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In a study of 212 children at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu who received ventriculo peritoneal shunt for hydrocephalus over a 13-year period (1977-1989, 14 had infected shunts and one developed shunt nephritis. Staphylococcus aureus was responsible for 36.4% of the positive cultures and was responsible for the only case of shunt nephritis. This is about the fourth case of shunt nephritis associated with Staphylococcus aureus shunt infection, in the literature. The...
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Social work students can be trained to assume critical roles in response to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in the African American community. To effectively prepare social work students for these roles, educators must ascertain the knowledge and attitudes of students toward the epidemic. Although several researchers have studied the AIDS knowledge and attitudes of social work students in general, none have reported on the knowledge and attitudes of African American...
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This report summarizes the preliminary findings, challenges and insights of a Javits grant project. Project SEARCH's major goals are to identify and serve potentially gifted rural African‐American children in the regular classroom setting. Screening is done in kindergarten, and the nontraditional identification process includes use of the Ravens Coloured Progressive Matrices, Torrance's Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement, a teacher rating scale, and a peer nomination interview. The...
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Water loss and chlorophyll a fluorescence kinetics in younger leaves of Prenia sladeniana and Delosperma tradescantioides were measured during a period of desiccation in shoots with older leaves attached and those with older leaves removed. Water loss of the younger leaves in both species was significantly lower when older leaves remained on the shoot, although this effect was much more pronounced in P. sladeniana. A large decline in the fluorescence parameter FV/FM, quantifying the quantum...
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Although traditional birth attendants (TBAs) are often illiterate and have rarely received any training other than their experience as assistants to older TBAs, they remain the main providers of health services to families and attend most births. In countries where there is a chronic shortage of TBAs and community health centers to care for the special needs of women, training courses to upgrade TBA skills contribute to the improvement of community health. Also, in Nigeria and other parts of...
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After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the North and South Sudanese erupted into violent conflict in 1983 This ferocious civil war, witti its Arab militias and widespread use of automatic weapons, has devastated the populace. In additon to the miseries of war, drought and famine took a further toll on an already battered societyalthough this regional calamity remains largely unknown to the outside world, over 1,000,000 people have either perished or been displaced....
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Information service is a vital component of guidance programme in schools. It provides students not only with basic knowledge about themselves but also knowledge in the areas of education, occupation and personal-social issues and decision making. Information is also vital during the counselling interview as the individual is assisted to understand himself/herself better. Formal guidance programme is being co-ordinated in Botswana Schools by the Guidance and Counselling Unit in the...
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A total of 854 schoolchildren from one urban and one rural district in northern Tanzania were examined for the presence of middle ear pathology and hearing loss by means of pneumotoscopy and screening audiometry (air conduction). The prevalence of chronic otitis media (COM) was 1.6%, with no difference between urban and rural children. Scarred and sclerotic tympanic membranes were found in 10.9% of urban children and in 15.1% of rural children, the difference being significant. Hearing loss...
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In this qualitative study, minority students were interviewed about the competition they felt in their high school. Purposes of the study were to investigate whether African American and Mexican American students engaged in academic competition, to describe their subjective experiences of competition in high schools, and to describe their responses to competition. Thirty-one participants in the Toledo (Ohio) EXCEL program, a scholarship incentive program for minority groups, and 10 students...
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Out of a total school population of 3,070 pupils examined for discharging ear due to bacterial etiology, 44 (1.4%) had discharging ear. Forty eight species of bacteria belonging to 5 genera were isolated. These included, Staphylococcus aureus, 16 isolates; Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 10; escherichia coli, 11; Proteus species, 7; Bacillus sp. 4. The highest prevalence of infection (3.0%) was recorded in central school Akwuke, Awkunanaw. Analysis of the data showed that infection rate was highest...
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ABSTRACT Information on rainfall intensity is regarded as one of the essential factors for predicting soil erosion. Since many sites lack information regarding the intensity of rains, estimates have to be made. The study investigates the relationship between daily amounts of precipitation and rainfall intensity based on a discontinuous series of charts from 1985–1994 at Roma Campus, Lesotho. Records of daily precipitation during the period 1962–1994 were used to determine the frequency...
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ABSTRACT. This paper examines the call for African-centred schools in Ontario, and identifies the challenges posed by such schools for Canadian students, parents, educators, and administrators. The author uses the narrative discourses of Black youths in Canadian inner city relative to their experiences in the public school system as one means of exploring the need and relevance of an African-centred school. The establishment of such school is proposed as an alternative form of schooling for...
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Few tuberculosis studies carried out in Kenya since 1948 have reported on the variations of the occurrence and geographical distributions of non-tuberculous Mycobacteria infection. They have however not been able to clearly relate infection outcome to the use of tuberculin tests as epidemiologic and clinical tool. The present survey, conducted by Kenya Medical Research Institute in collaboration with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases between 1986 and 1990 among...