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A three-round survey of child mortality, morbidity and treatment conducted in rural lower Egypt in 1990-91 found relatively poor treatment practices for respiratory infections. Only about 56 per cent of children with a respiratory infection received appropriate treatment. Antibiotics were prescribed for more than half of all mild coughs and colds, but were not prescribed for a quarter or more of serious cases. A training program for government physicians conducted midway through the survey...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which secondary school teachers in the Western Cape of South Africa thought their schools were offering quality education. From their responses, it was clear that quality education is in short supply given that internationally recognised indicators such as human and physical resources are either inadequate or non-existent. For education to contribute to national and economic development of a new South Africa, the problem of school...
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Summary Unprecedented drought in 1991/92 affected over 2 million square miles in the SADC region, put 18 million people at risk and entailed costs of $US 2.6 billion, equivalent to 12 per cent of the region's GDP. SADC opted for a common regional strategy for resource mobilization, grain movement and monitoring. The regional effort was successful in early warning, in producing a coordinated appeal and in managing logistics. However, the challenge facing SADC is to link relief and development...
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Stock market variation data is collected in one form of breaking news from various finance web sites. The free financial data about companies is available on Internet Portals .The stock market sentiment changes with at a fraction due to major financial reforms, weather, natural disasters, and news events. Online finance news generates large amount of data. The market reforms are predicted with various machine learning algorithms. The term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)...
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This study examines the World Bank's role in promoting human resource development in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It was motivated by concerns that progress in overcoming shortages of skilled and trained manpower seems to be disappointingly slow, despite the substantial resources devoted by both governments and donors to this effort during the last three decades. The study presents an overview of the problem and its likely causes, the efforts made to resolve it, and...
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This article presents the results of a small pilot study of students at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, West Africa, to provide baseline data to the National AIDS Programme in planning educational interventions aimed at preventing the spread of HIV. Results of the survey indicate that barriers to HIV prevention in Sierra Leone include persistence of belief in the idea that AIDS is not real but is a conspiracy to prevent Africans from having sex or having...
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Inner-city schools face a myriad of problems, including escalating violence and hunger. This paper describes programs that were initiated in predominately black inner-city communities and which fostered parent involvement and collaboration between parents, teachers, school professionals, and the community. Participation, it was learned, can bring about safe and academically productive schools. Including minority poor parents in the schools requires clear mechanisms for involvement and...
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Constitution and growth biology of 6 to 7 years old children from a European city ("Braunschweiger Längsschnitt") and a country with rather original habits (extreme rural area of Kenya, "Abaluya"--administrative name of Bantuid tribes from W-Kenya--out of the region of Idakho and Tiriki, elevated in spring 1990) were comparatively studied. To achieve comparability in physique and body height, the elevated data were "allometrically standardized". The statistical parameters and the results of...
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Because of its subaerial exposure the Asal rift segment provides an exceptional opportunity to quantify the deformation field of an active rift and assess the contribution of tectonics and volcanism to rifting processes. The present topography of the Asal rift results from the tectonic dismemberment during the last 100,000 years of a large central volcanic edifice that formed astride the rift zone 300,000 to 100,000 years ago. Three-dimensional deformation of this volcano has been quantified...
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