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To present data on fruits and vegetables consumption and associated factors among African in-school adolescents. Data were collected by self-report questionnaire from nationally representative samples (total 17,656) of school children aged 13–15 years in seven African countries. Thirty-six percent (36%) and 23% of 13–15-year-old boys and 32.6 and 22.3% of the 13–15-year-old girls had inadequate fruits and vegetables consumption (less than once per day). In multivariate analysis, inadequate...
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This study examines an interlanguage in which Moroccan learners of Dutch use non-thematic verbs in combination with thematic verbs that can be inflected as well. These non-thematic verbs are real dummy auxiliaries because they are deprived of semantic content and primarily have a syntactic function. Whereas in earlier second language (L2) research only patterns with ‘be’ were found for learners of three Germanic languages with various first language (L1) backgrounds, an alternative dummy...
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Lynda D. Dixon, Advisor Communication scholars have acknowledged that racial diversity does not receive adequate examination from organizational communication scholars. This study examined racerelated diversity training at a predominantly white Northwest Ohio university from the perspectives of undergraduate African, Latina/o, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American (ALANA) students. Research demonstrates that on predominantly white campuses, ALANA students may face unique challenges...
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A Research Thesis Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Special Education of Kenyatta University, March 2010
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African Americans often experience early onset of hypertension that can result in generations of adults managing high blood pressure concurrently. Using a model based on the Theory of Interdependence, this study examined whether intergenerational transmission of hypertension knowledge and self-efficacy would affect hypertension self-care of older parents and their adult children.We recruited 95 African American older parent-adult child dyads with hypertension. We constructed separate...
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INTRODUCTION An alarming decline in the number of languages has been reported in various scholarly works around the world. (1) The concern over the disappearance of languages could actually be dated back to the 5th Century. (2) In the case of Hebrew, for example, the decline was already felt by the 3rd Century. (3) On the African continent, language decline has largely been accelerated by language contact between some minority and dominant indigenous languages. For instance, Swahili replaced...
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In this work the author, Professor Habtamu Wondimu has treated an interesting issue in a lucid fashion using clear language and methodology of presentation.The issue is not only topical seen from the Ethiopian context, a country that has embarked on a socio-political transition from military dictatorship with its basis in feudal autocracy to a federal democratic polity where great efforts to realize social justice, peace and development through guaranteeing citizens democratic and human...
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<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> Five years ago the <a href="http://www.aip.org/statistics/">Statistical Research Center</a> of the American Institute of Physics conducted a web-based survey of women physicists around the world. The survey coincided with the <a href="http://www.cbpf.br/~women-physics/">second International Conference on Women in Physics</a>, which was convened in Rio de Janeiro by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.</xhtml:span>
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This paper compares the socioeconomic profile of medical students registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (FM-UEM), Maputo, for the years 1998/99 and 2007/08.The objective is to describe the medical students' social and geographical origins, expectations and perceived difficulties regarding their education and professional future. Data were collected through questionnaires administered to all medical students.The response rate in 1998/99 was 51% (227/441) and...
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This study monitored the concentration of five greenhouse gases and examined the health outcome among the exposed rural residents. A total of 15 villages were randomly selected from the list of villages without electricity supply in Odeda local government area, Ogun State (southwestern Nigeria). Gasman auto sampler was used to monitor indoor air quality in houses selected through systematic random sampling. Air monitoring was observed in replicates over a period of three months. In order to...
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In this study, a comparative–international approach is used to examine race–ethnic disparities in education–occupation mismatch status among immigrants. Using data from the USA and South Africa, this study finds that immigrants are most likely to be undereducated, or have less schooling for their jobs, when their racial characteristics are similar to those of the local racial majority. Black immigrants in South Africa and White immigrants in the USA are the most likely to be undereducated....