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A cross-comparison of climate change adaptation strategies across regions was performed, considering six large river basins as case study areas. Three of the basins, namely the Elbe, Guadiana, and Rhine, are located in Europe, the Nile Equatorial Lakes region and the Orange basin are in Africa, and the Amudarya basin is in Central Asia. The evaluation was based mainly on the opinions of policy makers and water management experts in the river basins. The adaptation strategies were evaluated...

Background: Lung cancer risk in association with smoking was well established, but its association with trafficrelated air pollution still unclear.To determine the relationship between exposure to smoking and air pollutants and lung epithelial atypia, we assessed using cytological method; cytological changes in sputum specimens.Methods: Sputum specimens were obtained from 300 apparently healthy volunteers, living in the city of Khartoum.Of the 300 study subjects, 150 were Traffic policemen...

This study sought to ascertain perception of Nigerian medical students of neurology in comparison with 7 other major medical specialties. To also determine whether neurology was the specialty students consider most difficult and the reasons for this and to appraise their opinion on how neurosciences and neurology were taught in their different universities.Self-administered questionnaires were used to obtain information from randomly selected clinical students from 3 medical colleges in...

This study analyzes the degree to which the authoritarian political system in Egypt is able to implement a democratic educational system at the primary education level, which can work as a catalyst in a multifaceted democratization process. In general, Cairo private school students show a better expression of democratic the democratic values of equality and freedom of expression, than the urban and rural public school students. Students hold largely positive attitudes toward democratic...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is professor of African Christianity & Pentecostal Theology and Dean of Graduate Studies at Trinity Theological Seminary in Accra. Ghana. E-mail: asagyadu@hotmail.com

The goals of South Africa's e-Education White paper is for every school learner in the country to be ICT capable by 2013 and for teachers to use information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance teaching and learning. Many initiatives have been undertaken to provide schools with computer labs and infrastructure in order to reach these goals, with varying degrees of success. In the meanwhile, the ICT landscape in South Africa and worldwide has changed dramatically with the advent of...

Women as managers and their roles in management has become a topic of special interest and importance in the present decade.This study was conducted to find out the general concept of the woman educator and her role as a school administrator in the society.The central research question here is "Have women Managers/Principals performed in their various managerial capacities?"To answer this question, data were collected from teachers in seven government secondary schools in Kigali.A total...

This paper focuses on the transfer of health management information system (HMIS) training delivered to health workers in Oromia region of Ethiopia. The training aimed at introducing and applying computer based HMIS in the public health care of the region. This research explores factors that affect transfer of the knowledge and skill gained in the training to the work place and suggests approaches to alleviate some of the obstacles. Qualitative interpretative method was used to collect data...

This study examines the life histories of three African American social studies teachers, focusing on the evolution and changes in their identities, perspectives, and attitudes related to their profession and instructional practice. In addition, the study addresses the significance of the teachers' racialized experiences as African Americans and how these experiences influence their use of culturally relevant pedagogy and other culturally responsive instructional strategies to teach their...

During the Cold War, state-led education exchange programmes between post-colonial states and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were common. The biggest such project, the School of Friendship (SdF), sent 899 Mozambican children for socialist-inspired schooling in the GDR. By the time they returned to Mozambique in 1988, the transition from socialist-revolutionary state to capitalist society was under way. This article discusses the legacies of socialist education, focusing on the...

Injury is a significant public health concern that has received limited attention inAfrica.There is in particular a lack of data regarding injury and its social correlates among in-school adolescents in Botswana.This article discusses how cross-sectional data from the 2005 Botswana Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS) were analysed with the aim of estimating the incidence and social correlates of serious injury.Results indicated that of the 2 197 students, 65.8% (68.1% among boys and...

Background: Previous reports show that medical emergency events have ocurred in Teaching Hospital Dental centres, with attendant mortality and morbidity. Objectives: (1) To study the pattern of medical emergencies encountered by clinical dental staff of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (2) To evaluate their training ,perception of their training and competence as undergraduates and postgraduates to manage such events Methods: All the clinical staff viz: Dental surgeons of different cadres...

Public- Private Partnership (PPP) is a post-cold war phenomenon developed with the advent and popularization of theories like New Public Management (NPM) and Alternate Service Delivery (ASD). It has become one of the important developmental tools and many countries have also gained significant results by effectively using public-private partnerships in higher education. In addition to the various practical benefits public-private partnership provides both to the public and the private...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is primarily neurotrophic and lymphotrophic. Diverse neurologic sequealae have been documented with variations based on disease severity, but geographic variation may determine the distribution of these neurological complications.This study was designed to evaluate the current status of neurologic manifestations of HIV/AIDS as seen at our tertiary referral centre in Lagos, Nigeria.Consecutively presenting persons with HIV/ AIDS receiving HAART, who were...

Examinations -among other things -are tools of quality control by which we can measure the attainment of the national educational goals.High-quality examinations are means of evaluation that can help teachers modify their teaching techniques, as well as helping learners adjust their learning strategies.Examinations are also benchmarks that can assist decision makers to judge the success of their educational, social and political aims.This paper explores the features of the Sudan School...