Thesis (M. Arch)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2007. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ralph Johnson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [83]-87).

Dissertation (MTech (radiography))—Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town, 2003 / Five of the seventeen countries with Nuclear Medicine facilities in Africa have training programmes for Nuclear Medicine Technologists (NMT's). Four of the countries are in Northern Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt) and only one in Southern Africa (South Africa). The training programmes vary from country to country and therefore there is no common basis to facilitate regional co-operation. Nuclear Medicine Technologists working in sub-Saharan countries do not have formal training in Nuclear Medicine and have mostly been recruited from related fields of Radiological Technology. A number of NMT's in these centres have enjoyed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fellowship training in other countries or have attended regional training courses. Knowledge and skills, learned in well established Nuclear Medicine departments with supportive infrastructure, are on the whole difficult to transfer to a local situation without such support. Because of the nature of the specialty the numbers required for training are small and it would therefore not be cost-effective for Higher Education Institutions in these countries to set up training programmes. There is also a lack of expertise in this field in Africa. Training was initially supported outside the countries with loss of personnel to the departments and in many instances loss of manpower as these trainees leave their countries and do not return. Under an IAEA/African Regional Co-operative Agreement (AFRA) project; "Establishing a Regional Capability in Nuclear Medicine", the following related to training of NMT's: 1. Harmonisation of training programmes for Nuclear Medicine Technologists in AFRA countries 2. Assess the feasibility of running a Distance Assisted Training (DAT) programme for Nuclear Medicine Technologists It was hoped that in this way, full use could be made of available expertise and facilities in the region, the cost of training could be reduced and the standard of patient health care improved.

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M.Comm. / The debt and general development problems experienced by the peoples of Africa have been the subject of wide discussions and investigations by many officials of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and related organisations, the commercial banks, private industrial corporations, scholars from all over the world and last, but not least, the Sub-Saharan countries themselves. I have been intrigued by the great differences in opinion as to the reasons for the growing socio-economic plight of the Sub-Saharan countries. Even more fascinating, but frustrating, have been the widely different solutions suggested by the parties involved, be they the World Bank, the Fund or the countries themselves. It has, with the passing of time, dawned on me that not only are the phenomena under investigation of great sublety and complexity, but the different angles from which they are being scrutinised and evaluated, are to such an extent befogged by the totally different cultures, that one could not hope for any form of synthesis. The research and compilation of this thesis has been a great adventure in the world of scarcity and the implications of economics being the science of human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Thesis advisor: John Baldovin / Twentieth century is an epoch that has known the ravages of war, violence, oppression, exploitation and conflict. In a century marked by great human brokenness which has escalated the alienation from God, from one another and from the whole of creation; what would be the proper mission of the Church in such a context? This breakdown of the whole human family which has led to great suffering stares us in the face. It has been an epoch with two world wars, genocides, nature‘s rebellion as the weather and atmospheric conditions have been unpredictable and above all that world development has taken place on the heads of billions of people who live in abject poverty. In a world torn apart by conflicts and division, reconciliation becomes a necessary theological theme for mission, if we are to work for a better future for "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis (MA(Security Studies))--Universiteit van Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

A survey of smelting debris undertaken in BABUNGO brought to light what is to date the largest single recorded centre of iron production in sub-Saharan Africa. High output in the 19th century was facilitated by innovation in furnace structure that enhanced capacity and brought in economies of scale along with changing fuel usage that enabled the intensification of production by a sedentary industry set within a grasslands environment. Elsewhere in the region separate smithing and smelting using older, smaller furnaces exploiting traditional fuels and ores collapsed and in its place arose a devolved technology centring on recycling of slag in simple open hearth furnaces. The enormous output of the BABUNGO industry was linked to a mode of labour recruitment and division of rewards that overrode the boundaries of the kin group. At the point of establishment of the foundry and throughout its operation non-kin freely offered their labour in return for access to the foundry. A pervading ethos of cooperation and stress on the sharing of the product in terms of a familial paradigm provided for the social validation of the accumulation of wealth by individual descent group heads. The distribution of products was characterised by periodic markets, organised trading groups, use of convertible currencies, credit and commissions. The heavy costs of transporting ironware to regional markets was largely taken over by specialist trading chiefdoms that clustered around BABUNGO. Unencumbered by these costs output rose to even higher levels. The great material wealth generated by iron production was further enhanced by the highly profitable conveyances to be made between continental and coastal spheres of trading activity that abutted on the Grassfields. The political organisation of BABUNGO offered only limited opportunity for conversion of wealth into political authority. The integrity of the chiefdom barely withstood the internal pressures generated by the enormous wealth derived from iron production but was bolstered by an external alliance undertaken by an astute FON with the vanguard of German colonisation.

An aggregate agricultural production function (a pooled covariance model) based on the metaproduction approach, was estimated using cross section, time series data for 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) covering the 1970-1993 period to evaluate the effect of foreign aid on agricultural production. The Almon lag structure of the foreign aid (Official Development Assistance) variable was specified to account for the effect of foreign aid over time. The results support the hypothesis that the aggregate effect of aid on agricultural production in SSA is positive. The marginal effect of foreign aid in SSA is calculated to be $0.14 which can be interpreted to mean that a one dollar increase in aid in each of the past six years would be expected to increase the value of agricultural output by 14 cents in the current year. / There is a great variation in the effect of foreign aid on agricultural production when countries are classified according to agro-climatic region, income level and policy environment. Excluding Eastern and Southern Africa where the effect of aid is negative, the marginal effect of foreign aid ranges from $0.40 in Sudano-Sahel to $1.32 in Central Africa. The marginal effect of foreign aid is larger in middle income countries as compared to high income countries; it is negative in low income countries. The effect of aid is positive and significant in countries classified under a favourable policy environment but negative and insignificant in countries classified under an unfavourable policy environment. The structural adjustment dummy variable is positive and significant in most regressions indicating that structural adjustment programs have been beneficial to agriculture in most Sub-Saharan African countries.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1976. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-113).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.