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Traditionally, African American students display a low-rate of seeking mental health treatment. Issues such as mistrust of White therapists, attitudes toward mental health problems, and African American spirituality affect their help-seeking behavior. The present study examined a sample of 134 African American students at a Historically Black College/University. Using the Attitude Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale, the present study explored the relationships between...

Two regional climate models (RCMs) are used to downscale 10 years of control and 10 years of future (2070–2079) southern African climate, as simulated by the HadAM3 general circulation model forced with the A2 SRES emissions scenario. Changes in early and late summer season total rainfall, rain days and average surface temperature are presented for the projected future climate. The two RCMs indicate broadly consistent changes over the region as a whole. However, time‐ and location‐dependent...

Two regional climate models (RCMs) are used to downscale 10 years of control and 10 years of future (2070–2079) southern African climate, as simulated by the HadAM3 general circulation model forced with the A2 SRES emissions scenario. Changes in early and late summer season total rainfall, rain days and average surface temperature are presented for the projected future climate. The two RCMs indicate broadly consistent changes over the region as a whole. However, time‐ and location‐dependent...

Two regional climate models (RCMs) are used to downscale 10 years of control and 10 years of future (2070–2079) southern African climate, as simulated by the HadAM3 general circulation model forced with the A2 SRES emissions scenario. Changes in early and late summer season total rainfall, rain days and average surface temperature are presented for the projected future climate. The two RCMs indicate broadly consistent changes over the region as a whole. However, time‐ and location‐dependent...

Two regional climate models (RCMs) are used to downscale 10 years of control and 10 years of future (2070–2079) southern African climate, as simulated by the HadAM3 general circulation model forced with the A2 SRES emissions scenario. Changes in early and late summer season total rainfall, rain days and average surface temperature are presented for the projected future climate. The two RCMs indicate broadly consistent changes over the region as a whole. However, time‐ and location‐dependent...

This study estimates the returns to education for workers in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector, and investigates additional determinants of hourly...

This study critically analyses and discusses the way Eritrean civil servants are trained and utilized. This study shows that, except for specific areas, scarcity of skilled civil servants could not be considered as a major problem as it was in the early 1990s. The major challenge for the government would rather be how to utilize the existing staff effectively, particularly the expertise of the ex-trainees. In addition, the findings highlight the practices and challenges of civil service...

Several studies in Asia, USA and the United Kingdom have shown widespread drug use among adolescents and young adults, thus drawing global attention to this problem. There is however a paucity of data on drug use among youths in rural Nigeria. The target population for this study were adolescents and youths from three out of the 6 senior secondary schools in Igboora, Nigeria, selected by simple random sampling. A cross-sectional study, using interviewer-assisted questionnaire to determine...

In this study, a model of certain aspects of religiosity, social support, and depressive symptomatology that would examine how African Americans may be, differentially, protected from suicide was proposed. Intrinsic religiosity was found to be negatively related to depressive symptoms which were positively related to suicide ideation in a sample of 459 college students. Though the model was expected to produce more robust results for African American compared to White students, we did not...

E. B. Fiske and H. F. Ladd. Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $32.95. - Volume 48 Issue 3

E. B. Fiske and H. F. Ladd. Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $32.95. This text comes at a time when those with a stake in the answers are asking questions about the transformation of education a decade after the end of apartheid. Quite rightly, the title underscores the key point that equity goals are not so easy to attain, especially in the new South Africa where significant...

In African American literature, political connection with the audience is intensified by the radical nature of black drama as it both expresses protest and embodies acts of communal resistance and reaffirmation. The purpose of this article is to impart to students of African American literature distinguishing qualities of African American drama, with the hope that this often understudied, if not ignored, segment of African American literature can enhance students' appreciation of African...

This study investigated the use of media by distance learners enrolled in the NTI distance education programme. Two hundred and fifty five distance learners drawn from Oyo State, Nigeria, completed a questionnaire to determine the use of media, and factors militating against their effective use by distance learners. Research data were analyzed using percentages. The findings indicated that face-to-face contact and print related media were the major media used for learning. The findings also...

The study examined the predicting effects of parental influence, school environment, Learners\' interest, and self–efficacy on academic performance of police children in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo state, Nigeria. The sample consisted of 200 primary IV, V and VI pupils (Mean age = 9 years). The results of the multiple regression revealed that parental influence, school environment, learners\' interest and self-efficacy individually and jointly predicted academic performance. The study found that...

Abstract This investigation focused on the relation between college student drinking behavior and study skills, behaviors, habits, and attitudes among undergraduate students at a predominantly African American university. Students (N = 492) were administered a multimedia alcohol survey with an embedded measure of study practices. The negative and generally statistically significant correlations between study practices and drinking outcomes signify that lower scores on these study practices...

The aim of the study was to find out the extent to which students with Mental Retardation, Visual Impairment and Hearing Impairment would accept the idea of mainstreaming programmes in Ghana. In carrying out the study, 90 students were selected randomly from three of the country\'s special schools. A-15 item questionnaire designed in the Likert scale format was used to collect data. The major findings were that majority of the students rejected the mainstreaming programme. It came out that...