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Features of integrated professional training for physically disabled people in a community-based rehabilitation programme in the rural and urban areas of Congo

South African Family Practice, 2010
Background: The rehabilitation of physically disabled people has been explored from the perspectives of patients, health professionals, rehabilitation agencies, etc. However, no study has linked disability types, training programmes and career prospects.
Prosper M. Lutala, Prosperine Masika, Caude Kasereka, Eric Kasagila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Z‐Scheme BiOCl‐Based Photocatalysts: Recent Advances in Designing, Structural Engineering, Formation Mechanisms, and High Performance Photocatalytic Environmental Remediation

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This review deals with the recent advancements in design and engineering of BiOCl‐based Z‐scheme photocatalysts with emphasis on tailoring of structural, optoelectronic properties and heterojunction assembly for environmental applications including photodegradation of industrial organic waste, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, toxic heavy metals,
Sakshi Sharma, Neha Kaushal, Victor Ezebuiro, Monika Sindhu, Lovepreet Singh, Yugesh Singh Thakur, Hendrik C. Swart, Jai Prakash   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine‐Learning‐Enabled Wood with Nanopump Functionalization for Solar Interfacial Evaporation

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This study employed machine learning to design an iron‐cobalt‐carbon‐wood photothermal material, achieving high‐efficiency evaporation at 2.807 kg m−2 h−1 and excellent salt resistance. The integrated system increased the daily water production efficiency of solar distillation by 1.5 times, providing an innovative solution for sustainable seawater ...
Chaohai Wang, Rui Li, Chang He, Xinfeng Zhu, Junning Wang, Rongfu Peng, Ho Ngoc Nam, Yanli Mao, Wei Liu, Mingshan Zhu, Yusuke Yamauchi   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perforation gastrique spontanée compliquant une bronchiolite aiguë chez un nourrisson

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
La perforation gastrique spontanée est une affection rare chez le nourrisson et les mécanismes de survenue demeurent mal compris. Nous rapportons le premier cas congolais.
Aymar Pierre Gildas Oko, Patricia Irène Ondima, Marlène Kibangou Lenvo, Letitia Lombet, Judicaël Kambourou, Nelly Pandzou Guembo, Mamadou Ildevert Cyriaque Ndjobo, Aurore Mbika Cardorelle   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The congolese rumba in the afro-Atlantic dialogue. Caribbean influences in Africa from 1800

methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2016
In the multiple paths in the slave Atlantic with forced displacement during and after trade we find how culture and identity is re-interpreted through African legacies resulting in different genres of African urban popular music.
Isabela de Aranzadi
doaj   +1 more source

Fish Scales: A Multifunctional Biomaterial from Nature

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fish scales demonstrate nature's solution to impact protection through overlapping multilayered architecture. This biological design combines mineralized surfaces with collagen networks to achieve both flexibility and fracture resistance. The structural principles inspire advanced protective materials and biomedical implants, where damage tolerance ...
Liyao Dong, Xiaojie Sun, Xiguang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Technologies of Romance: Mineralogy: a digital account

Science Museum Group Journal, 2019
This article examines the digital media revolution as a revolution reliant upon a sustained legacy of colonial violence in regions such as the Congo, the locale of this study. Contemporary production is foreshadowed by the industrial genocide of the late
Lee Mackinnon
doaj   +1 more source

Nanofiber PVA‐Based Membranes Incorporating Functionalized Spanish Broom Derivatives for Sustainable Water Purification

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This study investigates Spanish broom (Spartium junceum) as a renewable source for electrospun composite membranes in sustainable water purification. MCC and biochar were functionalized with eco‐friendly precursors and nanomaterials (i.e., HNT, β‐CDs) to develop hybrid PVA nanofiber composites.
Giulia Rando, Silvia Sfameni, Jozefien Geltmeyer, Alessandra Palella, Lorenzo Spadaro, Alberto Riminucci, Karen De Clerck, Maria Rosaria Plutino   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Pickering Emulsion Templated Phase Change Material Microcapsules: Design, Fabrication, and Multifunctional Applications

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fabrication process of phase change microcapsules using a Pickering emulsion template method and their subsequent applications. The increasing demand for efficient thermal energy storage systems has driven the development of phase change material microcapsules (PCMMs), which provide high energy‐storage density, reversible phase change, and reduced ...
Ziyan Li, Jinsheng Sun, Kaihe Lv, Chaozheng Liu, Meichun Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source