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Thesis (Master, Kinesiology & Health Studies) -- Queen's University, 2010-07-29 11:15:40.276
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The current work presents exploratory research findings concerning African American students’ attitudes toward online learning. The Online Tutoring Attitudes Scale (OTAS; Graff, 2003) was administered to 124 African American students in a positive youth development program. Findings suggest that African American students’ attitudes toward computers are inconsistent with their attitudes toward online learning. African American students reported positive attitudes toward computers; however,...
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This article explores the relationship between federalism and conflict in the light of the experience of the federal experiment in contemporary Ethiopia.By reinforcing the truism in federal studies that federalism is not a panacea to the ailments of divided societies that are prone to conflict, it seeks to point out that while federalism, as a reaction to some long-standing historic problems, helps us deal with some conflicts, it also has the potential to generate some other (new) ones.By...
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Little is known about the nature and mechanisms of factors that facilitate or inhibit the scale-up and subsequent implementation of school-based adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) interventions. We present process evaluation findings examining the factors that affected the 10-fold scale-up of such an intervention, focussing on teachers' attitudes and experiences. Qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with teachers, head teachers, ward education coordinators and...
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The attendance of African students at universities in North America, Europe and Asia in the 1960s is a significant part of the interlinked histories of decolonization and the Cold War.
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While South Africa is well into its second decade of democracy, higher education opportunities in the country remain different for different race groups. Black African learners are not represented in the first-year higher education enrolment profile (the intake of learners who proceed to higher education directly from school) in relation either to their representation in the general population or to their aspirations for entry into higher education. This much emerges from a triangulation of...
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Viral replication is dependent on a host; with their small genomes, viruses need to hijack host cellular machinery to complete their life cycle. The coevolution of intimate virus-host relationships has led to many viruses being able to successfully propagate without a significant detrimental effect to the host. However, in some instances, viral infection causes disease. The molecular mechanisms underlying virus-associated disease were the focus of an Advanced Summer School in Africa held in...
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Purpose This paper seeks to discuss the positioning of academic libraries in universities of science and technology in Africa. With the importance that is given to the establishment and outputs of these types of universities and to skills development as a contributing factor to Africa's development, the role of library and information services are to be discussed. The paper aims to focus on the position of the library in relation to the changing complexity of information resources, tools for...
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The concept of the indigenous person or group in Africa is a contentious one. The current argument is that there exist no indigenous people in Africa because all Africans are indigenous. The obverse considers those Africans who have not been touched by colonialism and lost their traditional cultures commensurate with attachments to the lands or a distinguishable traditional lifestyle to be indigenous. This paper argues in favor of the latter. People who live in the global telos and do not...
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The interactions between religious affiliation, education, HIV knowledge, and HIV-related sexual behaviors among African church youth are poorly understood. In this socio-demographic study, 522 unmarried youth 12-28 years old in rural central Mozambique were surveyed with a structured questionnaire. Using binary logistic regression analysis, we used religious affiliation and education to measure influence on (1) HIV transmission and prevention knowledge and attitudes and (2) HIV-related...
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This study pertains to the provision of learning support to remote distance learners in Botswana, who enrolled for a secondary school-leaving certificate. The purpose of the study was to document learners' perceptions and experiences of learning support and to improve service delivery. The study, which was informed by an interpretive paradigm using a mixed-methods approach, is underpinned by Holmberg' theory of conversational learning (2003). Qualitative methods that involved semi-structured...
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Global mean sea levels show a general rising trend that has been accelerated by the recent changes in world climate.This is ascertained through geological and historical records, measurements from in situ tide gauges around the globe and since 1992, through satellite altimetry.About 60% of the 34 tide gauge stations in the Western Indian Ocean region with at least four years of data portray rising trends of relative sea levels, while the remaining 40% show falling trends.Sea level records in...
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Objective: To measure the prevalence and pattern of distribution of dental caries in suburban Nigerian children attending nursery school in Ile -Ife, Nigeria.Methods: A cross sectional survey of 423 children (225 boys, 198 girls) aged 3 -6 years using dmft index.WHO recommendations for oral health survey were used for caries diagnosis (non cavitated lesions were excluded).All examinations were carried out by two calibrated examiners.Result: The prevalence of caries was 10.9% and a mean...
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Interactive Computer Technologies (ICTs) have crept into education industry, thus dramatically causing transformation in instructional process. This study examined the relative and combined contributions of computer anxiety, self-concept and gender to teachers’ attitude towards the use of ICT(s). 454 Nigerian teachers constituted the sample. Three instruments were used to collect the data analysed with Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Multiple Regression and Analysis of Variance. The...
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The potential of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to enhance curriculum delivery can only be realised when the technologies have been well-appropriated in the school. This belief has led to an increase in government- or donor-funded projects aimed at providing ICTs to schools in disadvantaged communities. Previous research shows that even in cases where the technology is provided, educators are not effectively integrating such technologies in their pedagogical practices. This...