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Cyanogenic Compounds, Physicochemical Parameters and Metals in Water From Cassava Processing Areas: A Study in the Brazilian Amazon, Using Multivariate Analysis

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the water quality of artesian wells and effluents generated in cassava processing in a rural area of Bragança, Pará, with emphasis on physicochemical parameters, multielement composition, and cyanogenic compounds. The well water presented specific nonconformities, highlighting pH values below the recommended level and high
Alana Coêlho Maciel, Mariane Gama Nabiça, Luciana Pinheiro Santos, Thiago de Melo e Silva, Elivaldo Nunes Modesto Junior, Heronides Adonias Dantas Filho, Charles Miller de Souza Borges, Kelly das Graças Fernandes Dantas, Simone de Fátima Pinheiro Pereira, Ivan Carlos da Costa Barbosa, Beni Jequicene Mussengue Chaúque, Rosinelson da Silva Pena, Nayara Macêdo Peixoto Araújo, Alessandra Santos Lopes   +13 more
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Localization of abdominal pain in uncomplicated appendicitis: Diagnostic value of McBurney and Lanz points in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Orapuh Journal
Introduction Acute appendicitis is the leading cause of abdominal surgical emergencies, occurring most frequently among adolescents and young adults.
Thomas K. Kabanga, Blaise M. Kapinga, Deogratias B. Kazadi, Herve K. Kabanga, Alice T. Kabanga, Tarcisse KILARA KAPENE, Jeamarie M. Kabongo   +6 more
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PMA2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) Round 3 Service Delivery Point Survey (2015)

Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) Round 3 Service Delivery Point (SQ) survey used a two-stage cluster design to draw a representative urban sample in Kinshasa. A sample of 58 enumeration areas (EAs) was drawn (PPS).
Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, Tulane University School of Public Health, Democratic Republic of Congo, University of Kinshasa School of Public Health, Democratic Republic of Congo   +2 more
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The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin, Ajay Kumar, Tyson R. Browning   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PMA2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) Round 2 Service Delivery Point Survey (2014)

Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) Round 2 Service Delivery Point (SQ) survey used a two-stage cluster design to draw a representative urban sample in Kinshasa. A sample of 58 enumeration areas (EAs) was drawn (PPS).
Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, Tulane University School of Public Health, Democratic Republic of Congo, University of Kinshasa School of Public Health, Democratic Republic of Congo   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of beneficiary satisfaction with biomedical laboratory services in Kinshasa: A case study of prescribers of biological analyses in several general referral hospitals

Orapuh Journal
Introduction Biomedical laboratories (BMLs) in Kinshasa, as elsewhere, are obligated to satisfy the beneficiaries of their services through the provision of quality services.
CHRISTIAN NGANDU KAISA, Beya Dophie Tshibuela , Pholo Dahlia Pambu , Ndaye Antoine Nkuba, Masidi Jérémie Muwonga   +4 more
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Extraction of secondary metabolites responsible for biological activities from the leaf callus of Tetracera rosiflora

Orapuh Journal
Introduction Tetracera rosiflora Gilg is a plant used in traditional Congolese medicine for its multiple virtues, including antidiabetic effects. However, this species is threatened with extinction due to habitat destruction and overexploitation of ...
Ariane K. Seudi, Christophe L. Muanyishay, Arsène K. Muabu, Freddy O. Bulubulu, Théodore K. Kazadi, Jean-Jacques D. Amogu, Christian M. Tshiongo, Nicolas K. Taba, Josephine K. Ntumba   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source