gives some corresponding suggestions to the development of the Chinese principal’s professionalization and specialization. In this research, the principal’s role in the compulsory education is...
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Introduction African American student is generally falsely propagated in educational research (King, 2005; Perry, Steele, & Hilliard, 2003). Most research on African American education focuses on the achievement gap, which erringly compares Black and White students' test scores, without accounting for school inequalities and structural barriers to achievement. Additionally, the achievement gap narrative purports that minority students should aspire to perform like their White counterparts,...