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African American, Anglo-American, and Hispanic American graduate and undergraduate students reported their perceptions of their families of origin by completing the Family-of-Origin Scale. Responses were compared across gender and ethnicity using multiple analysis of variance and Student-Newman-Keuls method of multiple comparisonsfor post hoc testing. Using p <.05 level ofsignificance, AfricanAmericans rated theirfamilies of origin significantly higher than did both Anglo-Americans and...
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This paper looks at the history of the Cave Exploration Group of East Africa with special reference to the exploration of volcanic caves.It demonstrates that the group has concentrated on two main areas, the Chyulu Hills and Mt.Suswa, although other areas have also been studied.The Cave Exploration Group of East Africa has had to cope with various problems.The most important of which are related to the socio-economic conditions of a developing country.These problems have not prevented the...
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Namibia, like many other countries, acknowledges Information Technology’s potential in accelerating educational reform. A recently developed computer education policy attempts to ensure that remote schools benefit from the technology by narrowing the gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged schools. Analysis of the policy and the efforts of NITA, the Computer Association of Namibia, to assist in training school teachers are reviewed. The contributions of tertiary institutions, including...
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Final Report and Recommendations from the Evaluation of Teaching Materials for Lower Primary Education in Mozambique : III. Mathematics
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This chapter reports on a long-term study of economic and social adaptation among rural households in Zimbabwe.1 One of the major purposes of the study was to assess the extent of stress induced in poor households by relocation to new surroundings, under the aegis of the government’s resettlement programmes, at a time of acute drought in the early 1980s. Both objective and subjective indicators of stress were utilised, but the main objective indicator employed was the extent of malnutrition...
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The major risk facing rural households in Zimbabwe is that of drought. We use panel data to investigate responses of one set of households to this risk. The panel represents households resettled during the first two years of Zimbabwe's post-independence land reform program. The data are for a period (1983–1996) in which Zimbabwe experienced four major droughts (in 1982–1984, 1986–1987, 1991–1992 and 1994–1995). In three of the four droughts, state and nongovernmental organization (NGO)...
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ABSTRACT Interview and descriptive methods were used to investigate the stressors and coping strategies of academically successful African American female baccalaureate nursing students (N = 23) in the three predominately Caucasian universities in South Carolina. The study addressed three questions: 1) What are major stressors for African American female students? 2) Which coping strategies do these students use? and 3) Which coping strategies do these students find to be most successful?...