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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Low Resourced"”.
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Improving smoking cessation for vulnerable populations in low-resourced settings
… pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, and stroke. Low and middle-income countries (LMICs), including sub-Saharan Africa, shoulder a disproportionate burden of the global tobacco epidemic, where over 80% of the world's tobacco users live. The implementation of evidence-based programs and policies …
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Pulmonary rehabilitation in Africa (community-driven citizen science approach): (a focus on COPD in low-resourced communities in South Africa)
… global health challenge, particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in Africa. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a well-established intervention to address COPD in High income countries (HICs) and has been incorporated into the healthcare systems in many settings. …
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Development of a play-based intervention to promote play skills of children with HIV/Aids living in a low resourced setting
… working with children with HIV/Aids in low resourced settings. This doctoral thesis focussed on reviewing and generating evidence, and further proposed a play-based intervention framework for children with HIV/Aids living in a low resourced setting. Theoretical frameworks used to guide …
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Make it so: How low-resourced school districts implement a Virginia state mandate to prepare K-12 teachers to integrate technology into the classroom
… how four urban school districts, serving low socioeconomic status (SES) student populations, define, prepare teachers for, and implement integration of computer technology into the K-12 classroom in response to a Virginia state mandate. Factors influencing computer integration into the …
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Evaluation of the mental health profile of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in a low-resourced setting: development, translation and validation of patient-reported outcome measures
… high-income settings, and their applicability in low-resource settings such as Zimbabwe may be questionable. The present study thus aimed to develop a context-specific caregiver strain outcome, to adapt, translate, and validate a social support outcome measure and finally to profile the mental …
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Implementing a community-based caregiver intervention in limited-resource settings: a focus on implementation strategies
… data on the use of implementation strategies in low-resourced settings. The World Health Organization Caregiver Skills Training Programme (WHO-CST) for families of children with developmental disabilities was piloted in a rural setting in South Africa and was called the 'Diamond Families …
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The Context of Changing Schools: A Life Course Perspective on Elementary School Mobility
Also, a student who moves from a low-resourced school to a high-resourced school is predicted to improve on later math and reading tests, while an accompanying change in the home situation (increase in income and parent education, and/or an increase in student and parent ties with others in the …
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Investigating an Executive Function Intervention Using Goal Management Training in HIV+ Adolescents in South Africa
… cognitive rehabilitation interventions in low resourced settings such as those commonly found in South Africa. This quantitative study used a pre-test post-test quasi experimental research design to investigate the effectiveness of a 7-week pGMT intervention in HIV+ adolescents in South …
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Foundations for reusable and maintainable surface realisers for isiXhosa and isiZulu
… and grammar rules since the languages are low-resourced and grammatically rich. However, do not use their scant linguistic resources efficiently, they do not rely on a template specification that supports interoperability, and do not use an architecture that yields easy-to-maintain software …
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A qualitative exploration of the perceived factors that influence alcohol consumption among South African girls and young women (AFYW) and the relationship with sexual risk behaviour
… SA adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), from low-resourced settings, exhibit increasingly problematic alcohol consumption behaviours. As alcohol is a key determinant of sexual risk behaviours, it increases AGYW's already disproportionate burden of potentially negative sexual and reproductive …
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Climate governance in South Africa: challenges, risks and opportunities
… but is not adequate yet, especially in rural and low-resourced districts like Amathole. The study concludes by providing practical recommendations for the development of adaptive capacity, policy coherence, and participatory governance, with the intention of enhancing overall resilience. At a more …
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
… mainly of MC4 and CC100 Bantu text. However, on lower-order NLP tasks, like classification, pretraining on languages solely within the language family seemed to benefit transfer to other similar languages within the family. This potentially opens a method for effectively including low-resourced …
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Conservative kidney management program components in a resource limited setting: South Africa
… components of care in providing CKM services in low resourced countries like SA. Objectives: To describe standards or components of a CKM program; to identify available CKM documents in SA; and to analyse SA CKM documents according to perceived standards or components of a CKM program. …
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Development of gold nanoparticles based lateral flow assay for detection of food and water-borne pathogens
… cause of bacterial food-borne illnesses; followed by Campylobacter and Listeria. Listeriosis cases were reported in 2017 in Gauteng province, and the number of infected persons rapidly escalated nationwide prompting an investigation wherein a total of 937 cases were identified. Early …
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A cross-sectional study of ECG patterns and outcomes of patients thrombolysed for ST-elevation myocardial infarction at a district, public Cape Town hospital
… care records to improve health research in low-resourced settings. The creation of a STEMI registry could contribute to research but will need funding. The use of clinical messaging apps to gain senior ECG interpretation may provide an additional layer toward quality care.
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Milk matters 4.0: bridging milk donor, staff and student needs towards a purposeful and maintainable system
… breastmilk. The staff-facing web application allows staff to manage the dynamic content of the mobile application. Additionally, we ask questions about the challenges associated with university-NPO collaborations on mobile development and reflect on design for this context. Technical and …
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Crowdsourcing a text corpus for a low resource language
Low resourced languages, such as South Africa's isiXhosa, have a limited number of digitised texts, making it challenging to build language corpora and the information retrieval services, such as search and translation that depend on them. Researchers have been unable to assemble isiXhosa corpora …
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Robust and cheating-resilient power auctioning on Resource Constrained Smart Micro-Grids
… limited information, power storage capacity and low literacy, communicate over an unreliable infrastructure burdened by limited bandwidth and low computational power of devices. In this thesis, we design and evaluate a CDA algorithm for power allocation in a RCSMG. Specifically, we offer the …
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A comparison of mobile search interfaces for isiXhosa speakers
… language. The isiXhosa language is considered a low-resourced African (Bantu) language spoken in resource-constrained environments in South Africa. The language is spoken by over eight million people. Yet, there has been no search interface specifically targeted at supporting isiXhosa speakers. …
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The characteristics of intersitial lung disease patients attending Groote Schuur Hospital Respiratory clinic
… conditions posing diagnostic challenges in low-income settings. The incidence of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is unknown on the African continent. Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) provides a tertiary referral and follow-up service for patients with suspected ILDs. We set out to determine …
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