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Quatre annees se sont ecoulees depuis le moment ou Carol Tingey soutenait a l’Universite de Londres un Ph. D. en philosophie, prepare sous la direction de Richard Widdess et intitule Nepalese Pancai bâjâ Music : an Auspicious Ensemble in a Changing Society. Le livre qui parait aujourd’hui, sous un titre voisin mais plus explicite, est en fait la reprise de cette these qui valut a l’auteur les plus grands eloges. Il constitue l’aboutissement d’un long travail de terrain effectue au Nepal entre...
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Historically, the African American student has tended to be maligned by the American educational system. There have been many theoretical suppositions as to why this group of students has been labeled not only different, but inferior. These suppositions arise from the beliefs of society that serves to promote what Schofield describes as the YAVIS syndrome, or the values of young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, and successful individuals (cited in Sue and Sue, 1990). African Americans,...
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A Bleak Picture The state of North Carolina report cards for the public schools revealed some alarming statistics for the urban school districts. The statistics show African-American students - at all grade levels - lagged behind Anglo-American students on test scores, missed more days, and received more discipline. African-American students from low income/public housing communities were worse off than all other students. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) coordinated...
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In Ghana, AIDS counselors do not have the resources to provide a complex balance of medical, financial, and emotional support. The problem is the poorly funded health service, but also convincing local policymakers that AIDS care is worthwhile. In Kumasi, a clinic was started by a former psychiatric nurse and doctors and nurses were trained in 1992 and 1993 to work there. After funding was cut by the Ministry of Health, only 25 trained counselors were left in the region with an estimated...
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From 1991 to 1994, Staphylococcus aureus, untyped Coliform spp. and Salmonella spp., other Enterobacteriaceae and other bacteria were isolated from 40.7%, 37.6%, 19.5% and 2.2%, respectively, of 225 confirmed cases of septicaemia in postneonatal infants and children. Overall, 98.9%, 72.8%, 70.8%, 87.9%, 4.3%, 79.3%, 42.6%, 17.6% and 40.6%, respectively, of pathogens were sensitive to oflaxacin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, amoxicillincavulante, ampicillin, gentamicin, erythromycin,...
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with a significantly increased incidence of pneumococcal pneumonia and concomitant bacteremia. We hypothesized that the predisposition of HIV-infected patients to invasive pneumococcal infection may be related, in part, to an impaired immune response to the pneumococcal antigen pneumolysin (PLY) because PLY facilitates bacterial invasion. We measured serum anti-PLY antibodies in two separate populations of HIV-infected and...
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As part of a program to integrate schistosomiasis control into the primary health care system in northern Cameroon, an unexpected opportunity to undertake a controlled evaluation of the impact of interventions was recognized. Inadvertently, a large part of Mindjil, one of four assessment villages, had been essentially excluded from the program, creating a unique natural control. The prevalence of infection with Schistosoma hematobium in school-aged children was 7% in the areas where the...
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This article examines education policy in Papua New Guinea in light of the most recent evidence on the growth of population and the labor force. Over the intercensal period 1980-1990, the labor force grew by between 2.5 and 3.0 percent per annum, and rates of unemployment among young people increased, especially in urban areas. But in spite of rising unemployment, an acute shortage of skilled labor compelled the private sector to increase reliance on expensive expatriate labor. The education...
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Long-term intellectual and academic benefits related to early childhood educational intervention were found in a sample of students from low-income families (98% African American). The subjects were randomly assigned to preschool and school-age treatment conditions in a study design that permits a comparison of outcomes in students with preschool treatment followed by early elementary treatment (infancy–8 years), preschool treatment only (infancy–5 years), early elementary school treatment...
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On 19 September 1994, with little warning, two volcanoes erupted at the Rabaul caldera, affecting the heavily populated Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Local health services were able to deal with the disaster without additional external resources. The preparedness of the population and their knowledge of safe areas gained from a disaster plan widely publicised a decade earlier contributed to the low number of casualties.