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Background Despite important progress achieved in the knowledge and case management of epilepsy, this disease still remains burdened by secular beliefs in developing countries. This makes the epileptic, an excluded person with difficulties to access education, training and even appropriate health care. Objective The aim of the study is to assess to prevalence of epilepsy in school settings in Cotonou, Benin. Methods This cross-sectional study included 1400 subjects, was conducted in...
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Despite the availability of rich resources, most social studies courses fail to provide a multidimensional view of African women. (1) If women of Africa are studied at all, they are often constructed as poor, abused, exotic, or as victims. In her introduction to Opening Spaces, a collection of short stories by contemporary African women, however, author Yvonne Vera states, Women of Africa have not been swallowed by history, they too know how to swallow history. (2) In other words, although...
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Current evidence suggests that Africa, home to 11 % of the world's population, will experience the severe impacts of climate change (IPCC 200 I). Currently, African countries account for only 1 % of the world's goods and services (Rosen and Conly, 1998). Negative impacts of climate change on food production, distribution and access in the region will have a major impact on food security in Botswana, especially as it is highly dependent on imports to meet food requirement. Updated regional...
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There is a high prevalence of hearing loss estimated between 8 and 16% in young children in rural areas in Zimbabwe. Deaf children are usually identified late and do not benefit from early interventions. This study was conducted to evaluate a questionnaire screen in identifying permanent hearing loss in excess of 50dBHL of the better ear, compared with the pure-tone audiometric screen, in children aged 36-72 months living in Binga district, Zimbabwe. Subjects were recruited into the...
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Teaching programming offers a novel opportunity to educate students in taboo-like topics such as HIV/AIDS. First of all, the computer serves as a neutral platform to deal with issues that are hard to discuss in traditional contact settings or as a peer-to-peer way. Secondly, the students can use their creativity to design a learning environment that starts from their own interests and problems. Programming skills are needed for both of these aspects because they provide the students with...
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This paper reports two studies, which contribute to the increasing evidence that the attitudes and behaviours associated with eating disorders, are en countered among both black and white females in South Africa. In Study One, the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) was administered to black (n = 39) and white (n = 41) female students in Natal. There were no significant differences between black and white on the sub-scales which measure dis turbed eating behaviour directly (Drive for...
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What approaches are effective in adapting emerging intelligent technologies to environments involving practitioners who cannot afford to invest much time and money in mastering these technologies? What social and cultural factors need to be considered in designing intelligent teaching and learning systems in order to make computer-enhanced learning experiences more meaningful? The presentation highlights some lessons learnt about making intelligent learning technologies more effective as...
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This research aimed to develop, implement and evaluate an Internet curriculum for pre-service teachers in Egypt within a constructivist learning environment. Accordingly, this study included the development of the content and objectives of the Internet curriculum, the design of a web-based learning environment, the trialling with groups of pre-service teachers and the evaluation of the effectiveness of both the Internet curriculum and the Web-based learning environment.The methodology used...