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C HILDREN ARE BEING formed today as they imbibe what they see and hear in their various cultures--homes, schools, television-land, the wider society. Some of the obtainable information, whether desirable or not, whether true or not, comes to rest within the child and grows there with the individual. dollars later doled out to counselors of one type or another symbolize years unhappily spent with what was once ingested, with what became rooted notions of how the world works, how it ought to...

To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...

To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...

To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...

To examine what factors African American women with one or more physical disabilities perceive as barriers to exercise and how they rank them.Department of Disability and Human Development at a major university.Data were collected through telephone interview using a newly developed instrument (Barriers to Physical Exercise and Disability [B-PED]) that addressed issues related to physical activity and the subjects' disability.Fifty subjects were asked questions about their participation and...

Both redbilled oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) and yellowbilled oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus) have experienced recent population decreases in southern Africa largely as a result of cattle dipping against ticks, their primary source of food. In Namibia, oxpeckers are confined largely to the Caprivi region in the north-east and the yellowbilled oxpecker is classified as a Namibian Red Data species. Counts in 1983–1984 estimated populations of 2285–3780 redbilled oxpeckers and 2062–2613...

African American students’ beliefs about the value of getting a good education have long been debated. The present study demonstrates that African American students hold a variety of perspectives about the value of education, and that certain types of beliefs naturally occur in students with certain academic performance records. Cluster analysis was used to identify five clusters of 126 African American college students with differing profiles on Idealistic Educational Utility,...

To investigate the effects of a four month endurance training programme on body composition and reproductive hormone levels.PRE and POST training comparative study.Zimbabwe Military Academy, Gweru, Zimbabwe.77 male recruit volunteers participating in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces cadet training programme.Percent body fat, fat free mass, body mass index, total serum testosterone, luteinising hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) compared using the paired t-test.There was a...

Prevention of smoking is a public health goal recognized worldwide. Though the role played by physicians is an important one, data in the literature indicate that medical school is a poor place to learn it. In 1997, we conducted a study among medical students at Monastir Tunisia to examine their smoking behavior and attitudes towards smoking and their participation in prevention. The study included 93.3% (N = 501) of the students in their 1st, 4th and 5th years of medical school. One-third...

Power sharing has increasingly been seen as a way out of otherwise intransigent conflicts in multi-ethnic African societies. Yet power sharing has obvious problems: power sharing agreements are difficult to arrive at, even more difficult to implement, and even when implemented, such agreements rarely stand the test of time. Indeed, there are relatively few historical examples of successful, formalised power sharing in Africa which would warrant its advocacy. Drawing primarily on the cases of...

Abstract Three approaches to modelling the duration of streamflow droughts at eight southern African sites are considered; a non-parametric method (that of Kaplan-Meier) is compared with the fitting of two simple parametric models: the exponential and Weibull. All techniques allow the instantaneous probability of a drought coming to an end to differ between wet and dry seasons, using the concept of censored data. Model-fitting is discussed, and the Kaplan-Meier estimates permit an assessment...

This article examines differences between chiropractic and medical internship experiences, both internationally and in South Africa. The South African hospital experience is described, and the future is discussed.

Attempts to extend the work of a study which examined the differences that exist between the attitudes of White and African American college business students using the Blacks in Business Scale (Stevens, 1984). Considers particularly the perception of white students with regards to their beliefs about African Americans. Concludes that White students hold a positive view of their counterparts but African Americans still believe that White students have a less positive view of African...

This article discusses the importance of training and education for TQM. The best way to institute quality into an organisation, particularly a bank, is to train employees to do their job better. The training structure must be top‐down, starting with the top team and cascading down the organisation. This is necessary to show management commitment and to ensure managers actually understand the TQM principles and methods. Results of the research project have indicated that none of the...

This article deals with the acquisition of possessive DP structures by Turkish and Moroccan adults and children learning Dutch without substantial classroom instruction. Our main claim is that L2 learners systematically and consistently rely on their grammatical knowledge, which surfaces in the initial stages of the L2 acquisition process but also has a strong impact on later developmental stages. Such a strong conservation encompasses parameter settings as well as morphological and vocabulary knowledge.