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This paper examines: (1) the impact of having a child with a disability on parents' mental and physical health among urban-dwelling African Americans and (2) the extent to which positive and negative social interactions with family other than the spouse moderate the impact of child's disability on parental adaptation. Analyses are based on a probability sample of African Americans living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The analytic sample includes 48 parents of a child with a disability and 144...

The damage and negative consequences of the Israeli Cast Lead on Gaza in the period between December 2008 - January 2009 is not only limited to the number of martyrs and wounded people, the destruction of houses and the infrastructure, but it also reached the environment. This paper investigates the occurrence of phosphorus (P) in the soil of the northern gover-norate of the Gaza Strip which has been shaped as a result of the heavily bombing of white phosphorus on Gaza during the war. We...

In Tunisia, several studies on domestic injuries have been carried out on children attending care facilities. Nevertheless,there is a lack of data on incidence and kinds of child domestic injuries amongst general population because of absence of a reliable data collect system.To estimate the incidence and kinds of domestic injuries through a prospective survey "here-there" within two cohorts of young children attending two mother and child protection centers (MCPC) in Tunis during the three...

Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsVolume 12, Issue 10 Free Access Insight into volatile behavior at Nyamuragira volcano (D.R. Congo, Africa) through olivine-hosted melt inclusions Elisabet M. Head, Elisabet M. Head [email protected] Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, 49931 USASearch for more papers by this authorAlison M. Shaw, Alison M. Shaw [email protected] Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole...

This study employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production. Factors that mediate or hinder adaptation across different shocks and strategies include age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure. There are also differences in choice of adaptation strategies by agro-climatic zone. The appropriate policy level responses...

This study employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production. Factors that mediate or hinder adaptation across different shocks and strategies include age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure. There are also differences in choice of adaptation strategies by agro-climatic zone. The appropriate policy level responses...

This study employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production. Factors that mediate or hinder adaptation across different shocks and strategies include age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure. There are also differences in choice of adaptation strategies by agro-climatic zone. The appropriate policy level responses...

There are important differences in autonomic function and cardiovascular responsiveness between African Americans (AA) and Caucasian Americans (CA). This study tested the hypothesis that carotid baroreflex (CBR) responsiveness is impaired in normotensive AA compared with normotensive CA at rest. CBR control of heart rate (HR) and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) was assessed in 30 nonhypertensive male subjects (15 AA; 15 CA; age 18-33 yr) with 5-s periods of neck pressure (NP; simulated...

The study examined the Influence of Secondary School Head Teachers‘ General and Instructional Supervisory Practices on Teachers‘ Work Performance. Qualitative and qualitative methods with a descriptive-correlational research approach were used in the study. Purposive sampling technique alongside random sampling technique was used to select the research participants from secondary schools. Self-constructed questionnaire and structured interviews were used as relevant tools to gather data from...

The impact of anthropogenic climate change on potato production in north east South Africa (Limpopo Province) is studied. Decreasing trend in the area rainfall due to altered dynamics and thermodynamics of rainfall forcing caused by climate change, resulted in rivers and streams to dry. Analysing rainfall time series of the past 50 years (1960-2009), shows that north east South Africa has experienced 60 percent less rainfall than normal and high frequency of drought recurrence. Consequently,...

Detailed sedimentological and biostratigraphical studies of successions in the eastern Anti-Atlas (SE Morocco) focused on changing depositional environments and reconstructions of sea-level changes during the late Famennian to middle Tournaisian. The investigations cover a transect from the central Maider to the easternmost and southern Tafilalt regions near the Moroccan/Algerian border. The Moroccan data are compared with the standard succession of the German Rhenish Massif and with the...

This study examined the salient characteristics of trained ineffective teachers in secondary schools in Kenya. Participants comprised 80 students from eight schools drawn from four provinces in the country. Of the 80 participants, 40 were females and 40 were males. This qualitative research adopted phenomenological design. Two research instruments—a biographical form and a blank sheet of paper—were used in data collection. Content analysis method was used in analyzing the written and...

The need for adequate knowledge of climate change and its management in the present day volatile and hazardous environment cannot be over-emphasized.Researchers have warned that environmental changes that emanate from increasing temperature which leads to health related issues, emission from ozone layers, land degradation, etc., require adequate environmental techniques if our socio-economic, political and cultural lives are to be preserved.This study therefore examined the literacy levels...

This study sought to investigate the following research questions: (i) What are the sexual behaviours of Second Year Psychology students towards safer sex? (ii) What knowledge is held by students towards safer sex? (iii) What is the attitude of students towards safer sex?, and (iv) Which preventive measures do students use to protect themselves from sexual infections and diseases? A sample of 27 participants (9 male, 18 female) was used in this study. Data were collected using a...

The use of social media is growing exponentially. All kinds of businesses, seeking competitive advantage, are looking at what social media can offer them. The most obvious benefits seem to concern the communication and connectivity of social media. The question is whether private higher education institutions in South Africa are keeping up with these changes. This study investigates whether a private higher education institution in South Africa is using social media for business or...

The Health Policy paper by Fitzhugh Mullan and colleagues on medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa (March 26, p 1113)1Mullan F Frehywot S Omaswa F et al.Medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa.Lancet. 2011; 377: 1113-1121Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (225) Google Scholar describes the current problems of medical education and the urgent need for scaling up in quantity and quality, but it does not propose a sound solution for the most pressing problem—ie, the scarcity of...

(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquete sur l’emploi et le secteur informel au Congo - EESIC) from a representative sample of about 3000 households in the cities of Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire. Results indicate that education is relatively widespread in both cities,...