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This exploratory, cross-sectional study was designed to gauge the interest and health career choices of African-American students before high school and to determine their level of satisfaction with a health career awareness program. Over a three-year period, 133 seventh-grade students (47%) and eighth-grade students (53%) enrolled in a Southside Chicago Catholic school were recruited; 98% were AfricanAmerican. The students participated in a career awareness program, which consisted of...
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Over the past decade, molecular, biochemical and cellular markers have been extensively used in pollution monitoring of aquatic environments. Biochemical markers have been selected among early molecular events occurring in the toxicological mechanisms of main contaminants. This paper assesses the marine environment quality along the Tunisian coasts using a statistical approach. Clams (Ruditapes decussatus) were collected during the four seasons of 2003 on seven different sites from the...
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SUMMARY The paper commences with a brief definition of geoinformatics as a basis for learning about surveying sciences, followed by an overview of e-Learning in Egypt. Next, the paper examines the current curricula of surveying sciences currently taught within the academic engineering institutions at both Cairo University and the American University at Cairo, in order to identify and prioritize themes within these curricula where e-Learning could be implemented. Finally, the paper presents...
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The generation of data through disease surveillance and notification system is critical to appropriate planning and implementation of disease control programmes, outbreak investigation, emergency preparedness and response. Health workers therefore need to be trained, retrained and updated on the principles and practice of disease surveillance and notification. This quasi-experimental study compared a study and control group "before and after" an intervention (training programme) in the study...
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A large number of reinforced concrete buildings collapsed or were heavily damaged during the 6.8 magnitude Zemmouri earthquake that struck northern Algeria on 21 May 2003. A technical survey campaign was launched to assess damages and losses in the most affected areas in Algiers and Boumerdes prefectures. Reinforced concrete frame structures and apartment buildings were the most damaged categories. Buildings with shear walls or steel frames performed well. Analyses of collected data showed...
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As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the development of black higher education in Texas--which has historically had one of the largest state college and university systems in the...
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The importance of accurate estimation of student’s future performance is essential in order to provide the student with adequate assistance in the learning process. To this end, this research aimed at investigating the use of Bayesian networks for predicting performance of a student, based on values of some identified attributes. We presented empirical experiments on the prediction of performance with a data set of high school students containing 8 attributes. The paper demonstrates an...
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Inez Beverly Prosser (ca. 1895-1934) was arguably the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology. Her dissertation, completed in 1933, examined personality differences in black children attending either voluntarily segregated or integrated schools and concluded that black children were better served in segregated schools. This research was one of several studies in the 1920s and 1930s that was part of the debate on segregated schools as maintained in the United States...