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Inhabitants of villages in the Highlands of New Guinea wear scant clothing. To keep warm during cold nights they burn smoky fires in small closed huts, where they inhale extremely high levels of particulate matter and aldehydes. Pulmonary disease, mainly obstructive but also restrictive, appears at an early age and was present in 78% of subjects over age 40 years. Severely affected subjects have diminished breath sounds, coarse rales, and decreased chest cage movement. Pathologic specimens...
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Having read most of the literature both on participative management and industrial democracy, I have to conclude that much of it needs to move from value-laden prescriptions to the crucial issues of proper implementation. We should be asking and answering such questions as: Under what conditions is participation most appropriate (personalities, organizations, types of decisions, and so forth)? How does one hold groups accountable for poor decisions? Until managers and researchers come to...
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The Cost of Learning: the politics of primary education in Kenya by L. Gray Cowan New York, Columbia University Teachers College Press, 1970. Pp. xiii + 106. $4.50. - Education, Development and Nation-Building in Independent Africa by H. F. Makulu London, S.C.M. Press, 1971. Pp. xiii + III. £2.25. - Volume 12 Issue 2
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJ. A. AkinpeluJ. A. Akinpelu is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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SUMMARY A retrospective analysis is presented of the aetiology of mental handicap in 212 Rhodesian African children. In 23 per cent the cause of the mental retardation was primary (present at birth), in 27 per cent there was a well‐documented acquired cause and in the remaining 50 per cent the aetiology was unknown. The findings are discussed in relation to social and medical conditions in Rhodesia, and an outline is given of the authors' approach to the retarded child in Rhodesia. RÉSUMÉ...
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Data were needed for the planning of disaster relief in West Africa, which has been subject to a prolonged drought. A nationwide survey was undertaken to determine the nutritional status of the Mauritanians and the rates of important communicable diseases. The main findings were that: (a) acute malnutrition was most severe among nomads; (b) malnutrition was of the marasmic variety; (c) severe vitamin deficiency was present in isolated pockets; (d) measles was present in epidemic proportions;...
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(1974). The health of Nigerian children of school age (6–15 years) Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology: Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 157-166.
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Four major educational problems in Papua New Guinea are identified and examined in some depth: the quantity and quality of the teaching force, the curriculum, the clients, and school leavers and employment. From this discussion the author suggests some needs, two of which are politically controversial.
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Guinea pigs were fed a solution which had a distinctive taste or appearance and one hr later were made sick by an intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride. Upon recovery from the effects of sickness the animals in Expt 1 showed aversions to a weak tasting, sour solution or to a strong tasting, sweet solution. Animals in Expt 2 formed aversions to tap water which had been colored either red or blue while those in Expt 3 formed aversions to tap water which had been presented in either red...
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatherine SnipesAssistant professor of English