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Background For every maternal death there are many others who suffer serious life- threatening complications of pregnancy, referred to as ‘near miss’ morbidity. In the past, maternal audit using deaths have traditionally been used to improve maternal health outcomes. Reviews of cases of survivors...

This dissertation discusses Nkolola songs of the Tonga people of Southern Zambia. The first chapter is an introduction. It spells out the aim and the scope of the study, and the research methods used. It also gives some literature available on similar works to Nkolola songs, and a brief...

The need to determine constituent elements in materials so as to meet various technological demands in many fields is of an extreme importance. This work is an attempt to establish the efficacy of using non-destructive neutron activation methods based on instrumental gamma-ray spectrometry for...

III-V semiconductors and their alloys are by no meanssimple and have some rather subtle properties There fore their increasing commercial exploitation has stimulated phenomenal growth in the research effort devoted to studying their defects and radiation effects. NMR spectroscopy has become...

OBJECTIVES: The general objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between number of languages spoken and performance on the clinical neuropsychological tests. The specific objective was to establish whether greater proficiency in English is related to better performance on the...

Numerical anxiety was investigated in the light of poor mathematics achievement and negative attitudes held by learners towards mathematics. Two instruments, a two dimensional scale measuring general anxiety and numerical anxiety, and a mathematics achievement test comprising items specific to a...

A study aimed at finding whether there are significant differences in the nutritional status of Zambian controls compared with AIDS and PGL patients was undertaken at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka and Saint Francis Hospital, Katete, respectively. ft total of 149 Zambians were examined...

The teenage period is between 12 and 19 years. Pregnancy in the teenager poses special social, psycological and medical risks both to the mother and her offsping. Because of the physical, physiological and emotional immaturity of the adolescent period, pregnant teenagers are prone to developing...

_ Let * be a root system in a £-dimensional real Euclidean space V with Weyl group W( £), and let W+{<f) denote its rotation subgroup. In [173 » the projective representations of the rotation subgroup W ( 9) have been determined from those of W( $) for each root system $. This is done by...