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This study examines the determinants of Mission House Delivery among booked patients in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. During the 12 months of the study (1 May 199930 April 2000) 196 booked patients at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife who delivered at mission houses were analysed. All ages and parity groups, educational level and social classes were involved. The majority (73%) were of low socio-economic class. The reasons for mission house delivery included financial...
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beta-Lactamase production was investigated in cultures of 25 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates isolated at a hospital in Durban, South Africa, in 1994 and 1996. Twenty of these isolates gave ceftazidime MIC/ceftazidime plus clavulanate MIC ratios of >/=8, implying production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), and DNA sequencing identified an ESBL gene (bla(TEM-53)) in a further two isolates. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) defined 4 distinct strains among the 12 isolates...
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The study was carried out to investigate barriers to uptake of wearing glasses amongst primary school children. A total of 919 pupils from two primary schools (one private school and one public school) were screened. The schools were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. All pupils whose visual acuity was equal to or less than 6/9 were refracted by the optometrist. These pupils were given referral letters inviting their parents to attend the eye clinic with them. The...
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The study was carried out to determine the prevalence of refractive errors in primary school children in the Nigerian Army children school. Bonny Camp, Lagos, Nigeria. A total of 919 pupils from two primary schools (one private school and one public school) were screened. The schools and classes were selected using stratified random sampling methods. Refractive error was defined for this study as visual acuity of less than 6/9, or any visual acuity correctable with minimum of plus or minus...
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The emphasis of this paper is on the need to create a lifelong learning culture based on African ways of life. It outlines the aims of lifelong learning in Africa, the programs of lifelong learning that are relevant to Africa, the problems that need to be tackled before lifelong learning can be achieved and the built-in sustainability features of African countries that could be utilised to enhance the creation of a lifelong learning culture.
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This paper examines the challenges and promises that accompanied the introduction of modern education into two non-modern societies. The study is motivated by an interest to fathom some of the causes and sources of Ethiopia’s multifaceted social and economic problems. Taking as its point of departure the view that, over the long run, evolutionary progress of societies should be the norm, the study seeks to identify the impediments that have blocked such a normal pace of progress in Ethiopia....
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Report conducted by the Curriculum Research and Development Division, Ghana Education Service (GES), Government of Ghana. Commissioned by UNICEF.
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Drawing on a primary prevention program carried out in a historically “coloured” township to the west of Johannesburg, the present article explores the role of participatory action research in the training and practice of community psychologists in post-apartheid South Africa. In light of its stated objectives to collectively explore social reality so as to participate in its transformation, participatory action research offers a reflexive-action model for relevant psychological practice. It...
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In the years 1904-1905, a research committee was posted in Congo in order to investigate the controversial regime of King Leopold 11. In its remarkably critical final report of 4 November 1905, the committee mentions serious objections with regard to the all too diligent recruitment, the isolation, and the alleged exploitation of young people during the (Jesuit) missions. Coincidentally, only days before tile publication of the research report, the mission leaders put in writing what they...
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This thesis is an ethnographic study of a village in Fisakana, an area of highland Madagascar where the institution of formal education has had great social, economic and cultural influence. Although the principal means of subsistence in Fisakana is wet rice cultivation, a severe shortage of good land has led to large-scale emigration. Schooling has provided opportunities for social and spatial mobility that have shaped the character of the region. Migration and movement are dominant...