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This short country report, a result of larger Information for Development Program (infoDev)-supported survey of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in the country. The penetration levels of ICTs in Zambia's education institutions remains low, with those schools that are equipped mostly utilizing second-hand and refurbished computers. The...

This short country report, a result of larger Information for Development Program (infoDev)-supported survey of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in the country. The penetration levels of ICTs in Zambia's education institutions remains low, with those schools that are equipped mostly utilizing second-hand and refurbished computers. The...

Abstract Soon after the collapse of Apartheid, the new government in South Africa set about restructuring the educational system, which was previously segregated by race, class and language. This paper argues that the deracialisation and integration of schools in South Africa has been difficult to achieve and as a process, uneven in different parts of the country and in types of schools. The paper reports on a study conducted in the Limpopo province of South Africa (formerly, Northern...

Urban African-American youth, aged 15-19 years, have asthma fatality rates that are higher than in whites and younger children, yet few programs target this population. Traditionally, urban youth are believed to be difficult to engage in health-related programs, both in terms of connecting and convincing.Develop and evaluate a multimedia, web-based asthma management program to specifically target urban high school students. The program uses "tailoring," in conjunction with theory-based...

Schools were introduced to the Pacific Island cultures during the colonial period. While many schools have reinvigorated traditional cultural patterns since independence, they remain subject to international influences and are in a state of constant change. School principals are influential figures in the school community and society. Although schools in Papua New Guinea are governed by school boards, it is the principal who manages the school. As a result, the principal's beliefs about how...

Utilization of cancer genetic risk assessment can be profoundly influenced by an individuals' knowledge of risk assessment, attitudes regarding illness and healthcare, and affective reactions derived from social norms. Race and ethnicity play a powerful role in the development of an individual's attitudes and should be considered when attempting to understand a person's openness to cancer genetic risk assessment (Lannin et al., 1998). Until recently, however, cancer screening and prevention...

Journal Article Comparison of Cigarette and Water Pipe Smoking Among Female University Students in Egypt Get access Nargis Labib, Ph.D., Nargis Labib, Ph.D. Department of Public Health, Cairo UniversityCairo, Egypt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ghada Radwan, Ph.D., Ghada Radwan, Ph.D. Department of Public Health, Cairo UniversityCairo, Egypt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nabiel Mikhail, Ph.D.,...

On 30 April 2009, Chrysler LLC and 23 of its affiliates filed petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy code.

Background/Context There is much research that examines how desegregation literature has implications for majority teachers and its impact on students of color. However, little has been written about the experiences of teachers of color working in suburban desegregated majority schools. Focus of Study This article examines how intergroup differences created performance pressures for African American teachers and how this affected their ability to contribute optimally in these environments....

This paper describes the development, design, dissemination and evaluation of a communication intervention designed to promote appropriate usage of trypanocidal drugs in trypanosomiasis endemic areas of western and coastal Kenya. Following a baseline study on current trypanosomiasis knowledge, attitudes and practices by smallholder farmers, a communication intervention strategy was developed involving dissemination through school children, village elders, animal health centres and Agrovet...

This short country report, a result of larger Information for Development Program (infoDev) - supported survey of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in the country. Liberia is in the process of developing a comprehensive ICT policy called E-Liberia: vision 2010, yet efforts at increasing access and use of ICTs have already begun under the...

This study examined the impact of a primary-school HIV education initiative on the knowledge, self-efficacy and sexual and condom use activities of upper primary-school pupils in Kenya. A quasi-experimental mixed qualitative–quantitative pre- and 18-month post-design using 40 intervention and 40 matched control schools demonstrated significant program impact on targeted objectives of (1) adequate program delivery and, for standard 6 and 7 pupils (ages 11–16 years), (2) increased HIV-related...

Natural Resources ForumVolume 31, Issue 2 p. 173-173 Call for Papers for a Special Series on Africa, Agriculture, Desertification, Drought, Land, and Rural Development Hiroko Morita-Lou, Hiroko Morita-Lou Editor-in-Chief Natural Resources ForumE-mail: NRFORUM@un.orgSearch for more papers by this author Hiroko Morita-Lou, Hiroko Morita-Lou Editor-in-Chief Natural Resources ForumE-mail: NRFORUM@un.orgSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 May 2007...

Styling Jim focuses on the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I through the 1960s. In this study of two black beauty companies of the Jim Crow era, Julia Kirk Blackwelder looks at the industry as a locus of black entrepreneurial effort and an opportunity for young women to obtain training and income that promised social mobility within the African American community. Blackwelder demonstrates that commerce, gender norms, politics, and culture all...

Ants learn the odors of members of their colony early in postnatal life, but their ability to learn to recognize noncolony conspecifics and heterospecifics has never been explored. We used a habituation-discrimination paradigm to assess individual recognition in adult Formicine ants, Cataglyphis niger. Pairs of workers from different colonies were placed together for repeated trials, and their ability to discriminate the ant that they encountered from another familiar or unfamiliar ant was...

Journal Article Nigerian medical students are at risk for hepatitis B infection Get access O.O. Odusanya, O.O. Odusanya ⁎ aDepartment of Community Health & Primary Health Care, Lagos State University College of Medicine, P.M.B. 21266, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria ⁎Corresponding author. Tel.: +234 1 803 321 6777/474 0988; fax: +234 1 803 493 7219. E-mail address: oolumuyiwa@yahoo.com (O.O. Odusanya). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar F.P. Meurice, F.P....

Context and setting The education of doctors in the 21st century is undergoing significant modifications in order to serve society better. This has led to the centralisation of curriculum planning in offices of medical education (OMEs) in developed countries to provide support to the curriculum and to medical teachers engaged in the task of producing efficient, caring doctors. Why the idea was necessary However, there are very few OMEs in Nigeria. The College of Medicine, University of...

[1] In the paper “Triggering of earthquakes during the 2000 Papua New Guinea earthquake sequence” by Sun-Cheon Park and Jim Mori (Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B03302, doi:10.1029/2006JB004480, 2007), the section reference in the following sentence in paragraph 23 should be section 2 not section 3: Solid rectangles are the horizontal projections of the fault planes of the three major earthquakes obtained in section 2.