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Summary From 1982 to 1996, a total of 16 181 deliveries was registered at the obstetric unit of the Yaounde University, Cameroon, out of which 291 were twins (1.8%). For the latter, the average gestational age was 37 2.9 weeks. In 45.0% of cases both fetuses presented cephalic, in 42.6% one presented cephalic and the other breech, while both fetuses presented as breech in 9.9% of cases. The frequency of the combination cephalic-transverse was 0.05%. Spontaneous delivery of both babies was...
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The analysis is based on individual 1996 TDHS data combined with aggregate data from the 1988 census and the 1991/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate.
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La conservation de documents ecrits a cesse d'etre un domaine annexe de la gestion de l'information, elle s'est au contraire constituee comme un element strategique important, central et decisif pour la preservation de notre heritage culturel aujourd'hui et pour les generations futures. L'incitation a prendre conscience du probleme doit s'adresser a tout le personnel de tous les echelons administratifs des archives, des bibliotheques et des centres d'information afin qu'une nouvelle...
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This paper is based on the findings of a tracer study conducted between March and November of 1997. The problem addressed by this study was that; although it was a fact that teachers who had gone through the Bachelor of Education degree programme in the Department of Technical Education at the University of Zimbabwe were experiencing difficulties trying to implement the 'Design and Technology' approach in their teaching, not many people were clear about what the actual problems were....
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In 1991, the South African community partnerships began to develop socially accountable models for health professions education, research and service through structured partnership between communities, academic institutions and the health service authorities within a specific geographic region so as to enhance the health status of these communities. This paper describes the interdisciplinary education activities of the partnerships through three case studies. An analysis of the benefits of...
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(1998). Statement by the South African Historical society on the implications of Curriculum 2005 for history teaching in the schools. Kleio: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 6-10.
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Environmental reconstruction since the Last Glacial Maximum in Northwestern Tropical Africa has been severely limited by the incompleteness of the record, owing primarily to major discontinuities in lacustrine sediments preserved in a predominantly arid climate. Only two long and complete pollen sequences, each from deep crater lakes, have been obtained to register the whole deglacial and Holocene history of the humid equatorial forest (Maley, 1989). Other continental sites, all closely...
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To understand the impact of drought upon an agricultural system it is essential to have detailed, base-line data on local community land-use and labor practices before drastic ecological changes set in. Empirical research of this kind is rare, but it exists for a Jola village in Casamance, Senegal. In 1964, the author mapped the total rice-fields owned and worked by the inhabitants of a Jola village called Jipalom. The map covered 29 ha of nursery and rainfed rice fields (the yentamsg/...
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To investigate the effect of dietary oxidized frying oil (OFO) on tissue retention of vitamin C, and to explore the effect of vitamin C supplementation on tissue vitamin E concentrations and lipid peroxidation, male weanling guinea pigs were divided into four groups. Guinea pigs were fed 15% OFO diets supplemented with vitamin C at 300, 600 or 1500 mg/kg diet. Control animals were fed a diet containing 15% fresh untreated soybean oil with 300 mg/kg of vitamin C. After 60 d of feeding, body...
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In Kenya, adolescent girls fare poorly relative to boys in an educational system characterized by enormous growth, deteriorating quality, and rising costs.Girls are more likely than boys to drop out of school prematurely and are less likely to do well on the primary school leaving exams that come at the end of grade eight.Using data from nearly 600 adolescents aged 12-19 in combination with data collected from 36 primary schools in which those adolescents are enrolled, this paper...