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The northern Main Ethiopian rift (MER) marks the transition from continental rifting to incipient seafloor spreading. We constrain anisotropy of the upper‐crust in the MER and its uplifted rift flanks using shear‐wave splitting from 24 earthquakes located beneath 18 broadband stations. Along the axis of the MER the fast polarization direction is oriented between ∼N and ∼NNE, parallel to Quaternary‐Recent faults, aligned cones and maximum horizontal stress. Delay times are highest (0.24 s)...
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SUMMARY This paper discusses the education and training of both junior and professional staff for cataloguing at the University of Botswana Library and examines the formal library school education at the University of Botswana offered by the Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS). It focuses on education for cataloguing and classification with emphasis on descriptive cataloguing; subject access; classification; and bibliographic control for books and other library materials. The...
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The purpose of the study that this article is based on, was to develop and test an appropriate model for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for nurses. To test the model it was implemented in a form of pilot projects by three Nursing Education Institutions. The study adopted a multi phase decision oriented evaluation research design. Stuffelbeam's Context, Input, Process and Product evaluation model was used as a theoretical framework to guide the research process, This article presents the...
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Risk and protective factors that predict substance use were investigated with 318 African American high school dropout youths who completed the 1992 follow-up of the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988. A conceptual model linking positive family relationships and religious involvement to youths' substance use and conventional peer affiliations through a positive life orientation was examined with structural equation modeling. Positive life orientation, which included optimism and...
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The dual campaigns of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have made universal primary school enrolment for boys and girls a priority for developing countries. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected millions of people in sub‐Saharan Africa and has depleted the teaching corps. As a result, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has pushed the targets of EFA and MDG further out of reach for many medium and high HIV‐prevalence countries. The provision of highly active antiretroviral...
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Purpose The primary aim of the work reported here is to determine whether a low cost teaching approach which had been successfully used in one region of Tanzania (Tanga) could be introduced to other teachers in a different region by teachers, rather than outside experts. A second aim is to determine whether changes occurred in children's knowledge and behaviour and a third aim is to determine if the work was sustained. Design/methodology/approach The study was carried out in ten randomly...
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It was a descriptive study bearing on a probabilistic sample of one-degree cluster composed of 685 adolescents studying in six secondary state schools in Sousse, during 1998-1999 school year. The facts had been collected through an anonymous and self administrated questionnaire. 23.3% of youngsters had a negative image of themselves. Parent-adolescent communication was inexistent in 30.6% of cases. At school, 24.3% of youngsters had a bad relationship with their teachers. One adolescent on...
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This article reports on an exploratory qualitative study on 37 students' acquisition of language and literacy. The study closely analyzes a linguistics assignment written in English, the dominant language, given to students at University of the Western Cape belonging to groups speaking English, Afrikaans, or an African language. The study demonstrated that a variety of aspects of a student's learning biography influence her written performance. Proficiency in the dominant language is a...
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African Journal of EcologyVolume 43, Issue 4 p. 279-281 National Climate Change Conference in South Africa Jon C. Lovett, Jon C. Lovett Centre for Ecology, Law and Policy, Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UKSearch for more papers by this authorPhoebe Barnard, Phoebe Barnard Global Change Research Group, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this authorGuy F....
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This study examined Ogbu's widely accepted thesis that African American students reject high academic achievement because they perceive its limited utility in a world where their upward mobility is constrained by racial discrimination. Boykin's psychosocial integrity model contends that Black students value high achievement but that discrepancies between their formative cultural experiences and those imposed in school lead them to reject the modes of achievement available in classrooms....
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Nutrient intake and consumption of indigenous foods among college students in Limpopo Province, South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 18(1) 2005, pp: 32-38 : erratum
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Abstract This article explores the ability of the training and work experience offered under public works programmes to promote employment in South Africa. Public works are a key component of South African labour market policy and are ascribed considerable potential in terms of addressing the core challenge of unemployment. However, despite this policy prominence, the labour market impact of the training component of such programmes has not been studied systematically in South Africa, from...
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American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 87, Issue 5 p. 1298-1303 Principal Paper Session Asset Preservation in African Agriculture in the Face of HIV/AIDS: The Role of Education Malcolm F. McPherson, Malcolm F. McPherson Senior fellow in Development, Center for Business and Government John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author Malcolm F. McPherson, Malcolm F. McPherson Senior fellow in Development, Center...
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State of Denial. Directed by Elaine Epstein. South Africa, 2002. 82 minutes. DVD and VHS formats. Distributed by California Newsreel, www.newsreel.org. 49.95 (high school, public library, or HBCU). - Volume 48 Issue 3