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It is generally difficult for the government to come up with any meaningful programs for persons with disabilities (PWDs) unless statistics to that effect have been made available. Disability Statistics in Uganda is one of those areas of social statistics which has been growing at a slow pace in the past compared to other socioeconomic indicators, but now is an area of growing concern and picking up steadily. Censuses have remained the major data providers for disability statistics and the...
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Introduction The purpose of this essay is to investigate the effect that public schooling has on the of African Americans, and to argue for the implementation of African-centered curriculum and instruction for African American students. This investigation will begin by examining culturally deprived educations offered to African American students in public schools, and how this education, or lack thereof, has served to perpetuate the of this population of students. According to Michael Porter...
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INTRODUCTION Recent events in Nigeria show that the traditional respect and prestige enjoyed by teachers in the society have been eroded quite considerably (Awanbor, 1996) and indeed, loss of interest and attraction to the teaching profession. Consequently, this sordid situation occasioned by low enrolment of teachers in preparation institutions has become a source of worry to teacher trainers. Awanbor (1996) reported that some teacher-trainees in the college of Education did not appear to...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self‐organizing maps (SOMs). The technique is applied to the downscaling of daily precipitation over South Africa. SOMs are used to characterize the state of the atmosphere on a localized domain surrounding each target location on the basis of NCEP 6‐hourly reanalysis data from 1979 to 2002, and using surface and 700‐hPa u and v wind...
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Abstract Cross-section estimates of 31 countries for the year 2000 are used to examine the effect of the level of female education, and the gap between male and female levels, on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many standard types of education are analysed and a non-standard category involving under- and over-aged primary school enrollees are identified. Although it is found that female education is positively related to country infection rates, there is scope to reduce...