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This study applies an abbreviated version of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) and the Life Satisfaction scale to oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) and quality of life (QOL) among Tanzanian university students. The following questions were addressed: Are social and behavioral status associated with overall OIDP frequency scores? Do social and behavioral variables contribute to the explainable variance of the OIDP frequency scores beyond the effect of clinical...
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Objective: This study looks at how the WHO programme Mental Disorders in Primary Care should be adapted for GPs in the South African context in order to positively impact the recognition and management of mental disorders. Design: Participatory action research was used to adapt the WHO programme. There were 3 phases to the study. Firstly a co-operative inquiry group of 10 GPs adapted the WHO materials. Secondly the findings of the inquiry were incorporated into the design of a web-based...
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This study investigated the association between the personality dispositions of sexual sensation seeking (SSS) and nonsexual experience seeking (Non-SES), and risky sexual behaviors among 308 sexually active South African university students. The students provided retrospective reports of their sexual behavior and completed measures of SSS and Non-SES. Findings, based on a sample of sexually active students, suggest an association between SSS and a number of risky sexual behaviors....
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The mathematics learning difficulties experienced by many school students in Papua New Guinea (PNG) under the current mathematics curriculum, which draws heavily on western, mainly Australian models, is well known. Based on a literature review of research on ethnomathematics and mathematics education, this paper proposes an integration of ethnomathematics into the formal mathematics curriculum as one way to address these learning difficulties. This proposal assumes that learning mathematics...
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South African Further Education and Training (FET) colleges have historically been offering Trimester N-Stream knowledge-only trade-based programmes, which are very narrow in content as they have been designed to meet the needs of manual low-skills-low-wages industries. This situation has required urgent attention as these programmes have not changed over time in alignment with the current industrial technological and economic trends. This article gives a brief background of such programm es...
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It was the eighth day of the CULTURES professional development course, and I was driving four of the African American teachers to a cultural immersion experience in the Vietnamese community. As I turned into the driveway of the apartment complex, I felt excited for the teachers who had never met a Vietnamese family. We walked to the small first floor apartment where we met our interpreter, Lyn, a Vietnamese language specialist for the school district. Lyn knocked and a Vietnamese woman came...
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A pilot project is described which consisted of two core components: a course, which would be of three weeks duration, with the possibility of a one-week supplementary 'advanced' course if considered appropriate, and the provision of toolkits, test equipment and spare parts. The project would also include follow-up visits to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of the course. The findings outlined here would seem to confirm not only that there is a vast need for this kind of programme,...
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This paper explores, from a postcolonial perspective, research which investigated the ambivalent positions of Papua New Guinea (PNG) students who received their secondary education in Australian senior secondary schools under the Australian / Papua New Guinean Secondary School Students’ Project (SSSP). On returning to PNG after three years, students found that the cultural discourses that they acquired in Australia left them in a problematic position in their own culture. This paper relates...
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The importance of the water resources aspects of drought is being increasingly recognized. In this paper, improved methods for the identification of river flow droughts in southern Africa are investigated, and tools to assist in the realistic determination of the severity of droughts and to provide effective means of monitoring droughts as they develop, are considered. Because of the complexities of drought behaviour over large regions, a combination of different approaches is useful. The...