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The nursing profession in Kenya plays a very fundamental role in the society and provides employment to a good number of young men and women at an important part of their lives. The education of the nurse therefore forms a significant part of the overall educational system of the society. Thus the nursing curriculum reflects the educational philosophy of the society as a whole, Kenya's philosophy of health, the society's concept of the nurse and at the same time endeavouring to maintain the...
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Abstract The paper examines the issue of appropriate instructional media selection in a developing country such as Nigeria. Five criteria (media attributes, cost, usability, serviceability and availability) are used to assess the justifiability of different types of high technology instructional media (HTIM). Some HTIM are judged appropriate whereas some are judged inappropriate on the basis of the assessment. The paper ends by suggesting the development and use of low technology...
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The reduction in hookworm egg counts was determined in children treated with 1 and 2 doses of metrifonate. Kenyan primary school children were allocated to receive either 10.0 mg (n = 53) or 7.5 mg (n = 53) of metrifonate per kg of body weight (mg/kg) or a placebo (n = 26). Two doses of 10.0 mg/kg reduced hookworm egg counts (from arithmetic means of 4,177 to 438 eggs per gram of feces [epg]) more than did 2 doses of 7.5 mg/kg (from 4,329 to 1,392 epg; P < 0.01). Two doses of metrifonate...
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This study addresses these questions: (1) What is the relationship between secondary school principals' job satisfaction and their ages, educational level, salary, and years of experience on the job, size of school, and location of school? and (2) What is the relationship between two instruments that measure job satisfaction--The Job Descriptive Index (JDI) and The Job in General (JIG).
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Recent research efforts have attempted to address the contradictory conclusions being drawn about the relative contribution of television and newspapers to citizen awareness of public affairs. The traditional view of newspapers' superiority has been challenged by those investigators who hold that the determinant factors rest with individuals--their motivation, their political orientation, and their ability to derive information from any source. Additional questions surround the difference...
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Research Article| May 01 1986 Drought and Development in Ethiopia Marina Ottaway Marina Ottaway Professor of Political Science, George Mason University Marina Ottaway has taught at the University of Addis Ababa and has been a frequent visitor to Ethiopia. She is coauthor of Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution (New York: Africana, 1978) and Afrocommunism (New York: Africana, 1981). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1986) 85 (511): 217–220....
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This study examines the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice of family planning among postsecondary female students in an urban area of Anambra State, Nigeria. Although only a few of the women sampled expressed knowledge of modern contraceptive methods, the majority had favorable attitudes toward family planning. Among those who had knowledge of family planning, those who had attended a coeducational secondary school were more familiar with modern contraceptive methods, and those who...
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A paper presented to the Workshop on The Teaching and Research of Sociology and Anthropology in the East African Universities held at Nazareth, Ethiopia, April 21-25, 1986, organised by OSSREA.
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The incidence and nature of exertion-related injuries were studied at a South African Defence Force basic training centre. A total of 404 separate injuries were sustained by 359 of 947 recruits during the 10-week basic training cycle. Of these injuries, 18,3% were sustained with (group 1) and 81,7% without (group 2) an obvious sudden precipitating event. Exertion-related injuries were responsible for a loss of 2711 recruit-days of basic training. While the knee sustained the largest number...
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The effect of the South African Defence Force (SADF) military training on recruits' muscular strength, power, power-endurance, speed and flexibility was investigated. In the entire study group, a significant enhancement by basic training was observed for the isokinetic muscular strength of the right elbow extensors alone (17% increase; P less than 0,05). Stratification of training responses on the basis of initial fitness levels revealed significant improvements with basic training for all...
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The effect of the South African Defence Force's (SADF) military training on the endurance fitness of recruits was investigated. Pre-military training maximal O2 consumption (53,14 ml/kg/min) did not change significantly during the study. In contrast, lactate turnpoint (ml O2/kg/min) and treadmill performance time were moderately enhanced (7,5% and 8% respectively; P less than 0,05) by the initial 10-week basic training programme. Further analysis of the results showed this endurance-training...
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Groups of rats and guinea pigs with normal lungs and others with elastase-induced emphysema were exposed to NH4NO3 aerosols of 0.60 mass median aerodynamic diameter at 1 mg/m3 for 6 hr/day, 5 days/week, for 4 weeks. Morphologic and morphometric studies were performed on lungs perfused with cacodylate-buffered 2% glutaraldehyde under 20 cm H2O pressure at necropsy. The tissues were studied for pathologic change by light and electron microscopy; emphysema was evaluated by subgross and...
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Abstract This paper describes the first phase (1981‐1984) of a programme being carried out by the Government of Zambia to improve the organization and management of in‐service training for civil servants. General guidelines for an effective training function are outlined. These are compared to the problems of civil service training in Zambia in 1981, where responsibility was fragmented, co‐ordination was poor, work concentrated on routine administration, and the background of training staff...