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Combination of questionnaire and interview instruments was used to obtain information from the Head Librarians of 45 major Nigerian special libraries in government supported institutions. The questionnaire dealt with the years they learnt about information technology and its applications in special library services, the methods of training in information technology and their applications in special library services. Analysis of information obtained revealed that those who first formally...

African-American students who fail in school programs are presumed to have a “low” self-concept. However, this view fails to recognize self-concept as an observable, describable, situation-specific, and measurable phenomenon. In addition, it ignores the cultural biases and prejudices inherent in current self-concept assessment tools. In contrast, the operational model of self-concept, which defines self-descriptive behavior, permits identification of styles, strengths, and weaknesses in the...

In a ten year period (1977--1986) one hundred and fifty children with hydrocephalus who received ventriculo-peritoneal shunt as their modality of treatment were followed up. Seventy-one per cent of these children were neonates and infants, the majority of them presenting within the first 3 months of onset of symptoms and signs. The major causes of hydrocephalus in these children were congenital malformations, meningitis, tumours and trauma. Pudenz shunt systems were favoured in the 1977--81...

Schistosoma mansoni is often perceived by governments and international aid agencies to present a major public health problem in the tropical and sub-tropical world. This perception persists in spite of the fact that biomedical practitioners and research workers disagree about the nature and extent of disease and disability caused by schistosomes. This paper raises the question of whether S. mansoni should continue to be given priority as a public health problem in Gezira Province, Sudan....

This article presents a schema designed to guide the development of theory, methodology, and research related to the psychoeducational assessment of African-American learners with gifts and talents. The relationships among African-American worldviews, needed psychoeducational assessment theory and methodology, and desirable assessment and identification instruments and practices are explored. Assessment paradigms, instruments, and practices most reliable and valid for identifying gifts and...

The Munro-Adams Love Attitude Scale was administered to 133 randomly chosen final-year undergraduate White South African and British university students in this examination of their attitudes toward love, courtship, and marriage in relation to the observation that, although South African tertiary educational institutions exist within the authoritarian and restrictive culture of apartheid, they nevertheless are modeled on the British educational system, which has its roots deeply embedded...

Drought hazard has been increasing in Morocco during the present century, because of the extension of cultivation into marginal low-rainfall areas and because of reduction of fallow. These processes have been caused by the effects of European colonization, population pressure, scarcity of viable new cropland, and other factors. Loss of food security has further increased Moroccan vulnerability to drought. Twice during the 1980s, drought-related rioting demonstrated the strong links among...

This paper is dedicated to Soba Djallo, Director of IRGM, who died in 1991 Results of seismic monitoring of the continental segment of the Cameroon Volcanic Line for the period 1982 to 1990 are reported. Mount Cameroon continues to be seismically the most active area with a well defined seismicity pattern characterized by single and swarm events with duration magnitudes between 2 and 3 occurring at depths down to 55 km. On average, the earthquakes here occur at the rate of about 2 events...

The recommendations offered here are applicable to all youths in mathe matics and science. The emphasis, however, is placed on African-Ameri cans, because not enough of these youngsters are doing well in these subject areas.

The Bush administration currently supports the concept of school choice as a means to counter the negative effects of public school systems that have not maintained standards of excellence. Futhermore, this administration, along with some policy advocates and practitioners, contends that parental choice plans will improve the quality of education for low-income minority students who are at risk for school failure. This article argues against this policy proposal from historical and sociocultural perspectives.

This paper attempts to elucidate the condi tionthat led to the ntroduction of vocational programsinto secondary schools in Ethiopia .The viability of vocational programs correlateswith other development processes . In the ab en cof this ~ no educational programs could contributemuch to the society . In the Ethiopian situation ~the role of vocational education has not beenassessed to ascertain its benefits . Theintroduction of a program into any school systemshould not be an end in itself.

Abstract It is important to develop and apply AIDS prevention models. The capacity of the theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behaviour to predict intended condom use was tested, using self-administered questionnaires. among 179 male and 123 female Zimbabwean teacher-trainees. Over 93% of males and 72% of females were sexually experienced. Scale reliabilities, which ranged from 0.46-0.90, were reasonable. Data were analyzed using multiple regression with hierarchical entry, first of the...

Some mixed or sensorineural hearing losses currently depend on conventional hearing aids. But during the last 5 years hearing aids implanted in the middle ear have been under study. Using a piezo-electric transducer, an animal model in guinea pig was developed. Chronic and acute experimentations were realised. With piezo electric transducer chronically implanted, thresholds for click evoqued action potentials of the auditory nerve required electric level of about 100 mV. The vibrator was...

A Language syllabus is an educational docwnent;1,n fact, it is a record of corrunitments andaccountability. It directs progress andindicates destination. To serve these purposes,it needs to be adequate (complete) in containingthe requirements as a guide for ' theteaching-learning proc.ess, relevant (suitable)to the situation it intends to serve, andeffective (yeilding) in producing expectedlearning outcomes. How is the Ethiopian SchoolEnglish Syllabus in the light of these issues:Adequacy,...

The question of application for disability grants is a subject that was shrouded in mystery at our clinic - everybody professed ignorance and bewilderment with the processes involved and a lack of faith in the system as it is operating. No one knew of any guidelines, so by using a specific patient as a poiguant example, I have tried to explore the processes involved and the guidelines that exist for the approval of applications. The wilder implications of a disability grant request for the...

Raffaella Cribiore THANKS TO ROBERT KASTER'S recent study of grammarians in late antiquity,l we now have a better understanding of how these guardians of lived, of their place in society, their social relations, and their economic circumstances. Despite his limited mobility, the grammarian emerges as a formidable custos of language and tradition, entrusted with providing a firm base of continuity in a changing world. Language, its conventions, and the texts of the traditional poets were...

Journal of AdolescenceVolume 15, Issue 3 p. 323-326 Brief Report Relationship between parental socio-economic status, sex and initial pubertal problems among school-going adolescents in Nigeria Alfred Adegoke, Corresponding Author Alfred Adegoke n/a@dne.dne Reprint requests should be addressed to Alfred Adegoke, Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.Search for more papers by this author Alfred Adegoke, Corresponding Author Alfred...