OBJECTIVE To analyse the effect of community-based counselling on feeding patterns during the first 12 weeks after birth, and to study whether the effect differs by maternal HIV status, educational level or household wealth. DESIGN Cluster-randomized trial with fifteen clusters in each arm to evaluate an integrated package providing two pregnancy and five postnatal home visits delivered by co...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 20(4); August 2013 Address correspondence to Dr. Daniel J. Canter, Einstein Health Network, 60 E. Township Line Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027 USA Balancing disease and risk in octogenarians undergoing radical cystectomy Ronak Gor, DO,1 Daniel J. Canter, MD1,2 1Einstein Health Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 2Urologic Institute of Southeastern Pennsylv...

this paper investigates the relationship between the lagos megacity and ota township, a small township onits periphery. the study examines linkages between and lagos in terms of growth, urban development as well as mobility. 553 questionnaires were administered to household heads across the 12 residential districts of ota township. survey was carried out by systematic random sampling. classifie...

Language is required for learning, but educators often find it difficult to facilitate listening and language skills while they have to adapt to a new national curriculum with an outcomes-based approach for which they have not necessarily been adequately trained. A multifaceted support programme was developed for foundation-phase educators to facilitate listening and language for literacy and n...

introduction small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) bring a broad range of benefits beyond growth of national income, providing important opportunities for employment, and are a key source of an outlet for entrepreneurial creativity and ideas. however, it is estimated that smes are responsible around 60 percent of carbon dioxide emissions and 70 percent of all pollution globally. therefore, ...

n 1955, the African National Congress (ANC) held its historic Congress of the People to ratify its liberation manifesto, the Freedom Charter. This event took place in Kliptown, on the outskirts of Soweto (fig. 1, above), at a site that came to be called Freedom Square in honor of the occasion. Today Freedom Square is an open, windswept tract of land, lying between a shack settlement, a railway ...