Springer, Anne Lopez, Teodolina Owor, Michael Frappart, Frédéric Stieglitz, Thomas
Abstract Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which threatens food security, ecosystem protection and restoration initiatives, and fresh water resources availability and quality. Groundwater largely contributes to the mitigation of climate change effects by offering short- to long-term transient water storage. However, groun...
Sachdeva, Shippu Kaur, Simarpreet Arora, Romisha Sindhwani, Manoj Arora, Krishan Cho, Woong Joshi, Gyanendra Prasad Doo, Ill Chul
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Twisted light beams such as optical angular momentum (OAM) with numerous possible orthogonal states have drawn the prodigious contemplation of researchers. OAM multiplexing is a futuristic multi-access technique that has not been scrutinized for optical satellite communication (OSC) systems thus far, and it opens up a new window for ultra-high-capa...
Lagunju, I. A. Adeniyi, Y. Orimadegun, A. E. Fernandez-Reyes, D.
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Frontiers in Pediatrics
Background Developmental assessment remains an integral part of the routine evaluation of the wellbeing of every child. Children in resource-poor countries are not routinely assessed for signs of developmental delay and developmental disorders are frequently overlooked. A major gap exists in the availability of culturally appropriate and cost-effec...
Lim, Jacqueline Kyungah Ridde, Valery Agnandji, Selidji Todagbe Lell, Bertrand Yaro, Seydou Yang, Jae Seung Hoinard, Damien Weaver, Scott C Vanhomwegen, Jessica Salje, Henrik
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The Journal of infectious diseases
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a major public health concern worldwide. However, infection levels are rarely known, especially in Africa. We recruited individuals from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Lambaréné, Gabon (age range, 1-55 years), tested their blood for CHIKV antibodies, and used serocatalytic models to reconstruct epidemiological histories....
Čufar, Katarina Beeckman, Hans Frelih, Marko Krže, Luka Hubau, Wannes Merela, Maks
The African collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, holds objects of everyday life from the Bambuti people from the Ituri forest, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The items were collected by the anthropologist Paul Joachim Schebesta, possibly during his expeditions around 1930. Th...
Mpanya, Dineo Celik, Turgay Klug, Eric Ntsinjana, Hopewell
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Background The age of onset and causes of heart failure differ between high-income and low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC). Heart failure patients in LMIC also experience a higher mortality rate. Innovative ways that can risk stratify heart failure patients in this region are needed. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the utility of machin...
Sefah, Narvella Ndebele, Sithembinkosi Prince, Lillian Korasare, Elizabeth Agbleke, Michael Nkansah, Annabella Thompson, Humphrey Al-Hendy, Ayman Agbleke, Andrews Akwasi
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Frontiers in Pharmacology
Leiomyomas, or uterine fibroids as they are commonly known, are mostly seen in women of reproductive age. However, they can go undetected in most women, and approximately 25% of women show clinical symptoms. Although fibroids are a global burden impacting 80% of premenopausal women, they are more prevalent among Black women than among women of othe...
Tan, Mun Hua Shim, Heejung Chan, Yao-ban Day, Karen P.
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Frontiers in Parasitology
The enormous diversity and complexity of var genes that diversify rapidly by recombination has led to the exclusion of assembly of these genes from major genome initiatives (e.g., Pf6). A scalable solution in epidemiological surveillance of var genes is to use a small ‘tag’ region encoding the immunogenic DBLα domain as a marker to estimate var div...
Elwakil, Reda Ocama, Ponsiano Kayamba, Violet Fouad, Yasser Ojo, Olusegun
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Frontiers in Medicine
Jalil, Nour-Eddine Gheerbrant, Emmanuel Rücklin, Martin
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Frontiers in Earth Science