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This article describes a study of African American first-year students' impressions of a predominantly White public university. Participants (N = 10) were asked to take photographs illustrative of their perceptions of the campus environment and to discuss their photographs in individual and small group interviews. Six themes emerged from these data: the physical beauty of the campus, the immensity of the campus, participants' consciousness of being Black on campus, the influence of...
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The aim of this study was to establish whether the combination of school-community or public libraries on school premises is a feasible solution to the lack of library services in previously disadvantaged areas. South Africa as a developing country needs to explore alternative arrangements in order to provide and improve information delivery to the multi-cultural and diverse people of the country. Gauld (1987) argues that combined libraries will ensure a more effective use of public money,...
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been affected by very frequent and severe droughts in the form of extreme rainfall variability and almost a secularly declining precipitation in the sizeable arid and semi-arid zones of the sub-continent.2 It is estimated that as much as 60 per cent of SSA is vulnerable to drought and about 30 per cent is considered to be highly vulnerable (Clay, 1995). Because of the heavy dependence on extensive resource utilisation in the context of a technologically poor...
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The rates at which magmatic processes operate are seldom determined, yet they offer powerful tests of competing physical models of magmatic evolution. U-series disequilibria have the potential to place constraints on the rates of geological processes and highlight significant differences in magmatic timescales. Recent advances in thermal ionisation mass spectrometry have made it possible to detect small variations in 226Ra-23~ disequilibria and here we apply these techniques to a suite of...
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Households in the west African semi-arid tropics face substantial risk -- an inevitable consequence of engaging in rainfed agriculture in a drought-prone environment. It has long been hypothesized that these households keep livestock as a buffer stock to insulate their consumption from income fluctuations income. This paper tests this hypothesis. Results indicate that livestock transactions play less of a consumption smoothing role than often assumed. Livestock sales compensate for at most...
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This article discusses the viability of the Literacy Learning Approach as a means of promoting literacy and modern contraception in Ghana. The program relies on flip charts that picture ideal family life and include short sentences illustrated pamphlets and colorful posters displayed in strategic sites. The Literacy Learning Program was an innovation that evolved out of a 3-year pilot on mass media support for adult education. The project included a baseline survey of knowledge practice and...