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According to the Third National Survey conducted among women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa, 120,000 more people are estimated to have become infected with HIV since 1991 (Kustner, 1993a:34). Pupils and schools cannot be isolated from this serious health hazard in our country. In this article the relationship o f confidentiality between a doctor and his patient is compared to the relationship between a pupil and a teacher. The question arises as to whether a teacher (i.e. the...
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Sociocultural factors germane to African American families need to be recognized and incorporated into the counseling process of African Americans with disabilities. It is imperative that counseling professionals develop a thorough understanding of the family, community, and cultural ecologies of African Americans who are disabled. This article includes an analysis of the African American family system and its inherent strengths. A family strengths model of adjustment to disability for...
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To address questions of water quality monitoring and to investigate processes controlling the biogeochemical cycling of organics in marine systems, we have used a membrane filter for separating ‘dissolved’ and ‘particulate’ organics. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides residues in suspended particulates and water in surface and bottom samples collected from Alexandria coast El‐Max bay were analyzed by high resolution gaschromatography. The results showed recovery...
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In North Africa agriculture, mining and oil are the main resources. Chemical pollution due to the transformation of phosphate rocks, pesticide use, mining etc., is rampant. Regulations are long overdue. Some findings on this contamination in matrices such as water, foods, and mothers' milk are reported. It is only too clear that North Africa needs more chemical analysts to investigate this pollution so that it can be alleviated.
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Are there lessons Africa can learn from Taiwan and the other East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs)? Evaluating the relevance of their experience is fraught with difficulties inherent in making comparisons across regions, during different periods of time, with different preconditions. Clearly, developments in Africa have to be based on local institutions, values, and resources. Yet Taiwan's successful combination of industrialisation and growth with equity reflects goals that are...
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Zinc deficiency results in defective central nervous system function and in peripheral neuropathy. Calcium serves as second messenger in both pre- and postsynaptic membranes. Presynaptic uptake of calcium occurs via voltage-gated channels, whereas post-synaptic uptake occurs by way of a glutamate-activated channel, the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-channel. This study was designed to determine the effect of zinc status on calcium uptake by synaptic membranes prepared from guinea pigs...
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The National Urban League (NUL), under Dr. George Edmund Haynes' leadership made the training and education of African American social workers one of its major functions during the early 1900s. This article provides detailed information about the unique and timely fellowship program which provided funding and opportunities for many African American to study social work at leading schools of social work in the country. The Social Science Department of Fisk University also played a significant...
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Education for the hearing impaired worldwide is fraught with communication philosophy controverises. Whereas the oralphilosophy has dominated die education of the hearing impaired in Zimbabwe for decades* debate on use of alternative methods of communication opened up recently. This article highlights die merits and demerits of the key communication philosophies in the education of die hearing impaired in the Zimbabwean context. It observes Sign Language as particularly important for...
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Fast changes in the socio-economical, political, natural and technological environments, necessitates farmers to investigate the impact of these factors on their enterprises and to continually evaluate their needs for management training. An empirical investigation into the present (1993) and future (1996) importance of the above mentioned variables on 1093 selected commercial farm enterprises and the identification of management training needs have been executed. The importance of the...
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One hundred and sixty three mothers who delivered at Eldoret District Hospital (EDH) during the months of June to October, 1992 were interviewed using a structured questionnaire with the aim of establishing knowledge attained from antenatal visits on breast feeding and lactation. The mothers were either in the postnatal ward or in the newborn unit. The interview was on various aspects of breast feeding but with the main goal of establishing whether they received health education on breast...
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The present study examines the characteristics of menstrual cycle among 361 Nigerian postmenarcheal schoolgirls derived from seven public secondary schools. Survey questions covered preparation for menstruation, duration of flow, cycle length, regularity, premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea. For the study subjects the mean age (years) at the time of interview, at menarche, and completed since menarche are 16.5 +/- 3.3, 13.7 +/- 2.6 and 2.9 +/- 1.2 respectively. Premenstrual counselling...
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The first issue to be addressed is the place of public international law in the curriculum of South African universities. In many South African law faculties the subject is an optional course. While other courses are also optional, there are good reasons to question the wisdom of relegating public international law to optional status. This status reinforces the commonly held perception that public international law is of little value to the practitioner. This perception is misguided and...
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Abstract The authors identify specific health-related behaviors of African American college students and compare them with the students' perceptions of corresponding health issues. Among students surveyed, the rate of cigarette smoking (4%) was very low compared with smoking rates found in a national survey (14%); but alcohol consumption was relatively high (63010), although lower than the national average of 91%. More men than women smoked, but more women than men reported they drank...