Sökning: "Closing gap"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden Closing gap.
1. Closing the Gap : How an Adaptive Behavioral Based Program on a Tablet Can Help Low Performing Children Catch Up in Math: a Randomized Placebo Controlled Study
Sammanfattning : Early mathematic skills have a substantial impact on later school achievement. Children with poor school achievement are at risk for adverse consequences later in life. Math competencies also have consequences for the economy at large because societies are becoming increasingly dependent on skill sets including mathematics. LÄS MER
2. Closing the gap : applying health and socio-demographic surveillance to complex health transitions in South and sub-Saharan Africa
Sammanfattning : Background: The challenge of research in resource-poor settings remains a profound concern and is closely linked to African social development. Work of this thesis spans the end of apartheid and first decade of the democratic era in South Africa, along with emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. LÄS MER
3. Closing nutrient cycles
Sammanfattning : Adequate and balanced crop nutrition – with nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) – is vital for sustainable crop production. Inadequate and imbalanced crop nutrition contributes to the crop yield gaps – a difference in actual and potential crop yield. LÄS MER
4. Closing the quality gap : investigating health system bottlenecks and quality improvement strategies for maternal and newborn care in Sub Saharan Africa, focusing on Tanzania
Sammanfattning : BACKGROUND: Despite substantial gains in survival in the past three decades, around 200,000 maternal deaths, 1 million newborn deaths and 1 million stillbirths occur annually in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The majority of these could be averted by effective medical interventions, but implementation in the context of under-resourced health systems is a challenge. LÄS MER
5. Strategies in Cochlear Nerve Regeneration, Guidance and Protection : Prospects for Future Cochlear Implants
Sammanfattning : Today, it is possible to restore hearing in congenitally deaf children and severely hearing-impaired adults through cochlear implants (CIs). A CI consists of an external sound processor that provides acoustically induced signals to an internal receiver. LÄS MER