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Foreign body inhalation, a surgical emergency requiring prompt management to avoid morbidity and mortality , poses a diagnostic and management challenge to otolaryngologists.To assess the pattern of foreign body inhalation at the ENT Unit Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Accra, Ghana.The theatre records of patients managed for foreign body inhalation from Ist January 2003 to 31st December 2006 at the ENT Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Accra, Ghana were studied with respect to age, sex,...

Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using micro data from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for non-random location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Consistent with a simple model of child labor supply, but contrary to what appears to be a widespread perception, our analysis...

Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using micro data from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for non-random location of households around schools as well as classical and non-classical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Consistent with a simple model of child labor supply, but contrary to what appears to be a widespread perception, our analysis...

2.1 Background Namibia won its independence twenty years ago and since then has implemented an education policy which clearly states that in higher education must be organised to cultivate and sustain a culture of disciplined thinking and inquiry and to nurture a commitment to academic achievement and excellence. ... For higher education to be effective, it must be linked to research and knowledge creation (Investing in People, Developing a Country (1990: 29). Article 3 (2) of the Namibian...

Innovative public sector education and training in a developing South Africa: The impact of and responses to globalisation The end of the twentieth century witnessed signifi cant changes in governmental administration with increasing reliance on, for example, the application of market mechanisms, and the carrying out of privatisation and deregulation initiatives to be in line with globalisation challenges. The signifi cance of these changes was accelerated by the social transformation which...

Southern Kenya Rift has been known as a region of high geodynamic activity expressed by recent volcanism, geothermal activity and high rate of seismicity. The active faults that host these activities have not been investigated to determine their subsurface geometry, faulting intensity and constituents (fluids, sediments) for proper characterization of tectonic rift extension. Two different models of extension direction (E–W to ESE–WNW and NW–SE) have been proposed. However, they were based...

Peace Education for Inter-ethnic and Inter-cultural Solidarity in Uganda: A Curriculum Agenda Stephen Langole Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies Gulu University

In this work, the Moho depth in a part of the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL) between the latitudes 3°30´ to6°33´N and the longitudes 8°50’ to 11°27’E, has been estimated covering two distinct regions: the Mount Cameroon andthe Bamenda by the use of polynomial separation of gravity data and spectral analysis along two profiles. The Moho isuplifted in the Mount Cameroon region, where the crust is thinned to about 24 km. In the Bamenda region, the crustalthickness is found to be normal at about...

In resource-limited countries where the challenge of diabetes management is especially severe, there has been a recent call for the inclusion of traditional healers in the fight against diabetes. In response, some researchers have highlighted the dangers of incorporating traditional healers while others, have presented them as a potential asset to the health care system if well trained and guided. We report here on a pilot intervention to include traditional healers in the health promotion...

Historically, the Black Church has been an institutional stronghold in the Black community and has thereby sustained a cultural ethos that has enabled African Americans to combat racial prejudice and hostility for generations. Therefore, this article will unearth Yosso's notion of alternative capital that students of color have at their disposal and the Black church's role in its nourishment. Alas, educators and administrators who are charged with educating African American students have, in...

Abstract The skills development imperatives with which the country is charged requires the creative synergy of both the public and private post-school sectors to respond to national development imperatives. This paper explores the nature, form and context of the current private Vocational Education and Training (referred to as the Further Education and Training) sector and the impact of the current regulatory environment that frames its legitimacy in South Africa. By reviewing results of...

To the Editor : Clarity with regard to what training in clinical haematology in South Africa involves and aims to achieve can be elusive. Clinical haematology trainees can have primary specialties of Internal Medicine or Paediatrics or Pathology (Haematology). I discuss the situation of those with the primary specialty of Internal Medicine.

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET) has embarked on numerous initiatives that will fundamentally reconfigure higher and further education and training in South Africa. The main aim for overhauling the country's education and training sector is to fulfil constitutional imperatives, which are clearly stated in its preamble thus to 'establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights' and to build a 'democratic and open society' in...

Research on burnout has tended to explore the organisational factors associated with this condition. However, an important factor that is often overlooked is the relationship between burnout and personality. We explored this relationship in South African university students. The participants completed the Basic Traits Inventory — Short, the Maslach Burnout Inventory — Student Survey and a biographical questionnaire. The results revealed several significant relationships between personality...

Poor urban populations in Southern cities are already experiencing the negative impacts of changing weather patterns associated with climate change and climate variability and future projections suggest that these impacts will get worse. Severe weather patterns, experienced as prolonged droughts, intense rainfall or wind speed cause substantial damage to the assets and well-being of city-dwellers, causing localized flooding, housing damage, economic loss, and posing dangers to health and...