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Objectives: This study aimed to determine how South African patients at a regional state hospital perceived the practice of physicians accepting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry. The physician-patient relationship is built on trust, with an understanding that the physician will act ethically and in patients' best interests. This trust is violated when physicians make patient management decisions that are motivated by a desire for personal gain. Gift giving is a technique that is...

Teachers in South African schools battle with problems in learner discipline. Research indicates that teachers are at a loss as to handling these situations. The aim of this article is to survey incidents of serious learner misconduct in a representative selection of education systems abroad to extract any guidelines that might be applicable to South African schools. Eight education systems were surveyed: Brazil, England, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and New Zealand. The...

Severe hearing loss is a global problem affecting particularly developing countries. There is scarcity of recent published data on the epidemiology of childhood deafness in sub-Saharan Africa. To determine the etiological profile of severe childhood deafness in Cameroon. Prospective cross-sectional study of patients with a severe hearing loss that started before the age of 15 years. Detailed family and medical history was obtained; careful clinical, otological and audiological examinations...

The purpose of this article is to study the effects of an intellectually caring model of teaching and learning on alternative African American high school students' conceptual change and achievement in a chemistry unit on acids and bases. A mixed-methods approach using retrospective data was utilized. Data secured from the teacher were the audio-recordings of her prior- and post-interventional individual interviews with students and the results of the students' pre- and post-interventional...

Physical training (PT) is an integral part of developing operational fitness. The objective of the study was to compare the physical fitness outcomes of two groups of young South African military recruits completing 12 weeks of Basic Military Training (BMT) who followed different PT programs. A historical control group (NCPG: female n=115, male n=73) that followed a traditional PT program and an experimental group (CPG: female n=85, male n=100) that followed a new cyclicprogressive PT...

Context: Low back pain (LBP) is the most common orthopedic problem worldwide and is known to aff ect both younger and older adults. Th e stressful and time consuming curriculum of medical students predisposes them to this problem. Few statistics are available on prevalence rates of LBP among medical students in India. Th is study assesses the prevalence and risk factors of LBP in students of a medical college in Delhi. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a medical college in...

Wells and springs are the dominant potable water sources in the area of study used by the population. Studies of the characteristics of aquifer types and the hydrochemistry of groundwater in sedimentary, metamorphic, and volcanic aquifers in the southern part of Ndian Division indicated the presence of the following three types of aquifers-sedimentary (alluvial), metamorphic (weathered/fractured gneisses) and volcanic (jointed basalts and pyroclastic materials). Fieldwork involved collecting...

The thrust of this study was to make an exploration of the challenges that Technical and Vocational Education andTraining Institutions face as they try to produce competent and qualified graduates in Zimbabwe under the reforms of competence based education and training and modularization. This study also examined the challenges which are being faced by TVET graduates in acquiring competencies for the occupations they are being trained for. The period of study was from January 2011 to April...

The results of the first ever SunSmart Schools 2012 Study are now being analysed by research teams at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC). The study collected information about sun-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of South African schoolchildren, as well as sun protection practices at their schools, to help shape a SunSmart Awareness Programme for South African schools. Twenty-four primary schools from the nine provinces completed a school survey.

This paper is a philosophical study on ideology and its indispensable relationship to education policy making and implementation and its didactical dimension with a special reference to Zimbabwe. The paper points out that successive colonial governments and religious organisations of that era established and worked, planned and implemented their policies within the bounds of liberal-cum-capitalist ideological framework. Hence all their education and training institutions were built and meant...

The study investigated the effects of computer assisted instruction package in Nupe Language on primary school pupils in Bida local government area of Niger State.Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated for the study.The design adopted for the study was quasi experimental.Two hundred and two (202) primary school pupils from four selected schools in Bida local government area were used as research sample.The experimental group was exposed to computer assisted instruction...

This paper reassesses the nexus between female education, employment and fertility in Nigeria.The four Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) that have been conducted in the country (1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008) were analysed.Between 1990 and 2008, the educational status of women improved appreciably and the proportion of illiterate women in the country declined from 57.2 to 35.8 per cent.Multivariate analysis...

An opportunistic boat-based survey to the Mauritania upwelling zone in July 2005 discovered an unprecedented concentration of Wilson’s Storm-petrels Oceanites oceanicus. Flocks of up to 600 birds were concentrated along the boundary between warm surface waters and cooler upwelled waters. These flocks formed an aggregation of at least 5,000 birds, which is an unprecedented total for this species in Western Palearctic waters.

Objective To establish guinea pig model of industrial noise-induced hearing loss. Methods 50 healthy male guinea pigs were randomly divided into 5 groups( every group for 10 guinea pigs) : control group( Without noise exposure),85dB( SPL) group,95 dB( SPL) group,105 dB( SPL) group and 115 dB( SPL) group; every group was exposed to simulated industrial steady noise for 26 days( 6 h / d) except the control group,then the ABR analysis was made before noise exposure and after 7 days of stopping...