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Abstract This note updates an article which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal1. It explains the programme implemented by the Institute of Public Administration and Managment (IPAM) to meet the national training needs, of Sierra Leone, for a technician level cadre of computer personnel.

Abstract : During February and March, 1989, a cultural resources survey of the V-levee segment of the West Bank-Hurricane Protection Project, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana was conducted. An Intensive pedestrian survey and shovel testing regime was done within the project corridor, an area of 345 acres. Two archeological sites, two landscape features, and three modern refuse loci are located within the the surveyed area. Brown's Sawmill (16JE217) is the remains of a mid-twentieth century...

This paper looks at the significance of education for the gifted as a vital primary step towards economic and political development. The paper focuses on how the gifted child fits into 6-3-3-4 system of Nigerian education and the possibilities of adapting the system to synchronize with the needs and peculiarities of the gifted child. The paper also explores areas of congruence and speculates over possible remedies for areas of incongruence. Specifically the paper analyzes the main...

A study was completed in 1985/86 which examined the dental health of pre-school children from different ethnic groups and communities in South Africa: rural black, urban black, urban colored, urban Indian, and urban white. Enamel defects were recorded in primary teeth by use of the HHI, an index developed to measure hypocalcification and hypoplasia of enamel. The findings showed that colored children had the greatest number of enamel defects. The teeth most commonly affected were the...

Traditional cultural beliefs and social structures remain strong throughout Sub-Saharan Africa but the influence of modernization is leading to rapid social change. Mass education is well established in the region and in Eastern and Southern Africa girls have achieved or are close to parity with boys in access to primary schooling. This article examines 3 factors: 1) within-country cohort differentials in family formation; 2) between-country differentials in educational equality and family...

There are no prevalence figures for childhood sexual abuse among South African women university students. This study addressed this gap, providing figures for an unselected, non-clinical group of 94 women students who constituted the sample at the University of Cape Town. A review of the methodological problems in this kind of research suggests that one of these concerns the stigma associated with sexual abuse. A novel approach which combines a search for prevalence information as well as...

The Mitidja aquifer, a 1300 Km2 plain oriented east west, north of Algeria, is very important in size and role. It is infortunately very sensitive to pollution. Sources of nitrates pollution are numerous: domestic, agricultural and industrial. An association of Na+, K+ and CL− elements with nitrates was observed. In order to determine a probable source of contamination, we studied this association. A high rate of these elements is more likely to indicate a possible nitrate contamination of...

During periods of eruptive activity at Langila Volcano, various combinations of low-frequency earthquakes and high-frequency air waves have been recorded, ranging from earthquakes alone to air waves alone. It is shown that these different types of events are part of a continuous range of events which are all interpreted to be explosions at or near the summit. Continuous tremor is also often recorded for durations of several minutes to hours and is classified into two types: “harmonic” and...

The records of all patients who died in the medical wards of the University Teaching Hospital in Papua New Guinea during a 6-month period between 1st January and 1st July 1984 were reviewed. Deaths were classified as early or late and subclassified as preventable, treatable, untreatable or undetermined. There were 120 deaths among 1242 adult patients admitted to the medical wards during the period under study (overall case fatality rate 10%). 35 patients died within 24 hours after admission...

In recent years, a number of ESL professionals have pointed to the ambivalent role of English in different parts of the world. Whose interests are served in the teaching of English internationally? What is the significance, for teachers and learners of English, of the debate on the “new marriage” between language and politics (Walters, 1989, p. 1)? In seeking to address these questions, this article draws on a poststructuralist theory of language to challenge the hegemony of “communicative...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames E. PlueddemannIn addition to his teaching duties at Wheaton College, the author has worked for 13 years as director of Christian Education and director of Theological Education for the Association of Evangelical Churches of West Africa in Nigeria.

Parameters were described for spatial database to facilitate drought monitoring and famine early warning in the African Sahel. The proposed system, referred to as the African Drought and Famine Information System (ADFIS) is ultimately recommended for implementation with the NASA/FEMA Spatial Analysis and Modeling System (SAMS), a GIS/Dymanic Modeling software package, currently under development. SAMS is derived from FEMA'S Integration Emergency Management Information System (IEMIS) and the...

ABSTRACT Monthly rainfall data for Kabarnet District Office, together with comments taken from the Baringo District Annual Report are used here to examine the relationship between rainfall characteristics and agricultural drought experienced over the period 1915 to 1943 in order to establish the meteorological criteria for a definition of drought applicable to the former Kerio Native Land Unit, Baringo District, Kenya. The concept of reliable rainfall as a drought threshold is also examined....

The empirical work of Bell (1981) was adapted to investigate rural and urban African pupils' alternative conceptions of the concept ‘animal’. The results indicate three forms of pupils' thinking: (a) Anthropocentrism, that is making judgements and giving reasons using the human being as a point of reference; (b) Animal-centredness/zoocentrism—classifying instances and non-instances of animal on the basis of animals in general and not just human beings; and (c) Vacillating between...

Fertility and pregnancy outcome among 141 Nigerian women with uterine leiomyomas and 270 married gynaecological subjects matched for age and parity were studied. The preoperative spontaneous abortion incidence and fetal salvage among the 68 women in the study group who had previously been pregnant were 61.8% and 78.8%, respectively. Corresponding figures among women in the comparison group were 5.3% and 95.6%. Macroscopic evidence of pelvic sepsis was found at operation in 36.2% of all the...

Riot police stand at the ready as students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) stage an illegal demonstration against apartheid and for peace outside their campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1989.