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Whole-of-community interventions that address alcohol-related harms: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Alcohol-related harm is a rising global concern particularly in low-income and middle-income countries where alcohol use fuels the high rates of violence, road traffic accidents and is a risk factor for communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS
Asha S George, Tanya Doherty, Mark Tomlinson, Nandi Siegfried, Ida Okeyo, Ulla Walmisley, Michelle De Jong, Carmen Späth, Nadine Harker   +8 more
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Rickettsia africae, Western Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
To the Editor: Rickettsia africae, the causative agent of African tick-bite fever, is transmitted by Amblyomma hebraeum and A. variegatum ticks (1,2). These ticks are common in western, central, and southern Africa. Adults rarely feed on humans, although nymphs attach more frequently and larvae are sometimes serious pests (abundant and aggressive) (3).
/Mediannikov, Oleg, /Trape, Jean-François, Diatta, G., Parola, P., Fournier, P. E., Raoult, Didier   +5 more
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Scoping review protocol exploring the relationship between food insecurity, mental health and diet intake among adolescents across the globe

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Studies, exploring the effect of food insecurity on physical and mental health, have shown that food insecurity is associated with lower self-reports of physical and mental health.
Akhona Nkwanyana, Maria Florence, Elizabeth Catherina Swart   +2 more
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Insights and Current Debates on Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape

SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa.
Fred Bidandi, Anthony Nforh Ambe, Claudia Haking Mukong   +2 more
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SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND DISRUPTIVE THEORY: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW [PDF]

Management of Sustainable Development
Sustainable Supply Chain Management stands at the forefront of contemporary business strategies. Concurrently, the emergence of Disruptive Theory has reshaped conventional notions of supply chain dynamics, introducing innovative technologies and ...
BOWERS Dominique, MATLALA Ntswaki, BERHADIEN Moegamat, UMETOR Henry, GONGXEKA Thabo   +4 more
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Using films in teaching about Africa [PDF]

, 2002
This paper begins with a brief critique of didactic approaches to teaching about Africa: Such methods do not benefit students pedagogically; they cast Western academy/academics as guardians of truth about Africa; and they cast students as possible ...
Ansell, N
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South African Higher Education Institutions at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Sense-Making and Lessons Learnt

Frontiers in Education, 2022
After the unprecedented changes experienced in higher education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a need to integrate initial thoughts and reflective experience to decide on the way forward.
Marieta du Plessis, Carel D. Jansen van Vuuren, Abigail Simons, José Frantz, Nicolette Roman, Michelle Andipatin   +5 more
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Western Indian Ocean marine and terrestrial records of climate variability: a review and new concepts on land-ocean interactions since AD 1660 [PDF]

, 2008
We examine the relationship between three tropical and two subtropical western Indian Ocean coral oxygen isotope time series to surface air temperatures (SAT) and rainfall over India, tropical East Africa and southeast Africa.
A Cherchi, A Dai, A Gershunov, A Kumar, AC Krueger, AS Cohen, B Parthasarathy, C Birkett, C Deser, CC Mutai, CD Charles, CD Charles, CF Ropelewski, CJC Reason, CJC Reason, CJC Reason, CJC Reason, CO Clark, CO Clark, D Fleitmann, D Verschuren, D Verschuren, DM Anderson, E Black, E Tate, ER Cook, F Mercier, G. J. A. Brummer, GA Meehl, GJ McCabe, H Kuhnert, HH Saji, I Poccard, J Zinke, J Zinke, J Zinke, J. Zinke, JC Stager, JE Cole, K Holmgren, KK Kumar, KM Cobb, KS Treydte, L Bergonzini, L Goddard, LG Thompson, LG Thompson, M Chelliah, M Hoerling, M Hulme, M Latif, M Pfeiffer, M Pfeiffer, M. Pfeiffer, MJ Hugh, MJ McPhaden, MR Jury, N Mantua, N Shi, NA Sontakke, O. Timm, PD Tyson, PJ Webster, R D’Arrigo, RB Owen, RJ Allan, S Hastenrath, SJ Mason, SK Behera, SR Alin, TC Johnson, TM Smith, W.-Ch. Dullo, Y Richard   +73 more
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Reeling them in: taxonomy of marine annelids used as bait by anglers in the Western Cape Province, South Africa [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Background Common names are frequently used inconsistently for marine annelid species used as bait in the peer-reviewed literature, field guides and legislative material.
Carol Simon, Jyothi Kara, Alheit du Toit, Hendré van Rensburg, Caveshlin Naidoo, Conrad A. Matthee   +5 more
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Jasminum cuneatum Jongkind (Oleaceae), a new species from Guinee, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire [PDF]

, 2010
The new species Jasminum cuneatum Jongkind (Oleaceae) from western Africa is described here. It differs from]. paucinervium Benth., a species that occurs in the same area and that is the most easily confused, by its cuneate and not rounded or cordate ...
Jongkind, C.C.H.
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