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Genomic Investigations Unveil the Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Adaptation in African Goat Populations

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study integrates genomics and landscape genetics to analyze African goat environmental adaptation. Analyzing 1591 samples, it finds population structure differentiates geographically into four groups, with gene flow between wild Yura goats and North Africans.
Weifeng Peng   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on Creole Formation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper is another argument in favor of a uniformitarian approach to Creole languages, analyzed on a par with non-Creole languages. We take a critical look at competing hypotheses about the formation of Creole languages and any resulting typology.
Aboh, E.O., DeGraff, M.
core   +1 more source

Using the capabilities approach to achieve people‐centered conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Top‐down interventions carried out by state and nonstate institutions to conserve biodiversity and improve the lives of forest‐proximate people (FPP) in the Global South tend to reflect economistic understandings of human well‐being. More progressive and people‐centered conservation projects are guided by normative visions of how the world ...
Arthur Rodrigues   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

Walking the walk? Quantifying university L2 French students' prioritization and experience of critical literacies instruction

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
wiley   +1 more source

Oral Health Beliefs and Behaviours Among Adults in the Seychelles: An Extended Health Belief Model Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study explored oral health beliefs and behaviours among adults in the Seychelles through the perspective of the Extended Health Belief Model. The findings aim to inform contextually appropriate oral health promotion and prevention strategies for this population.
C. Y. S. Noshir, P. Brijlal
wiley   +1 more source

On the structure and development of Saxon-type genitives in Mauritian Creole and the processes of creole formation

open access: yes, 2013
This paper revisits the discussion of Saxon-type genitives in French-based Mauritian Creole. These genitives also occur in Seychelles Creole, Louisiana Creole, Karipuna Creole, and Guyanese Creole, but, interestingly, not in any of the other French ...
Syea, A.
core   +1 more source

Wai Nengre: ’n verdere ondersoek na tendense in die letterkundes van drie voormalige Nederlandse kolonies

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2015
This article expands on research that explores similar tendencies in the literatures of three former Dutch colonies: the literature from the Dutch Antilles and Surinam and black Afrikaans writing emanating from South Africa. It commences with an overview
Steward Van Wyk
doaj   +1 more source

Embarrassing Anecdotes and Recovery: Language Attitudes and the Consequences of Haiti's Language Policy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
wiley   +1 more source

La géographie des identités

open access: yesCarnets, 2020
There is a number of identities which present themselves to the individuals along their lives. The notion of identity takes diverse forms, becomes dynamic, changeable, and evolves through conflicts and breaks, both in time and in space.
Anikó Ádám
doaj   +1 more source

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