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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of replicating an evidence-based model, the Witness Project, for increasing breast and cervical cancer screening with African American women in a variety of locations and organizations in the United States. The quantitative and qualitative methods included a cadre of process and outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of the four-phase replication process. The intervention was replicated in 25 sites with 401 volunteers,...

In May 1991, 15,000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel in an overnight airlift and sorted in a haphazard and essentially random fashion to absorption centres across the country. This quasi-random assignment produced a natural experiment whereby the initial schooling environment of Ethiopian children can be considered exogenous to their family background and parental decisions. We examine the extent to which the initial elementary school environment affected the high school outcomes of...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid P. HaleBOB REISING, Column Editor: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Pembroke, North Carolina: David P. Hale is an English teacher at Suncoast High in Riviera Beach, Florida.

National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (NTP) and College of Medicine (COM), Malawi.To develop a TB/HIV module, incorporating TB control and the DOTS strategy, for 4th year medical undergraduates. To describe 1) the way in which the module was developed, 2) the contents and structure of the module, 3) the experience of teaching the module from 2000-2002, and d) the financial costs to the NTP.A descriptive study.The TB/HIV module, including the teaching manual, resource materials and...

This essay uses W.E.B. Du Bois's prophetic analysis of the color line problem to forecast the problem of the 21 st century: the problem of the language line. In this analysis, the centrality of language for learners of African descent in the US is front center as well as the relevant conceptual lenses that help to comprehend hegemonic linquistic structures in schooling and society. Namely, I juxtapose language beside cultural and social reproduction, hegemony, and race, and articulate the...

This article explores the challenges for higher education institutions in taking forward the South African government's policy goals towards increasing access and participation in higher edu-cation for students with disabilities. It argues that if these policy commitments are to be more than symbolic and to have real meaning for disabled students then closer attention needs to be paid to those factors within institutions which restrict access, limit effective participation, and thus...

Abstract The probation period for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) in Kenya has hardly been studied. Universities have produced thousands of teachers, but it is not clear as to their experiences in schools. This study examines the experiences of graduate teachers during their probation period (first 2 years of service) in order to find out their expectations, surprises, difficulties and the extent of assistance received from mentors. Finally, teachers' suggestions for improvement of the...

In this study, a high-resolution simulation of fossil fuel CO2 in Beijing and surrounding areas, China, during January 2014 is performed to investigate the characteristics and sources of Beijing fossil fuel CO2 (FFCO2) mixing ratios and the impact of regional transport. The model reasonably reproduces the observed meteorological fields in the study domain, including temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and wind direction. The simulated CO2 and CO mixing ratios in Beijing are in good...

This article examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. To constitute themselves as hair experts, freshman and senior students learn to distinguish between specialized and lay hair terminology, avoid loud talking, and ask clients' diagnostic questions. Students also reframe textbook metacommunicative theories using personal narrative, role‐play, and “mother wit.” Findings from this ethnographic and discourse analytic study highlight the actual processes...

In Morocco, the constraint of the drought in mountainous areas is often ignored. The droughts Morocco has known since 1980 remind us that these regions are faced with important water deficits, especially during the summer season. The purpose of this study is to explain the spatio‐temporal distribution and the frequency of the seasonal droughts in a mid‐mountain area. The study was based on the thermo‐pluviometric data of two typical stations of the Upper basin of the Oum‐er‐Rbia, namely...

Following elections in 1994, the Government of Malawi embarked on an ambitious programme of free primary education (FPE), resulting in a dramatic increase in enrolment. The paper argues that the policy did not sufficiently consider the ways in which direct and indirect costs of schooling continue to be prohibitive for some households, or the effects that the expansion would have on quality. The relevance of education for the majority of children who receive only a few years of primary...

The Campus Climate Survey was developed to identify the institutional characteristics of predominately white colleges or universities (PWCUs) that African-American students perceive as important predictors of the quality of the campus environment. We examined whether African-American and White students differentially consider institutional characteristics relating to racial climate to evaluate the campus environment. The survey was administered to 131 African-American and 247 White high...

Book reviewed in this article: Peter Lawrence and Colin Thirtle (eds.), Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective

We describe a residency program in Ghana that was developed to train obstetrics/gynecologist specialists for Ghana and the subregion to promote and manage the reproductive health of women and to reduce a high maternal mortality rate.The Carnegie-supported program, begun in 1989, is a 5-year residency in the two medical schools in Ghana, but with one central coordinating office. It has features that equip the graduate resident to practice in his/her environment. The fourth year of the program...

Culture has been linked to cancer-related beliefs and practices. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of culture on responses to cancer education materials. Religiosity, collectivism, racial pride, and time orientation were measured among 1,227 African American women. Analyses tested the hypothesis that women scoring higher and lower on each construct would differ in their liking, attention, attitude change, recall, and perceived relevance of tailored materials that...

Research Article| September 01, 2003 Volcanological and structural aspects of the Venetia kimberlite cluster – a case study of South African kimberlite maar-diatreme volcanoes Stephan Kurszlaukis; Stephan Kurszlaukis De Beers GeoScience Centre, PO Box 82232, Southdale 2135, South Africa, e-mail: Stephan.kurszlaukis@debeersgroup.com Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Wayne Peter Barnett Wayne Peter Barnett DeBeers Consolidated Mines Limited, Premier Mine P.O. Box...

Tire d’une etude financee par la cooperation britannique (DFID) sur le role de l’education dans la competition economique au Ghana, au Kenya et en Afrique du Sud, l’ouvrage s’inscrit dans la perspective optimiste d’une renaissance economique du continent africain sur laquelle peserait cependant un ensemble de nouvelles contraintes issues de la globalisation. Les auteurs considerent en particulier que « la competitivite sera de plus en plus basee sur la possession et l’utilisation du savoir pa...