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The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Warri and environs between 1968 and 1990 have some adverse consequences due to accumulation of diverse categories of pollutants from drilling, production, and refining of crude oil and production of petrochemicals, especially black carbon. Persistent itching, foreign body sensation, and specified areas of conjunctival/limbal discoloration were used as markers for pollution keratoconjunctivitis (PKC). Children attending eye clinics in Delta...

Selected enzymes in the organs/tissues of two fish species (Oreochromis mossambicus and Labeo umbratus) were evaluated as biomarkers of water pollution in warm- and cold-water systems. The fish were caught using standard techniques during two high-flow and two low-flow surveys. The results indicated that the fluctuating enzyme activities measured were not a result of pollution but could be initiated as a result of (1) no or too little pollution, (2) handling of the fish, and (3) struggling...

We set out to determine whether anorexia nervosa exists in a culture where the pressure to be thin is less pervasive.To determine whether there were any cases of anorexia nervosa in female students attending two secondary schools in the north-east region of Ghana.The body mass index (BMI) of consenting students was calculated after measuring their height and weight. Those with a BMI </=19 kg/m(2) underwent a structured clinical assessment including mental state, physical examination and...

To explore similarities and differences between religiosity and spirituality, the authors used several measures of religiosity and spirituality to examine the level of their association in 171 African American college students. Results support the multidimensionality of both constructs. An intrinsic religious orientation accounted for most of the variance in each type of spirituality; conversely. 1 type of extrinsic religious orientation accounted for almost none. The authors also found no...

Raising the standard of education in the country is a priority task for the Tanzanian government. However, it seems that completion of this task may cause political problems insofar as, since the colonial period, Christians have generally been more educated than Muslims and obtained better access to high administrative positions. If Muslims become as educated as Christians, will it not lead to a severe struggle for power between the two communities? Our analysis based on field research...

Abstract Botswana does not intend to be left behind in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the support of research, education, development and communication with the rest of the world. It intends to introduce computers with connections to the Internet and computer-based communication to all schools. Excellence in Education for the New Millenium (Ministry of Education, 1999), indicates that computer skills will be integrated and infused into the core and optional...

A strong earthquake (Mw 6.8) struck the coastal region east of Algiers and the Tell Atlas of Algeria on 21 May, 2003 and was responsible of severe damage and about 2400 casualties. The coastal mainshock was followed by a large number of aftershocks, the largest reaching Mw 5.8 on 27 May 2003. We study the mainshock, first major aftershocks and about 900 events recorded by temporary seismic stations using master‐event approach and double‐difference (DD) methods. Although the seismic station...

Objective - To obtain feedback from primary care nurses who attended two study days in child and adolescent mental health. The study days aimed to equip nurses with basic assessment and intervention skills for the most common problems in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing. Method - All 144 and 68 primary care nurses who attended Study Days 1 and 2 respectively completed confidential questionnaires after each day. Key findings - Over 80% of the nurses practised in settings in which one...

Le Moyen-Atlas, château d’eau du Maroc par excellence, est la montagne nord-africaine la plus riche en zones humides, notamment en lacs naturels, en rivieres et sources fraiches. Ces ecosystemes limniques remplissent des fonctions hydrologiques, socio-economiques et ecologiques precieuses a l’echelle du pays, alors que leur biodiversite et leur originalite leur conferent un interet mondial, conformement aux criteres de la convention de Ramsar relative aux zones humides. Toutefois, la plupart...

aCape Peninsula University of Technology bStellenbosch University, South Africa 11th Annual Congress of the South African Society of Nuclear Medicine: Abstracts CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa, 1–4 October 2004 *Corresponding author

A questionnaire was administered to 294 sexually active, unmarried undergraduate students to investigate the role of social norms in the prediction of the intention to use condoms. Components of social cognitive theory and the theory of reasoned action and planned behaviour were integrated with those of the Health Belief Model to predict future intention to use condoms with a new partner. Logistic regression analyses of selected risky sexual behaviours on the intention to use condoms showed...

To assess the beliefs and attitudes related to narghile (waterpipe) smoking that are likely to contribute to its increased popularity among young people in Syria.In 2003, a cross-sectional survey was administered to university students in Aleppo, using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Overall, 587 students participated in the study (278 males, 309 females; mean age, 21.8 +/- 2.1; response rate 98.8%).The most common positive perceptions of narghile were related to its smell and...

The author writes of her experience teaching several courses on South African art and global perspectives in twentieth-century art.

A shoreline uplift marked by a continuous white band visible at rocky headlands occurred during the 21 May 2003 earthquake (Mw 6.8) in northern Algeria. We measured the amount of coastal uplift on a white band (emerged algae) and harbors quays between Boumerdes and Dellys. Most of measured points were collected using tape and differential GPS on rocky headlands with σ ± 0.15 m error bar (tidal prism). Leveling lines running parallel and orthogonal to the coast also provide the precise amount...

Journal Article The ‘new’ African higher education? Get access David Mills David Mills David Mills is a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and Anthropology co-ordinator in the Centre for learning and teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP), part of the Higher Education Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 103, Issue 413, October 2004, Pages 667–675, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adh072 Published: 01 October 2004

What do you do? asked Miriam, a forty-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant woman in Israel. I am in education. Are you a teacher? No, she answered. Are you a principal in a school? No. am a kindergarten teacherʼs assistant, she replied proudly. Miriamʼs self-defi nition as an educator reveals an alternate strategy by which second-generation immigrant women can conform to the hegemonic cultural norm of upward educational and occupational mobility, character- istic of Israeli society...