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The 2003 National Children's Oral Health Survey indicated that 35.2% of six-year-olds in KwaZulu-Natal were caries free and only 40% had received dental treatment. The aim of the present study almost ten years later was to investigate these data in six-year-old children at Health Promoting Schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Methods: A quantitative, epidemiological explorative study was conducted on a sample of 345 Grade 1 learners attending 23 schools, selected by statistical sampling from the eleven...
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Classification is used for discovery of a predictive learning function that classifies data item into one of several predefined classes. e.g., classify universities based on students number or based on offered programs, or classify cars based on gas mileage, and Presentation it by decision-tree, classification rule, neural network, and genetic algorithms, etc. It is noted that, there are large amount of data obtained from the universities. We need to evaluate the accurate assessment of the...
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This study examines the role of education and labour productivity on income inequality in Nigeria by considering both educational attainment and productivity growth over a period of time. A dynamic structure is devised for the analysis using data for the period 1981 to 2013. The cointegration and error correction methodology is adopted in the empirical analysis. It is shown that productivity has a stronger impact on inequality reduction than education. This implies that any policy that...
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As surgery becomes incorporated into global health programs, it will be critical for clinicians to take into account already existing surgical care systems within low-income countries. To inform future efforts to expand the local system and systems in comparable regions of the developing world, we aimed to describe current patterns of surgical care at a major urban teaching hospital in Mozambique.We performed a retrospective review of all general surgery patients treated between August 2012...
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This paper proposes an innovative analytical approach to regionalism promotion by the European Union (EU) in Africa. The approach pursues the dual aim of accommodating African approaches to regionalism in EU foreign policy analysis and of expounding the centrality of diplomacy in negotiating a renewed EU-African Union relationship. The concept of ‘regionalism diplomacy’ brings the negotiated and contentious nature of EU regionalism promotion to the fore. The paper espouses contemporary...
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Background: In high-income countries there are approximately 3 neurologists per 100,000 population whereas in lower income countries that proportion drops to 3 neurologists per 10,000,000. Thus, in much of the world primary care providers are left with the burden of treating neurological disease. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a neurology continuing medical education course taught by University of Utah neurology faculty to Physician Assistants in Ghana. Methods: Pre- and post-...
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Being a university teacher in the Libya is most of the time described as a challenge.In the case of the current instable situation in Libya, the task is formidable in many cases.This paper investigates the challenges encountered by Alzawia university teachers in four colleges.It attempts to answer the following questions: what are the challenges that university teachers face?What is the scope of professional development?The findings of the study suggests a model of professional development...
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Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy in Education) -- Central University of Technology, Free State, 2015
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HIV is highly stigmatized in sub-Saharan Africa. This is an important public health problem because HIV stigma has many adverse effects that threaten to undermine efforts to control the HIV epidemic. The implementation of a universal primary education policy in Uganda in 1997 provided us with a natural experiment to test the hypothesis that education is causally related to HIV stigma. For this analysis, we pooled publicly available, population-based data from the 2011 Uganda Demographic and...
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This article compares the communicative intentions observed in the speech addressed to children of 1;1 and 1;6 years old from three cultural communities: the Netherlands, rural Mozambique, and urban Mozambique. These communities represent two prototypical learning environments and a third hybrid: Western, urban, middle-class families; non-Western, rural, subsistence-farming families; and non-Western, urban learning environment. The results show that the Dutch CDS contains relatively more...
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirement of the degree of master of education (special needs education) in the school of education of Kenyatta University.