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Fast ramp humidity protocols systematically underestimate human heat tolerance by failing to match physiological equilibration timescales. Prolonged fixed‐condition exposures reveal substantially higher sustainable wet‐bulb limits, supporting their use as the gold standard and motivating slower, equilibration‐based ramp designs for accurate heat risk ...
Fèlix Faming Wang, Yi Xu, Wentao Wu
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In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso
This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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Atherosclerosis in Europeans and Bantu [PDF]
The atherosclerotic "profile" of the aorta, coronary, and cerebral arteries was gauged by the atherosclerotic index method of Gore and Tejada 12 in 540 unselected white and Bantu autopsy cases. The atherosclerotic indices were very low in all cases until about the third decade.
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Resistance Ethics for a Decolonial Sociolinguistics
ABSTRACT Ethics is among those institutional categories of the research process that are perceived as inherently motivated by good intentions to protect, respect and safeguard the dignity and interests of research participants. However, the entanglements of the institution of research ethics with the broader project of the coloniality of universalism ...
Finex Ndhlovu
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Diphtheria amongst the Bantu [PDF]
1. A total of 499 rural and 437 urban Bantu school children were examined for their diphtheria carrier rate and Schick immunity.2. Clinical diphtheria amongst the rural and urban Bantu was also investigated.3. The virulent C.diphtheriaecarrier rate was found to be 3·2% in the rural children and 1·8% in the urban with virulent/avirulent ratios of 1: 1·1
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The Bantu family is the largest African language family in terms of geographic and demographic spread: the 450–500 Bantu languages are spoken in 27 countries, by about 240 million speakers.
Marten, Lutz
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