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Abstract The effect of education level on suicide risk among African Americans is a neglected subject. Gains in educational attainment for African Americans over the last three decades have not resulted in corresponding gains in economic success, a situation that can promote anomic suicide. Observers of African American suicide have also argued that middle-class aspirants tend to have weak communal ties or low social integration. A logistic regression analysis of recently released, national...

A retrospective review of 442 patients, seen by one maxillofacial unit over a twelve-year period, is presented. Data concerning the patients' demographics and the aetiology, pattern, treatment and complications of the fractures were obtained and evaluated. Approximately 72% of the patients sustained fractures from road traffic accidents and 39% of the fractures occurred in the 21-30-year range. There was a male preponderence and 8% of all cases had postoperative infections. Over 20% of the...

Abstract This chapter briefly reviews some of the transatlantic resources that may inform African American vernacular practices and interact with conventional literacy. It also lays groundwork for several case studies in later chapters. Resources, as I use the term, include African writing and graphic systems, individual signs and sign complexes (see chapter 4), remnants of Arabic literacy and Muslim magic, functions and contexts of use and learning, and ideologies of inscription. Assessing...

The percentage of skeletal remains that can be sexed depends on the degree of completeness of the skeleton, the parameters that are used and the type of statistical analysis that is done. The objective of the present study was to assess the accuracy of the demarking point in sexing the femur of South African whites and blacks. One hundred pairs of femurs were randomly selected from the bone collections of each of the two racial groups. The bones were sexed by measuring the head diameters and...

The benefit of β-blocker therapy in patients after myocardial infarction is well established. The use of β blockers in the high-risk subgroup of patients with combined diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary artery disease (CAD) remains controversial. From a database of 14,417 patients with chronic CAD who had been screened for participation in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) study, 2,723 (19%) had non-insulin-dependent DM. Baseline characteristics and 3-year mortality were analyzed...

This research investigated the past relationship between the formal education and nonformal educational systems in Palestine as a basis for considering what form the relationship may take in the future. The study was based on the initial understanding that within the field of study and practice of continuing education, non-formal education has been conceptualised as having a particular role to play in producing a more equitable society. The study was undertaken at a significant...

The response of 25 strains of Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) to drought stress was assessed in a pot experiment under glasshouse conditions. Four‐ week old plants of all the lines were subjected to 0 or 2 cycles of drought (twice wilting and rewatering). The drought stress caused a significant reduction in shoot fresh and dry masses in all lines. However, five strains, C90–1191, C90–1203, C90–1210, 77–1271 and P48–3 were superior to the remaining lines in production of shoot fresh and...

The response of 25 strains of Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) to drought stress was assessed in a pot experiment under glasshouse conditions. Four‐ week old plants of all the lines were subjected to 0 or 2 cycles of drought (twice wilting and rewatering). The drought stress caused a significant reduction in shoot fresh and dry masses in all lines. However, five strains, C90–1191, C90–1203, C90–1210, 77–1271 and P48–3 were superior to the remaining lines in production of shoot fresh and...

Tanzania is well placed to offer tourists a unique experience centred on wildlife, unique landforms and a rich culture centred on the island of Zanzibar. This potential is recognised by the current Tanzanian government which is actively encouraging tourism development. Some of the responsibility for maintaining the balance between conservation of the nation's natural assets and profit must fall, ultimately, on the educators of future hospitality and tourism managers. After reviewing tourism...

Although the conventional image of the colonial medical encounter in Africa depicts a white, male, European doctor treating a black African patient, most of the actual deliverers of Western medicine in Africa during the colonial period were non-Europeans. In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British doctors formed only a small minority of Western medical practitioners. Most often, it was Syrian, Egyptian and Sudanese doctors, and Sudanese assistant medical officers, mosquito men, nurses, sanitary...

What follows is a discourse of coherence: first through an epistemic triangle conjoining three epistemological traditions of systems thinking, dialectical thinking and constructivist thinking; and, second, in a praxeological triangle that unites planning, implementation and evaluation in one single act of reflective action with purpose. Working from within these two mutually embedded triangles of coherence, a discourse on the Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) initiative of South...

This study examined condom use during oral and anal sex among 1,593 African American male and female college undergraduates. Findings suggest a high level of concordance between men and women on several measures. However, female participants were more likely to use condoms during oral and anal sex than were male participants.

Mathematical models can be used to predict the impact of interventions to control infectious diseases. In this paper, an epidemiological model is used to predict the impact of chemotherapy of school-age children infected with Schistosoma haematobium, in a programme conducted by the Ghana Partnership for Child Development in the Volta Region, Ghana. Existing data were used to validate the predictions of the model, demonstrating convincingly the ability of the model to make correct...

This article is concerned with language use in mathematics lessons in settings where the language of instruction is a second language for all or most of the learners. Four lessons taken from primary schools in Montreal and in Zimbabwe are compared, illustrating ways in which teachers in each setting couple development of the target second language with teaching of subject content. By doing so, we believe that instruction is effective in helping children to make the shift from the primary...

Although prior research has found that African American children tend to receive special education services at a disproportionately higher rate than their Caucasian counterparts (Artiles & Trent, 1994; U.S. Department of Education, 1992), they tend to be underrepresented as adults in the state/federal vocational rehabilitation (VR) system when compared to Caucasians (Atkins & Wright, 1980; Dunham, Koller, & McIntosh, 1996b; Robertson, 1985). This is puzzling because African Americans tend to...