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The aim of this study was to assess care and preventive measures for accidental exposure to blood (AEB) in Abidjan.A retrospective study of all AEB reported in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Center of the Treichville University Hospital was made between January 2000 and December 2005. Epidemiology, management, clinical and biological post-exposure follow-up were analyzed.One hundred eighty-two AEB were managed over 6 years (151 needlesticks, 14 ocular projections of blood, 12 cuts, and...
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Introduction. - Nous avons utilise le test de marche de 6 min (TM6), afin d'examiner la tolerance a l'exercice d'adolescents obeses avant et apres un programme d'entrainement individualise de deux mois. Synthese des faits. - Vingt adolescents obeses ont participe a trois protocoles differents: (1) restriction alimentaire (Gl), (2) activite physique (G2), (3) association des deux traitements (G3). Cette periode d'entrainement a induit une diminution de la masse grasse chez l'ensemble des...
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Godsdiens, regsgeleerdheid en hoeronderwys : perspektiewe vir die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks Hierdie artikel ondersoek die verhouding tussen godsdiens (in beide die tradisionele en die wye sin) en regsgeleerdheid in Suid-Afrika, met spesifieke klem op die aard van die Fakulteite van Regsgeleerdheid asook die universiteite. Die hedendaagse benadering van regsgeleerdheid word grootliks beperk tot die pragmatiese en die empiriese, in sterk opposisie met enige godsdiens. In hierdie opsig spruit...
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Abstract The article reports on the integration of assessment and recognition of prior learning (ARPL) at postgraduate level in one South African university. An analysis of interviews with administrators, lecturers and students who have been involved in the ARPL process provides insight into the implementation practices that accompany the formal introduction of ARPL into the institution. The factors necessary to support ARPL policy implementation, the scope of assessment procedures and the...
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It has long been clear that the school reproduces social class differences. However, how this happens remains something of a black box. I set out to contribute to our understanding of schooling processes and the reproduction of inequality by focusing on pedagogy. I elaborate a technique for the analysis of classroom observation and student performance data that is rooted in sociological theory. The purpose is to develop an analytic framework capable of capturing a wide variation in pedagogic...
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Variations in deposition of terrigenous fine sediments and their grain-size distributions from a high-resolution marine sediment record offshore northwest Africa (30°51.0′N; 10°16.1′W) document climate changes on the African continent during the Holocene. End-member grain-size distributions of the terrigenous silt fraction, which are related to fluvial and aeolian dust transport, indicate millennial-scale variability in the dominant transport processes at the investigation site off northwest...
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This study examined smoking intensity among secondary school adolescent smokers. A total of 800 students, made up of 685 males and 115 females who have at least tasted a cigarette once, from twenty secondary schools (5 private and 15 public secondary schools) in Benin City, Nigeria participated in the study. A questionnaire was used in collecting data that were analyzed in this study. The questionnaire consisted of 7 sections: the demographic variables, Smoking stages, delinquency, alcohol...
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the underrepresentation of African American faculty in CACREP-Accredited counseling programs and to discuss ways of creating and sustaining a pipeline of potential counselor educators for the academy. ********** Over the last twenty years there has been an upward trend for the attainment of doctoral degrees by African Americans (St. John, 2000). However colleges and universities continue to struggle with the underrepresentation of African American...
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Music Education, as well as cultural and musical identities are all being renegotiated, post‐Apartheid, within the so‐called ‘newer’ rather than the commonly known ‘new’ South Africa. The developing situation with certain minority groups is particularly interesting. Education in general has undergone much change since the first democratic elections in 1994: music education specifically has been affected by such change in terms of content, delivery and assessment. Within the South African...
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One of the cardinal goals of education is to unravel key societal problems. In Ethiopia, challenges arising from environmental degradation, which is partly caused by environmental ignorance, are immense. This paper examines the curricula of two teachers‟ colleges alongside knowledge and opinion of prospective teachers on local and national environmental issues. A questionnaire was employed to capture the factual knowledge, attitude towards environment, and the readiness of prospective...
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This paper analyses teachers’ responses to the introduction of environmental education policy in Botswana’s primary schools. The 1994 Revised National Policy on Education introduced environmental education into the education system through an infusion approach. This paper reflects on some of the issues and challenges confronting teachers in interpreting and implementing this environmental education policy. The findings are based on research conducted in four regions in Botswana. Data for...
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Mwongozo—the Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works:Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya Said A.M. Khamis Designed to play a pedagogic role, mwongozo,1 the study guide to Swahili literature, had by the 1970s already penetrated2 Kenya educational practice, causing the "relationship" between Swahili literature and Swahili literary study to appear more visible, in spite of the opposition inherent in them: literature being an art, and literary study, if not precisely a science, a species...