Showing papers by "University of Zambia published in 1983"
TL;DR: Schist belts in Nigeria occur in a 400 km wide zone which trends NNE, parallel to the boundary between the Pan-African Province and the West African Craton as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: All three injectable regimens compare favourably with oral contraceptives in terms of pregnancy and total continuation rates observed in clinical trial settings and for family planning programs, NET-EN (60-day) has the advantage of low pregnancy rates compared to NET- EN (84-day), and a schedule of administration that does not change.
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TL;DR: The Mwembeshi Fault Zone in Zambia separates the Lufilian Arc and the Zambezi Belt with divergent tectonic structures, and marks the suture of the colliding cratons.
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TL;DR: There was no overall significant difference between the twoNET-EN groups, although between the 6 and 18 month's follow-up when the two NET-EN regimens diverged, the net-EN (84 days) users' pregnancy rate rose significantly, wherease in the NET- EN (60 days) group the pregnancy rate did not change.
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TL;DR: Two of the most significant regional organizations to emerge in Southern Africa in recent years are the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) with nine members, and the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA), comprised of fourteen states including five SADCC members.
Abstract: Two of the most significant regional organizations to emerge in Southern Africa in recent years are the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with nine members, and the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA), comprised of fourteen states including five SADCC members. Although their purposes and programs are similar and steadily converging, SADCC and PTA exhibit distinct differences in their origins, memberships, institutional structures, financial patrons, ideologies, and strategies. Although national development remains the ultimate aim of both bodies, reducing external dependency, especially in the case of SADCC on South Africa, and regional cooperation are seen as essential to success. While obvious areas of conflict exist, the two organizations may be able to restrain their rivalry in the interests of their members and possibly of their own survival.
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TL;DR: Patients who had had previous lower segment cesarean section were studied for subsequent pregnancy outcome at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, and parturition in otherwise obstetrically normal patients seems to be safe, and the trial of labor approach is desirable as it results in a lower number of repeat cesarian deliveries.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some critical issues in the design and implementation of training programmes for future educational administrators in Africa such as the determination of skills and competencies required by these administrators, the sociocultural awareness resulting from exposure to the training programme, the discernment of educational purposes, specialisation by sector and function, education for responsible and ethical behaviour, and problems related to the organisation of training programs, and the certification and placement of the new crop of educational administrators.
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TL;DR: In this article, the ideal of responsibility is defined as involving both institutionalized controls and moral obligations, and responsibility provides a useful means of assessing the limitations and weaknesses of administration in post colonial Africa.
Abstract: Administrative weaknesses in post colonial Africa have not commonly been assessed against notions of responsibility. Regarded as involving both institutionalized controls and moral obligations, responsibility provides a useful means of assessing the limitations and weaknesses of administration. Having elucidated the ideal of responsibility, the article takes Zambia as illustrating a situation present in different third world countries where administration is unsatisfactory judged against the ideal. Weaknesses are elaborated and the reasons for failures discussed. Emphasis is placed on the overcentralization of control in the person of the President and the failure in staff development and training to recognize the importance of encouraging a sense of moral obligation and the undue emphasis on management techniques.
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TL;DR: The widespread emergence of indigenous African religious movements in Africa since the beginning of the twentieth century is a phenomenon which has received, and cntinues to receive much attention from scholars in many fields ever since the appearance in 1948 of Sundkler's seminal work entitled Bantu Prophets in South Africa.
Abstract: The widespread emergence of indigenous African religious movements in Africa since the beginning of the twentieth century is a phenomenon which has received, and cntinues to receive much attention from scholars in many fields ever since the appearance in 1948 of Sundkler's seminal work entitled Bantu Prophets in South Africa, followed twenty years later by Barrett's more comprehensive Schism and Renewal in Africa. Zambia has been no exception with regard to such religious movements, although relatively few have received the attention which they deserve among the peoples of Zambia.2 Apart from their widespread presence in the rural areas, one has only to move about the numerous townships of Lusaka, Zambia's capital, or the densely populated Copperbelt district to become quickly aware of the extraordinary proliferation of such religious bodies flourishing side by side.3 Many draw attention to themselves on weekends in particular by their display of a wide variety of forms of religious dress as well as by their enthusiastic singing. On the other hand, their use of restricted outdoor spaces, small rooms or simple backyard shelters for prayer meetings in place of more conspicuous church buildings often conceals the widespread extent of their presence and actvity.4 4
TL;DR: The finding of Onchocerca volvulus in a child in Zambia is the first such documented case in an indigenous person and represents perhaps the southernmost limit of the known occurrence of human onchocerciasis in Africa.
Abstract: We report the finding of Onchocerca volvulus in a child in Zambia. This is the first such documented case in an indigenous person and represents perhaps the southernmost limit of the known occurrence of human onchocerciasis in Africa. The specific diagnosis was confirmed by the morphology of the adult worms and microfilariae in tissue sections. O. volvulus was differentiated from O. dukei, a similar species found in cattle from the same geographical locality, to exclude a zoonosis.
TL;DR: A case of severely comminuted, open fracture of the distal femur and proximal tibia involving the knee which was managed conservatively is described here to make a plea for the trial of conservative management before opting for primary internal fixation of such complicated fractures.
Abstract: Ipsilateral fractures of the femur and tibia are usually considered a primary indication for internal fixation. A case of severely comminuted, open fracture of the distal femur and proximal tibia involving the knee which was managed conservatively is described here. This case is reported to make a plea for the trial of conservative management before opting for primary internal fixation of such complicated fractures. The conservative approach is strongly advocated when the essential requirements for internal fixation cannot be rigidly met.
TL;DR: A migratory population of wildebeest in Liuwa Plain National Park in the Western Province of Zambia was sampled for nasal bots during 1975–78 with no obvious pathogenicity attributable to these oestrids, all of which were judged to be multivoltine in this habitat.
Abstract: Summary A migratory population of wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in Liuwa Plain National Park in the Western Province of Zambia was sampled for nasal bots (Diptera: Oestridae: Oestrinae) during 1975–78. Infestations from 32 antelope included Gedoelstia spp. (two species), Oestrus aureoargentatus and O. variolosus. A total of 1913 second and third instar larvae was recorded from the sinuses and nasal septa with individual parasite loads varying from 4 to 144 bots. No obvious pathogenicity was attributable to these oestrids, all four species of which were judged to be multivoltine in this habitat. The significance of this voltinism in relation to the migratory course of the wildebeest is discussed together with a consideration of parasite densities and the potential threat of myiasis to domestic livestock in the area.
TL;DR: This programme highlights eight shortcomings of the present system and suggested corrective measures and suggests corrective measures to prevent blindness and control eye diseases in Zambia.