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Primary School Attendance in Honduras
Honduras has recorded impressive gains in expanding educational access in the 1990s, with the result that primary education is available to almost all children. With improved access the focus has shifted to quality and efficiency issues. Previous research suggests that academic achievement is still quite low while repetition and school desertion rates continue to remain high. An important cause...
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We present a user survey on the use of location-based search in Honduras, a developing country in Latin America. Our goal is to understand the current state of local search and the tasks people are trying to accomplish and gather insights into information seeking behavior. We survey early adopters in the form of students and staff of a university. The results suggest that due to specific charac...
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This paper describes how Honduras’ national dengue control programme was innovated by an action research project carried out in El Progreso (1990-1996). One intriguing vector control measure discovered by this project was a locally acceptable method for cleaning large cement washbasins and metal drums, known as “the Untadita” or “little dab”. A large-scale social mobilization and communication ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scottish Geographical Magazine
سال: 1890
ISSN: 0036-9225
DOI: 10.1080/14702549008554561