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Restrictions on safe abortion remain a danger to women's health in industrialised countries,1Wright AA Katz IT Roe versus reality—abortion and women's health.N Engl J Med. 2006; 355: 1-9Crossref PubMed Scopus (11) Google Scholar but strike hardest in developing countries. Legal bans on abortion exist in virtually all African countries, where they contribute to 4·2 million unsafe abortions yearly, and to 12% of maternal deaths.2Moszynski P Conference warns of epidemic of unsafe abortions in...
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Abstract Changes in education and agriculture in South Africa indicate that agricultural extension practitioners should facilitate continuous learning among farmers. This requires that extension practitioners acquire new skills. To provide these skills requires a critical examination of agricultural extension curricula in the light of South Africa's educational, agricultural and rural development policies with a view to rewriting extension curricula. An initial theoretical examination of...
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Dynamic recording of the auditory brainstem response is helpful in verifying harmful procedure(s) to hearing during triple semicircular canal occlusion (TSCO) surgery. The damage to the membranous semicircular labyrinth is the single major contributor to hearing loss caused by TSCO. Background: Posterior semicircular canal occlusion has been recognized as an efficient method of eliminating vertigo without causing a significant hearing impairment. Recently, TSCO has also been explored for its...
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Il convient d'abord de saluer le sujet de l'ouvrage de Cati Coe -enseignante en anthropologie à l'Université Rutgers (New Jersey) -dans la mesure où, bien que davantage représentées dans la littérature anglophone, les approches anthropologiques de l'École en Afrique ne sont pas si nombreuses.Comme le souligne Levinson (cité par Cati Coe, p. 5) ce relatif désintérêt pour l'École en tant qu'objet d'étude tient en partie à la faiblesse du questionnement des effets de l'École que l'on considère...
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This article presents findings of an investigation into concept mapping as a generative learning strategy in the radiography learning programme at the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT). The significance of the investigation lies in the potential of concept maps to promote academic proficiency. The article commences with a description of the structure of learning; the concept of concept mapping; the role of concept mapping in teaching and learning with specific reference to...
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textabstractThis thesis addresses the topic of student assessment as it pertains to the training of medical practitioners in South Africa. The specific aspects of assessment that constitute the main focus of attention of this dissertation are: (1) the purpose of assessment, and (2) the utility of assessment. As will become clear from the literature overview, these two aspects of assessment are closely related, indeed intertwined. Assessment serves three fundamental purposes: (1) to...
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Researchers in Switzerland and South Africa claim that South Africa's one million children with disabilities do not receive adequate attention from health, education and social welfare departments ( Saloojee et al 2007 ).
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Building a democracy encompasses a far broader range of issues than drafting and adopting a new constitution, yet constitution-making has become a key element in the political transitions that have followed the end of the cold war. At the same time these political transitions have involved a range of processes particular to each context and beyond the simple negotiation and drafting of a new constitutional text. While there is often a reliance on models adopted from prior processes, this...
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Background: Chronic infection with hepatitis C is considered to be a causative factor in hepatocellular carcinoma. The prevalence of this virus in Kano is not known. Method: A total of one thousand and seven subjects were recruited for the study. They included 681 males and 326 females. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody was tested using ELISA technique with reagent supplied by Anhet laboratory, Cortex, USA. Results: A total of sixty two subjects were positive out of one thousand and seven,...
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The lives of African American men with prostate cancer are greatly influenced by the information available to them, some of which is accessed on the Internet. Research indicates that the Internet can enhance consumer health knowledge but has not reached socioeconomic groups at highest risk for health disparities, such as African American men with prostate cancer. In this study, focus groups were used to explore the perceptions and uses of the Internet as a patient education tool among 39...
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Abstract The aim of this study is to characterise rainfall variability and trend in the drought‐prone Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia using standard rainfall statistical descriptors. A review of previous studies of Ethiopian rainfall shows different conclusions between studies about the existence of trends primarily due to their use of different periods of analysis. Various rainfall indicator series are presented and analysed for trend on annual, seasonal and daily time steps (including...
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Surveys and observations were undertaken in selected primary schools in Ghana to determine whether principals’ and teachers’ attitudes towards and knowledge of inclusive education, as well as principals’ expectations of teachers in implementing inclusion, were predictors of effective teaching practices in their classrooms. The sample of 128 educators (20 principals and 108 teachers) drawn from 20 primary schools in two districts, were required to respond to questionnaire measures of Attitude...
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Surveys and observations were undertaken in selected primary schools in Ghana to determine whether principals’ and teachers’ attitudes towards and knowledge of inclusive education, as well as principals’ expectations of teachers in implementing inclusion, were predictors of effective teaching practices in their classrooms. The sample of 128 educators (20 principals and 108 teachers) drawn from 20 primary schools in two districts, were required to respond to questionnaire measures of Attitude...