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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gallstones: Bad Company for the Steatotic Liver [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Gallstones are very frequent worldwide with a prevalence ranging from 10% to 15% in Western countries to
Alvaro, Domenico
core   +1 more source

Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel buffer for long-term preservation of DNA in biological material at room temperature

open access: yesBioTechniques
The collection and preservation of biological material before DNA analysis is critical for inter alia biomedical research, medical diagnostics, forensics and biodiversity conservation.
Mohaimin Kasu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Municipal Law Making under SPLUMA: A Survey of Fifteen "First Generation" Municipal Planning By-Laws

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2019
The legal framework for spatial planning and land use management changed with the introduction of the new Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA).
Jaap de Visser, Xavia Siyabonga Poswa
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
The 1990s have seen increased interest on the part of Western governments in funding civil society in Africa in an attempt to promote the continent's democratisation process.
Julie Hearn
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Osmoxylon‐like fossils from early Eocene South America: West Gondwana–Malesia connections in Araliaceae

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Araliaceae comprise a moderately diverse, predominantly tropical angiosperm family with a limited fossil record. Gondwanan history of Araliaceae is hypothesized in the literature, but no fossils have previously been reported from the former supercontinent.
Peter Wilf
wiley   +1 more source

A low-cost flow cytometric assay for the detection and quantification of apoptosis using an anionic halogenated fluorescein dye

open access: yesBioTechniques, 2008
We describe here a technical improvement of an established colorimetric method used to detect and measure the occurrence of apoptosis in mammalian cells during in vitro cell culture. This assay uses an anionic halogenated fluorescein dye that is taken up
Mervin Meyer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship ties and entrepreneurship in Western Africa [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2013
Previous research has shown that in many low and middle income countries micro and small entrepreneurs achieve relative high marginal returns to capital but show only very low reinvestment rates. Existing research is rather inconclusive about the possible causes. We explore whether forced solidarity, i.e.
Grimm, M.   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Seismicity along the Western Eurasia- Africa plate boundary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
extends from the Azores Islands to the Strait of Gibraltar. The interaction between Iberia and Africa results in a complex region located in the western part of the Eurasian-African plate boundary.
Bezzeghoud, M.
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