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This study focused on the psychometric properties of the Network Orientation Scale as used with South African students. This scale presumably measures an individual's willingness to use personal social resources. 450 black South African students completed the Network Orientation Scale, a biographical questionnaire, and a number of social support questionnaires. The instrument showed good internal consistency and scores correlated significantly (- .09 to - .53) with all the social support...
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An analysis tool was developed to simulate primary productivity and crop yields for both present and possible future climate conditions. Southern Africa was delineated into 712 relatively homogeneous climate zones, each with specific climate, soil and vegetation response information. The primary productivity and crop yield models were linked with the climate zones via a cellbased agrohydrologlcal model, with the final output coordinated using a Geographic Information System. The results of...
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In Tanzania, 5.3% of the urban population and 1.4% of the rural population were infected with HIV by 1995, and AIDS accounts for 30,000 deaths a year. During the next decade, AIDS may become a leading cause of death for children of Tanzania, and the epidemic will place a heavy burden on families. It has been estimated that, by the year 2010, Tanzania's gross domestic product will be 14-24% lower that it would have been without AIDS. The largest increase in prevalence in Tanzania has been...
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A suite of samples, including kaersutite and ilmenite megacrysts, spinel peridotites, garnet pyroxenites, and the alkali basalts that host them, have been studied in an effort to better constrain the mineralogy and chemistry of the subcontinental mantle beneath the central portion of the Arabian plate. Kaersutite megacrysts are classified as Type-A high-pressure precipitates of the alkali basalt host, which transported these xenoliths to the surface and extruded them during formation of the...
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Given the significance of female education for development, there is an enormous need for data across countries that can be used to inform policy discussions within and among individual countries. Nowhere, perhaps is this need greater than in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) where female participation in education is inordinately low, and where disparities between females and males vary greatly among countries. the report previewed in this article responds in two ways to the need for statistics on...
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Uganda claims success with using drama as a means of educating school age children and teenagers about HIV and AIDS. The drama program was organized by UNICEF and the Ugandan ministry of health. In all, 593 primary schools with 237,200 pupils took part out of the 12,000 schools and 2 million pupils in the country. Some 326 secondary schools, 47 teacher training colleges and 16 technical colleges took part in the program. In Uganda children begin to be sexually active at the age of 14. So...
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The number of mainly West African students in Britain steadily increased in this century. After 1920 African students were increasingly influenced by pan‐Africanist ideas and the nationalist movements, as well as radical politics and the experience of racial discrimination in Britain, and they formed various political organisations. The most important was the West African Students’ Union which served as a nationalist pressure group and training ground for many West African...
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With the aim of assessing continuing diabetes education and obtaining baseline information, we have evaluated the knowledge of 139 randomly selected diabetic patients from the Diabetes Clinic of Tikur Anbessa Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Seventy-five Type 1 (insulin-dependent) and 64 Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients, with a mean age of 36 +/- 14 (+/- SD) (range 15-78, median 36) years, and mean duration of known diabetes 6.3 +/- 5.5 (range 1-30, median 5) years...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessFocus on Southern AfricaThe Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Training Modes: Engineering Artisans in ZimbabwePaul BennellPaul BennellPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 37, Number 4Nov., 1993 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article...
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Look, Listen and Learn - An African-American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche. 28 September 1937–1 January 1938. Edited by Robert R. Edgar. Athens: Ohio University Press; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1992. Pp. 398. $40 (paperback R72). - Volume 34 Issue 3
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In 1986 a goldfield was discovered in a high‐altitude valley of the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Hundreds of Huli people from the Southern Highlands Province soon arrived to take advantage of the fortunes that could be made. This article examines the gold's incorporation into Huli mythopoeia, relates it to men's explanations of the illnesses they suffered at the goldfield, and shows how gold became analogous to menstrual blood as an agent of pollution. It is proposed that the polluting aspect...
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This contribution derives from a study of Aberdeen University's overseas connections, commissioned as part of its Quincentennial History Project. Aberdeen's contribution to the education of African students has always been modest; in a 1963–64 table of overseas students, it ranked fifteenth among British universities, with about 70 students from Africa. Although its experience may or may not be typical, the study suggests that it may exemplify some national trends.