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This study explored patterns and effects of communication apprehension and classroom apprehension in Nigerian classrooms. Significant correlation was found between student communication apprehension and student classroom apprehension. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences in classroom apprehension by class type, but no significant differences in communication apprehension by choice of occupation. Perceptions of academic performance were negatively associated with classroom apprehension scores.

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Using an existential perspective, world views of White Americans, mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Africans were investigated. Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and African international students differed from White American students in perceiving human relationships as lineal-hierarchical and collateral-mutual, human nature as evil, nature as controllable, and the doing modality as valuable. White Americans gave primacy to individual goals in interpersonal relationships and preferred the being...

High quality language arts instruction for African American children : Strickland discusses how it is similar to and different from good language arts instruction for all children.

Plan International, a nongovernmental organization working in 46 villages in Burkina Faso, undertook a pilot project in response to villagers' wishes to have more information on AIDS and its prevention. The 10 pilot villages were identified as high-risk because they had a young population which frequently migrated to the Ivory Coast, were proximate to a weekly market, and were proximate to sites rich in gold (which creates zones of economic activity that attract prostitutes). The villagers...

A 100 × 80 km2 earthquake recording network was operated for three months (January–March 1990) in the Lake Baringo region of the Kenya Rift Valley. Twenty-nine seismic sites were occupied by short-period stations over a region including the Elgeyo escarpment, the Kerio Valley, the Tugen Hills and Lake Baringo itself. Eighty local events of ML < 2.0 have been located within 50 km of the network. These events are situated within the central part of the rift, showing some association with the...

A 100 × 80 km2 earthquake recording network was operated for three months (January–March 1990) in the Lake Baringo region of the Kenya Rift Valley. Twenty-nine seismic sites were occupied by short-period stations over a region including the Elgeyo escarpment, the Kerio Valley, the Tugen Hills and Lake Baringo itself. Eighty local events of ML < 2.0 have been located within 50 km of the network. These events are situated within the central part of the rift, showing some association with the...

The African Rehabilitation Institute, an arm of the Organisation of African Unity, recently designed a physiotherapy education programme for implementation in African countries. The West African sub-region, having one of the oldest physiotherapy education programmes in the continent, was not directly involved in the formulation of the programme. A review of physiotherapy education in Nigeria, the first African nation after South-Africa to be admitted into the membership of the World...

Abstract Self-disclosure of the African-American college student is examined in light of literature suggesting that African-Americans may disclose little about themselves in psychotherapy with a Caucasian therapist. The paper explores how African-American students may require greater sensitivity to issues concerning self-disclosure on the part of the therapist in order to fully benefit from therapeutic services in the college environment. Treatment approaches for African-American students,...

A Swazi nurse made her first ever trip to a western country to attend the 14th International Summer School run by the RCN and Michigan State University's College of Nursing held in London recently.

Vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia is a well identified public health problem among pre-school children in the southern part of rural Ethiopia, Arssi region. This has been associated with the low frequency of consumption of vitamin A rich foods and a variety of interfering food habits and beliefs.A cross sectional study was carried out in two rural villages of Arssi region in Southern Ethiopia in the period between January - March 1993. The objective of this study was to determine the...

In this survey a total of 2,783 secondary school students of both sexes, mean age 15.5 years, from randomly selected schools in both rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe were studied using a self report questionnaire. The results strongly indicated that drug use was quite prevalent among the students. The main drugs involved, in descending order, were: alcohol, tobacco, inhalants (solvents), amphetamines and cannabis. Others included mandrax, tranquilisers, sedatives and the hallucinogen...

Growth, activity, appetite and intestinal helminth infections were compared for 55 Kenyan primary school children with hookworm (93% prevalence), T. trichiura (84% prevalence) and A. lumbricoides (29% prevalence) before and 9 wk after treatment with three 400-mg doses of albendazole (Zentel) or placebo. Fecal samples were examined for helminth eggs using a modified Kato technique. Activity was measured during free-play with motion recorders on the dominant thigh. Children rated their...

In the area of nurse education, one of the most advanced countries in the world in terms of the use of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is South Africa. South African nurse educators have developed and implemented the use of OSCE as a form of assessment and evaluated its effectiveness over a considerable number of years. In contrast the use of OSCE in nurse education in Australia is in its infancy. This paper describes an in-depth case study undertaken to gather...

This study explored the relationship between family interactions, personality variables, and courtship violence. African American college students who were dating were administered the Conflict Tactics Scale and a series of other measures. Findings indicate that more than half of the Afncan Americanfemales and males had insulted, refused to talk to, or made spiteful comments to a dating partner Females reported using more physical violence against a dating partner than did males. The...

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