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                  The Leland Stanford Junior University, or all the more regularly Stanford University, is a separate exploration college in Stanford, California, and one of the world's most prestigious institutions, with the most elevated undergrad selectivity and the top position in various overviews and measures in the United States. Stanford was established in 1885 via Leland Stanford, previous legislative head of and U.S. representative from California and driving railroad investor, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their just kid, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died on of typhoid fever at age 15 the earlier year. Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational foundation. Educational cost was free until 1920. The college battled monetarily after Leland Stanford's 1893 passing and after a great part of the grounds was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman backed p

      Information About  The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo), once The Royal Frederick University (Norwegian: Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the most seasoned and biggest college in Norway, spotted in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The college is perceived as one of Northern Europe's most prestigious colleges. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has positioned it the 67th best college in the world. The college has more or less 27,700 understudies and utilizes around 6,000 individuals. Its workforces incorporate (Lutheran) Theology (Norway's state religion since 1536), Law, Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics, characteristic sciences, sociologies, Dentistry, and Education.  The college's unique neoclassical grounds is found in the inside of Oslo; it is as of now possessed by the Faculty of Law. The vast majority of the college's different workforces are placed at the fresher Blindern grounds in the rural West End. The Fac

All Information About  The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private, coeducational examination college spotted in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The college was sanctioned by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In Feb 1904, it transformed its name to the George Washington University to pay tribute to George Washington, the first President of the United States.     It is the biggest establishment of advanced education in the  District of Columbia. The college recompenses undergrad and graduate degrees in a few trains through every last bit of its ten separate schools. GWU's   Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Elliott School of International Affairs, Milken Institute School of Public Health, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the  School of Nursing offer undergrad and graduate degrees.       The college additionally has specific

Professionals. Guidance notes on the Muslim fast during Ramadan The Muslim fast during the month of Ramadan provides  an opportunity for health professionals to promote  health improvement among Muslims by offering lifestyle  advice on topics such as diet and smoking cessation.        It is important to recognize  that the Muslim community,  like any other, is diverse. This results in differences of  perception and practice among Muslim patients. The  start of Ramadan advances 11 days every year as it is  based on a lunar calendar and will sometimes fall in the  summer months, resulting in a more onerous fast than  when it is in the winter months. In 2007 Ramadan starts  in mid-September.      Fasting during Ramadan is intended as a discipline and  requires abstinence from anything taken orally during  the hours of daylight, each consecutive day for a month.  This includes water and smoking. Bleeding will also  preclude the fast for that day. Fasti

The World Education Information Report’s focus on education as a basic human right is a fitting choice for the International Year for the Culture of Peace. Education is one of the principal means to build the‘defenses of peace’ in the minds of men and women everywhere – the mission assumed by UNESCO when the Organ- ization was created more than half a century ago. The twentieth century saw human rights accepted worldwide as a guiding principle. Our ambition for the new century must be to see human rights fully implemented in practice.       This is therefore a good moment for the inter- national community to reflect on its understand- ing of, and commitment to, the right to edu- cation. Education is both a human right and a vital means of promoting peace and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms gener- ally. If its potential to contribute towards build- ing a more peaceful world is to be realized, edu- cation must be made universally available an equally accessible to all

UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR  Dr. Josiah O. AJIBOYE, University of Botswana Adeyinka TELLA, University of Botswana !   The major purpose of the study was to examine the information seeking behavior of undergraduate students in the University of Botswana. Specifically, the study made effort to determine the sources consulted and the general pattern of information gathering system by the students: the impact of students’ gender, level of study and course of study on the students’ information seeking behavior. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and data was collected using a questionnaire administered to two thousand respondents randomly selected from six faculties in the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Major findings from the study include are: first, academic information was rated as the predominant information required by the students, while the Internet was rated the most crucial source of most of the academic informat

Global Health Issues        Info: Despite incredible improvements in health since 1950, there are still a number of challenges, which should have been easy to solve. Consider the following....     One billion people lack access to health care systems... 36 million deaths each year are caused by noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung diseases. This is almost two-thirds of the estimated 56 million deaths each year worldwide. (A quarter of these take place before the age of 60.) Cardiovascular diseases (C V Ds) are the number one group of conditions causing death globally. An estimated 17.5 million people died from C V Ds in 2005, representing 30% of all global deaths. Over 80% of C V D deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Over 7.5 million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases, each year. In 2008, some 6.7 million people died of infectious diseases alone, far more than the