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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Education in a Colonial Society 2. Discourse and the Discipline of Education 3. Discourse and the Discipline of Education in the 1930s 4. The End of the Depression and the War Years 5. Planning Education in the Post War Years 6. Education in the Lead-Up to Federation 7. Education During Federation and the Coming of Independence 8. Education Since Independence Bibliography Index.
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Training and retaining of underrepresented minority physician scientists – an African-American perspective: NICHD AAP workshop on research in neonatal and perinatal medicine
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Abstract This article examines the etiology of social phobia, and proposes that the sensitivity to self-scrutiny common to social phobics can be exacerbated by the effects of longstanding racial bias. The impact of racism on identity and the importance of context are explored as salient factors in the onset of a case of social phobia for an African-American woman at a prestigious university. The importance of attending to both overt and subtle forms of racism is illustrated within the...
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Idebenone is a synthetic analogue of coenzyme Q10 with antioxidant properties. The present study investigated the antioxidant activity of idebenone in the rescue of acoustic trauma. Noise-induced hearing loss was induced by exposing guinea pigs to a continuous pure tone and idebenone was injected intraperitoneally 1 h before noise exposure and once daily for 3 days. Guinea pigs treated with idebenone showed significantly smaller auditory threshold shifts than unprotected control animals....
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Abstract The study examined toward the as a potential contributor to discrepancies in school achievement among 16 low-income, urban African American adolescents. Higher achieving students expressed more positive toward the than lower achieving students. Boys, regardless of achievement, reported negative toward the of society and were concerned with obstacles to a positive future. Findings suggest that gender based experiences among African American adolescents may shape their toward the and...
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Introduction Science and technology have long been recognized as the cornerstone of development and prosperity of Africa. Economic prosperity of African countries is interlinked with its skillful utilization and management of science and technology. This underscores the importance of skilled human resources in the science, mathematics and technology fields in Africa. However, while the benefits of science and mathematics education for women in sustainable social and economic development are...
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In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries, labor markets are characterized by employment growth and skill shortages. In these, vocational schooling has produced higher wages and returns on investment than general education. Using 1998 Egyptian household survey, the study adds evidence to the debate on relative benefits of vocational education and of general education at the secondary level. The findings suggest that providing general education...
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Paper presented at the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC)International Conference on Open Access and Creating a Knowledge Society, held at the Crowne Plaza Monomatapa Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe,24 - 26 April, 2006
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Paper presented at the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC)International Conference on Open Access and Creating a Knowledge Society, held at the Crowne Plaza Monomatapa Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe,24 - 26 April, 2006
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The current era of educational accountability has been dubbed a dark period in American education for a significant segment of the minority population (Kohn, 2000). For African-American students attending inner-city schools it has been particularly sinister. Spurred by the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), state accountability systems have disproportionately subjected inner-city schools and its students (most of whom are African American) to its callous repercussions:...
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Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Relevant historical and contemporary settings Chapter 3 Portraits of integration Chapter 4 Assessing Integration Chapter 5 Can integration lead to reconciliation? Chapter 6 Appendix 1: Desegregation in the United States
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To examine the relationship that international medical school graduates (IMGs) in comparison with United States medical school graduates (USMGs) have on health care-seeking behavior and satisfaction with medical care among African-American and white elderly.Secondary data analysis of the 1986-1998 Piedmont Health Survey of the Elderly, Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly, a racially oversampled urban and rural cohort of elders in five North Carolina...
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Abstract Data were collected on species killed by lions Panthera leo in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe between 1998 and 2004. Lions killed predominantly large to medium‐sized herbivores, concentrating on buffalo Syncerus caffer , elephant Loxodonta africana , giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis , wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and zebra Equus burchelli . These species made up 83% of all lion kills found and 94% of the biomass of kills actually observed. Elephant calves made up an unusually...
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The study investigated the effect of a 3 - week school based nutrition education programme on nutrition knowledge and healthy food choices of 197 primary six pupils (197 sixth grades) randomly divided into a control (n = 102) or an experimental group (n = 95). The control group received no nutrition education while the experimental group received 40 minutes of nutrition education, 4 days a week for 3 weeks nutrition knowledge scores and 3 day food records were collected at the beginning of...