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Progress has been made during the 1980s in understanding the causes of famine and the public action required to prevent it (8; 30). It is now recognized that famines arise from a complex interaction of supply, distribution, and demand factors, not just from disruption of local supplies due to drought. Yet. this conceptual reorientation does not diminish the key role of drought as a trigger for famine. In 1990/91, droughts reduced harvests in most countries bordering the Sahara, contributing...
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This chapter discusses the changing accounting education in South Africa. It is a country in the process of economic development, with increasing manpower needs, especially in respect of skilled and semi-skilled labor. In this scenario of a rapidly changing South Africa, the implications for education are profound. This is also true of accounting education, particularly as black student numbers in accounting have increased considerably in recent years. The accounting profession in South...
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177 respondents attending a midwestern state university reported greater alienation from the wider society when they held more positive attitudes than negative ones toward women and homosexuals. Alienation and attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and homosexuals were not influenced by gender or religiosity.
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Engineering designers are accustomed to the idea that although it would often be better to start again from scratch than to keep on modifying and altering a system, the economic and practical pressures force one to continue to do so. Higher education is no exception, with the institutions growing and evolving with changing needs and responding to the different demands made on them by Government.
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This report examines the learning styles of Caucasian and African-American students. While research supports the claim that low academic achievement is prevalent in the minority community, there is no consensus regarding the causes. There are two schools or thought that involve (1) the cognitive deficit or genetic cause, and (2) the cultural deprivation theory related to cultural poverty. Research shows that middle -class Caucasian students perform better in school than middle-class African...
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A total of 721 children in the six schools for the blind in Ethiopia were studied. In 1988-1989 histories were taken to ascertain the predisposing factors and ophthalmological examinations and records were used to determine the causes of blindness. Ninety-five per cent of those examined had bilateral blindness, 12% did not know how they had become blind and, of those who provided information on how they became blind, 21% knew that they were born blind, 30% implicated measles as being...
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Plio-Pleistocene silicic volcanoes, calderas, and their eruptive products are common throughout the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER). A compllation of KAr and 40Ar39Ar dating results for the central sector of the MER demonstrate that the most voluminous and widespread ignimbrites of this region are Pliocene in age, between 4.2 and 3.5 Ma. These units occur in and around: (1) The Awasa and Wagebeta calderas, (2) the Guraghe and Munesa escarpments, where a major buried caldera is believed to occur...