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The purpose of this study was to determine factors related to enrollment of African Americans in secondary agricultural science programs. Eleven agricultural science programs in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia were studied during site visits. Also, one agricultural science teacher in each of the high schools was interviewed. Based on the observations and other data that were collected, the researchers found that agricultural science teachers’ attitudes toward teaching and students...

The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to African American enrollment in secondary agricultural science courses. Questionnaires were completed by 380 students from Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia high schools. Attitudes of students enrolled in agricultural science courses and those not enrolled (biology students) were analyzed by race. Agricultural science students were more positive than biology students on three attitudinal constructs (image of the agricultural...

The African Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology (AITO) is an OCCCMED institute, founded in Bamako in 1953. The OCCCMED itself is based at Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso). AITO is a WHO collaborating center for the prevention of blindness. Training is one of the main activities of the institute, along with eye care, research and assessment. The prevalence of blindness in sub-Saharan countries is about 1.2%, with blindness mostly caused by cataracts, trachoma, glaucoma and onchocercosis. The...

Urban growth leads to the consumption of food outside the home, with the demand for street food coming particularly from school children. A survey of 240 primary school children aged 8 to 13 was carried out, by means of personal interviews. More than 90% were regularly given pocket money by their parents, and this money was used mainly for buying food from vendors inside or near their schools. Less than 20% of children ate breakfast at home before going to school. Food purchases occurred...

The prevalence of hepatitis markers (Hepatitis A, B, C and E) in primary school children in Freetown, Sierra Leone was investigated in a government school, representative of the urban middle class. The children were aged between 6-12 years old. A sub-sample (n = 120) of the 450 pupils were invited to participate. Of the 66 volunteers (mean 8.32 years) 12 were positive for HBsAg (males 9, females 3) and 11 were confirmed. Six of these were HBeAg positive, anti-HBe negative, (male 5, female...

Abstract The crime problem in many African-American communities threatens the prospect that future generations will survive or live conventional lives. Despite the punitive practices used by the criminal justice system to prevent crime in these areas, problems exacerbate leaving many to doubt that this is the best approach. However, the public health approach holds promise for communities saturated by violence and social disorganization. Introduction The total amount of crime committed in...

Abstract In Africa, the continued under-representation of women in education is particularly severe, especially in tertiary level programs relevant to agricultural development. The underlying premises of this paper are, firstly, that African agricultural development would be better served by an increase in the number of well-trained women leaders in agricultural research, extension, training and policy. Secondly, that there are currently very few women in positions of leadership in...

Provision of training is prominent among other initiatives to enhance domestic contractors' performance and contributions to economic growth in developing countries. Unfortunately, efforts in this respect are only marginally successful. The literature on small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) indicate that owner-managers' personal characteristics and factors relating to their organisations as well as the training programmes on offer influence their perceptions of importance of training,...

Earthquake activity and seismic hazard analysis are important components of the seismic aspects for very essential structures such as major dams and nuclear power plants. Setting of nuclear power plants becomes of increasing important in northern Egypt with the commitment towards promoting nuclear electric generation. Therefore, the annual seismic hazard maps with non-exceedence probability of 80%, 85% and 90% are given. These maps show that northern Egypt is severely affected by earthquakes...

Abstract: The paper examines some experiences in information technology (IT) projects in Africa. It reviews the twin contexts which IT projects in Africa bring together ‐ the experience of IT projects and the experience of projects in developing countries. It is shown that both have erratic track records but that valuable learning is contained from the experiences of each. Drawing on research experience from three developing country (two African) contexts, the paper draws out a series of...

In this article we use a unique source—a 30-year time series of the share transactions of two joint-stock companies—to examine the growth of the London capital market prior to and immediately after the Glorious Revolution. We argue that the London experience with open capital markets was not solely the result of 1689. Rather it was the learning by private individuals and goldsmith bankers which took place in the decades before 1689 that allowed the market to take full advantage of the...

Forensic medicine is a specialty new to Tunisia since local teams started working in this field only 3 decades ago. Forensic medicine departments are now established in university hospitals, associated with the four national faculties of medicine. Medical undergraduate education includes forensic medicine as part of the curriculum because of the curent lack of forensic physicians and the need for practitioners with some training in this field. Specialization is achieved by a 4-year...

Abstract While professional social work enjoys a solid history of working within African-American communities, there is evidence which suggests that one segment of the African-American community, African-American girls in urban settings, continues to be ignored by social work and other helping professions. This paper describes the changing expectations of African-American female adolescents in one urban high school. By critically interpreting the girls' demeanor and icons, the authors...

Abstract The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between credit buying of clothing and background characteristics of teachers in primary and junior secondary schools in Accra, Ghana. Frequency and percentage distributions were used to analyse data collected from 180 respondents. The hypotheses that there were no relationships between credit buying of clothing and age, educational background, household size, religion, ethnicity, marital status and gender were tested...