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This item was filed by an independent observer in March 1983. The overall context given of the relief operation remained valid up to at least the mid‐year point, with one well‐publicised exception. Late in April, the town of Korem, in northern Wollo region, was seized for several days by the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The famine relief operation was completely disrupted, and the shelter population dispersed. The official relief programme resumed slowly after some 6 to 7 weeks; of the...
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This item was filed by an independent observer in March 1983. The overall context given of the relief operation remained valid up to at least the mid‐year point, with one well‐publicised exception. Late in April, the town of Korem, in northern Wollo region, was seized for several days by the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The famine relief operation was completely disrupted, and the shelter population dispersed. The official relief programme resumed slowly after some 6 to 7 weeks; of the...
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Education is fundamental to any society. In its broadest sense it includes not merely curriculum and educational theory but all of the pressures that help to shape peoples' minds. Education, both formal and informal, is the vehicle through which society transmits its values, its “dreams”, and its worldview to its youth. Precolonial southern Nigerian societies had created educational systems that promoted their own values and moral standards as the guiding principles for their children. The...
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One hundred and thirty-three (76 male, 57 female) Papua New Guinean (PNG) and 144 (93 male, 51 female) Australian high school students completed a series of structured and open-ended measures on attitudes to the mentally ill, especially opinions about the nature of mental illness, characteristics of the mentally ill, and treatment. Both groups of students suggested hereditary and environmental causes, with PNG students citing more often witchcraft and sorcery. Australian students generally...
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The records of psychiatric inpatients treated in 1980 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital psychiatric admission unit were reviewed. Diagnostic and demographic characteristics of these patients were extracted, analyzed and reported on. The trend in psychiatric patients admission in this part of the world is discussed.
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Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1.0) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were determined in 1001 healthy Nigerian school children, aged between four and 16 years. The results were analysed with respect to the ages, heights, weights and body surface areas of the subjects. Among the variables used, weight showed the best correlation with FEV1.0 in both sexes and with FVC in males. Conversely, height showed the best correlation with FVC in females. However, the differences between these...
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Summary Data from a questionnaire administered to 222 women student teachers of the Faculty of Education, University of Ife, Nigeria, indicated that a significantly greater proportion of the student teachers aspired to pursue master's degree than doctor's degrees. Married and unmarried women differed in their aspiration to be principals of high schools but showed no difference in their aspiration to be vice-principals or special-grade principals of high schools. As the level of professional...
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The isotopic compositions of Sr, Nd and Pb together with the abundances of Rb, Sr, U and Pb have been determined for mafic and felsic potassic alkaline rocks from the young Virunga volcanic field in the western branch of the East African rift system.87Sr/86Sr varies from 0.7055 to 0.7082 in the mafic rocks and from 0.7073 to 0.7103 in the felsic rocks. The latter all come from one volcano, Sabinyo. Sabinyo rocks have negative εNdvalues ofεNd = −10. Nd and Sr isotopic variations in the basic...
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A comparison of attitudes toward the disabled in Ghana was made between 146 college students (majoring in general education, special education administration and medicine) and 128 non-students. The study focuses on an analysis of responses to a select number of attitude statements which revealed the following: Students responded more favorably than non-students to statements emphasizing the value of educating the disabled. Students were less likely to blame the disabled or his/her family for...
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Blood pressure was measured in 684 girls ranging in age from 11 to 18 years at a government secondary girls' school. The study showed a gradual rise in the mean diastolic and systolic pressures with increasing age. There was a significant difference in the mean systolic and diastolic pressures of the girls aged 11–15 compared with those aged 16–18. Hypertension defined as systolic and/or diastolic pressures greater than two standard deviations above the mean pressures was found in 6.8 per cent of the study population.
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The problem with which this study is concerned is that of determining the specific stated factors that influenced Nigerian adults to participate in adult basic educational programs of the Nigerian Baptist Convention which lead to the first-school-leaving-certificate. The purpose of the study was to identify and examine the factors that influence Nigerian adults to participate in the adult basic and certificate educational programs of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, and to make...