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rHE NEW YORK AFRICAN FREE SCHOOL was founded in 1789 to serve city's growing free black population. Established by New York Manumission Society to divert black children from the slippery paths of vice, it was among first nondenominational charity schools in American cities. Throughout its history, school's trustees were dedicated to teaching free blacks industry and sobriety, virtues calculated to make them more orderly and tractable as they emerged from slavery.' But African Free School did...
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The authors give a brief survey about the situation of obstetrical and gynecological practices in Ethiopia and review their experiences and activities as lecturers and medical practitioners respectively in Gondar Medical College of the Addis Ababa University.--Effective improvements of the medical care and the development of health services in the country are hindered by the unimaginable lack of physicians caused by the feudal systems in the past for many centuries.--The first stage of...
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Optical defects of the light-focusing apparatus of the eye are called errors of refraction. They are responsible for 13% of all significant vision loss in Kenya, ranking third of all causes, after cataract and trachoma. As the overall prevalence of such visual impairment in the Country is 3.7%, roughly 0.5% of the population can be said to need spectacles to obtain normal vision. The comparable figure for secondary school children in Nigeria has been found to be 2.4%. In addition, patients...
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Optical defects of the light-focusing apparatus of the eye are called errors of refraction. They are responsible for 13% of all significant vision loss in Kenya, ranking third of all causes, after cataract and trachoma. As the overall prevalence of such visual impairment in the Country is 3.7%, roughly 0.5% of the population can be said to need spectacles to obtain normal vision. The comparable figure for secondary school children in Nigeria has been found to be 2.4%. In addition, patients...
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two instructional modes, discovery and expository, for teaching science knowledge, both application and recall, and science attitude to fifth‐grade male and female Egyptian students. The population used for this study consisted of 276 fifth‐grade students in two Egyptian schools. Twelve 45‐min science classes meeting over a 21‐day period made up the treatment period, with each of the two teachers instructing six of the 12...
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Abstract Variations in individual's disposition towards instructional methods and information processing in schools are widely recognised. Heath (1964) proposed a four mode model of cognitive styles: memorisation and recall (R), learning the underlying principle (P), learning the application (A) and fitting the information, like the jigsaw puzzle, into an existing mental schema through critical questioning (Q). The present study examined the distribution of 156 chemistry students from the...
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Senile cataract is a non-preventable disease of aging, having its biggest impact in the over-60 age group. Published clinic and hospital data, population-based surveys and World Health Organization estimates indicate that 1.2% of the entire population of Africa is blind, and that cataract causes 36% of this blindness. Ocular disease and ophthalmic manpower status questionnaires mailed to every African country in 1982 by the International Eye Foundation support these contentions, and further...
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North American and European libraries have, over the years, experienced a great many problems in the acquisition of material from South Asia. Depleted budgets, high costs of books, and the near end of the “excess currency” of the PL, 480 program have compounded the problems of acquisition from that region. In this paper, the author identifies these and other difficulties, and provides substantive recommendations for the efficient acquisition of material from the countries of South Asia. The...