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This study examined the factor structure of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) among African American college students. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated the 3-factor solution commonly found among other populations did not fit the data for African Americans. Although an exploratory factor analysis indicated the presence of a Mental Incapacitation factor, the Physical Concerns factor was divided into unsteady and cardiovascular concerns. Items typically comprising the Social factor were...
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Abstract Selected proverbs relating to disability from sub-Saharan African countries are presented as texts that can be deciphered for larger frames of reference of personhood and cosmogony. Fifty-five proverbs were collected in the course of ethnographic fieldwork and from literature searches. Existential insecurity is identified as a frame that refers to a characteristic of personhood, derived from proverbs that include the implications of laughing at a disabled person. A sense of...
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Taking Back Control: African Canadian Women Teachers' Lives and Practice. Annette Henry. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 211 pp.
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The purpose was to investigate whether there were significant differences between African American and Caucasian students on critical thinking and learning style. Fifty-two Caucasian and 51 African American students responded to Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and the Inventory of Learning Processes (a learning style inventory). Analyses of variance showed that Caucasian students had significantly higher mean scores than the African American students on four subtest scores of the...
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The mechanisms used to convey parents' and teachers' educational expectations for the academic achievement of low-income African American children were explored using data from the Chicago Longitudinal Study. A total of 712 children were studied. A model of mediated effects was used to test the processes of influence from parents' and teachers' expectations to sixth-grade outcomes. Children's perceptions of expectations were hypothesized to mediate the effect of expectations to school...
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The problem of recruiting, preparing, and retaining African American teachers in urban schools can be resolved. The primary place to seek minority candidates is in the expanding pool of mature adults with college degrees who already reside in the particular metropolitan area. This follow-up study tracked the graduates of a post baccalaureate urban teacher preparation program now in its tenth year. The procedures involved tracking the graduates, securing their evaluations of the program, and...
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This paper focuses on language choice in the newest nation in the Horn of Africa within a broader context of language policy in multilingual states. Pre-colonial and post-colonial language policies in Eritrea are surveyed in relation to evolving linguistic and political nationalism. Language contact and its social consequences are discussed in an attempt to shed light on language policies pursued during different periods in the colonial history of Eritrea. Using descriptive frameworks...
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The broad objective of the Political Economy of the Environment (PEE) program is to equip African professionals from the public and private sectors, non-government organizations (NGOs), academia and journalistic professionals with the knowledge and tools for analyzing development policies and investments from the perspective of sustainability, and also to spread this learning to others. The distance learning (DL) course was seen as one method of achieving the program's objectives using state...
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Seismic data recorded in the vicinity of the active vent of the 1995 Fogo eruption [Global Volcanism Network Bulletin, 1995, 20(3) 2–4.] is used to constrain the associated stress field and deformation. Using the frequency content of the seismograms to distinguish between brittle fracture of cold host rock and deformation in the vicinity of the intruding magma, a sub-vertical dyke with 060° strike is identified as the feeder of the eruption, and delineated down to a depth of about 4 km. The...
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"Take It to Heart" is a community health screening and education project jointly sponsored by the National Medical Association (NMA) and Bayer Corporation, Pharmaceutical Division. The project was designed to increase awareness of the prevalence of hypertension and the risks of coronary heart disease in the African-American community. Free health testing for hypertension and cholesterol was provided in six communities. Participants received an individualized coronary risk assessment...
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A regional analysis of hydrological droughts is conducted using the partial duration series model with the two-component exponential (TCE) distribution as exceedence distribution. The index-flood method is applied in order to obtain more efficient estimates of the T-year events. Only one of the three parameters of the TCE distribution contributes significantly to the uncertainty of the T-year events and, therefore, only this parameter is regionalized. In total 25 gauging stations covering...