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This cross-sectional study was implemented in a rural area in the northern part of Nile Delta, Egypt, to assess parasitic infections and malnutrition in pre-school children. A complete data set was analysed for 150 pre-school children, with age ranging from 2 to 7 years. Parasitic infection was studied by examination of the stool samples by a modified Kato technique and the formol-ether concentration technique. The nutritional status was assessed by blood haemoglobin estimation and by...
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South African Security Force (SASF) members have been exposed to violence and unrest for many years. However, an alarming recent increase in retirement on psychiatric grounds has coincided with sociopolitical transformation of these services. This study investigated 124 SASF members who were medically retired as a result of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The most striking finding was the long duration of exposure to duty-related incidents (16.9 +/- 7.0 years) that preceded the onset...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessIntroduction: African American Student Activism in the 20th CenturyV. P. FranklinV. P. Franklin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 88, Number 2Spring 2003The History of Black Student Activism A journal of the Association for the Study of...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessPatterns of Student Activism at Historically Black Universities in the United States and South Africa, 1960-1977V. P. FranklinV. P. Franklin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 88, Number 2Spring 2003The History of Black Student...
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Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have been demonstrated to reduce morbidity and mortality in children less than five years of age. They have also been shown to improve the nutritional status of these children, but little is known about their impact on the nutritional status of school-age children. We evaluated the impact of ITNs on growth, nutritional status, and body composition of primary schoolchildren less than 13 years of age living in an area of intense perennial malaria...
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Given the disparity between proportions of minority in the general population and in the physician workforce and the projected increase in the minority population, it is important and timely to examine factors that contribute to satisfaction of minority physicians.To examine similarities and differences between African American and White physicians in their satisfaction with medical school, their medical careers, and their professional and research activities and achievements.A questionnaire...
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The paper investigates whether returns to schooling in Ethiopia vary according to the ability of individuals. To do so it adopts an instrumental variables quantile regression framework that allows for both endogeneity of schooling resulting from unmeasured ability, and possible heterogeneity in the impact of schooling. The empirical estimates indicate that education contributes more to the earnings of the less able individuals, consistent with the notion that education and ability are...
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The paper investigates whether returns to schooling in Ethiopia vary according to the ability of individuals. To do so it adopts an instrumental variables quantile regression framework that allows for both endogeneity of schooling resulting from unmeasured ability, and possible heterogeneity in the impact of schooling. The empirical estimates indicate that education contributes more to the earnings of the less able individuals, consistent with the notion that education and ability are...
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This paper describes an action research project which took place at the Johannesburg College of Education in the period immediately before and after South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Student teachers from diverse social and cultural backgrounds were introduced to Critical Language Awareness theory (CLA) and encouraged to read texts critically and differently – to make new meanings in what was a radically changed social, political and educational context from their previous...
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In this study of African American student affairs administrators at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), the Delphi technique was used to derive four strategies that leaders at PWIs may consider when attempting to retain this population. The panel of experts for this study consisted of six African American student affairs administrators. Overall, the study found that leaders at PWIs that desire to retain African American student affairs administrators should consider the following...
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The impacts of climate change on agriculture may add significantly to the development challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. We show the possible impacts on maize production in Africa and Latin America to 2055, using high-resolution methods to generate characteristic daily weather data for driving a detailed simulation model of the maize crop. Although the results indicate an overall reduction of only 10% in maize production to 2055, equivalent to losses of $2 billion per...
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The impacts of climate change on agriculture may add significantly to the development challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. We show the possible impacts on maize production in Africa and Latin America to 2055, using high-resolution methods to generate characteristic daily weather data for driving a detailed simulation model of the maize crop. Although the results indicate an overall reduction of only 10% in maize production to 2055, equivalent to losses of $2 billion per...
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The impacts of climate change on agriculture may add significantly to the development challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. We show the possible impacts on maize production in Africa and Latin America to 2055, using high-resolution methods to generate characteristic daily weather data for driving a detailed simulation model of the maize crop. Although the results indicate an overall reduction of only 10% in maize production to 2055, equivalent to losses of $2 billion per...